Once upon a time there was a man who lost his wife, and tried to find her by reading all the books in the world. An old woman sits in the dark. She has 101 stories to tell you—the last stories in existence. But the route through them is challenging. Each tale branches into multiple paths, dependent upon the choices you make. Navigate your way through a labyrinth of colliding and contrasting tales. A brand new Arabian Nights—except this time Scheherazade isn’t spinning yarns to save her own life. Follow the right path, and win back your wife from the dead. There are fairy tales and myths, adventure stories, horror stories. Comedies and tragedies, fantasy and fables and realist tales of modern life. Some of the stories are funny, and some are moving. Some of them are frightening. Most of them are very, very strange.
Robert Shearman Knihy
Robert Shearman je proslulý svými dramatickými díly, jež pronikají do hlubin lidské psychiky s jedinečnou směsicí humoru a hrůzy. Jeho psaní se vyznačuje bystrým pozorováním světa a schopností odhalovat absurdity a paradoxy moderního života. Vytváří napínavé příběhy, které často zkoumají hranice morálky a lidské povahy. Jeho díla nabízejí čtenářům poutavé a myšlenkově podnětné zážitky.






Hair Side, Flesh Side
- 298 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
An orphanage for wayward stories. A labyrinth of secrets. A home on the border of reality...Open each door to find a world of magic and menace waiting for you, if you dare.
Doctor Who: Dalek (Target Collection)
- 208 stránek
- 8 hodin čtení
And as the Dalek breaks loose, the Doctor is brought back to the brutality and desperation of his darkest hours spent fighting the creatures of Skaro... this time with the Earth as their battlefield.
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island. The story is told from the perspective of 15-year-old Ralph Rover, one of three boys shipwrecked on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. Ralph and his two companions - 18-year-old Jack Martin and 13-year-old Peterkin Gay - are the sole survivors of the shipwreck. At first, boys have to manage how to feed themselves, what to drink, and how the resolve clothing and shelter, coping with having to rely on their own resources. As the boys adopt to the situation, they start dealing with new difficulties, such as conflicting with pirates, fighting with native Polynesians, and dealing with Christian missionaries and their conversion efforts.
One house, five hauntings, five chilling stories.
The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy
- 384 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
Dark tales inspired by J. M. Barrie's classic stories of Neverland, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, and of course Peter Pan, from some the masters of science- fiction, horror and fantasy including A. C. Wise, Claire North, Lavie Tidhar and more.
PAGE-TURNING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER: For fans of Paula Hawkins, Laura Lippman, Alex Michaelides, and A.J. Finn, this is an exciting new addition in the psychological thriller genre. SECRETS, LIES, AND A TWIST YOU WON'T SEE COMING THE PERFECT SUMMER NOVEL: Publishing just in time for summer must-read roundups, this is the ideal thriller for the beach-read season. EXPLORES DEEPER THEMES OF LONELINESS AND SHAME: The main character is haunted by his past, and his desperate need for resolution and absolution increases page after page. FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF TROVE: Described as "lyrical, evocative and painstakingly honest...a treasure," by author Andre Dubus III FOR READERS WHO ENJOYED: Ann Leary's The Good House, Laura Lippman's Dream Girl, Aimee Molloy's Goodnight Beautiful. Resides in Arlington, MA.
The Soviet Union and Cuba (1987) examines the thesis that Cuba acted as an extension of Soviet foreign policy or surrogate of the USSR in the Third World. The Soviet-Cuban link is assessed in four conflicts: Angola, Ethiopia, Grenada and Nicaragua. číst celé