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Brace yourself for Letters from a Dead World—six terrifying stories spawned from the macabre imagination of David Tocher. With a uniquely Canadian flavor, this collection will leave you breathless, grappling with the darkest fears that haunt us all.

Philip Roth, one of the best-known and award winning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition. With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered existence and into an obsessive affair with one of his students.

L’Idiot du village est une plongée brutale dans les contradictions d’une époque qui confond authenticité et performance, engagement et dogmatisme, liberté et dépendance.

Stephen boards a Caribbean cruise meant to celebrate his fortieth birthday — one he was supposed to share with his twin sister, Niamh. But Niamh is gone, and Stephen is left adrift in grief, guilt, and questions. Why didn’t he see the signs? Why didn’t she say goodbye? As the ship charts its sun-drenched course through turquoise waters, Stephen navigates a more personal journey of memory, healing, and unexpected encounters. On the ship, he meets a series of performers who teach him lessons that slowly help him stitch his shattered world back together.

Don 'Dorman' Hargrove has had a hard life. Living with his mother until he was involuntarily committed to an institution at the age of 30, he was forced to accept responsibility for himself following her death. Even upon his release, his attempts at maturity, love, and marriage were all met with tragic results.

A prison yard becomes the place where a “lifer" inmate attempts his last stand against the gun tower. An ICU nurse attending to an inmate meets the man that tormented his daughter. A rogue correctional officer receives a body receipt from the county coroner for a man he killed. A prison psychiatrist meets his maker by getting bludgeoned to death by the bust of Freud. The infamous serial killer Ed Kemper finally receives the punishment he told the judge he deserves for his crimes - death by torture.

Alec Jenkins, a once successful businessman, finds himself inexplicably spiraling out of control. After a disturbing conversation with his older sister, he takes a trip to visit her in his small hometown, a place the 50-year-old hasn't been since high school. In visiting, he also hoped to fill in some memory gaps, but his malevolent past takes him down a meandering road. When people start to vanish, he questions everything, including his own sanity.

Who are you? Who are we all, to each other? The tenuous strands that connect each of us together are anchored in place by our identities. What if that wasn't so? What if there was something different about David? Something...more hollow.

Amanda has it all: a successful career, a loving husband, and a stable life. Until one day, when it all comes undone in an avalanche of murder, blackmail, and an all-in search for big money that can't be found. When Amanda discovers her husband, Brian, having an affair, she wants to end their marriage. But when Brian and his lover are murdered, detectives seeking to catch the killer think that Amanda may have a pretty good motive. Soon, Amanda discovers that someone wanted her husband silenced, and a huge amount of money is missing—money whose whereabouts he has taken to his grave.

En sus tiempos de estudiante universitario, David Kepesh dice de sí mismo que es «un bribón entre los sabios, un sabio entre los bribones». Poco se imagina él hasta qué punto ha de cumplirse en el futuro dicho lema, ni el daño que le hará. Porque Philip Roth, mientras acompaña a Kepesh desde su niñez en familia hasta adentrarse en el vasto campo de las posibilidades eróticas, partiendo de un ménage à trois en Londres para caer en las garras de la soledad en Nueva York, va creando una novela de soberana inteligencia....

El gran regreso de Mario Mendoza a la ficción después de cinco años. Adán Santana, un novelista con el cuerpo desbaratado y maltrecho por varios accidentes sucesivos, con un precario estado mental, que menguó sus fuerzas y su espíritu, sobrevivió como pudo al encierro de la pandemia y ahora es un náufrago inmóvil. La humanidad no cambió un ápice tras la prueba extrema que experimentó y él, en medio de ese caos, no sabe cómo retomar el rumbo, si es que aún existe alguno, después de todo lo que ha pasado.

The Girl in the Whispers is an award-winning psychological thriller by David K. Wilson. If you enjoy chilling stories with unexpected twists, then you’ll be haunted by this gripping tale of grief, guilt, and ghosts.

Lane's friend, Morgan, has fallen down a mine airshaft. In an attempt to save him, Larry becomes trapped as well. In the black inky darkness, Larry carries on a one-sided conversation hoping they both can stay alive until rescuers get to them. Meanwhile, Lane's mother and father are using this disaster to advance their own separate goals. Timing is everything! For the two below ground, time is running out and everyone knows it. For the two above ground, Lane's parents, well, time will tell!

A selection of short stories. 456 - Will the hunter become the hunted? A man pays the price for his arrogance Human Nature - An animal victim is given a voice in this tragic tale of animal cruelty Susan - A chilling tale of suffocating "love"; just when does devotion become obsession? Jarls of the Ocean - Will a warrior be judged as a hero? A fighter faces an epic adversary.

Brillante avocate parisienne, battante et sensible, Mia Cruz a tout pour réussir. Mais les apparences sont parfois trompeuses. Tourmentée par un divorce douloureux, une mère disparue quelques années plus tôt, et un maniaque de la pire espèce qui ne lui laisse aucun répit, Mia se retrouve entraînée dans une spirale infernale alors même qu'elle tente de défendre Irène Joubert, une femme qui a porté plainte pour viol.

Frank Boston, retired Air Force Pararescueman, experienced two separate incidents involving three back-to-back deaths early in his Air Force career. He concluded after the second incident that he has a strange power he calls nose-smell, a sort of mystic instinct of seeing who will die in a group of related deaths. He goes years without using his ability until a small girl drowns in a pond on the nearby Air Force base. He knows two more water-related deaths will soon follow.