These Halloween short stories are free to read online! They're deliciously unsettling, genre-bending, emotional, and even humorous. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-10-16 10:33:00 UTC ]
Beyond traditional workshop: Rachel May and Krys Malcolm Belc offer a chapbook-oriented reading list for literary innovation. | Lit Hub Reading Lists A century of Weird Tales: Some of the best fantasy and horror stories you can read online from “the magazine that never dies.” | Lit Hub What... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-17 11:30:49 UTC ]
A century ago, on February 18, 1923, the first issue of Weird Tales appeared on American newsstands. Subtitled “The Unique Magazine,” it was, as the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction puts it, “the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural and occult fiction,” including horror, fantasy,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-17 09:56:46 UTC ]
It’s been ten years since the release of Wild, Cheryl Strayed’s bracingly honest memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail as a young adult after her mother’s death with no experience or training—and to ccelebrate the anniversary, Strayed has released a cut scene from Wild, free to read... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-03-21 19:22:02 UTC ]
From using your local library and supporting independent bookshops, to borrowing virtuallyMany websites offer ebooks and audiobooks at no cost. Project Gutenberg lists more than 67,000 out-of-copyright titles which can be read online or downloaded in a wide range of formats. Similarly, Librivox... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-31 07:00:45 UTC ]
One very short story – often attributed to Ernest Hemingway but actually the work of another writer – is just six words long: ‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn’. And some of the greatest fiction-writers of the last two centuries have written memorable short stories which stretch to little more […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-09-25 14:00:49 UTC ]
Whether it’s vampires or werewolves or mysterious patterns in wallpaper, writers of Gothic short stories have used all sorts of horrors and frights to chill our blood, ever since the horror short story developed in the early nineteenth century. Below, we pick ten of the very best Gothic horror... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-03-18 15:00:00 UTC ]
These free holiday romance short stories are ready for you! Choose the magic of kisses under the mistletoe and read them right away. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-24 11:34:00 UTC ]
If you find the holidays more foreboding than cheerful, find someone to relate to in these 4 free holiday short stories available to read online. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-16 11:35:47 UTC ]
Springer has developed a new platform, Bookmetrix, to offer title and chapter level metrics across all of their books. Bookmetrix has been developed in partnership with Altmetric. The data captured on Bookmetrix is displayed on the book pages of Springer's content platform SpringerLink and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Given that links appear to be more clickable when shared on Facebook, online publishers have scrambled to become savvy gamers of Facebook’s News Feed, seeking to divine the secret rules that push some stories higher than others. But all this genuflection at the altar of Facebook’s algorithms may... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]