Does repeatedly kicking a can as you walkactually protect you from evil spirits?When a woman asserts the piece of rope sheused to strangle her husband was only forwalking her cat, how does Inspector Baseheartprove premeditated first degree murder?Can there be a "Taxonomy of Murder?"Who is the "Trachea Terrorist" (a.k.a. "The GulletGasher"), and why is he destroying his victims'breathing apparatus throughout the city?...

As usual Inspector Baseheart's plate is filled with blood and baloney. These are the never-before revealed Secret Files. Why have they been kept secret? The estimable Howard Cress of Fortnight Publications writes an introductory comment which treats of this issue, and also of the quirky personality of the man who is the world's most famous detective since Sherlock Holmes.Of course, it is the excitement and the complexity of these investigative files which have fascinated readers ove...

Gonzalo is puzzled and irate: "Only a madman would dare kidnap the niece of the world's foremost living detective!" Inspector Baseheart responds: "Yes, only a madman.It is not a comforting thought."One of three identical triplets is scheduled to hang in the morning for murder. But which one?Who are the "Monkey People?" and why do they have trouble checking out library books?Can you be electrocuted while standing in bunny pee?A man fakes his death for ...

A young Polynesian woman, Poema Farepa, learns from a neighbor that a highway is to be built next to her property in a quiet area on the west coast of Tahiti. As she slowly describes to her little nieces her plot to stop the project, she tells them of her childhood in the Tuamotu Archipelago. Poema is born unwanted into her family. She endures a difficult childhood of work and neglect and mischief, uplifted only by the appearances of the ghost of her grandmother. She is influenced heavil...

A short story of love and suspense with a dash of the supernatural.The reviewers said:"This is a quick, sweet story. It's about a young couple who buys their first house, where the wife is visited by an old woman who used to own it. After that the wife starts dreaming about the family who lived there before. It's a ghost story but not in the horror genre-it's not scary. It is self-contained, unlike a lot of the freebie short stories out there that are teasers to get you to ...

A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and Underworld.Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American.In The Body Artist his spare, seductive twelfth...

A touching Christmas tale about a Minnesota widower who has a magical encounter with an enchanted snow man -- and gets a last glimpse of the love of his life. Originally appeared in Cicada Magazine.

Learn Chinese with confidence, pick up vocabulary and practice new words you won't forget by reading Accelerated Learning: English/Chinese - The Pillow Book of Carmen Garcia - Enhanced Edition增强版No more boring drills that make you yawn and funny outdated gibberish which make everyone laugh. Learn through stories; the most effective method to increase your vocabulary in Chinese and any other language.Who can benefit from this program?You are English-speaking, ...

A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream."My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after, everything is an extension of the same vivid memory, continuous and unbroken, including the intervals of sleep, up to the ...

This Mill Avenue Vexations short story was originally published in the Twilight and Thorns horror anthology--but that has since gone out of print. So it's being brought to you here as a stand alone short story. Cab driver, Vex Harrow, picks up a strange passenger during one of her late night fares and discovers there's more to him than there seems when he vanishes mid-trip.

A quiet night on patrol. A vivid imagination. And something lurking in the pitch-black mountain woods...Working the graveyard shift as a security guard at an exclusive, gated golf community in the Arizona mountains isn't the most glamorous job, but it's usually quiet. Your shift alternates between sitting in a sleepy gatehouse and patrolling dark, winding backroads surrounded by pine trees and wildlife.For one night watchman with a deep love for horror movi...

Twelve short stories by "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe)—and the award-winning, international bestselling author of The Infatuations.Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies--a woman about to star in her first porn fil...