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Step into the golden age of imagination with A Vintage Science Fiction Short Stories Collection, a masterfully curated anthology featuring some of the most influential voices in classic science fiction. This timeless volume brings together visionary storytelling from Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Fredric Brown, E. E. Smith, John W. Campbell Jr., Murray Leinster, Robert Sheckley, Stanley G. Weinbaum, and William Tenn—authors who helped shape modern speculative fiction.

Philip K. Dick: Classic Tales of Space and Suspense brings together three unforgettable science fiction stories—The Skull, Mr. Spaceship, and Piper in the Woods. Explore strange worlds, psychological tension, alien mysteries, and futuristic ideas from one of the most influential voices in...

Enter the unsettling halls of a mysterious asylum in Edgar Allan Poe’s The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, a darkly comic Gothic tale of madness, deception, and reversed roles. Blending psychological horror, satire, and macabre humor, this classic short story showcases Poe’s...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Loss of Breath is a bizarre dark comedy of death, mistaken identity, and absurd misfortune. Follow Mr. Lackobreath through a series of grotesque near-death encounters in this satirical classic of nineteenth-century short fiction...

A sinister museum houses more than lifeless curios. When a skeptical visitor encounters an unspeakable exhibit hidden within its shadowed halls, ancient terror and supernatural evil blur the line between sculpture and living nightmare. Written by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, The Horror in...

A classic science fiction tale of survival, betrayal, and moral conflict, The Expendables by A. E. Van Vogt follows a generations-spanning colony ship as it reaches the alien world of Alta III. Facing telepathic alien forces, dangerous leadership struggles, and the brutal question of who can be...

A timeless literary classic, Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson explores the spiritual power of the natural world and humanity’s connection to it through elegant, reflective prose...

De Profundis is Oscar Wilde’s powerful prison letter, written during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol and later published in 1905. Addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas, it blends personal grief, reflection, accusation, spiritual searching, and artistic insight. The work shows a far more intimate...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the global bestselling author of Moonflower Murders and Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is about to be made into a major feature film. The actors...

Blending cosmic horror, psychological dread, and philosophical terror, these tales explore forbidden knowledge, alien intelligences, and the fragile boundaries of human identity and reality. From haunted New England houses to interdimensional journeys beyond time and space, Lovecraft’s unmistakable prose creates an atmosphere of mounting unease and existential fear.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Number 11 by Jonathan Coe, read by Rory Kinnear and Jessica Hynes . This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the...

Twelve dramatisations of the best love stories ever written, performed by star casts Treat yourself to this stunning collection of classic stories of love, loss, obstacles overcome and desperate attraction. This is a beautiful, moving and at times thrilling listen which takes you on a journey...

This tale begins on Aymara tribal lands in the Altiplano region of northern Chile and flows from the still untamed and time frozen Andes Highlands, down to a developing industrialized coastline, following the apocalyptic fallout of World War Two. Book One of this Twelve Pelican trilogy is simply...

Crime writer Francis Meadowes has just been offered his first paid detective gig, which means going on the road with gender-fluid rock star JonniK, tagging along as the musician's entourage travels from Berlin to Brussels and beyond. Jonni's manager is already worried by a guitar tech's fatal overdose on a tour bus, but then the star himself is attacked on stage... Another shock comes as Jonni's lead guitarist is electrocuted by his own instrument in the middle of a gig.

In this second installment, author Evan Russell examines another roster of history’s most ruthless predators—killers whose intelligence, obsession, and emotional void allowed them to evade capture while leaving devastation in their wake.

Francis Meadowes is soaking up the late summer sun in Italy, running a creative writing course at the beautiful Villa Giulia, deep in the remote Umbrian countryside. His students include snooty, irritating Poppy and her ex-ambassador husband; eccentric Northern Irishman Liam, who writes angry poems about the Troubles; kooky American Sasha, younger than most of the group; and mysterious possible spy Tony, amongst others. But what should have been a magical week turns into something sinister when one of the group is found dead in the sauna.

A short, urgent and illuminating book about the rise of the far right in Britain, and what we can do to stop it. Read by Rory Kinnear (Black Mirror, James Bond, Toxic Town) 'READ THIS BOOK!' - JAMES O'BRIEN 'A LUCID PRIMER ON HOW TO RESIST THE APPEASEMENT OF REFORM' -TLS The far right is now...

The pulse-pounding psychological thriller from BESTSELLER M. A. Hunter. Tom Hunter wakes in hospital with no memory of the past five years. In his mind, he’s still a devoted husband, father, and honest businessman - but the world says otherwise. His wife and daughter want nothing to do with...

Brought to you by Penguin. It looked like it was Game Over for the Rossmeister General. I was staring down the barrel of the big four-oh! And what did I have to show for it? I was an out-of-work rugby coach who was soon to be divorced. My old dear was sliding away in a nursing home in a certain...

Four gripping sci-fi adventures from acclaimed scriptwriter Simon Bovey Simon Bovey is an established writer and director who has penned numerous compelling dramas for BBC Radio. Collected here are four of his sensational sci-fi tales, packed with mystery, suspense and terror... Cold Blood –...