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The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

Welcome to Brighton, England, the home of local crime reporter, Colin Crampton. Brighton is a great town on the south coast of England. There are long beaches, seaside piers, quaint lanes, and an ornate palace, the Royal Pavilion.

The settings and characters in Reggie Oliver's fifth collection of 'strange' stories are as varied and unusual as ever, though, as in previous volumes, the theatre forms the milieu of a number of his tales. But the theatres are not just English ones, in the provinces and the West End: one is on the Black Sea; another in post-colonial Kenya. Themes are equally varied, but underlying all is a deep sense of the spiritual under-currents just below the surface of everyday existence, and the precariousness of 'normality'.

Weird things dwell in the hidden corners of Britain: subterranean beasts, extradimensional entities, resurrected ghouls, and spectral vampires. And there are weird places, too. Beyond the veil of the waking world, lie realms of secrets, domains of madness. So begins the saga, of Peter Van Melsen...

New York Times best-selling authors and recipients of the Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master" award, Mary Higgins Clark and Elizabeth Peters present this delightfully chilling assortment of original mystery stories. Featuring acclaimed contributors at the height of their games, this collection includes "Nice Gorilla," which won an Agatha Award for best short story.

-Kranichblüten- heißt diese Sammlung origineller Geschichten, die alle etwas mit Lufthansa zu tun haben, deren Wappentier seit der Gründung 1926 der Kranich ist.

Modern gods and goddesses, remote, revered - and like the pantheon of heroes and heroines of ancient myth - possessing great power tempered with flaws. Now, find within this anthology great tales by gifted and award-winning authors who move superheroes from the four-color panels of comic books to the fantastic pages of fiction, stories that will remind anyone who ever wanted to wear a cape or don a cowl of the extraordinary powers of the imagination!

Seit 100.000 Jahren tobt auf einem abgelegenen Planeten ein erbarmungsloser Krieg zwischen zwei Fraktionen – ein Konflikt, der keine Sieger kennt, nur unendliches Leid und Zerstörung. Als Commander Mike und Commander Nic mit ihren legendären Myaner-Schiffen, der Lunar Spear und der Solar Guardian, die zerklüfteten Trümmerfelder im Orbit entdecken, wird schnell klar: Dieser Krieg ist mehr als nur ein lokales Problem. Er droht, den gesamten Planeten zu vernichten – und die fragile Stabilität der Galaxis zu gefährden. Doch der Krieg ist nicht nur physischer Natur.

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of the first four Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels, read by Audie-award winning narrator Jonathan Keeble. A must-listen for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries, Lord Peter Wimsey is the immortal amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers.

Hello World represents a decade of science fiction by author Peter Cawdron. This collection of 16 short stories and novellas, including four previously unpublished stories, will take you out of this world.

At the heart of each of these great classic stories is an adoptee with an indomitable spirit who becomes the heroine (or hero) of her own life. "The bravery it takes for an unwanted orphan to forge their own path in life was as great when these stories were written as it is today," says narrator Alison Larkin, who draws on her own adoption experience to bring these stories to authentic new life.

Detective Sergeant Peter Johns is resentful of the young PC who catches the attention of his friend and boss, DI Richard Paige. Richard encourages his new protégé to apply for promotion and Peter fears that he is being left behind. They go their separate ways, but then fate throws them together again. Peter now has the upper hand. How will he treat his erstwhile rival?

In this delightful collection of 12 Wimsey adventures, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome but intriguing side rarely shown in Lord Peter's full-length adventures. He deals with such marvels as the man with copper fingers, Uncle Meleager's missing will, the cat in the bag, the footsteps that ran, the stolen stomach, and the man without a face.

The Fantasy Fiction Collection contains: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Jungle Book, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Peter and Wendy, and Alice's Adventures Under Ground.

Here are five funny, entertaining, delectable mystery stories featuring Peter "Pit Bull" Geller, who may be a bit damaged physically (in an auto accident), but has lost neither his biting wit nor his keen sense of how the upper crust manages their criminal ways. Included are "Pit and the Pendulum", "Pit on the Road to Hell", "A Christmas Pit", "Dog Pit", and "Horse Pit" (winner of the Black Orchid Award from the Nero Wolfe Society and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine). Great story from a master storyteller!

Eines Tages wurde berichtet, die Raupen der Kohlweißlinge fräßen alle Felder ab. Infolgedessen fingen wir alle Kohlweißlinge an den Fenstern des schrecklich heißen Speisesaales weg und zertraten sie, obzwar sie schon über die Schädlichkeit hinüber waren und nur mehr die unschädlichen Ideale ihrer Art repräsentierten. Die Raupen waren uns zu unappetitlich, sie zu vernichten. Um halb 12 Uhr vormittags kam der Bäcker mit den warmen, duftenden, vierfach eingekerbten Wecken. Da aßen wir heißhungrig zwei, worauf der Kellner vier auf die Rechnung stellte.

Kurzgeschichten: Eine amüsante Mischung aus Sex and Crime, Fantasy und schwarzem Humor. Liebhaber desselben werden hier bestens bedient. Vorgelesen werden die Stories vom Autor selbst, was den Geschichten zusätzlichen Reiz verleiht.

Peter Fey versteht es hervorragend, Spannung mit einer tüchtigen Prise Humor zu würzen. Schwarzem Humor, der regelrecht süchtig machen kann. Dann jedenfalls, wenn jemand wie er ihn serviert, auf seine ganz spezielle Art. Dies hier ist die zweite Sammlung seiner tückischen kleinen Stories. Eine dritte wird folgen - ebenfalls von ihm selbst gesprochen. Und es macht wahrhaftig Spass, ihm zuzuhören.

Der gewitzte Pater Brown hat ein gefährliches Hobby: Er löst mysteriöse Kriminalfälle durch Intuition und Einfühlungsvermögen. Dieses Buch enthält 12 seiner schönsten Fälle. Inhalt: Das blaue Kreuz, Der geheime Garten, Die verdächtigen Tritte, Israel Gows Ehre, Der Unsichtbare, Missgestaltet, Die Sternschnuppen, Die Sünden des Prinzen Saradin, Der Hammer Gottes, Das Auge des Apoll, Das Zeichen des zerbrochenen Schwertes, Die drei Todeswerkzeuge.

Under the spellbinding pen of breakthrough author Peter Best, the known world is veiled in magic. There is a place in which anything is possible-a place in which the binding laws of reality are cloaked by smoke and shadow. Explore a world in which an inventor creates a flying automobile at a terrible cost, a scarred young man discovers a strange bond with a stringed instrument and a disgruntled, semi-retired St. Nicholas of Myra works the night shift at a department store. You will find your thoughts haunted, your heart warmed and your imagination captured.