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  Jared Pond's First Mission

  Martin Lundqvist

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  After winning a large sum at the casino, Jared Pond is approached, drugged, and robbed by a sexy Russian spy who steals his winnings.  
  Jared gets a chance to steal his money back when he is approached by Greg Steele from RAKI (Royal Australian Kangaroo Intelligence), who offers him employment as a secret agent. 
  Jared accepts the offer, and he pictures himself becoming the greatest agent Australia has ever seen. However, will Jared succeed with his mission, or will an embarrassing failure define his first mission as a RAKI agent?

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  The Weiser Book of the Fantastic...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Charles...

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  Classic stories of occult fiction by Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more.   These are the authors and tales that inspired modern masters like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Nic Pizzolatto—edited and introduced by leading occult author and scholar Judika Illes. These powerfully evocative stories—some of which have been forgotten over the years, like buried treasure—will thrill and chill readers to the bone.   During the dark, eerie hours, when the wind is blowing and the ghosts are roaming outside, these tales can fill a night with pleasant terror—as well as encouraging our minds to venture beyond the mundane into the realm of the fantastic.

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  Humour - A Short Story Collection

  J. M. Barrie, Jerome K., Mark Twain

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  Humour, A Short Story Collection. The British, it is often said, have a stiff upper lip and a dry sense of humour.  Its true, we usually do and in the case of this perfect compendium of short stories we absolutely do.  Listen to our Scottish raconteur JM Barrie and English wits, Jerome K Jerome and Edward Lear for perfect proof of that.  But humour is many things and from many places so we also feature Mark Twain, our very talented American friend to complete this rather witty and clever volume of short stories.  Our readers include Richard Mitchley and James Taylor.

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  The Repairer of Reputations

  R W Chambers

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  Robert William Chambers was born on 26th May 1865 in Brooklyn.  
   
  Chambers was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then the Art Students' League. From there he studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, from 1886 to 1893. His illustrative work was good and displayed at the Salon from as early as 1889.  
   
  On returning to New York, he sold illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. His career then took a dramatic turn for reasons that are not entirely clear.  His new expression was in writing. He had written his first novel in 1887 ‘In the Quarter’ and felt that was where his time would now be best spent. 
   
  His best-known work is ‘The King in Yellow’ (1895), a highly vivid collection of Art Nouveau short stories. These stories are woven together by the theme of a fictitious drama of the same title, which drives those who read it insane.  
   
  This classic of Weird fiction was a genre he would return to again in several short story collections during his career.  
   
  Chambers was also a writer of historical fiction and wrote many, including a trilogy of novels, set during the earlier Franco-Prussian War. 
   
  Robert W. Chambers died on 16th December 1933, three days after intestinal surgery. 
   
  ‘The Repairer of Reputations’ from ‘The King in Yellow’ is a mind-bending and disruptive story that adds just enough reality that the unreal elements seem totally at home in the descent to chaos.

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  You Know When the Men Are Gone

  Siobhan Fallon

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  In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls. You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. No more boots stomping above, no more football games turned up too high, and, best of all, no more front doors slamming before dawn as they trudge out for their early formation, sneakers on metal stairs, cars starting, shouts to the windows above to throw them down their gloves on cold desert mornings. Babies still cry, telephones ring, Saturday morning cartoons screech, but without the men, there is a sense of muted silence, a sense of muted life.There is an army of women waiting for their men to return to Fort Hood, Texas. As Siobhan Fallon shows in this collection of loosely interconnected short stories, each woman deals with her husband's absence differently. One wife, in an attempt to avoid thinking about the risks her husband faces in Iraq, develops an unhealthy obsession with the secret life of her neighbor. Another woman's simple trip to the PX becomes unbearable when she pulls into her Gold Star parking space. And one woman's loneliness may lead to dire consequences when her husband arrives home. In gripping, no-nonsense stories that will leave you shaken, Fallon allows you into a world tightly guarded by gates and wire. It is a place where men and women cling to the families they have created as the stress of war threatens to pull them apart.Track listing for You Know When the Men Are Gone:Disc 1"You Know When the Men Are Gone"-Track 1"Camp Liberty"-Track 21Disc 2"Remission"-Track 15Disc 3"Inside the Break"-Track 7"The Last Stand"-Track 22Disc 4"Leave"-Track 14Disc 5"You Survived the War, Now Survive the Homecoming"-Track 6"Gold Star"-Track 17

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  100neHundred

  Laura Besley

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  A man carries his girlfriend in the left-hand breast pocket of his shirt. During World War II, a young soldier searches the houses and barns of the families with whom he grew up. An astronaut wonders whether she can adapt to life back on earth.In her second collection of short fiction, 100neHundred, Laura Besley explores a kaleidoscope of emotions through 100 stories of exactly 100 words.

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