Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 176, Publishers: Yen Press, Author: Yatsuki Wakatsu, ISBN-13: 9781975361853, Date of issue: 2023
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer - 'a classic: stunning, dangerous, darkly beautiful' - welcome to the post-apocalyptic White Lotus: a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this lost 1967 dystopia ... 'Chilling and prescient.' Andrew Hunter Murray 'Elemental and true.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Mesmerizing.' Sandra Newman 'Like someone from the future screaming to us.' Salena Godden The day we came up from the shelters four people were found dead on the steps of the hotel. Welcome to Termush: a luxury coastal resort like no other. All the wealthy guests are survivors: preppers who reserved rooms long before the Disaster. Inside, they embrace exclusive radiation shelters, ambient music and lavish provisions; outside, radioactive dust falls on the sculpture park, security men step over dead birds, and a reconnaissance party embarks. Despite weathering a nuclear apocalypse, their problems are only just beginning. Soon, the Management begins censoring news; disruptive guests are sedated; initial generosity towards Strangers ceases as fears of contamination and limited resources grow. But as the numbers - and desperation - of external survivors increase, they must decide what it means to forge a new moral code at the end (or beginning?) of the world ... Translated by Sylvia Clayton
Marcille, now the lord of the dungeon, makes a wish...and it ends up being a curse that threatens to envelop the entire world! Can Laios and his party trick Marcille and stop the winged lion before it's too late!?
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 232, Publishers: Yen Press, Author: Ichiei Ishibumi, ISBN-13: 9781975348168, Date of issue: 2023
When the skilled coroner Dr. Bunnakit is called to examine the body of his childhood friend after her "suicide," he soon determines that she was actually murdered. That night, a mysterious stranger threatens him, telling him to rule her death a suicide-and after he confides in his prosecutor friend about this incident, his friend suddenly goes missing. But all hope is not lost, as a young lecturer named Tan offers to help him get to the bottom of all this-which would be more reassuring if Tan weren't the prime suspect...
How well do you really understand bitterness? Often thought of as an acquired taste, bitter flavours add complexity and depth to a dish - making food incredibly moreish - if, you know how to work with them. Fearlessly bringing together the best flav
'See!...The woods are alive! Already the Great Ones are there, and the dance will soon begin! The salve is here! Anoint yourself and come!' One of the greatest writers of the strange and weird, Algernon Blackwood evolved from a teller of ghost stories to a pioneering master of such emergent fictional modes as cosmic horror and nature Gothic. In tales whose settings range from the eerie North Woods of Canada to the mysterious sands of the Egyptian desert, Blackwood blurs the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and dead, beckoning the reader into strange borderlands where alien forces lurk, waiting for the chance to break through into our world. This new selection of Blackwood's shorter fiction constitutes the most comprehensive critical edition of his work to date. Included here are such undisputed classics as 'The Wendigo', 'The Willows', and 'Ancient Sorceries', as well as two superbly unsettling novellas, 'The Man Whom the Trees Loved' and 'A Descent into Egypt', and ten other stories short and long, drawn from collections spanning Blackwood's long writing career. Aaron Worth's introduction and notes situate these tales in the context of Blackwood's own upbringing in an evangelical Victorian household, as well as in relation to such topics as late-imperial British history and the emergence of modern ecological thought. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Lured into a trap by Mikhail, Noé is forced to drink his blood and view his memories—memories of his and Vanitas's fateful meeting with the Vampire of the Blue Moon.Beware the dark side of the blue moon…
Pop star Ai Hoshino’s twin babies Aqua and Ruby—two kids with surprising "pasts”—are basking in all the attention from their idol mother.But that bliss doesn’t last long, as tragedy strikes...and alters the twins’ ambitions and livelihoods!
A collection of poems and drawings that feature a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale, a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist
Once there was a little tree ...and she loved a little boy. So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 120, Publishers: Marvel Comics, Author: Cavan Scott, ISBN-13: 9781302947026, Date of issue: 2023
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' George Saunders'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' ObserverA secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 162, Publishers: Yen Press, Author: Eiko Mutsuhana, ISBN-13: 9781975348038, Date of issue: 2023
A beautiful collection of the first ten volumes of Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, featuring everything from the very beginnings of the series to the big twist of the fan-favorite "Picture Perfect" arc. If you just can't hold it in anymore-"it" being your excitement -getting your hands on this box set is the only way you can find sweet relief!
The cat distribution system is about to get magical. Woodland elf Theo Brylar should be basking in bliss. He and his human partner, Arleta, have a thriving bakery, a baby on the way, and a bright future in Adenashire. But beneath his calm exterior, Theo’s anxiety simmers—stirred by old grief, complicated family, and emotions he doesn’t always understand. Hoping to steady his nerves, Theo turns to eccentric wizard Ibus Ironflame, who offers him a supposedly soothing potion. What Theo gets instead is a magical mix-up: stray cats begin appearing on his doorstep…then multiplying until the bakery becomes Adenashire’s first cat café. As the cats take over his life, Theo worries he’s juggling more than he can handle, and that was before his mother complicated things with a surprise visit. But with guidance from his forest lynx companion, Faylin, and Arleta’s steady love, Theo may come to realize that even the messiest moments can lead to something unexpectedly beautiful—especially when surrounded by cats.
