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  At Chrighton Abbey - A Victorian...

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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  A no-nonsense governess returns to the family home at Christmas to celebrate the season and an upcoming wedding but learns of a curse affecting the men of the family.At Chrighton Abbey is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

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  The Vitagraphoscope

  O. Henry

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  O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) is a great American writer. His stories are usually humorous with surprising endings. He was born in 1862 in Greensboro. The first wife Athol Estes died early. O. Henry spent several years in prison, where wrote his first story. In 1902 he moves to New-York and started writing for magazines. His first book was "Cabbages and Kings" published in 1904. Also famous O' Henry's storybooks: "The Four Million", "The Trimmed Lamp", "The Voice of the City" etc. The writer had problems with alcohol and suffered from cirrhosis and diabetes. He died in 1910.  Original plot, unexpected ending, sarcastic humor - that's what features O. Henry's works. The Vitagraphoscope is a final story from "Cabbages and Kings", inspired by his travelling to Honduras. This is a short note describing different themes. Enjoy reading O. Henry's wonderful prose.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  The Mysterious Stranger and...

  Mark Twain

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  The author of outstanding travel books, autobiographical works and novels, including the classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) is regarded by many as America's finest humorist and a major writer of short stories.The four selections in this volume span his entire writing career and are among his best-known stories.

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  His First Time: Adam - A sexy...

  Callie Love, Ann Omasta

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  My name is Adam, and I’m part of an elite, rare group… I’m a male librarian. 
  Most women don’t see that there’s more to me than just my love of books. 
  But Eve is not most women. 
  I’m brainy, reserved, surprisingly tough, and known for my humorous bad-date stories.  
  Gorgeous Eve is temptation personified. When she saunters into my library and takes a bite out of my juicy, red apple, my entire world turns upside down. 
  Thanks to her, I’ll never again walk through aisle L through R of the Media Center without smiling. 
  But I want more than simply a hot quickie, and Eve has already told me a lie. 
  Can I trust this beautiful temptress with my heart? 
  Will Eve’s devastating secret block the duo’s path to happiness in this forbidden love story? Find out now by listening to His First Time: Adam. 
  The Hot Shots of Romance Quickies are scorching short stories featuring sexy heroes, curvy heroines, seductive insta-love, sizzling bedroom scenes, and satisfying happily-ever-after endings. Start anywhere. Binge-read them all. Grab Adam now and enjoy a perfectly-portioned taste of steamy romance to satisfy your craving.

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  The House and Other Stories

  Amit Dasgupta

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  Calcutta is the central character in each of the three stories in this book. As all Bengalis will tell you, even when the city stands quietly in the corner, not saying a word, her presence may be deeply felt by those close to her. The House and Other Stories is also about the many persons we encounter in the everyday. These are the people we pass by without a second thought. Who are these people? What stories lie locked up in each of them? Will they ever be told? Like magic, one question leads to another and soon, they no longer appear anonymous; they come alive. It is as if an entirely new world has been conjured before our eyes. And we are enchanted by the stories that have lain hidden from us for so long. Even if the stories emerge at times from the realm of the dead.

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  Metamorphosis The (version 3)

  Franz Kafka

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  The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka never did give an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become. - Summary by Wikipedia

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