A group of gruesome mystery stories
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration—"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Nigh…
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. Snow Country is both delica…
After his family was betrayed by the ruthless nobles of Renaissance Italy, young Ezio vowed to restore the honor of the da Firenze name at any cost. Learning the arts of the Assassins, he fought with both his mind and body, ultimately confronting and defeating a secret evil. Or so he thought... For the power of the dreaded Templars has not been broken. The sinister enemies of the Brotherhood…
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, …
This is the story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules…people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves…people who know there’s more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than they ever dreamed.
KEBERUNTUNGAN MEREKA SEPERTINYA SIA-SIA… Kat dan adiknya, Daniel, sangat beruntung. Mereka baru saja pindah ke rumah baru yang punya banyak kamar, dua balkon, dan halaman seluas lapangan sepak bola! Tapi semua keberuntungan itu segera berakhir. Karena ada sesuatu yang sangat jahat hidup di rumah itu. Sesuatu yang bergerak. Mengamati. Menunggu. Sesuatu yang berasal dari bawah tempat cuci pirin…