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"Олеся", "Гранатовый браслет", "Суламифь", "Поединок" — произведения Александра Куприна охватывают множество разных тем: социальную, военную, любовную. Но этот сборник открывает читателю другого Куприна — проводника в таинственный мир, где переплелись и стали неразличимы реальность и мистика. Молодой незаметный мелкий чиновник Иван Степанович Цвет случайно разгадывает таинственную головоломку и овладевает "тайной, которой больше тридцати столетий". Отныне все, о чем бы он ни подумал, начинает сбываться. Цвет становится богат, успешен, знаменит — но счастлив ли? Ведь у каждого исполненного желания есть последствия.

Nell'anno di grazia 1999 Learco Ferrari, già protagonista di tre romanzi, riceve una visita luciferina e si fa inviato di Satana. Voleva fare il traduttore, lui, forse forse anche lo scrittore, e invece eccolo qui, è diventato diavolo. Il suo compito sarà quello di seminare zizzania e scandalo nella sua sonnolenta città della provincia emiliana, che all'improvviso diventa il palcoscenico di una trascinante sarabanda dal ritmo sincopato, un due tre, un due tre, tra tic e rituali, telefonate e letteratura, gatti, anarchici e dizionari.

Dare voce a chi non ha voce: questo è l’intento di L’anima di Antonio – Storia di un operaio metalmeccanico morto sul lavoro. Chi sicuramente non ha voce per raccontare la propria storia è il protagonista del racconto, l’operaio manutentore Antonio, morto il 24 settembre 2019 in una fabbrica della provincia di Frosinone. Antonio è morto schiacciato tra due stampi del reparto lastratura mentre è addetto al cambio stampi di una pressa, ma la sua anima, per disposizione dell’Uno, vaga ancora qualche mese tra le officine della fabbrica, assistendo in prima persona al suo post mortem.

In Heaven, there is a gated community for those who end their lives by choice. This is a complete surprise to 43-year old Hope, who ends her life one morning on the banks of the Fox River in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Hope has always dealt with deep sadness. From childhood on, she visited therapists, doctors, alternative medicine practitioners, Reiki artists, etc., to no avail. In Heaven, God reassures her that he knows what caused the sadness, but he won't reveal it yet.

Love, be it wild or tender, often defies logic. In fact, at times, the only rationale behind the instant connection of two souls is plain magic. Bibiña Aranda, runaway bride, wakes up in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao still wearing her wedding dress, draped in the loving arms of a naked man whose name she doesn’t know. She and the man with no clothes, Indar Zubieta, attempt to explain to the authorities how they got there. It’s a story of love at first sight and experience beyond compare, one that involves a dreamlike journey through the museum.

Кармилла – одно из первых произведений о вампирах в истории литературы, написанное за 25 лет до знаменитого "Дракулы" Брэма Стокера, который вдохновлялся творчеством Ле Фаню. История из практики врача-психиатра Мартина Хесселиуса, рассказанная юной девушкой Лорой, которая вместе с отцом живет в замке среди бесконечных лесов Австро-Венгерской империи и ведет уединенный образ жизни. Все меняется с появлением прекрасной незнакомки по имени Кармилла, тогда и начинают происходить странные события: крестьяне умирают один за другим, Лора заболевает и чахнет на глазах, а по ночам ее мучают кошмары.

Der junge Mann "Keawe" fristet auf Hawaii ein mehr oder weniger sorgenfreies Dasein, er kann sich zwar keine kleinen Extras leisten, aber ist gesund und munter. Eines Tages trifft er einen alten Mann, der ihm eine besondere Flasche verkaufen will. Darin haust ein kleiner Teufel, der dem Flaschenbesitzer alle Wünsche erfüllt. Die Sache hat nur einen Haken: Der jeweilige Inhaber des kleinen Schmuckstücks muss dieses unter allen Umständen vor seinem Tod wieder verkaufen und zwar zu einem günstigeren Verkaufs- als Kaufpreis, sonst landet die Seele des aktuellen Eigentümers in der Hölle.

Hirasaka regenta un estudio de fotografía en el más allá. Antes de que sus «invitados» abandonen ese lugar de paso, él les da una taza de té y una pila de fotos de su historia para que escojan una por cada año que han vivido antes de partir en su último viaje. Además, tienen la oportunidad de viajar al pasado como fantasmas para capturar un momento especial. Hecho esto, Hirasaka coloca las imágenes en un proyector para que su invitado pueda contemplar una vez más sus recuerdos.

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family.

Von einem attraktiven Erzengel in dessen Palast gebracht zu werden klingt romantischer, als es ist. Zumal Leonora diesen Palast niemals freiwillig betreten hätte. Denn der Erzengel ist niemand anderes als Luzifer, der Herrscher der Hölle. Wer glaubt schon dem Teufel, dass er einem das Leben retten und einen vor den anderen Engeln beschützen möchte? Leonora jedenfalls nicht, zumal Luzifer nicht ganz uneigennützig handelt. Ein Fluch lastet auf ihm und Leonora ist der Schlüssel, um diesen zu brechen.

The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence, Georgia, a natural event with supernatural repercussions, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this emergence, dark obsessions are stirred, uncanny gifts provoked, and secrets unearthed. During a visit to Mistletoe, a plantation owned by the wealthy Mayfield family, Analeise encounters Cordelia Mayfield and her daughter Marlissa, both of whom possess an otherworldly beauty, a lineal trait regarded as that Mayfield Shine.

Joe the Salamander tells the story of Joe Gamut, a brilliant boy whose infatuation with Superman helps him through his struggles in the neurotypical world. Timothy Gager creates charmingly wise and foolish support characters, captures quirky 1990s nostalgia, and tells a poignant story about life with or on the spectrum.

Nothing’s going well for Eve: she’s single, turning forty, stressed at work and anxious about a recent series of increasingly creepy incidents. Most devastatingly, her beloved father died last year, and her family still won’t acknowledge their sorrow. With her younger sister’s wedding rapidly approaching, Eve is on the verge of panic. She can’t bear to attend the event alone. That’s when she recalls a strange story her Yiddish grandmother once told her, about a protector forged of desperation…and Eve, to her own shock, manages to create a golem.

Henry dreams of silence. A world without the clattering of carriages through cobbled streets, the distant cries of drunken brawls, the relentless ticking of the clock. Then he meets a fascinating, mysterious gentleman who sells just that. Precious silk that can drown out the clamour of the world – and everything Henry is so desperate to escape. Summoned to Sir Edward’s secluded factory to try to cure his young daughter’s deafness, Henry is soon drawn deeper and deeper into the origins of this otherworldly gift: a gift that has travelled from ancient Mediterranean glades to English libraries.

“When you know, you know” is how Piper had rationalized her rushed engagement when she broke the news over the phone. Now, only a few months later, Jane is packing her bags and heading west to partake in festivities leading up to her cousin’s wedding.

Todos tenemos sueños, y el del joven Tom «Hematoma» Cloudman es volar. Por eso es acróbata—algunos dicen que el peor acróbata del mundo—y especialista en escenas de riesgo, pues así se siente más cerca del cielo. Entre saltos y piruetas su cuerpo se desgasta, hasta que un día le detectan una grave enfermedad. Pero el destino de Tom no es el de cualquiera, y si le acompañamos veremos que poco después, en uno de sus paseos nocturnos por la clínica, conoce a una fascinante criatura, mitad mujer y mitad pájaro, de quien cae fulminantemente enamorado.

Basta pochissimo tempo per dare un senso alla vita. Basta conoscere l'amore. Kusunoki impara la lezione entrando in uno strano negozio vuoto. "Benvenuto!" gli dice una ragazza con gli occhiali. Kusunoki ha bisogno di soldi e gli hanno detto che lì è possibile vendere il tempo che ti resta in cambio di una somma di denaro. Tutto considerato si può fare. Fino a quel momento la vita del ragazzo è stata piuttosto anonima, nessuna passione particolare, pochi obiettivi da raggiungere, nessuna soddisfazione.

Time and Tide: a collection of tales, speaks of change—sometimes a long time coming, sometimes in an instant, but always inevitable. The first story, “Book of Hours,” creates the frame for the rest of the tales. Helen, an American writer living in Italy, believes her creativity is gone forever as she returns to her childhood home to care for her dying mother.

Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,” offering a service that goes beyond cooking mouth-watering meals. Through their culinary sleuthing, they revive lost recipes and rekindle forgotten memories.

From the “terrifyingly talented” (London Times) author of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG-IN THE NIGHT-TIME and THE PORPOISE, eight mesmerizingly imaginative, deeply-humane stories that use Greek myths and contemporary dystopian narratives to examine mortality, moral choices and the many variants of love.