Books with title Bliss, and Other Stories

In the title story, Three Blind Mice, the guests and residents of the newly opened guest house, Monkswell Manor, find themselves trapped by a blinding snowstorm and threatened by a psychotic killer. With a finite cast of characters in this “locked room” mystery, it is not long before suspicions are voiced, and under growing pressure newlyweds Molly and Giles Davis start to suspect each other of murder.

My Mother and Other Stories is a collection of twelve children’s short stories set in modern India. Filled with moral values, imagination and downright humour, each story beautifully balances the ordinary with the extraordinary. As well as making young readers laugh, these stories also make them think. The stories that make up this wonderful collection are: My Mother, Grandma and the crow, The brown puppy, The scout with a big heart, Pineapple of his eye, Our pot-bellied cook, Star tattoo, Ghosts do not exist, A Lovable ayah, The gift of sight, Dance like me, and The young artist.

William Legrand becomes obsessed with searching for treasure after being bitten by a bug appearing to be made of pure gold. He notifies his closest friend, the narrator, telling him to immediately come visit him at his home on Sullivan's Island in South Carolina. Upon the narrator's arrival, Legrand informs him that they are embarking upon a search for lost treasure along with his African-American servant Jupiter. The narrator has intense doubt and questions whether Legrand, who has recently lost his fortune, has gone insane.

This classic volume contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1918 collection of short stories, “Danger! And Other Stories”. The titular story describes a fictional European country that fights and defeats Britain, originally intended to highlight the new dangers of submarines. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in World War I, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Doyle’s work. Contents include: “Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius”, “One Crowded Hour”, “A Point of View”, “The Fall of Lord Barrymore”, “The Horror of the Heights”, “Borrowed Scenes”, “The Surgeon of Gaster Fell”, “How It Happened”, etc. Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

I have written a collection of short stories of my boyhood and adolescence, growing up in Liverpool, England, in the 1950's and 1960's. Each story stands on its own, although the whole collection is more or less in chronological order. The stories have humour running through them and try to express what it was like being a boy in those times and in that particular setting. They are designed to appeal to all ages, but would have particular relevance to boys of any age!

"Vampire Blues" - In J.R. Rain's exclusive ebook short story, Samantha Moon discovers that even a routine case can offer a few surprises-and that not all men are created equal. "Nightmare" - One parasitic vampire is about to meet his own worst nightmare. "Soul Train" - A young boy who hears a mysterious nightly train, is about to come-face-to-face with something not of this world. And a bonus short story that features one very famous vampire.