Henry Carter Hull

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill's award-winning collection 20 th Century Ghosts . Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945 ... Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to...

In 1870, the young San Francisco–based writer and editor Bret Harte (1836–1902) first compiled a single-volume edition of his rousing stories of life in the Wild West. Entitled The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches, the book propelled him almost overnight from local celebrity to American literary lion. Four of the most famous of those tales are included in this collection: the title story, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "Tennessee's Partner,"...

"Stories from the Heart is a collection of stories which depicts lust, friendship, reflection, love, family, adventure, romance, the forbidden, regret, humour, freedom and procrastination. Readers will be entertained, enlightened and will marvel about each story from the past when compared to the current way of life experienced today."--

"Philip Rintoul shares his love of fictional short stories. Terse and powerful prose conveys the stories and vignettes of life of how people rise and cope with their challenges. From the carefree newlyweds in "˜Wedge-Tail' to the gritty demands of business in "˜Mad Friday' and the shadowy world of "˜Retired Geezer', each story aims to engage and entertain the reader. This collection was written about people, places and events in Australia in 2018."--...

These surreal, satiric stories pay a mesmerizing visit to the shadowy zone that lies between our everyday lives and a perilously tangible near-future. In "The Wall of America," the Department of Homeland Security has put up a border wall between the United States and Canada. But the NEA has plans for the wall as well, turning it into the world's largest art gallery. After the Rapture, working-class life for "A Family of the Post-Apocalypse" is not...

The master of terror, Stephen King, found a box full of stories and manuscripts that belonged to his father. Since then, no one found out what was inside that box or if all of this influenced King's work. This is an homage to Stephen King and his stories. In the story, 'The stories' box', Steve tells about a box and as he grows up, he has recurrent dreams and predictions of stories that would become a successful book. In the story 'The gravedigger',...

Unfaithful Together is a series of connected, steamy, romance, short stories following one couple, as they pursue their sexual desires together. They are intended to be read in order. Olivia Van der Mol is conservative, and sweet. The kind of woman to take home to meet the family. Jake Johnson is thoughtful, and kind, but with a sexually adventurous side. A chance encounter leads Olivia to believe they were destined to be together. As they grow, Jake...

"The Pulitzer Prize -- winning author of The Age of Innocence explores the supernatural and other unknowns in six short stories. The acclaimed Gilded Age author travels around the world and into the unknown with these six tales. After recovering from a bad fever in a Swiss sanitorium, an American pays a social call to a friend's lonely sister on the coast of Brittany, but his journey takes a terrifying turn in "Miss Mary Pask." A wealthy resident...

"The World Fantasy Award-winning collection from the architect of the Well-Built City Trilogy No matter how far into the realms of space and fantasy Jeffrey Ford's stories may venture, they have one trait in common: They're grounded in the universal. " The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, Ford's debut collection, is no exception. "Creation," which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, relates a boy's attempts to animate a man made of sticks...

Wild and weird tales by the author of the Mongo Mysteries-including the novella that inspired the dwarf detective's first adventure: Shadow of a Broken Man. The "unlimited imagination" of the creator of Mongo the Magnificent is given free rein in these eleven stories full of suspense and surprises (Publishers Weekly). An architect can read minds after surviving a fatal car wreck. The lives of schoolteachers are far from ordinary-or safe. A snake...