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Author : Josette Weiss
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312637863
The Family Curse and Other Stories is a collection of short stories ranging from twisted fairy tales to the paranormal. There are ghosts, vampires, and other things, which go bump in the night.
Author : Tracy Badua
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780358612797
In this thrilling and hilarious middle grade adventure, a young Filipino-American boy must team up with his ancestor to break the curse that’s haunted their family for generations . . . or be trapped in an amulet forever. Freddie Ruiz is cursed. While other people may have bad days, Freddie and his family have had bad generations: from bird poop splatting on him during picture day to the many tumbles and trips that earned him the nickname Faceplant Freddie. He’s learned to lay low and keep himself out of trouble—which means no fun, no friends, and definitely no risks. But when he discovers a family heirloom, a century-old amulet from the Philippines that’s supposed to bring good fortune, Freddie thinks his luck is finally about to change. He couldn’t be more wrong. Because the spirit of Freddie’s cranky great-granduncle Ramon is trapped in the heirloom, and the evil spirits responsible for his death have returned with a vengeance. Now, Freddie and his cousin, Sharkey, have thirteen days to break the curse, or Freddie will join Ramon for an untimely afterlife in the amulet.
Author : Gigi Pandian
Publisher : Gargoyle Girl Productions
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938213243
A treasure trove of nine locked room mysteries from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Gigi Pandian, all set in the Jaya Jones world. Appearing here for the first time, novelette The Cambodian Curse: When an ancient and supposedly cursed Cambodian sculpture disappears from an impenetrable museum, and the carving’s owner is killed by an invisible assailant while a witness is a few feet away, historian Jaya Jones and her old nemesis Henry North team up to solve the baffling crime. Stories included: “The Cambodian Curse,” “The Hindi Houdini,” “The Haunted Room,” “The Library Ghost of Tanglewood Inn,” “The Curse of Cloud Castle,” “Tempest in a Teapot,” “A Dark and Stormy Light,” “The Shadow of the River,” plus bonus novella "Fool’s Gold". With an Introduction from New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King addressing why we love locked rooms, and a Foreword from impossible crime mystery historian Douglas G. Greene, teasing out the tradition of John Dickson Carr that Pandian is following. This collection is filled with ingenious stories of magic, mystery, and history.
Author : M. G. Higgins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Adjustment (Psychology) in adolescence
ISBN : 1622508459
Author : Brenda Seabrooke
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781787059863
Did you ever wonder where Sherlock Holmes found the Persian slipper he keeps his shag tobacco in? Had Holmes and Watson ever met before that day at St. Barts? Did Holmes really believe in curses when he said he did? Dr. John Watson reveals the answers to these questions in The Persian Slipper and Other Stories along with cases involving the putative Naval Man, a night spent at a gentlemen's club, Holmes' second marriage proposal, a movable tree, and a surprising wedding ending. Eight traditional pastiches with a touch of fantasy here and there were published in Holmes anthologies at Belanger Books in the US and MX Publishing in the UK. Brenda Seabrooke is the author of 22 books - mostly mysteries - for young readers and many stories in anthologies and literary journals. She has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robie Macauley Award from Emerson College and was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award at Mystery Writers of America.
Author : Barbara Wyatt Olson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504926393
Fifteen stories of quiet longing and desire, of second chances, and no chance at all. In On the Rez, when youre broken down and abandoned in Indian territory, on the dusty back roads of Kansas, there are certain to be monsters and fiends. In Ask for Anything, a family escaped into the Blue Ridge Mountains learns you do not always get what you think you want. In Florida Blues, a former lover on a prison visit must face regret, heartache, and frustration. While in California Quarter, a lady friend has not agreed to starving on the trip home.
Author : James Selwin Tait
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547334736
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Friend Pasquale, and Other Stories" by James Selwin Tait. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Bruce Lewis
Publisher : 2 Pirates Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798989253142
A single act of cruelty by famous photographer-ethnologist Edward S. Curtis in 1932 created a ripple in time that cursed generations of the Byrne Family. When its latest victim, Oregon vineyard owner Colin Byrne, discovers why his father savagely beat him as a child for no apparent reason, blinding one eye, Byrne flies into a rage, intent on punishing Curtis. But how do you avenge a wrong by a man who has been dead for 80 years? When Byrne's history-defying plot goes awry, he fights for his life again while his ultimate prize—breaking the family curse—slips away. With time running out and police on his trail for a scheme that left a library rare book room guard clinging to life, Byrne has one chance to escape prison and rewrite the pages of history.
Author : William D. Kaufman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815651253
The lasting charm of Kaufman’s stories lies in a delightful mix of personal incidents and observations set against an anchoring backdrop of cultural tradition. His new collection is filled with tales from his parents’ homeland in the Ukraine, his own childhood reminiscences, and his adult travels. We watch the young author forced alongside “every Jewish boy on the block” to emulate Yehudi Menuhin on a ten-dollar violin with a moldy bow until the boy is spared by an innate lack of talent and his father’s judgment of his concert: “Enough is enough is more than enough.” Kaufman is carefully attuned to the awkwardness of adulthood as well as to that of early adolescence. In “Interlude in Bangkok,” his narrator scours the city for a synagogue while pursued by a prostitute. Later he and a friend encounter Greta Garbo in a museum café and are too frightened to approach her. Aware of their intrigue, the mysterious movie star intones, “I am not she”; Kaufman, in his own way, says that of himself in these stories through an autobiographical narrator whose memories take on resonant, literary shapes in their retelling.
Author : Beatrice Whitby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108005201481
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141889504
In 'The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn' and the other stories in this collection, peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure or iniquity are perilously close at hand. Mr Hawthorn himself steps outside to allow his porridge to cool and disappears for five years and more, a Glasgow grocer is shipwrecked and ultimately worshipped as a god, a young mathematician discovers an entirely new aspect of reality and becomes terrified by what he finds there, and an ageing sinner clings grimly, weakly to a hard-won life of decency: John Buchan in each demonstrating his abilities as a gripping writer of short stories. In his introduction, Giles Foden explores Buchan's innate sense of the fascination held by sudden jeopardy and vanished comfort, and the themes of the will and fate in his work.
Author : Josette Weiss
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329892637
Maribele has suffered from night terrors for four years. The doctors don't know what's wrong with her. As a last resort her mother, Constance visits a psychic, but her daughter can't be psychic. Now Maribele is thrust into a dangerous world of ghosts and demons.
Author : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813514010
This collection contains ten tales -- including five that have never before appeared in book form -- by Hamet Prescott Spofford, the only woman writer to master the mode of the symbolic romance, which is often clamed to represent the mainstream of American fiction. Spofford dazzled readers in the early 1860s with a number of stories that seemed to enlarge the boundaries of romantic fiction. She established a reputation as the female heir to the literary tradition of Poe and Hawthorne with such works as the detective story "In a Cellar," the complex symbolic romance "The Amber Gods," and the frightening tale of frontier adventure. "Circumstance." These three stories provide the most important female counterpart to the works of the major male romantics and represent the final flowering of romantic fiction in New England.
Author : Makuchi
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780896804586
The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon. The collection of thirty-four folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society’s oral literature and traditions. Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways. In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king. The condition for his continued success is that he not open the sacred door. This tale of temptation, similar to the story of Pandora’s box, concludes with the question, “What would you have done?” Makuchi relates the stories her mother told her so that readers can make connections between African and North American oral narrative traditions. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences.
Author : K L Chowdhury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789388912952
These are the tales of our times, of ordinary people, their joys and sorrows, their hopes and fears, their beliefs and doubts, and their desire to get along in life in spite of multiple challenges. Of people who have been uprooted from their homes and are trying to find their moorings again, of the people they left behind, and of the unbreakable bonds that connect them in spite of the forces of disruption and discord. KL Chowdhury draws upon his experiences as a physician and a keen observer of people to present this colourful bouquet. The author's sympathetic eye and humanity shine through each of these stories. The duality of human nature-the good and bad, the indulgence and indifference, the trust and skepticism, the love and hatred-resonates in all the stories and make Room in Our Hearts a riveting read. KL Chowdhury's first two volumes of short stories-Faith and Frenzy and Why Don't You Convert?-have won much critical acclaim, and this third collection is even finer.