An anthology of six previously uncollected stories explores the memories, emotional machinations, rationalizations, dreams, and desires of people who get away with the perfect murder or who help keep information about a killing secret.--

Collects ten short stories of horror and suspense, including the tale of a boy who has to spend Halloween in a darkened hospital, and the story of a ghost who wants to steal a girl's skin.

"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In "So Late in the Day," Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in "The Long and Painful Death" a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll...

Four previously uncollected murder mysteries, two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh: The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is pure Agatha Christie; A pedantic, respectable, censorious clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder; A best selling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier; Dalgliesh's godfather...

Collects seven short stories by the great Czech writer whose works have come to epitomize the alienation and dilemmas of 20th century humanity. The title story tells of a minor civil servant who awakes one morning to discover that he has turned into a gigaintic insect.

"A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages"--

First collection in one volume. Seventeen short tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans.