Ergebnis für "The Double" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

First published in 1846, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella The Double is a classic doppelganger and the second major work published by the author. It is the story of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a government clerk who believes that a fellow clerk has taken over his identity and is determined to bring...

When the elite fighter pilots of the Phantine XX arrive on the beleaguered world of Enothis, they know it is a desperate hour. The forces of Chaos are closing in, and their final push could well wipe out all human life on the planet. Thousands of refugees flee the dark armies, and the infamous Chaos fighter pilot Khrel Kas Obarkon is always hunting the skies for more prey....

Multicast narration featuring Isla Blair, Joan Hickson, David Suchet, and more Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie’s Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun. In one of...

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Anthology Finalist for the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology A horror anthology edited by the genre’s greatest, Ellen Datlow, with one side featuring stories about what haunts the night while the other side showcases the terrors that can exist in...

Bales’s forensic accountancy firm is up and running and exceeding expectations. Life is good; the only problem left is dealing with Katie’s outstanding tax bill. That is until Bales meets Hannah Morley at the HMRC offices in Cambridge. She needs his help at The Morley Pub Group... Against his better judgement, Bales also squeezes in another job. A missing person with Cambridgeshire connections; the only clues are contained in a series of puzzling box files.

Welcome to the Capitol, where nothing is as it seems. Senator John Hawthorne's career has been long and illustrious, but as age creeps in, his once firm grip on power begins to waver. At ninety-four, Senator Elizabeth Morrow stands as a beacon of resilience, tirelessly advocating for healthcare reform despite the whispers of vulnerability. Behind the scenes, the Capitol is a labyrinth of ambition and intrigue. Every politician, every aide, and every reporter has a role to play in the delicate dance of power.

Ogden Ford, a spoiled child of stupidly wealthy divorced parents, is "the Little Nugget"—the El Dorado of the American kidnapping industry. When Peter Burns, the gentleman of leisure, agrees to spirit the boy away from an English preparatory school to reunite him with his doting mother, he finds himself up against professional competition from across the Atlantic. And when penitent ex-playboy Jimmy "Piccadilly Jim" Crocker covertly returns to his native United States, the Nugget is once more involved as Jimmy finds himself enmeshed in plots and schemes of espionage and kidnapping.

Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers. Nuclear brinksmanship, psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops… The Cold War—a terrifying time when nuclear war between...

For the first time ever, bestselling suspense novelists Jonathan and Faye Kellermen team up to deliver a thrilling new series featuring crime-solving detectives. In the Land of the Giants has Boston homicide detectives Michael MacCain and Doris Sylvestor investigating the suspicious death of a...

BLOOD AND BRAINS features two of Judith Sonnet's most extreme novellas, packed together for a double feature that will melt the flesh right off your skull! In BLOOD SUCK, meet a trio of vampiric rednecks, who use their special abilities to film the most over the top videos on the black market!...

Dive into a tense Cold War espionage thriller where double agents and covert tradecraft decide the fate of the world. Perfect for an immersive commute, this gripping anthology intertwines ten high-stakes missions spanning from occupied Vienna to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Watchful sleepers and...

In this new collection of short stories, vignettes, and autobiographical sketches - many previously unpublished - Charles Willeford, author of Miami Blues and The Burnt Orange Heresy creates a mosaic of the absurdities of life in the 20th century. From a malicious grandmother to prophetic depictions of the power of reality television, with his wry humor and sudden shifts to violence, he seduces, amuses, and repeatedly surprises you.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Dabbs Double DITD & TIOR!

Two short horror stories about voyeurism, human sacrifice, and suffering as spectacle.

This book is based on a true story. Characters and events may have changed. It's a story about a young woman and how the death of her father was the catalyst that propelled her into her destiny. She had an encounter with God's will for her life and was forever changed. She received an unexpected inheritance and a double portion along a rocky road. Spiritual Warfare, deliverance, love and much more awaits you on the inside of this book.

Why not get two tales of pure terror for the low price of only one? If you are not frightened by the body-snatching of husband and wife by the long-forgotten spirits of the wife's great-great-grandfather and his "beloved" and their plan to wreak havoc and carnage upon mankind, surely, your mind will be twisted and left in shattered awe at the forlorn story of a woman driven mad by her own nightmare and its abrupt thrust into reality, tearing away everything that might have left her whole...or you.

From A Year in the Borderlands author Kevin Candela comes another thrilling double feature, drive-in style! In "Shore Leave", shipwreck survivors Heatherine Daniels and Sheila Grange penetrate deep into a mysterious cavern only to discover that there is much more to their desert island than coconut palms, seashells and sunburn.

'A Double Return' is a classic doppelganger tale. A successful artist, Hallswell, is returning by train from a painting trip in the southwest of England. As the down train passes him at a junction, he imagines he catches a glimpse of his own face in the train rushing past his window. When he reaches home, a strange and sinister mystery awaits him....

Double D Death is a tongue-in-cheek murder mystery and short story. It's about Lisette Donavan, whose breasts bring her the wrong kind of attention. Lisette's reaction to that attention turns out to be deadly. Some men love breasts so much, they'd die to be surrounded by them. Make fun of Lisette's double D's, and they'll die because of them.

Three dark, sardonic short stories that will have you expecting the unexpected: In "Poison," a psychologically abused wife discovers that her husband's nut allergy may be the solution to all her problems. In "Round Trip," a five pound note passes through desperate hands, greedy hands and tired hands before coming full circle…accompanied by a big surprise. In "Ç'est La Vie," the police bungle a murder investigation under the watchful eye of someone uncomfortably close to the killing.