Short Classic Literature

A collection of thirteen horror stories for my readers who enjoy no holds barred terror before turning in at night. I have selected my most gruesome nightmares from "Don't Look Behind You" and "Scary Stories-Volume 1." This volume includes stories of zombies, vampires, mummies, ghosts, and a sampling of monsters and deranged maniacs to haunt your dreams all the lonely nights. Enjoy! The nightmares include: SOMETHING IN THE HOUSE: Randolph and Francene have come from the cemetery with some friends to visit a house where they lived when they were alive. FIDO: George lost his job and needs to ...

Two story collections in one volume! From Bambi to Aladdin, the best-loved stories of all time are now even better. In Disney Storybook Collection, over 20 stories recreate the movie magic of the most beloved Disney films. Perfect for bedtime, the second edition of the popular Bedtime Favorites storybook collection has 19 stories to choose from. Updated story selections feature characters from Finding Nemo, Cars 2, Toy Story 3, The Lion King, and more.

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories.

A collection of 20 horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: THE MAKEOVER: A plastic surgeon seeks revenge for being framed by a malicious, wealthy client who bribes the judge, jury, the attorneys, and the warden to make sure he serves hard time in prison for ten years. The INITIATION: The fraternity brothers have planned a Hell night to top all Hell nights. WHO’S YOUR DADDY: Cecil returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral, he discovers the father he never knew was a serial killer who devoured his victims. THE ...

Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything - except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don't just want out, they want revenge.

What if Lady Catherine never visited Longbourn and Mr. Darcy's second proposal never took place? The wedding of Jane and Mr. Bingley is fast approaching, but Elizabeth dreads the day. She is overjoyed for her sister and honoured to be the maid of honour at the ceremony. But a certain gentleman will also be in attendance, acting as the best man of the wedding, and Elizabeth isn't too sure she wants to see him. For how can she stand at the altar of the church, beside the man she loves, knowing that the wedding is not theirs? ...Especially when it could have been. As the wedding day arrives, ...

There have been few masters of the short story as popular as W. S. Maugham. His dry wit, worldweary loftiness, pungent cynicism, and penetrating powers of observation have contributed to the creation of some of the greatest short stories ever written.

A young mongoose protects his human family from two murderous cobras. English Nobel laureate Kipling's best story from The Jungle Book collection, "Rikki Tikki Tavi" has been adapted many times to film and television.

The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque "The Nose", where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative "The Overcoat", about a reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique take on the absurd.

A collection of horror/thriller stories for readers who would enjoy a stroll through a graveyard after midnight. The creepers include: BLOOD: Danagrees to meet a woman claiming to be his half-sister from their father's illicit affair. THE SPIDER WOMAN: Evelyn inherits her mother's abandoned house, which is infested with spiders. DEAD PEOPLE: Jesse's father wants him to go with him to a wake to see his first dead person. THE CEDAR HOLLOW CURSE: Three girls went missing without a trace in 1998. Now, in 2024, three girls with the same names and ages have disappeared. ECHOES OF THE DAMNED: A ...

Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. Escaping into sentimental novels, she finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium of her days. Motherhood proves to be a burden; religion is only a brief distraction. In an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs.

A collection of 22 horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. Look no further if you are fans of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, and horror stories with a plot and a twist ending. Billy Wells Horror is your ticket to a journey into the macabre, if you dare. The average Amazon review rating on all Billy Wells Horror collections is 4.3!! The terrors include: THE BABYSITTER: A psychotic female teenager cooks up an elaborate scheme to pose as a babysitter for a wealthy couple, rob them for road money,...

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical.

For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint. Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He's also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he's worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity, and all too often he's become a hero, his very names passing into legend.

A collection of twenty-five horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: BLACK AS NIGHT: THE SEQUEL: Norman's two sons disappeared on Halloween; the same night, a masked rider carries a screaming woman in a burlap sack from the abandoned house next door. DISTURBING ELEMENTS: A chemistry prof has a phobia of seeking vengeance on any student who reminds him of the jocks who bullied him in college. CHARLEY REVISITED: Mandy's new book about an invisible playmate jeopardizes her marriage and her life. THE NECKLACE: Hazel inherits ...

O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twist endings. This collection includes "The Last Leaf", "The Love Philter of Ikey Schoenstein", "The Caliph", "Cupid and the Clock", "The Brief Debut of Tildy", "The Higher Abdication", "The Ransom of Red Chief", "One Dollar’s Worth", "Cupid a la Carte", "Girl", "Springtime a la Carte", "The Ethics of Pig", "The Social Triangle", "Witches Loaves", "The Romace of the Buys Broker", and more.

A collection of 25 horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. These are my latest stories The creepers include: THE JACK THE RIPPER WALKING TOUR: Dana is on assignment in London while a copycat killer is emulating the brutal murders of Jack the Ripper to the letter. THE BELL: A lonely teenager is captivated by a picture of a newly buried young man with a bell affixed to his headstone that's ringing. A BETTER MOUSETRAP: The house Brad has purchased to renovate for profit was too good to be true until he heard the incessant rustling in the walls. ...

From his 1935 debut with "The Universal History of Iniquity", through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language.

This complete collection includes all of the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are 41 stories in all, including those in the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories.

Once, Hope Payne was a mermaid, performing at the local theme park and captivating audiences young and old. Today, she's married to a pragmatic marine biologist who has filled the pool in their backyard with flounder for a special study. Before he begins, the fish vanish - echoing a loss Hope alone can understand. She senses there's something underwater, something alive and hungry for more, but is she in too deep to ever resurface?