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  Dark Tales - Uncanny and...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Maxim...

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  A collection of strange and often grisly tales by some of the world's greatest writers, ranging from mildly unsettling to hair-raising.    1."The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle    2. "The Severed Hand", by Wilhelm Hauff    3. "The Black Ferry", by John Galt    4. "The Tête Noire", by Charles Allston Collins    5. "The Bundle of Letters", by Maurus Jokai    6. "The Judgement of Paris", by Leonard Merrick    7. "A Witch in the Peak" ,by R. Murray Gilchrist    8."The Door of the Trap", by Sherwood Anderson    9. "The Drover’s Wife", by Henry Lawson    10. "The Encased Man", by Anton Chekhov    11. "The Pistol-Shot", by Alexander Pushkin    12. "A Pastoral Horror", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle    13. "The Other Side", by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock    14. "The Inn of the Two Witches", by Joseph Conrad    15. "The Hair", by A. J. Alan    16. "A Child’s Revenge", by Paul Bourget    17. "Gabriel-Ernest", by Saki    18. "The Haunted Doll’s House", by M. R. James    19. "An Egyptian Cigarette", by Kate Chopin    20. "Nyarlathotep", by H. P. Lovecraft    21. "Old Fags", by Stacy Aumonier    22. "The Idiot", by Arnold Bennett    23. "Mademoiselle Fifi", by Guy de Maupassant    24. "Odour of Chrysanthemums", by D. H. Lawrence

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  The Sky the Stars the Wilderness...

  Rick Bass

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  “Two appealing short stories and an exquisite novella” about the relationship between humans and the natural world around them (Kirkus Reviews). This is a “wondrous” (GQ) collection of short fiction exploring the subtle interplay between predator and prey, from “a literary titan” (The New York Times Book Review).   In the title story, a woman has returned to live on the west Texas ranch that has been in her family since Texas was a republic. Her mother, who died when she was a child, is buried there; the three men who raised her—her father, grandfather, and Old Chubb, a Mexican ranch hand—are gone; and her brother, like herself, is childless. Soon, all that will be left of the family is the land: “I suppose the land is all we will leave behind,” she reflects. “In that way it is both our parents and our children.”   Land is central to the other tales here as well. In The Myths of Bears, a man tracks his wife through a winter wilderness as she both lures and eludes him. And in Where the Sea Used to Be, an ancient ocean buried in the foothills of the Appalachians becomes a battleground for a young wildcat oilman and his aging mentor.   “Rick Bass is a force of nature. [This book] is a force of language. As a reader, a third thing comes to mind: gratitude for a good story that allows us to ponder what is above and what is below.” —Terry Tempest Williams   “What’s exhilarating about Rick Bass’s stories is that they show every hallmark of ‘the natural’—that lucid, free-flowing, particularly American talent whose voice we can hear in Twain, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway.” —Chicago Tribune

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  In Tune With Love

  Amy Matayo

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  They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.April knows her job as maid of honor is to fulfill her sister’s every wish—whatever the bride wants, she will have. Unless it involves Jack Vaughn.April Quinn loves her sister and wants to make sure the week of her wedding is the happiest of her life, even if it means putting up with Kristin’s every crazy whim. But when Kristin hires Jack Vaughn as the wedding singer, all sisterly devotion flies out the window. No way will she work with Jack after what he stole from her.Jack Vaughn is supposed be beyond these small gigs. After all, he’s on the cusp of launching his first headlining tour. But accepting the job was a spur-of-the-moment decision, and it will mean seeing April again. Surely she has forgiven him for that one lapse of judgment so long ago—the decision that shot him to stardom and left her behind, writing songs and waiting tables.As April and Jack keep appearances for the sake of Kristen’s happiness, they rediscover a chemistry that never quite fizzled out. But will they be able to rewrite two solos into a timeless duet?

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  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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  Hearts and Hands

  O. Henry

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  The story "Hearts and Hands" of the well-known American writer O. Henry was published for the first time in the collection "Remains" in 1917. In the Baltimore express all places were taken, only one bench opposite an young nice lady was free. At this time two guys entered the coach: one of them was impudent, and the second one - glum-faced. These two characters didn't represent anything unusual, except the handcuffs which held their hands among themselves. The lady recognized one of them and addressed him. The young man showed the girl the handcuffs and said that he couldn't shake her hand. He wanted to explain something but the second forestalled him. This man introduced himself as a criminal and his attendant as a marshal. The story seems to be quite plain, but its salt is hidden in the last two sentences which reveal the real state of things.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Zodomirsky's Duel

  Alexandre Dumas

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  Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was one of France's best-known and most-prolific authors. He excelled at many genres, but is probably best known for his stories of high adventure and dashing derring do.In Zodomirsky's Duel, he tells the tale of an unusual duel between officers in a regiment stationed on the Austrian border. A new officer has arrived, Lieutenant Zodomirsky, who is betrothed to the beautiful Mademoiselle Ravensky. The dour Sub-Lieutenant Stamm is far from impressed by the handsome, popular, and wealthy newcomer, who also has a reputation for being overly hot-headed. Stamm himself had secret hopes where Mademoiselle Ravensky was concerned.Stamm goes out of his way to insult Zodomirsky, which inevitably leads to a challenge to a duel. But Stamm sets some very unusual stipulations as to the method of the contest... which means that Zodomirsky's natural advantage in any armed combat is quickly reversed.The outcome of the duel is completely unexpected and more terrible for both parties than anything either of them could have conceived.

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