Poppyland

D. J. Taylor

Casa editrice: Salt

Sinossi

On Stewkey Blues: 'In his solid, grounded, entertaining collection of stories, DJ Taylor draws out the mythical qualities of East Anglia's terrain, urban or rural or somewhere marginal in between.' —Hilary Mantel
Most of the people in Poppyland are watching their lives begin to blur at the margins. From small-hours taxi offices, out-of-season holiday estates and flyblown market stalls, they sit observing an environment that seems to be moving steadily out of kilter, struggling to find agency, making compromises with a world that threatens to undermine them, and sometimes – but only sometimes – taking a decisive step that will change their destinies.

Disponibile da: 02/06/2025.

Lunghezza di stampa: 208 pagine.

Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

Metzengerstein

Edgar Allan Poe

Title: Metzengerstein
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator: Jonathan Dunne
Original Publication: 1832
Public Domain: Yes
Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 59
Description:
Metzengerstein is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s earliest forays into gothic terror — a tale steeped in superstition, doomed rivalry, and the haunting power of vengeance beyond the grave.
The story follows young Baron Frederick Metzengerstein after a devastating fire destroys the stables of his family’s sworn enemies, the Berlifitzings. From the ashes emerges a massive, mysterious horse bearing a chilling resemblance to a figure in an ancient tapestry. As the Baron becomes obsessively bound to this dark steed, his will begins to unravel — and the long-buried hatred between the two noble houses rises once more in spectral form.
Poe crafts a sinister atmosphere thick with dread, where prophecy and madness gallop side by side toward a fiery and inevitable fate. Themes of corruption, obsession, and the supernatural converge, showcasing the early foundations of the master of macabre fiction.
Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this original performance breathes new life into one of Poe’s most ominous works. While the text is fully in the public domain, this narration and production are copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne.
Part of Timeless Terrors, a series dedicated to resurrecting the legends of classic horror, Metzengerstein reminds us that sometimes the deadliest force in the world is not a ghost — but a hatred that refuses to die. 🐎

Mostra libro

Polaris

H. P. Lovecraft

Title: Polaris 
Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
Original Publication: 1920 
Public Domain: Yes 
Series Placement: Number 43 in the Timeless Terrors series 
Description: 
Polaris by H. P. Lovecraft is a dreamlike descent into obsession, identity, and cosmic futility. Set beneath the eerie shimmer of the North Star, it unfolds as both a tale of ancient war and a fevered vision of a soul caught between two worlds — the waking and the eternal. 
The narrator, haunted by dreams of a lost city beneath the Arctic light, becomes convinced he is the reincarnation of a watchman doomed to fail in his sacred duty. As memory, madness, and destiny blur, Polaris becomes a meditation on guilt and the insignificance of man beneath the indifferent stars. 
Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures Lovecraft’s hypnotic rhythm and the slow unravelling of sanity that defines his early cosmic vision — the sense that truth may be glimpsed only in dreams, and that awakening brings no escape. While the text is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to resurrecting the masters of the macabre and uncanny, Polaris endures as an early glimpse of Lovecraft’s cosmic dread — a haunting reminder that even the stars above may whisper our doom.

Mostra libro

Jezebel of Valley Farm - From...

Edward Phillips Oppenheim

The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Edward Phillips Oppenheim.

Mostra libro

Our Old Home

Nathaniel Hawthorne

These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a series of travel articles for The Atlantic Monthly.In these writings, he displays his humor, his empathetic nature, his pride in his country, and sometimes his sharp judgment of others. He shares with us the difficulties of being a consul in the 1850’s, takes us on a tour with him through rural England and Scotland, shows us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered. (Introduction by Margaret)

Mostra libro

Serving Up Love - A Four-in-One...

Tracie Peterson, Karen...

Bestselling novelist Tracie Peterson joins Karen Witemeyer, Regina Jennings, and Jen Turano in this collection of four novellas, each featuring a Harvey Girl heroine. From Kansas to Texas, the Grand Canyon to New Mexico, the stories cross the country with tales of sweet romance and entertaining history.  
 
In Karen Witemeyer's "More Than a Pretty Face," a young woman works her hardest to escape poor choices from her youth. Tracie Peterson offers "A Flood of Love," where reuniting with an old flame after more than a decade offers unexpected results. Regina Jennings's "Intrigue a la Mode" delights with a tale of a young woman determined to help support her family, despite warnings of danger nearby. And Jen Turano's "Grand Encounters" heads to the Grand Canyon with a tale of a society belle intent on finding a new life for herself.

Mostra libro

Confessions of a Five-Chambered...

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is the follow-up to Caitlín R. Kiernan’s World Fantasy Award–nominated The Ammonite Violin & Others, a collection that drew comparisons to the writings of such luminaries of the macabre and surreal as Angela Carter, Thomas Ligotti, Shirley Jackson, and Harlan Ellison. 
Here, again, in her eighth collection, we visit the borderlands where the weird, horrific, mythic, and erotic intersect. Once again, Kiernan sets her masterful, intoxicating prose to the task of retelling fairy tales, spinning sensual post-Lovecraftian yarns, and blurring the lines between pain and pleasure. 
Here is a celebration of the bizarre and beautiful and a marriage of unlikely worlds. From a reverence of the dead to the sacrifices the living make to unspeakable gods, from clockwork dreams to tales of merciless revenge, Kiernan blurs the artificial lines of genre and shows us a world where there is no division between the light and dark.

Mostra libro