Stories Of The Stranger

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

Presents fourteen short stories centered around inexplicable events, including a tale in which a grandfather who has vowed to stay with his grandson after death in spirit comes to the boy's aid at a critical time.

Volume 2 includes more Sherlock Holmes and Watson tales collected by David Ruffle from writers around the world.

Welcome back once more to the Stranger's Room. The fire is blazing so help yourself to a brandy, pull up a chair to the fire and enjoy these tales from established and new Holmesian writers. Encompassing as they do tradition, humour and quirkiness, there is something for everyone. Enjoy! Featuring: David Ruffle, Danielle Gastineau, Soham Bagchi, Robert Perret, Mark Mower, David Marcum, Margaret Walsh, Anna Lord, Arthur Hall, Geri Schear, Jennifer Met, S F Bennett, Craig Janacek. Royalties from all the authors are being donated to Stepping Stones School at Undershaw.

A haunting collection of stories from the master of suspense and intrigue, this book showcases some of Satyajit Ray's memorable explorations into the twilight territories of the peculiar and supernatural. * New Edition. * Includes a new translation of 'Fotikchand'.

How often, upon hearing about people who have had regrettable experiences or have lost their lives, we wish they had followed advice received early in life about not talking to strangers. But there are strangers we would be better off knowing, and it is hard to imagine a functioning society comprised of elementary particles (to allude to the title of one of French author Michel Houllebecq's great novels) existing in perfect isolation and never interacting at all. The interplay of strangers has inspired storytellers of all epochs in every corner of the planet. The encounters in the short stories in Michael Washburn's latest collection take place at the fault lines of a violent and unstable society. In these tales, fugitives, drifters, misfits, and outcasts meet in locales as varied as hotels, bars, galleries, lecture halls, parks, pastures, beaches, and battlefields, but tension arises almost invariably from the interplay of sinister intelligences that rightly distrust one another. Marking all the stories in this collection are the suspense, originality, vividness, wit, and dark humor for which the author is known. Michael Washburn is a Brooklyn-based writer and journalist. His short fiction has appeared recently in Concho River Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Rosebud, Weirdbook, Serial, The Tishman Review, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, and other publications. Michael's story "Confessions of a Spook" won Causeway Lit's 2018 fiction contest. Two other collections, The Uprooted and Other Stories (2018) and When We're Grownups (2019), are available from Adelaide Books.