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Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers—characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose.

Andre Monroe is ready to move on from heartbreak, and the first step is bringing home his rescue pup. He’d bonded instantly with the playful Zeus and was already planning their first adventures. But one thing he definitely hadn’t daydreamed about was Zeus accidentally being promised to someone else - or that he might go home empty-handed and brokenhearted all over again.

Some places along the North Atlantic are described as being at the end of the world. There are two kinds of people there, those that have always lived there, and those that come...to escape the world. In a remote fishing village on the North Atlantic, an ensemble of tormented souls battle the elements, striving to free themselves from the past, and find some kind of spiritual restitution.

Ever listened to an audiobook that sucks you in? Thirteen short stories of the strange and unusual that will follow you. The Black Book is a cursed audiobook as if out of some Lovecraftian horror. The audiobook that is the basis for the upcoming feature film by Rutledge Productions of the same name. Innocuous items causing disappearances, the perils of the dark web, warnings against going out in the woods at night, or the hazards of dating; these stories pull you right into the narration.

From Pushcart Prize-nominated author Tom Mock: A short story, romantic and humorous, set in the American post-war period in a deserted St. Louis pub on a rainy evening. A young man on the mission of his life stops in a moment of doubt and finds a pair of unexpected guides waiting for him at the bar. Love and loss, hope and despair mingle with the music of Billie Holiday in The Pub.