Occupied City - formato ePub

 Gran Bretaña, 1984. El anuncio del cierre de las minas de carbón desencadena la mayor huelga de la historia británica. Durante un año, el todopoderoso Sindicato Nacional de Mineros mantendrá un pulso...

Hace un año que Japón se ha rendido en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En medio de la confusión y el caos que sigue, los cuerpos parcialmente descompuestos, violados y estrangulados, de dos mujeres se encuentran...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa fue uno de los más grandes escritores que ha dado Japón. Autor de las famosas historias "Rashōmon" o "En la cueva de bambú", vivió el turbulento periodo Taisho de 1912 a 1926, incluyendo...

En 1974, el brillante y controvertido Brian Clough tomó las riendas como entrenador del Leeds United, que la temporada anterior había ganado la Liga liderado por su anterior Míster, Don Revie, el eterno...

El 5 de julio de 1949 la Ocupación tenía resaca. El Japón ocupado militarmente por los Estados Unidos se despierta de los festejos del Cuatro de Julio con una preocupante noticia: Sadanori Shimoyama,...

Tras Tokio Redux (Mejor Novela Negra del 2021 según El País) y Tokio año cero, rematamos la Trilogía de Tokio de David Peace con esta sensacional novela de intriga.Tokio, 26 de enero de 1948. Un hombre...

Tokyo, 5 luglio 1949. Sadanori Shimoyama, il presidente delle Ferrovie giapponesi incaricato di licenziare migliaia di lavoratori, esce di casa per andare al lavoro e d’improvviso scompare nel cuoredella...

«Yorkshire 1977. Le lacrime non si fermano e so che non si fermeranno mai fino a quando non sarò riuscito a prenderlo. Prima che lui prenda lei.» Nell’anno del giubileo della regina un maniaco imperversa...

«Ascolta. Sente. Inspira. Fiuta. Osserva. Vede… Ferrovie. Strade. Montagne di scorie. Miniere abbandonate… Chiude gli occhi. Ricorda. Apre gli occhi. Vede… Manganelli. Scudi. Cavalli. Cani. Polvere. Sangue…...

Yorkshire, Inghilterra, 1974-1983. Il Nord del paese è un’allucinazione di miniere abbandonate, fabbriche abbandonate, fabbriche automatizzate, fabbriche come cattedrali, ciminiere più alte di campanili,...

«Yorkshire, Natale 1974. Ho scritto bugie come se fossero vere e la verità come bugie, e ci ho sempre creduto. Ho ucciso un uomo malvagio ma ne ho lasciati vivere altri.» Edward Dunford ha appena ottenuto...

Nel 1959 il Liverpool Football Club era da anni nella seconda divisione del campionato inglese. Il Liverpool Football Club non aveva mai vinto la Coppa d’Inghilterra. Quindici stagioni più tardi il Liverpool...

«Se chiudi gli occhi davanti a qualcosa di spaventoso, finirai per avere sempre paura.» L’ammonizione riecheggia nell’ultimo racconto di questa trilogia, mentre gli occhi del protagonista registrano le...

Tokyo, 1948. Anno del Ratto. Portatore di malattia, il topo governa la città occupata due volte: dalle truppe del generale americano Mac Arthur, insediato dopo la resa giapponese, e da fantasmi inquieti....

Vigilia di Natale 1980, Leeds, Inghilterra: lo Squartatore dello Yorkshire ha massacrato la sua tredicesima vittima. Lo cercano da anni per porre fine a una serie mostruosa, senza pari nella storia del...

«Ora, bambini, vi racconterò una storia…» In questa raccolta inedita che il Saggiatore pubblica in esclusiva per i lettori italiani, David Peace diventa la voce oscura che racconta gli incubi più terribili,...

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Tales From the Tomes: Vol. 1 is a collection of four mystical stories of magic and science. Lance Kehisato weaves the future and the past together, creating a string of four stories in different worlds,...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. "Unchecked by external truth, the mind of man has a fatal facility for ensnaring, entrapping, and entangling itself. But, happily, happily for the human race, some fragment...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

he Brothers Karamazov, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger...

In offering this study to a public accustomed only to the unquestioning acceptance of the home as something perfect, holy, quite above discussion, a word of explanation is needed. First, let it be clearly...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

"Hast thou seen that lordly castle,That castle by the sea?Golden and red above itThe clouds float gorgeously."Do you remember GratianGratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

Then came a glimmer of daylight that grew and grew, and presently ended in another arch that looked out over a scene so like a picture out of a book about Italy that everyone's breath was taken away,...

In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...