Publisher: BookRix
PAMELA is a DJ from sunny side California and she moves to New York to achieve her dreams of becoming an entrepreneur as a music producer. DEAN, a local New York tour guide wants to show her around town just to do the unthinkable, according to Pamela.
Title: The Imp of the Perverse Author: Edgar Allan Poe Narrator: Jonathan Dunne Original Publication: 1845 Public Domain: Yes Series Placement: Number 44 in the Timeless Terrors series Description: The Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe is a chilling exploration of the human compulsion toward self-destruction — that sinister whisper urging us to do precisely what we know we must not. Told in Poe’s hypnotic, confessional style, the story begins as a philosophical essay on impulse and perversity, then descends into the fevered confession of a murderer undone by his own mind. This tale reveals Poe at his most psychologically incisive, dissecting guilt, pride, and the dark delight of defiance. Beneath its gothic calm lies a truth as disturbing now as in 1845 — that the greatest horror may be found not in the supernatural, but in the secret architecture of the human soul. Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance evokes Poe’s morbid eloquence and the relentless pull of conscience that drives his doomed narrator to madness. 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, The Imp of the Perversestands as one of Poe’s most haunting studies of inner torment — a reminder that sometimes, the truest demon wears our own face.Show book
In Back Burning Redux, by Austrian/Australian author Sylvia Petter, her short stories take you for an eclectic tour around Europe in ‘Viennese Blood’, ‘the Ferris Wheel’, ‘Apple of Paradise’; to and from Australia with ‘Back Burning’, ‘Heatwave’, ‘The Colour of Haze’; crossing cultures in ‘The Boy from Bul’, ‘Matroshki’; and shifting between generations with ‘Eyes to See’ and ‘Wester Rerun’. Also includes evocative flash fictions and intimate essays by the author. Narrated by acclaimed reader Bronwyn Grannall, the stereo recording features transitional sound tracks linking the works.Show book
After the death of her father, a larger-than-life preacher, a young woman returns to her hometown to attend his funeral and to clean out his house without the help of his ex, her mother. When a family friend moves in under the premise of caring for her, she begins to question her past. How to Cute and Quarter is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect.Show book
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - 2023 This genre-bending debut collection of stories constructs eight eerie worlds full of desire, wisdom, and magic blooming amidst decay. In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters—mostly queer, mostly women—on the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a time of crisis. In “The Changeling,” two young cousins wait in dread for a new family member to arrive, convinced that he may be a dangerous supernatural creature. In “Endangered Animals,” Jane prepares to say goodbye to her almost-love while they road-trip across a country irrevocably altered by climate change. In “Take Only What Belongs to You,” a queer woman struggles with the personal history of an author she idolized, while in “Fiddler, Fool, Pair,” an anthropologist is drawn into a magical—and dangerous—gamble. In the title story, partners Agnes and Geb feast peacefully on the mushrooms that sprout from Agnes’s body—until an unwanted male guest disturbs their cloistered home. Audacious, striking, and wholly original, Fruiting Bodies offers stories about knowledge in a world on the verge of collapse, knowledge that alternately empowers or devastates. Pulling beautifully, brazenly, from a variety of literary traditions, Kathryn Harlan firmly establishes herself as a thrilling new voice in fiction.Show book
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. A new century dawns, one in which America would become pre-eminent as its industrial might and military power rose above all others. In literature too its authors tackled new forms and new ideas, they shied away from little, immersing themselves and their readers in the promise of a new Century. 1 - The Top 10 - The 1900's - The Americans - An Introduction 2 - The Great Good Place by Henry James 3 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain 4 - To Build a Fire by Jack London 5 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather 6 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 7 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar 8 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane 9 - The Defense of Strikerville by Damon Runyon 10 - The Screaming Skull by F Marion Crawford 11 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth TarkingtonShow book
The love stories of Rachel Lawson from her Magicians and Stand and Deliver series. In this edition the book is read to you by the authorShow book
