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Dr Ragin is honest and intelligent but lacks the strength of character to see to it that life around him is honest and intelligent - which has serious consequences for the psyciatric ward he runs.
A bored middle-aged adulterer picks up a young married woman little expecting the great love that will develop.
A frank extract from the notebook of an eminent - but aging - Russian professor.
A man drinks a magic potion and sleeps through the American Revolution. Classic reworking of a European folk-tale.
Intended as a short companion for Stoker's 'Dracula' we join the narrator as he begins a coach trip on the mysterious 'Walpurgis' night.
A portrait of Nashville through the eyes of an adventurous stranger.
First-person account of a successful lawyer's sudden loss of memory and the resulting adventure.
A son's eye view of his father's gambling and their relationship.
Holmes investigates the case of a fiancee who disappeared on the day of the wedding.
When his wife's dog begins to shift the balance of power in their relationship, Mr Strudwarden resolves to take extreme measures.
An alternative to the traditional methods.
A renegade experimental psycologist explains how to inflict his methods on the general public.
While dusting off his extensive library, the narrator discovers a diminutive man on one of the lower shelves.
When his key breaks off on the inside of his apartment, the narrator must fight bureaucracy and apathy in increasingly desperate attempts to escape.
The events surrounding the birth of a child - the father a member of an important Louisiana family; the mother a woman found abandoned as a baby.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
