A gripping account of the 1968 solo, non-stop round-the-world yacht race that profiles the dozen men who entered, their seamanship and motivations, and the extreme psychological pressures of prolonged isolation at sea; mixing race reportage with intimate portraits, it traces acts of courage, self-deception, and the tragic unraveling of several competitors while probing obsession, endurance, and the human cost of pushing limits.

A man recounts his descent into alcoholism and violent cruelty, first toward animals and then toward his loved ones: after torturing and mutilating a cherished black cat and hanging it, he is haunted by guilt and by the appearance of a second similar cat. Consumed by rage and paranoia, he kills his wife when she tries to stop him and conceals her body within a wall, only to be undone when the hidden cat's cries reveal the crime to the authorities, forcing him to confess.

A comprehensive collection of tales of cosmic horror that chronicle encounters with ancient, indifferent entities and the terrifying realization of humanity's insignificance in an uncaring universe. The stories blend gothic atmosphere, strange science, and forbidden knowledge—featuring decaying New England settings, archaic tomes, and mind-bending revelations—to create lingering dread rather than explicit gore. Together they weave a mythic web of incomprehensible forces and lost knowledge that reshaped modern supernatural fiction.

Ein phantastischer Roman, in dem ein auf einer geheimnisvollen Insel voller Leuchttürme gestrandeter Erzähler auf skurrile Bewohner, seltsame Kreaturen und rätselhafte Geheimnisse trifft; in surrealen, oft humorvollen Episoden entfaltet sich ein labyrinthartiges Geflecht aus Geschichten, Intrigen und metafiktionalen Wendungen, das Fragen nach Sprache, Erinnerung und Identität stellt und zugleich Gesellschaftssatire mit fantasievoller Abenteuerlust verbindet.

A compact collection of macabre, often humorous short tales that play with suspense, irony and the uncanny; the pieces range from flash-length jolts to longer weird fiction, each probing human fears, obsessions and absurdities and frequently ending in clever, sometimes chilling reversals.

An orphaned, resilient young woman raised in hardship becomes a governess at a remote, brooding estate where she falls into a fraught, passionate relationship with its mysterious master; as dark secrets and moral dilemmas surface, she endures betrayal and exile, ultimately claiming financial independence and spiritual self-respect before returning to rebuild a more equal life with the man she loves.

A hypnotic, metafictional meditation in which a narrator becomes consumed by the life and work of a nineteenth-century author of sea tales, using fragments of biography, criticism, dreams and family memory to blur the line between reading and living. The prose drifts between obsession and tenderness as it maps how stories—whales, oceans, shipwrecks and solitary sailors—shape identity, exile and the act of storytelling itself. Playful and elegiac, the book collapses genres to examine how language and literary inheritance haunt and sustain the writer and reader alike.

An aging country gentleman, driven mad by chivalric romances, reinvents himself as a knight-errant and sets out with his loyal, shrewd squire on comic and poignant exploits—tilting at windmills, rescuing imagined ladies, and getting entangled in schemes—that contrast his lofty ideals with a prosaic, skeptical world, yielding a rich satire of romanticism and a profound meditation on imagination, identity, and friendship.