The hairs are always buried much deeper than you think.. Where the natural collides with the supernatural, these vivid stories situate us at the permeable border between fantastical and mundane. A teenage swimmer tries to remove an ingrown hair that takes on a life of its own. A town grapples with an uncontrollable growth of moss. A horror soundtrack haunts its composer. Testing the boundary between fantasy and reality, Oliver stretches the imagination to its limits in a collection which places the physical body, human connection and the truth at its centre. These tales navigate guilt, grief and explore the nature of victimhood. Olivers honest voice penetrates human truths while ghosting narratives with the uncanny. Journey to the outer limits of bodily awareness as characters dive deep to confront their truth.

The companion novel to People Watching, this follows Milos younger sister, Nadia, and the Kablukov siblings childhood friend and next-door-neighbor, Aleks, who co-owns MANs Brewery with Nadias eldest brother, Nik.Nadia has known Aleks all her life. She knows hes sweet and generous, and that hes far too good for her. Aleks knows things about Nadia that shes told no one else. And he knows his lifelong feelings for her are totally inappropriate now hes technically her boss in the brewery that he and the Kablukov siblings are trying so hard to get off the ground. Nothing can happen.So obviously it makes total sense for Aleks to offer Nadia his spare room. Its just a house-share relationship. But for how long...?

Rebellion and ruin await in the gripping second installment of Evan Leikams debut fantasy series, perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie, R.F. Kuang, and Nicholas Eames.The king is dead. Shes still alive. The revolution is yet to come... The riveting adventure continues in the sequel to Evan Leikams breakout fantasy debut Anji Kills a King.Anji has survived a dozen different deaths. The king is dead, her family is dead, the fabled mercenaries of the Menagerie are deadand shes still here, the price that was on her head now jingling as coins in her own pocket.In the wake of her journey, the city she once called home has changed, and a revolution is brewing in a camp on the riverbank. A revolution Anjis new windfall was meant to fund, and still could if she can forgive them for being willing to throw her life away to do it. But building a bright new kingdom wont be as simple as cutting one kings throat... and in a city of dark alleys and desperate times, her path will take her to shadowy places she never could have expected.

Lorena tiene una vida complicada. Su familia es una de las víctimas de los efectos de la crisis y no le queda más remedio que trabajar para ayudarla a llegar fin de mes, compaginando sus dos trabajos con sus estudios universitarios. Joel es un chico solitario que guarda un gran secreto de su pasado. Un pasado que le persigue alla donde va, pero intenta vivir su vida lejos de las miradas acusadoras y las habladurias de la gente. Un dia magico, como es el dia de Reyes, sus caminos chocaran y sus vidas dejaran de ser tan oscuras, pero el secreto de Joel le hara dudar a Lorena si es un chico de fiar. ¿Podra el contarle el pasado que le atormenta? Y si lo hace, ¿querra Lorena seguir a su lado?

La joven Alicia no podía imaginar aquella noche de tormenta que el parto malogrado de una condesa y la necesidad imperiosa de asegurar la descendencia del condado de Movellán desencadenaría una serie de acontecimientos que cambiaria su vida para siempre. La fuerza que otorga la maternidad le impulsara a luchar contra el destino. Alicia murio para el mundo, se reinvento, accedio al conocimiento, descubrio la existencia de una organizacion secreta y tejio una solida tela de araña capaz de proteger su mayor tesoro. Chan, un joven soñador, viaja a la ciudad con un firme objetivo: despejar la neblina de misterio que nubla su pasado, conocer sus origenes. Descendera a los infiernos de la depravacion, librara oscuras batallas, tocara fondo. Solo entonces sentira la fuerza y el valor del amor y la amistad, porque, en verdad, nunca estuvo solo.

Una obra que merece ser colocada en un segundo lugar de excelencia después de El Quijote, ahora en una nueva edición accesible avalada por la Real Academia Española.Escritos con un lenguaje popular y agudo, los Entremeses retratan escenas de la vida cotidiana llenas de humor, satira y critica social. Cervantes se burla de los vicios y defectos humanos como la avaricia, la hipocresia, el engaño y la falsa honra. Los protagonistas son personajes del pueblo llano, picaros, engañadores, mujeres astutas y maridos celosos, que reflejan con ironia los problemas sociales y morales de la epoca.A traves de situaciones absurdas y dialogos ingeniosos, Cervantes demuestra su maestria en el teatro breve y su vision critica del mundo. Aunque no tuvieron tanto exito en su tiempo como sus novelas, hoy se valoran por su riqueza literaria y su frescura escenica.

La primera novela de Miguel de Cervantes en una nueva edición accesible avalada por la Real Academia Española.La Galatea es, al mismo tiempo, un homenaje a la novela pastoril, cuyos rasgos temáticos y estructurales le sirven de sustento basico, y una protesta contra las limitaciones o convenciones acomodaticias con que sus antecesores la habian cultivado.La obra narra las desventuras amorosas de varios pastores idealizados en un entorno bucolico. La historia gira en torno a Galatea, una bella y virtuosa pastora que es cortejada por varios pastores, especialmente Elicio y Erastro, aunque ella prefiere mantenerse libre. A traves de dialogos, poemas y relatos intercalados, Cervantes explora temas como el amor no correspondido, la amistad, la libertad personal y la belleza.

In this fascinating novel, one of the masters of impossible crime fiction takes on one of the greatest criminals of all time. Sticking scrupulously to the facts, Paul Halter explores the Jack the Ripper murders and offers his own theories about the identity of the monster, what drove him, and how he was able to vanish under the noses of the police during the spree of escalating horror which sent the citizens of fog-ridden London into paroxysms of fear in the autumn of 1888.But the year before Saucy Jacky began his reign of terror, someone started to investigate an astonishing impossible murder committed in the country village of Blackfield nine years earlier. That, too, involved a monstrous murderer who slaughtered witnesses and vanished under the noses of his pursuers. Is there a connection with the Ripper cases which followed?Paul Halter, who has been fascinated by Jack the Ripper from a tender age, won the coveted French Prix du Roman dAventures in 1988 and the prestigious Japanese Hunkaku Mystery Award 2005 for Le Brouillard Rouge (The Crimson Fog).

The Trinity is revealed at last, but the key to unlocking its power remains unknown. Tor and Alyssa are surrounded by danger. Old enemies return, and a new threat is looming: a god has installed himself on the throne and is determined to kill Tor and those he loves.The battle lines are drawn for the final confrontation between the two most powerful sentients ever to walk the land. Was Tor doomed from the start, or can he protect Tallinor from its ultimate enemy?

When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a derelict London theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. The corpse is anonymous, ritually mutilated, and seemingly unconnected to the world beyond the sealed auditorium. As Rex digs deeper into the crime scene, the investigation begins to unravel, refusing the logic of a conventional murder inquiry.Clues fracture into symbols, witnesses contradict themselves, and the case starts to mirror Rexs own buried past. The search for the victims identity becomes inseparable from a more troubling question: who, beneath the certainty of his badge and rank, is Rex King himself?Shifting between Holborn Police Station, an abandoned village in rural 1980s France, and the violent clash between state power and counterculture at Stonehenges Battle of the Beanfield, The Fountain in the Forest reimagines the crime novel as something stranger and more daring. At once a gripping police procedural, an avant-garde experiment in language, and a philosophical meditation on liberty and identity, it is an iconoclastic novel of rare ambition.

Stories traversing identity, sexuality, and human connection across the industrial towns and satellite villages of Northern England. Opening with the Commonwealth Prize-winning "Lech, Prince, and the Nice Things," the collection weaves through teenage sexual awakening, family secrets, and post-pandemic isolation. Characters grapple with class divisions, discrimination, and desires they barely understand themselves. Unflinching and deeply human, these stories capture pivotal moments when lives quietly but irrevocably change course.

Witness macabre ceremonies, malicious creatures, and elder gods emerging in this companion anthology to Shadows Over Innsmouth and Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, containing 17 short stories inspired by the legendary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, and curated by award-winning anthologist Stephen Jones.Featuring stories from some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, A. G. Slatter, and many more. This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.The final volume in the original trilogy that began with Shadows Over Innsmouth and Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth. Witness a macabre ceremony conducted by moonlight, kid detectives unearthing a sinister supernatural secret, and a skilled harpist lulling the old gods back to sleep beneath the seaalong with an Innsmouth poem by H. P. Lovecraft himself and a "posthumous collaboration" between the author and August Derleth.Featuring 17 short horror stories from some of todays top Lovecraftian writers, curated by World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones. This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.Including stories from: H. P. Lovecraft Ramsey Campbell Adrian Cole August Derleth John Glasby Brian Hodge Caitlin R. Kiernan Brian Lumley Kim Newman Reggie Oliver Angela Slatter Michael Marshall Smith Simon Kurt Unsworth Conrad Williams

A vengeful god is about to break free and destroy the land. Only the Trinity can stop him wreaking vengeance.Saved from death by a powerful act of Spiriting, Torkyn Gynt lives in hiding from his enemies, threats that loom from many directions. In Tallinor, Alyssa believes her beloved Tor is dead and must find the strength to forgive the king who ordered his execution.But the Trinity itself remains a mystery. Can Tor discover its identity to fulfil his destiny?

In these two novellas and three short stories for adult readers, Hans Christian Andersen displays the imagination and descriptive brilliance familiar from his fairy tales, but turns his eye to subtler social themes: class mobility in a changing Europe; the unfairness with which talents and opportunities are meted out in this world; the struggle between natures claims on humanity and civilizations.The title novella, The Ice Virgin, unites all these ideas in a piece of beautifully structured storytelling considered by some to be Andersens masterpiece. Rudy is orphaned young, rescued as an infant from a glacial crevasse where his mother fell and died. He lives, but the stunning yet unforgiving mountain landscape of Switzerland may yet claim him. His love for the rich millers daughter Babette brings out all his bravery and ingenuity - but also his stubbornness and resistance to change. In a masterfully ambivalent climax Andersen makes us wonder what happiness and fulfilment truly mean.Elsewhere in the collection Andersen turns his gaze to the hostile shores and wooded heights of Denmarks Jutland, where in his time submissive poverty was giving way to feverish social transformation. We meet a shipwrecked youngster struggling to fit into his adopted community, a couple whose wise humility echoes down the wealthy generations that follow with comically unexpected effects, and a steadfast friend whose saintly patience is ill rewarded by the object of her loyalty. Full of irony, enchanting imagery and bravura prose, these stories showcase Andersens perceptiveness, empathy, and deep engagement with the world around him.

On holiday at a fashionable German spa, young civil engineer Herr von Gordon meets Colonel von St Arnaud and his younger wife, the beautiful Cécile. Gordon is drawn to this elegant and melancholy woman, who seems to hold herself at a distance from her husband. As he and the married pair tour local attractions and enjoy the scenery of the Harz Mountains, he finds himself ever more fascinated by Cecile - and by the mystery surrounding her past.As Gordon and Cecile grow closer, her husbands jealousy, the gossip of polite society, and the secrets of the past converge. When they meet again in Berlin society, the attraction between the two young people will have tragic consequences for all.A challenge to societal conventions, a portrait of a complex woman and a biting send-up of early tourist culture, Fontanes novel is an elegant, ironic and moving classic of 19th-century realist fiction.

Podolia, 1911: one day, a stranger arrives at the shtetl. He walks with a limp, appears to be deaf and has the look of a vagrant. The tight-knit community is on the point of chasing him out, but the local tzaddik sees the spark of holiness in his eyes. Named Rafael, he settles in the shtetl and begins forming close relationships with members of this Hasidic community - and slowly, this incomprehensible, magnetic figure brings the peoples deepest emotions and conflicts to the fore.Written in poetic prose that draws on fascinating elements of Jewish folklore and mysticism, Golem reconstructs a vanished world with a spellbinding combination of the real and the fantastical.

Moving through somnambulant states, Sleep Gate evokes Inger Christensens description of the necessity for us to dream our way inward. The poems in Sleep Gate push Christensens dream inward further, into biological dreaming itself. Fully absorbed in the fabric of sleep, enfolded into the inventory of dreams, these poems become part of the process of sleep respiration, so that we might consider the world around us from another perspective. Moving through the changing states of peoplesdreamscapes and what might affect them, like nightmares, insomnia and other sleep disorders, Sleep Gate captures the disjunctive, jump-cutting quality of dreams: within the unspoken context of deep-sleep tectonic logic, these poems jump from a time before the clouds are inventoried to the present, from Winters gnashing bruxism to a garden anointed with gluey residue. A collection that, as on waking, assembles the world through distortion and towards clarity.

1958. Cookbook writer and television personality Mary Mackerel must leave London in a hurry when public affection for her curdles. Her publisher advises her to go deep into the British countryside and write a cookbook that will reestablish her reputation. Reluctantly, Mary sells up and endeavours to brush off being exiled to what she thinks is the edge of the world: Penzance, Cornwall. There she buys a run-down tea shoppe with hopes of turning it into a bakery and restaurant. To ingratiate herself with the locals, Mary bakes her adapted version of Cornish-ish Pasties and gives the tasty treats away. After one of the locals dies of poisoning moments afterwards, the whole town points the finger at Mary as a murderer. Soon, the local and then national press have gleefully picked up on the story. Mary must turn chef-detective to clear her name and save her fledgling business.

This cosy, atmospheric Sapphic multiverse fantasy spins a tale of love against all odds and across many worlds, for fans of The Ten Thousand Doors of January and V. E. Schwabs Shades of Magic series.Every morning, Tansy takes tea to her employer, Lady Aster. She goes on a walk along the cliffs, waving to the cat on her way. She dusts the elaborate glass globes full of strange and beautiful worlds that Lady Aster creates. She cleans their cottage, Oubliette. Every day, exactly the same.Until, one afternoon, Tansy drops the globe containing a replica of the cottage, leaving a tiny fracture in the glass. And things begin to change.She finds an injured knight from another world, Merit, sleeping in their pigsty. Merit was raised to be a monster, a servant of the terrible Unmaker who once terrorised her worldbut after betraying a fellow knight, she escaped through a crack between places and found herself in the Oubliette.Theres a reason every day in the Oubliette is identical; that Tansy cant remember anything about her life before she joined Lady Asters service. As she and Merit begin to explore the many worlds outside the Oubliette, they realise one story unites them all: the trail of war, violence and destruction left by the Unmaker, who they fear will one day return. Andhowever unwittinglyTansy and Merit have opened the door.The crack in the Oubliette was only the beginning. Soon, as the Unmakers story becomes increasingly ensnared with their own, both Tansy and Merit will have to choose: are they who they were born to be, or the people theyve become to each other?

The hitman hero of the acclaimed Cinemax series comes out of retirement for another nail-biting suspense thriller from the author of ROAD TO PERDITION.YOURE CORDIALLY INVITED TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF MURDER Since his first appearance in 1976, Max Allan Collins quintessential killer-for-hire, Quarry, has starred in 17 novels, two films, a graphic novel, and a Cinemax TV series -- and with QUARRYS REUNION, he reaches a milestone never before achieved by any character in American crime novels: a series that has continued for 50 years. To celebrate, MWA Grand Master Collins is taking Quarry somewhere hes never gone before: back home, to the town in Ohio where he grew up, before his tour of duty in Vietnam and his even bloodier experiences Stateside. An old high-school girlfriend summons Quarry for his 50th reunion but old times take a back seat when bullets start to fly. Thrilling, moving, and revealing, this new installment in Quarrys Edgar and Shamus Award-nominated saga delivers a powerful capstone to the killers career and a perfect entry point for readers new to Quarrys story.