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HOW TO BE HAPPY ALONE AND SINGLE?Ellie is a 35-year-old woman who broke up with her boyfriend and is now single. She is afraid of becoming an unhappy woman if she continues alone. However, a friend will teach Ellie how to be happy alone and single.
A second, broad selection of ghost stories both classic and obscure. Contents: "The Third Shadow" by H. R. Wakefield A mountaineer's fate is sealed by a vengeful supernatural force. "The Dance of Death" by Algernon Blackwood Ignoring warnings, a frail man dances—death is his final partner. "The Demon Lover" by Elizabeth Bowen A wartime letter rekindles a long-forgotten, ghostly appointment. "The Suicide" by Malcolm Ford Henry A dead man mourns his own passing, filled with vain regret. "Lens-Shy" by W. M. Clayton A photographer of corpses discovers death's unsettling final portrait. "The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh" by H. Sivia A maid's promised inheritance vanishes with the widow’s cold refusal. "Mommy" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman An orphan girl claims visits from her mother—long since dead. "Yuki-onna" by Lafcadio Hearn A snow spirit haunts a woodcutter after a chilling encounter. "Graves and Goblins" by Nathaniel Hawthorne A ghostly narrator seeks peace from limbo’s lonely eternity. "The House Party at Smoky Island" by L. M. Montgomery Strangers gather at a remote house to share chilling tales. "Keeping His Promise" by Algernon Blackwood A man receives a ghostly visit from a forgotten friend. "The Frontier Guards" by H. R. Wakefield Curiosity leads Brinton into a haunted house’s invisible defences. "The Theater Upstairs" by Manly Wade Wellman A cinema screens forgotten films starring actors long since dead. "The Terror by Night" by E. F. Benson Ghosts, illusions, or madness? Night brings terror either way. "The Burned House" by Vincent O'Sullivan A traveller sees a burning house that never truly existed.Mostra libro
A martial artist falls from a cliff to his death. A rival stands, triumphant above. The beginning of an all too familiar story. Yet, in the time of recuperation and return, time passes and sometimes, the transformation that occurs is not the one you expect. This is a 4,500 word short story set in the A Thousand Li universe featuring as yet to be seen characters in the universe. Does not need to be read to follow the main series.Mostra libro
Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell was born on 1st November 1885 on Hayling Island in Hampshire. Her childhood was fraught with problems, her alcoholic father left early in her life and was later found dead on a London Street. Life thereafter was poverty with an uncaring mother. However, her talents took her to the Slade School of Fine Art and later to study in Paris. Her first fiction, written at a mere 16, was a violent medieval historical novel, ‘The Viper of Milan’. Initially rejected by several publishers it went on to become a best-seller After this her prolific writings were the main financial support for the family. Her literary output numbered over 150 volumes, mainly under the pseudonym of Marjorie Bowen but she also used the names Joseph Shearing, George R Preedy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell. Within this output she assigned the pseudonyms to the various genres she worked across, from Historical fiction to supernatural short stories. Perhaps her best known work is the 1909 book ‘Black Magic’, a Gothic horror novel about a medieval witch. Several of her works were also adapted into films. She was married twice. The first to Zefferino Emilio Constanza (they had two children), who died of tuberculosis, and then to Arthur L Long (and another two children) Marjorie Bowen died on 23rd December 1952 at St Charles Hospital in North Kensington, London after suffering serious concussion from a fall in her bedroom. She was 67.Mostra libro
Welcome to Creelyville:..when a loser on the run from the police finds his was to Creelyville he thinks he may have hit on some good luck and opportunity, but did he? The Failure:...His pitiful life of failure has left him with nothing. Is there a way to redeem himself? Perhaps even become famous? The Counselor:..Everyone can use some good advice, from time to time. The people of Cross Corner, an old west town in the 1800's, in the middle of nowhere and on deaths door, are no exception. But is the advice always worthwhile?Mostra libro
"தமிழ்ச் சிறுகதை முன்னோடிகளுள் முக்கியமானவராகிய கு. ப. ராஜகோபாலன் அவர்களின் சிறுகதை. Kumbakonam P. Rajagopalan (1902–1944), known by his pen name Ku. Pa. Ra. was a Tamil writer, translator and journalist. He is linked with the Manikodi tradition of Tamil writers.[1] He has been compared with his co-writers Pudumaipithan, Mowni. M. V. Venkatram and Na. Pichamurthy. His short stories are clear and bold. His subject deals more of the hidden feelings of women on love and sex. "Mostra libro
Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.Mostra libro
