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Och ser du, en natt drev det mig åter att planlöst ströva genom Kleinstadts tysta gator? Ingenstans i världen är det så hemskt som i denna stadsdel. Man viker in på en gata och ser endast ett dött mörker, då sticker ur en fönsterspringa en spöklik ljusstråle en plötsligt som en lång elak nål i pupillerna. Ur mörkret dyker ett hus upp -- med avbrutna skuldror och bakåtlutande panna och stirrande medvetslöst som ett slaktat djur ur tomma vindskupor upp mot natthimlen. Och går man över de ojämna gatstenarna och ser sig plötsligt om, skulle man kunna hålla vad om, att ett svampigt, likblekt ansikte stirrat efter en om hörnet -- inte i vanlig axelhöjd -- nej, långt nedanför, där endast stora hundar har huvudet. Här samlas nio sällsamma berättelser av både äldre och nutida författare. Klassiska namn som Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson och Gustav Meyrink har en plats i varje finsmakares bokhylla. Men dessutom ges stort utrymme åt svenska förmågor, bland dem våra kanske främsta författare av "weird tales" -- Johan Theorin och Sven Christer Swahn. En bok att läsa med öppet sinne och utan föreställningen att skräckfyllda berättelser måste vara blodiga och osubtila. Ty "varelserna som stapplar omkring i natten" är ju mest skrämmande så länge vi inte ser dem?

denna novellsamling möter vi den lataste personen som skapats på Guds jord, en blaserad gigolo, en rad färgstarka tiggare, ett par pryda systrar som blir besatta av franska underkläder samt många andra mer eller mindre overkliga figurer hämtade ur verklighetens Jerusalem.

En novellsamling med tio berättelser av Katherine Mansfield som aldrig tidigare översatts till svenska. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Nya Zeelands litterära ikon, räknas till en av de främsta novellisterna i den engelskspråkiga världen och har jämförts med Anton Tjechov och Oscar Wilde. Mansfields iakttagelseförmåga är mästerlig och hennes tänkvärda och underfundiga historier är fortfarande fängslande. De kan läsas flyktigt som ren underhållning eller analyseras och diskuteras, då de ofta har ett underliggande budskap. I novellen Nya klänningar har Mrs Carsfield knåpat ihop ett par klänningar av dyraste kaschmirtyg till sina döttrar – den ena välartad och tacksam, den andra besvärlig och otacksam. Det missförstådda och orättvist behandlade barnet provocerar sina föräldrar medvetet ... De tio berättelserna i detta urval ingår alla i novellsamlingen “Something Childish and Other Stories” (1924). “I was jealous of her writing – the only writing I have ever been jealous of.” Virginia Woolf

Issam har hamnat i ett obemannat fängelse. Matteo och Federico har åkt till Nordnorge för svalka och djuphavsfiske. Mike har fått som uppdrag att bestiga solsystemets högsta berg. "Nya somrar" är berättelser från en nära framtid där klimatet har blivit varmare och samhället kallare. Det är händelser som utspelar sig i en grå, nästan osynlig vardag, eller på platser för några utvalda få. --- Erik Ljungs skönlitterära debut består av sex stycken löst sammanflätade noveller med illustrationer av Jens Grönberg.

Where innocence, deceit and love collideAnand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that's how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New India, neither of these is easy to find.Kamala, Anand's family's maid, lives perilously close to the edge of disaster. She and her clever teenage son have almost nothing, and their small hopes for self-betterment depend on the contentment of Anand's wife: a woman to whom whims come easily. But Kamala's son keeps bad company. Anand's marriage is in trouble. And the murky world where crime and wealth and politics meet is a dangerous place for good men, and those who rely on them

Four pairs of stories-four “double rooms”-sit side by side in the latest work of fiction by one of Spain’s most compelling writers. A publisher wonders about the voices that haunt her; a scriptwriter receives an unexpected gift; a dinner party is shaken by a mysterious guest; a father seeks to atone for his son’s crimes. Ranging from Madrid to Milwaukee, and from prose fiction to drama to essay, the chapters of this “narrative installation” echo one another, revealing a carefully layered composition of humor and foreboding. Double Room is a subtle meditation on the bonds between parents and children, the burdens of illness and grief, and the places we make our home.

During embalming an arm jerks and strikes a mortician, leaving him unmoored. A pastor's wife encounters a young congregant in her kitchen wearing her apron and preparing breakfast. A man's attempt to make sense of why a tornado picked him up leads to a showdown with a cult leader. A daydreaming, gawky kid is appointed guardian of a watermelon that the ocean could snatch away. Love comes slowly, like water heating over a low fire or extra sugar being stirred into tea. In another story, the love of a father cannot save his musician son. A young woman living in a recognisable future contemplates the end of memory as her body transforms into the silver promise of a carapace. Another young woman feels she should be smiling but nothing stirs in her when her father wakes from death after 15 minutes. Battling portentous pre-dawn heat and still air, a bystander abandons removing caterpillars from a Ficus because the idea of touching them makes her squeamish. Elsewhere in the suburbs, in a fixer-upper from hell, crickets screech and squeal, their ringing like that of a demented alarm clock.When Water Wants To presents the winners of the DALRO Can Themba Short Story Award. Celebrating the legacy of master storyteller Can Themba, this collection provokes, inspires, challenges and entertains with bold storytelling and keen social commentary. The stories range from the deeply personal to the wildly allegorical, playing with genre conventions and inhabiting a multitude of perspectives and unruly voices. These exciting new authors confirm the pre-eminence of the short story, and its oral antecedents, by delving into the national psyche in the conversations they have, the connections they make, and the themes, concerns and water-soaked imagery they share.When Water Wants To brings together the ten winners of the literary competition, the DALRO Can Themba Short Story Award. In celebraton of Themba's legacy, these emerging South African authors provoke, inspire, challenge and entertain with bold storytelling and keen social commentary. Their stories range from the deeply personal to the wildly allegorical, playing with genre conventions and inhabiting a multitude of perspectives and unruly voices. Confirming the pre-eminence of the short story, and its oral antecedents in our culture, the stories delve into the national psyche in the conversations they have, the connections and parallels they make and the themes, concerns and water-soaked imagery they share. The featured stories include 'No Good Deed' (KJ Aires); 'Murmur Becomes a Wave' (Megan Choritz); 'Mr Duiker Sang the Blues' (Dyondzo Kwinika); 'Letters of Remembrance' (Sebabatso Madibu); 'Zombie' (Lerato Mahlangu); 'A Mortician's Instinct' (Kamva Majo), 'African Death, Western Medicine' ( Lethukukhanya Mzulwini); 'The Woman Who Buried Rain' (Rabada Unarine Princess); 'The Watermelon Caretaker' (Rosieda Shabodien); and 'Man of the House' (Dashalia Singaram).

Max goes worldwide! London's Maxwell Towers have long been under the control of Max - an all-seeing AI intent on punishing wrongdoers and wicked tenants by sending them to the Thirteenth Floor, where unspeakable horrors come to life. Now, Max's coding has been embedded in computer systems all over the world, and there is no escape from his nightmarish reign. Featuring thirteen brand-new stories by A. K. Benedict, Angela Slatter, Mason Cross, Una McCormack, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Thana Niveau, James Lovegrove, Derek Farrell, MK Hardy, John Llewellyn Probert, Martyn Waites, Aubrey Wood, and James Goss.

Will Baami ever stop beating up his wife and become a commissioner? Will Ezinne ever go on a date with Chibuzor, Segun's answer to Cristiano Ronaldo? Will Oladayo always be bullied by Benjamin, the corrupt politician's son? Will Musa's friends Maryam and Kabiru survive Boko Haram's attack on their village?The life of the underprivileged is always desperate and provisional, whether in urban Lagos or in the countryside in northern Nigeria. In this energetic collection of twelve short stories, Tunde Ososanya exposes the challenges of daily life and the efforts of ordinary people to aspire in the face of overwhelming odds.There are distractions. Humour is one, observed in the audacity of conmen who ride the yellow danfo buses. Magic is another, in the spirit world that Mr Benson asks his Literature-in-English students to write about. But the most immediate is always sex, the ultimate escape.Twelve stories about invisible heroes, each fighting the tragedy of modern Nigeria in their own way.