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A lowly government clerk, Akay Akakiyevich, must scrimp and save to purchase a new coat for the cold Russian winter in “The Overcoat”. But after one night of basking in the warmth of his new coat and the respect of his colleagues, Akaky’s one-of-a-kind overcoat is stolen. In his pursuit of justice, Akaky receives no help and is consumed by the loss of his prized possession. In “The Viy”, Gogol recounts a popular folk story in which a monstrous creature, known to Little Russia as the king of gnomes, helps a witch get revenge on a young student who escaped from her trap.

A collection of full-cast dramatisations and readings from the best-selling author. Maeve Binchy was one of Britain's best-loved storytellers, and this compilation of her finest fiction, as heard on BBC Radio, demonstrates all the warmth, wit and compassion that made her so popular.

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...

Golf, like measles, should be caught young. P. G. Wodehouse leads the listener out on to another round of golf stories that always avoid the rough.

All the delightful and bizarre inhabitants of Wonderland are here: the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, the hooka-smoking Caterpillar and the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Ugly Duchess... and, of course, Alice herself - growing alternately taller and smaller, attending demented tea parties and eccentric croquet games, and observing everything with clarity and rational amazement.

There are many stories of the legendary Irish hero Finn MacCool, or Fionn mac Cumhaill. Liam Gerrard brings together some of the most well-known in this treasure-trove of Irish folk tales and short stories. Chief among them is the well-loved "Finn & The Scottish Giant", telling the tale of how the Giant's Causeway came into being. Gerrard has adapted and edited over 40 short stories of Irish and Celtic folklore. So sit back, relax, and enjoy hearing the stories of the legends that have been passed down through generations over thousands of years.

The thrilling prequel to Ben Kane's Hannibal: Fields of Blood. An exclusive straight to digital short story. WINTER 218 BC In Cisalpine Gaul, a Carthaginian patrol is moving stealthily through thick woodland. It’s led by Hanno, one of Hannibal’s young officers, and his second-in-command Mutt...

From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breathtaking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. Stories included are 'The Village Teacher', 'The Time Migration', '2018-04-01', 'Fire in the Earth', 'Contraction', 'Mirror', 'Ode to Joy', 'Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming', 'Sea of Dreams', 'Cloud of Poems' and 'The Thinker'. 

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs...

ベストセラー『さよなら、田中さん』の著者が瑞々しい文体で描き切る涙と笑いの家族小説 嘘も、後悔も、失望も、孤独さえも、持ち帰れる場所はきっとある――。 両親を亡くして一人で生きてきた紅美（27）。

One missing letter. One eccentric inventor. One very smoky meeting with the Viceroy of India. John Fennil Wonder is an ambitious private secretary with a talent for involving himself in matters far beyond his authority. Determined to manage the affairs of the British Raj—and occasionally the...

Some hauntings arrive not as shadows, but as a smile you cannot quite face. In The Smile In My Peripheral, Elara Voss receives a relic from her estranged mother's estate: an obsolete flip phone that smells of dust and antiseptic. What begins as clinical paperwork fractures into psychological suspense when the old phone vibrates at 3:03 a.m. with voicemails from a woman dead for eight weeks. Or so Elara believes.

Wenn der Schnee leise fällt, beginnen die Geschichten zu flüstern. In Schneegeflüster öffnen sich fünf winterliche Welten – märchenhaft, geheimnisvoll und manchmal ein wenig schräg. Eine Elfe kämpft um den letzten Funken Weihnachtszauber, auf dem Eis tanzen zwei Herzen umeinander, ein kleiner Vampir entdeckt ein uraltes Familiengeheimnis, und ein verbitterter Mann sucht nach seiner verlorenen Liebe. Und zwischen Büchern und Träumen liegt ein Moment der Ruhe und Wärme.

Upon returning from abroad, Ryan Jordan receives word that his mother has passed. As he processes this news from his sister over the phone, Ryan begins to question his past relationship with his mother. Grief soon mingles with regret as he makes the necessary preparations for her burial alongside his father. While at his father’s gravesite, memories of a fond childhood growing up around horses at their former home flood his mind, memories that he wants to share with his sister’s family when they bring down his mother’s cremated remains.

A slow-burning folk horror novella blending ancestral terror, body horror, and psychological dread, The Wax Mother explores identity, inheritance, motherhood, and the horrifying possibility that blood remembers more than we do.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Since childhood, Jervas Dudley has felt an inexplicable pull toward the old, sealed tomb of the Hyde family, hidden in the woods near his home. The more time he spends in its shadow, the less certain he becomes where his own identity ends – and...

A ruthless pursuit of profit. A deadly winter storm. One final choice between self-preservation and sacrifice. Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov is a prosperous merchant who measures life through possessions, influence, and financial gain. When an opportunity arises to purchase a valuable forest grove...

Das Chaos geht weiter. Staffel 2. Skurriles Comedy-Hörspiel mit Matze, Rainer und einem verrückten KI-Roboter! In der chaotischen Autowerkstatt treffen Humor, Science-Fiction und irre Ideen aufeinander. Mini-Hörspiele voller Unterhaltung, verrückter Experimente und witziger Dialoge.

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartres first and only collection of short fiction. The title piece tells the story of a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, on the eve of his execution by a firing squad, who is...

"The Piece of String" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores human suspicion, social judgment, and the destructive power of false accusations. Set in the rural village of Goderville, France, during a bustling market day, protagonist Maître Hauchecorne, a frugal Norman peasant, notices a small piece of string on the ground and bends to pick it up, despite suffering from rheumatism. His action is observed by Maître Malandain, a man with whom he has a longstanding rivalry.