Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who...
‘Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman’s sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries – sleep and fishing.’Through tender,...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always when,Your glance in secrecy met mine, And in my face your love was...
No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories – many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpected...
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.'Is lying...
Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell’s...
Written in the same period as&,nbsp,Mrs Dalloway&,nbsp,these seven short stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the excitement, the fluctuations of mood...
When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station, murder is the last thing on his mind. But then again, he has never been able to...
'Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days'Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective. Through his powers of...
Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity. Inspired by his career as an aviator,...
In October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris – a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also included in...
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings… First there was the mystery of the film star and...
'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life'It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has...
‘And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!’A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged...
An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will… Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of...
A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire and dislocation explore...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOf course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security’In...
The bones were still warm, but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own deadThis spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker showcases...
I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rankA delusional man whose strange dream changes his life,...
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