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A Korean politician, in jail for diverting just a few too many public funds, develops a cunning escape plan.
Seeking shelter for the night, a wounded man breaks into a bizarre, abandoned chateau decorated by an unusually large number of paintings.
A boy defies his hated guardian through the worship of a great ferret who lives in the tool-shed.
It is not Pneumonia alone that is killing Johnsy - for some reason, she has resigned herself to death.
The inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow include Ichabod, the lovely Katrina and very possibly a headless ghost.
Witty and insightful tale of a memorable day in the life of a determined child.
The original gothic tale of madness, death and the atmospheric possibilities of an old house.
As if there weren’t enough problems on his plate, Mondriel had to go and stumble upon the biggest secret ever, didn’t he? The kind of secret that would turn the natural order of things on its head if it was leaked to a wider public.
Death came around once a month...
After watching a debate on the perils of a consumerist society, a man turns off his television and heads to a bicycle shop.
A Confederate soldier carries a locket around his neck.
A gentleman moves into a reputedly haunted apartment block. Initially amused by the idea, he soon has reason to take it seriously.
The Duchess of Dulverton sends an errant nephew to search for underwater gold.
A tourist couple stray from the beaten track and find themselves out of their depth.
The Stossens encounter more problems than expected when they try and crash a garden party through an apparently empty paddock.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
