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  American Histories - Stories

  John Edgar Wideman

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  In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life, blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other.With characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Nat Turner, American Histories is a journey through time, experience, and the soul of our country."JB & FD" reimagines conversations between John Brown, the antislavery crusader who famously raided Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and orator, conversations that belie the myth of race and produce a fantastical, ethically rich correspondence that spans years and ideologies. "Maps and Ledgers" eavesdrops on a brother and sister today as they ponder their father's killing of another man. "Williamsburg Bridge" sits inside a man sitting on a bridge who contemplates his life before he decides to jump. "My Dead" is a story about how the already-departed demand more time, more space in the lives of those who survive them.Navigating an extraordinary range of subject and tone, Wideman challenges the boundaries of traditional forms, and delivers unforgettable, immersive narratives that touch the very core of what it means to be alive. An extended meditation on family, history, and loss, American Histories weaves together historical fact, philosophical wisdom, and deeply personal vignettes. More than the sum of its parts, this is Wideman at his best — emotionally precise and intellectually stimulating — an extraordinary collection by a master.

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  Yellow Book The - Vol 1

  Henry James, Henry Harland, Ella...

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  During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate.  This really was mass market publishing to a hungry audience eager for literary sustenance.  Many of our greatest authors contributed and expanded their reach whilst many fledging authors also found a ready source for their nascent works and careers. 
   
  Amongst the very many was ‘The Yellow Book’.  Although titled as ‘An Illustrated Quarterly’ it was sold as a cloth-bound hardback and within were short stories, essays, poetry, illustrations and portraits.  It was edited by the American author Henry Harland, who also contributed, and its art editor was no less that the formidable Aubrey Beardsley, the enfant terrible of illustration. 
   
  Its yellow cover and name gave it an association with the risqué and erotic yellow covered works published in France.  It was a visual shorthand for ideas that would push many boundaries of Society to more open interpretations. Being complete in each volume and slightly aloof it stayed away from serialised fiction and advertisements.   
   
  Within each lavishly illustrated edition were literary offerings that included works by such luminaries as Henry James, H G Wells, W B Yeats, Edith Nesbit, George Gissing and many others from the ascetic and decadent movements of the time.   
   
  The other notable inclusion was women both as contributors and amongst its editing staff, which was at odds with the then patriarchal gender norms.   
   
  Although it only survived for 13 issues its reach and influence were second to none.   > 
  1 - The Yellow Book - An Introduction. Volume 1 
  2 - The Death of the Lion by Henry James 
  3 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy 
  4 - A Lost Masterpiece by George Egerton 
  5 - Modern Melodrama by Hugo Crackanthorpe 
  6 - The Gospel of Content by Frederick Greenwood 
  7 - A Responsibility by Henry Harland

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  The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  In a world beyond the walls of sleep, Randolph Carter goes in search of an opulent and mysterious sunset city. First, he must go to Kadath, home of the Gods, where he hopes to be guided to the city of his dreams. No one has ever been to Kadath, and no one even knows how to get there – but that won't stop Carter from trying. In this masterful adaptation of Lovecraft's classic novella, I. N. J. Culbard captures Carter's journey through the dangerous and spectacular Dreamlands in beautiful, gripping detail

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  Cat and Jemima J - A Short Story

  Jane Green

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  From New York Times bestselling author Jane Green comes Cat and Jemima J, an original short story featuring Jemima—the main character from Green's beloved novel Jemima J, and Cat—the main character from her novel Summer Secrets.

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  Night Terrors Vol 21 - Short...

  Harrison Shimens, Buck Weiss,...

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  Travel into the darkness and the nightmares will never end… 
  Scare Street is proud to present a diabolical new collection of seventeen ghastly stories. Each spine-tingling tale is a portal to a new world, the beginning of a seemingly endless voyage into fear and dread. An infinite horizon beckons, as the sun sets behind overcast, craggy mountains. 
  But be warned: Not every journey is worth taking. Some roads lead where you might not expect. And some nightmares are too terrifying to awake from. 
  That’s the thing about traveling into the darkness… 
  You never know which trip will be your last. 
  This volume consists of the following stories: 
  1. The Shape by Harrison Shimens 
  2. The Graveyard Worm by Buck Weiss 
  3. Spaghetti Man by Jill Benson 
  4. Daughters by Jenna Dietzer 
  5. Celestiradix by John Forrester 
  6. The Open House by John Peyton Cooke 
  7. Lady of the Lump by Stephen Mcquiggan 
  8. The Old Treehouse by Brock Kevin Poulsen 
  9. Thalassophobia by Melanie Atkinson 
  10. Incident at Wombat Gully by Kris Ashton 
  11. Troposphere by Jon Douglas Rainey 
  12. Loose Lips by Matt Bliss 
  13. What Grows Underneath Ends in Silence by Timothy G. Huguenin 
  14. Every Little Hair on Your Head by Alex Laurel Lanz 
  15. Hantu Toilet by Joni Chng 
  16. You Can’t Kidnap a Baby by Natasha Ruhwald 
  17. The Box by Ron Ripley and Kevin Saito

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  The Woman Lit by Fireflies

  Jim Harrison

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  Three novellas by the author of Legends of the Fall. “A brilliant tour de force . . . Jim Harrison at his peak: comic, erotic, and insightful” (San Francisco Chronicle).   Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren’t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected bounty. A band of sixties radicals, now approaching middle age, reunite to free an old comrade from a Mexican jail. A fifty-year-old suburban housewife flees quietly from her abusive businessman husband at a highway rest stop, climbs a fence, and explores the bittersweet pageant of the preceding years within the sanctuary of an Iowa cornfield.  The Woman Lit by Fireflies is the work of a classic writer at the very top of his form—a hard-living, hard-writing hero of American letters whose novellas comprise a sweeping tribute to the nation’s heartland and the colorful, courageous characters who inhabit it.   “Funny, wild, sexy, and bizarre . . . Along with Richard Ford . . . Harrison has cornered the market in the tough-but-tender style that characterized Hemingway’s early work.” —Nick Hornby

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