Henry Carter Hull

"Brilliant short stories by two talented authors -- kept me on the edge of my seat anxiously awaiting the imaginative surprise endings." ~Richard Brumer, author of The Chemist's Shop, Meeting Max, and The Last Sunrise Humor, Drama, Suspense, Romance and a Touch of the Supernatural in Life, Love and Laughter, a Bag Full of Entertaining Stories by S.L. Menear and D.M. Littlefield Enjoy exciting and hilarious true stories involving the authors' adventurous...

New writings on our fear of--and fascination with--the "other" from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more. Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are "other." Aliens are the stuff of science fiction and fantasy. Aliens are traditional literary figures that cause us to see ourselves anew. Indeed, when we witness our "normal" lives through these strangers' eyes, we become the unfamiliar ones. Conjunctions: 67, Other...

Out of Tune is calling. A song half-heard. The murmur of a voice singing in the dark. There it is again...a few words set to an old melody filled with mystery, heartbreak and horror. Out of Tune gathers a collection of original dark fantasy tales inspired by folk ballads. Here you'll find stories of strange creatures and strangers humans, treachery and love, murder and monsters. Out of Tune brings together some of today's most talented writers and...

An embarrassment of riches: three sweet and sexy tales of holiday romance! Billionaire under the Mistletoe by Carole Mortimer: When soft-hearted Sophie pulls off a last-minute Christmas miracle for a family in crisis, she wins the gratitude – and heart – of wealthy Max Hamilton. But at what cost? Snowed in with Her Boss by Maisey Yates: Dutiful Amelia is stranded on Christmas Eve. (Bad.) She's at a five-star Aspen resort. (Good!) She's posing...

This spring 2019 edition of Bard College's literary journal explores the fascination and mystery of night through stories, poems, essays, and memoirs. Scheherazade famously spun stories for a thousand and one nights in order to sustain her life. In recognition of how vital it is to voice our own stories, the stellar works collected here -- including entries by Sallie Tisdale, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, and many others -- address our myriad experiences...

New takes on nature by award-winning poets and writers, from Russell Banks to Lily Tuck and many more. In Natural Causes , a provocative collection of radical reinventions of the genre of nature writing, we encounter shrimp farms and spoonbills, maize husks and Austrian woods, tarantulas and eels, multitudinous winds that pollinate or desiccate -- nature in all its myriad forms, right down to photons, neutrons, neutrinos, and, yes, even Godzilla,...

This astonishing collection of all-new tales by some of the most acclaimed writers at work today is called, simply, Stories. Edited by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, The Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys, Coraline) and Al Sarrantonio (award-winning author of forty books and editor of numerous collections), Stories presents never before published short works from a veritable Whos Who of contemporary literaturebreathtaking inventions from the likes of Lawrence Block,...

"Grand Larcenies features generous selections from the work of ten classic modern Dutch poets: Eva Gerlach, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Hester Knibbe, Hans R. Vlek, Rob Schouten, Willem van Toorn, J. Eijkelboom, H.H ter Balkt, K. Michel, and Esther Jansma.The translator, a notable Welsh poet and writer now living in the Netherlands, takes his bearings from Robert Minhinnick's seminal Welsh anthology The Adulterer's Tongue, which attempts by means of experiment...

A wide range of bestselling and acclaimed writers -- from masters of noir to literary lights -- explore the milieu of drug culture in this "eye-opening series" ( New York Journal of Books ). From Lee Child to William T. Vollmann, Joyce Carol Oates to Sherman Alexie, Eric Bogosian to actor James Franco, many of the finest contemporary writers of fiction weigh in on the lure and destruction of drug use, society's ambiguous relationship to drug culture,...

The Covered Bridge by Karen Harper When Benjamin Kline returns to the fold after eight years, Abigail Baughman welcomes him with an open heart. But all is not well in their Amish village. Mysterious happenings put Abby in harm's way, forcing Ben to run to her rescue. He's vowed never to let anyone hurt her, and suddenly everything is at risk--their community, their way of life ... and their future together. Fallen in Plain Sight by Marta Perry Childhood...