Une jeune femme surmenée part de Paris pour se réfugier dans le calme d'une magnifique vallée. Coline, surbookée par sa trépidante vie parisienne, décide de faire un break. À la recherche d'une vie aux antipodes de son luxueux quotidien, ses pas l'amènent dans une vallée perdue au fin fond du Béarn, la vallée d'Ossau o elle va vivre au rythme des bergers, de la transhumance, des estives d'été, de ses traditions et de ses tragédies....

Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi's unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans-water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from electric lights, brass grasshoppers purchased in a crowded Bangkok market, or ghostly rabbits that haunt the site of a long-ago brutal military crackdown. Other stories tell of bear-trainers in India and of the American invasion of Iraq as experienced by...

The Serapis Classics edition of "The Anton Chekov Omnibus" contains over 150 stories penned by the Russian master! A few months before he died, Chekhov told the writer Ivan Bunin that he thought people might go on reading his writings for seven years. "Why seven?" asked Bunin. "Well, seven and a half," Chekhov replied. "That's not bad. I've got six years to live."

Darkness gathers in haunted corners. Nineteen stories of monsters, ghosts and madmen, and finding hope in unlikely heroesWhat unimaginable evil hunts a war-weary lighthouse keeper? Will an exiled dressmaker's bargain with her brother's executioner free her from his ghost? Can an airship crew bring a madman to justice at the bottom of the world? Will teenage ghost hunters be destroyed by the dark secrets they've unearthed?Mnemo's Memory and Other Fantastic...

Extrait : "Ran, plan,... plan, plan, plan ! fit la chambrée debout en demi-cercle, autour d'un troupier à genoux, don’t la tête reposait sur les cuisses d'un camarade, et elle se tut. - Attention : Sauvageot, dit le caporal Verdier, un grand blond à barbe rousse. La main du troupier, largement ouverte sur ses reins, eut un léger tremblement ; on devait déjà lui avoir administré de solides claques..." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN Les...

In a multiverse where the walls are thin between our world and others, Project Threshold stands between humanity and monsters crossing over to threaten us. Harris Berger and his team intervenes on our behalf. Death waits around every corner but dying isn't the worst thing they have to endure. Berger wades in with his team: Sam, Billy, Jacks, Jessie, and their new recruit, Pendelhaven. Team Berger faces an unknown advanced civilization, mimics loose...

Set within the resilient Great Plains, these stories are marked by the region's people, landscape, and the distinctive way it is both regressive in its politics yet also stumbling toward something better. While not all stories are explicitly set in Oklahoma, the state is almost a character-neither protagonist nor antagonist-but instead the weird next-door-neighbor you're perhaps too ashamed of to take anywhere. Who is the embarrassing one-you or Oklahoma?...

The Utah Canyons WildMall gives tourists exactly what they want. An archivist preserves a rare map of a vanished Lake Tahoe. The Grand Canyon can only be visited in replica form. These stories - lyrical, deadpan, surreal - blur the line between the natural world and the world we make.

A wonderful collection of the most surreal, macabre and terrifying stories penned by one of the finest short story writers of American literature.

Si je manifeste le désir de t'écrire, c'est parce que j'ai des preuves. Les morts reviennent... Le train Express à destination de Brazzaville roule à cheval sur l'heure. À l'approche de Mvoungouti, un train de marchandises arrive en sens inverse... La collision est inévitable. Sous l'impact du choc, des dizaines de vies humaines s'éteignent à jamais... ou presque. Depuis sa tombe, Bamanissa, l'un des passagers victime de l'accident, décide...