Showing results for "Box" in Short Stories

Meet Harlow Torrent, part-time journalist and full-time Slip Witch and her crazy witch family in this ten-book cozy mystery box set.

Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real...

Celebrate the miracle of love and the joy of the holiday season on the Western frontier with the Twelve Mail Order Brides of Christmas, a new Christmas Mail Order Bride Series from popular author Emma Morgan!

"The Oblong Box" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, about a sea voyage and a mysterious box. The story opens with the unnamed narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from Charleston, South Carolina, to New York City aboard the ship Independence. The narrator learns that his old college friend Cornelius Wyatt is aboard with his wife and two sisters, though he has reserved three state-rooms.

The first three books in Peter Rimmer's epic Brigandshaw Chronicles, the massive series that will have you gripped for months! In 1887, British ships continue to arrive at the bustling, growing port of Cape Town in South Africa. On board, one of them is a young man, Sebastian Brigandshaw, exiled from England by his abusive father.

The box is Jack Ketchum's 1994 Bram Stoker Award-winning story. It has been anthologized, reprinted, and now it is available for the first time in digital. This is a live recording of the author, narrating his award-winning story, in the way only Jack Ketchum can....

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. Sitting in front of a fire, Hastings listens as Poirot recounts his greatest failure. When a wealthy French deputy dies, everyone believes it is from natural causes. Poirot is on vacation from the Belgian...

Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction’s most prestigious award five times in six years. In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with tales in which magic and science improbably coexist with myth and legend. With two stories original to this collection, Swanwick aptly demonstrates with poignant humor why he is widely respected as a master of imaginative storytelling.

What if you were told that you could make a fortune just by pushing a button on a box? But pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world . . . someone you don't know. Would you still push the button? "Button, Button," Richard Matheson's...

Edgar Allan Poe uses three elements, which make the mystifying atmosphere in the "Oblong Box". He uses nature, mystery, and a deep romantic love.

Follow this pack of ruggedly handsome mountain-men brothers as they salvage their family's business, renovate a poor farm, and look for love along the way. These books promise to make you laugh and swoon, and will have you consider packing your bags for life on the mountain. Collection includes Brandon, James, Brooks, Wells, Rob, Jackson, Drew, and Lucy.

Drei Romane verfasste Franz Kafka - allesamt sind sie unvollendet geblieben. Dennoch sind sie faszinierende Literatur, die nach Kafkas Tod von dessen Freund Max Brod veröffentlicht wurden. Sven Görtz spricht: Amerika oder "Der Verschollene", "Der Prozess", "Das Schloss".

Andy Wofford, middle-aged father and English teacher at a third-tier private school, receives a surprising invitation for a drink from an old college classmate. Once awkward and forgettable, Michael Kinnick has become a famous, wealthy, and absurdly confident lifestyle guru. Of all the people who’d want to catch up, why Michael? After thirty divergent years, why now? Mildly apprehensive, Andy is also very curious.

A collection of short, steamy romances between a billionaire and a strong, curvy woman (includes audiobooks one to three of the Insta Love Alpha Male series plus two bonus audiobooks).

In these will-they-or-won’t-they insta-love romances, you’ll be taken on a wild journey as these two strong personalities are drawn to one another.

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.

Disturbing and delightful, this tiny collection of tales offers ninety-nine glimpses into the darkest, strangest corners of the world we think we know. “A closed box contains many things; an opened box only one.” Clever, vanishing children. Parents who gnaw flesh beneath the floorboards...

Joseph Roth war ein begnadeter Erzähler, der in knappen Worten ganze Welten entstehen ließ. Der Schauplatz seines Werkes war die Donaumonarchie, der Vielvölkerstaat, dessen Untergang Roth zeitlebens betrauerte. Die große Hörbuch Box beinhaltet Roths größte Werke: Die Romane "Hiob" und "Radetzkymarsch" sowie die Erzählungen Stationschef Fallmerayer, Triumph der Schönheit, Die Büste des Kaisers, Legende vom heiligen Trinker, Der Leviathan.

Heinrich von Kleist (1777 - 1811) war wie kein zweiter Schriftsteller seiner Zeit auf vielen Gebieten der Literatur unterwegs; er war Novellist, Verfasser von Kurzgeschichten, Dramatiker, Komödiant und Theoretiker. Das vorliegende Hörbuch befasst sich mit Kleists Prosa. Mit dabei sind: "Das Erdbeben in Chili", "Michael Kohlhaas", "Die Marquise von O", "Das Bettelweib von Locarno", "Über das Marionettentheater", "Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden".

Rainer Maria Rilke war nicht nur meisterhafter Poet, der in seinen Gedichten ganze Welten erschuf – er konnte auch mit dem größeren Pinsel malen. Seine Erzählungen lassen – trotz ihrer Kompaktheit – den Hörer eintauchen in eine neue Welt. Und nach dem Hören ist man noch lange in Nachdenken versunken.