aiken j stoneywish and other chilling stories
Aiken J. Stoneywish and other chilling stories
A brilliant collection of spine-chilling tales by Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. From a mysterious traveller who leaves an injured horse with a stranger, to a garden plant that slowly creeps into a house during a thunderstorm and a man who comes across two angry forces in the middle of a forest, this chilling collection of stories will have readers jumping at bumps in the night. Much-loved author Joan Aiken is best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and the Arabel and Mortimer books. This brilliant collection has spooky black-and-white illustrations by Masha Ukhova and is perfect for children who are developing as readers.
578 Руб.
Aiken J. Stoneywish and other chilling stories
A brilliant collection of spine-chilling tales by Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. From a mysterious traveller who leaves an injured horse with a stranger, to a garden plant that slowly creeps into a house during a thunderstorm and a man who comes across two angry forces in the middle of a forest, this chilling collection of stories will have readers jumping at bumps in the night. Much-loved author Joan Aiken is best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and the Arabel and Mortimer books. This brilliant collection has spooky black-and-white illustrations by Masha Ukhova and is perfect for children who are developing as readers.
578 Руб.
Lanchester John Reality, and Other Stories
Household gizmos with a mind of their own. Constant cold calls from unknown numbers. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock, uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life.
1692 Руб.
Masterpieces of Russian Literature (Шедевры русской литературы). На английском языке
Features Five Great Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground, The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Gogol, Pushkin's The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories by Tolstoy, Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, and Gorky's Chelkash and Other Stories.
693 Руб.
Stoker Bram Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel "Dracula", the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. This volume is a collection of chilling horror fiction including the title tale "Dracula's Guest" and other wonderful stories like "The Judge's House", "The Squaw" and "The Secret of the Growing Gold".
592 Руб.
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel "Dracula", the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. This volume is a collection of chilling horror fiction including the title tale "Dracula's Guest" and other wonderful stories like "The Judge's House", "The Squaw" and "The Secret of the Growing Gold".
199 Руб.
Howard Robert E. The Haunter of the Ring and Other Stories
"For stark, living fear... what other writer is even in the running?" - H. P. Lovecraft on Robert E. Howard. In this collection you will find several of Robert E. Howard's greatest horror stories, including "Rattle of Bones," "The Horror from the Mound," "Skull-Face," and many more. Ranging from gothic horrors to supernatural terrors and chilling tales of insanity and death, these tales reveal the extraordinary talent and range of one of short fiction's most accomplished writers.
2079 Руб.
Tolstoy Leo How Much Land Does a Man Need?
A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy's works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, What is art?, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Master and Man and Other Stories, How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories, A Confession and Other Religious Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy.
300 Руб.
Dahl Roald Fear
Think you know Dahl? Think again. Discover a collection of deliciously dark ghost stories for adults, picked by Dahl himself… Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl, these terrible tales of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering with fear as you turn the pages. They include such timeless and haunting stories as Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl's short stories. Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions featuring his own stories: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and War.
2346 Руб.
Stoker Bram Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales
Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, comprising Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a volume of spine-chilling short stories collected and published by Stoker's widow after his death, and The Lair of the White Worm, an intensely intriguing novel of myths, legends and unspeakable evil, demonstrate the full range of his horror writing. From the petrifying open tomb in 'Dracula's Guest' to the mental breakdown depicted in 'The Judge's House' and 'Crooken Sands', these terrifying tales of the uncanny explore the boundaries between life and death, known and unknown, animal and human, dream and reality.
2568 Руб.
London J. Brown Wolf and Other Stories
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. . .Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. . .Неадаптированное издание на английском языке. .
192 Руб.
London J. Dutch Courage, and Other Stories
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков
550 Руб.
London J. Dutch Courage, and Other Stories
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков
550 Руб.
London J. Brown Wolf and Other Stories
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. . .Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. . .Неадаптированное издание на английском языке. .
192 Руб.
Paiba Helen Magical Stories for 5 Year Olds
Magical Stories for 5 Year Olds is a bright and varied selection of marvellously magical stories by some of the very best writers for children. Perfect for reading alone or aloud - and for dipping into time and time again. With stories from Joan Aiken, Margaret Mayo, Alf Proysen, Margaret Mahy and many more, this book will provide hours of fantastic fun.
1587 Руб.
Doherty Berlie, Impey Rose, Salway Lance Magical Stories for 6 year olds
Magical Stories for 6 Year Olds is a bright and varied selection of marvellously magical stories by some of the very best writers for children. Perfect for reading alone or aloud - and for dipping into time and time again. With stories from The Brothers Grimm, Berlie Doherty, Joan Aiken, Geraldine McCaughrean and many more, this book will provide hours of fantastic fun. Chosen by Helen Paiba.
1587 Руб.