Prepare yourself for the shocking, the strange, and the terrifying in Ambrose Bierce's 1893 story collection Can Such Things Be? One of the greatest masters of horror brings you twenty-five tales of the supernatural and the unexplained. Whether in stories of ghosts sending desperate warnings to their human counterparts, psychics attempting to bridge unknown dimensions, howling werewolves, or a robot who takes on a life of his own, Bierce plumbs the depths of fear and fascination. Spooky thrills and mind-bending mysteries await all who dare to open the cover of Can Such Things Be?

Product Description: “His early novel Call It Sleep was his Ulysses. His late work An American Type is his Grapes of Wrath.”—Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times This “glorious, evocative, literary novel for the ages” (Los Angeles Times) has finally taken its place within the great canon of American fiction...read more

Product Description: [Read by Anthony Heald] This timeless work, Fitzgerald's best known, remains one of the most widely read twentieth-century works of American fiction. Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy Buchanan, whom he met during the war when he was penniless...read more

Product Description: [Read by Anthony Heald] *Winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award 2009 Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessen's re-imagining of the legend of E. J. Watson, the Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw of the wild Florida frontier...read more

Product Description: T.C. Boyle's most powerful and fully realized work yet-"terrifically exciting and unapologetically relevant" (The Washington Post).Principally set on the wild Channel Islands off the coast of California, T.C. Boyle's new novel is a gripping adventure with a timely theme...read more

A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov's stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number. Raymond Carver once said, ''It is not only the immense number of stories he wrote -- for few, if any, writers have ever done more -- it is the awesome frequency with which he produced masterpieces, stories that shrive us as well as delight and move us, that lay bare our emotions in ways only true art can accomplish.'' In The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume 2: 1886, Blackstone Audio has compiled fifty-five of Chekhov's short stories, each read by Anthony Heald. The collection includes: Art -- A Blunder -- Children -- Misery -- An Upheaval -- An Actor s End -- The Requiem -- Anyuta -- Ivan Matveyitch -- The Witch -- A Story without an End -- A Joke -- Agafya -- A Nightmare -- Grisha -- Love -- Easter Eve -- Ladies -- Strong Impressions -- A Gentleman Friend -- A Happy Man -- The Privy Councillor -- A Day in the Country -- At a Summer Villa -- Panic Fears -- The Chemist's Wife -- Not Wanted -- The Chorus Girl -- The Schoolmaster -- A Troublesome Visitor -- The Husband -- A Misfortune -- A Pink Stocking -- Martyrs -- The First-Class Passenger -- Talent --The Dependents -- The Jeune Premier -- In the Dark -- A Trivial Incident -- A Tripping Tongue -- A Trifle from Life -- Difficult People -- In the Court -- A Peculiar Man -- Mire -- Dreams -- Hush! -- Excellent People -- An Incident -- The Orator -- A Work of Art -- Who Was to Blame? -- Vanka -- On the Road

Product Description: A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov's stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number...read more

Product Description: Forty-one stories from Anton Chekhov - one of the greatest short-story writers of all time. Translated by Constance Garnett Read by Anthony Heald A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time...read more

One of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons dramatizes the volcanic social conflicts that divided Russia just before the revolution, pitting peasants against masters, traditionalists against intellectuals, and fathers against sons. It is also a timeless depiction of the ongoing clash between generations. When a young graduate returns home, he is accompanied--much to his father and uncle's discomfort--by a strange friend who does not acknowledge any authority and does not accept any principle on faith. Bazarov is a nihilist, representing the new class of youthful radical intelligentsia that would come to overthrow the Russian aristocracy and its values. Uncouth and forthright in his opinions, Turgenev's hero is nonetheless susceptible to love and, by that fact, doomed to unhappiness.

Product Description: One of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons dramatizes the volcanic social conflicts that divided Russia just before the revolution, pitting peasants against masters, traditionalists against intellectuals, and fathers against sons...read more

Product Description: One of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons dramatizes the volcanic social conflicts that divided Russia just before the revolution, pitting peasants against masters, traditionalists against intellectuals, and fathers against sons...read more

Product Description: One of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons dramatizes the volcanic social conflicts that divided Russia just before the revolution, pitting peasants against masters, traditionalists against intellectuals, and fathers against sons...read more

Product Description: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is widely considered one of the hundred greatest books of all time and is here to attract a whole new generation of readers, for the themes of this classic work are still relevant to our nation today...read more

Product Description: Once again, master storyteller Robert A. Heinlein delivers a wild and intriguing classic of science fiction. Written at the dawn of the 1970s, this novel is the brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant. As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything...read more

Product Description: Once again, master storyteller Robert A. Heinlein delivers a wild and intriguing classic of science fiction. Written at the dawn of the 1970s, this novel is the brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant. As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything...read more

Product Description: Once again, master storyteller Robert A. Heinlein delivers a wild and intriguing classic of science fiction. Written at the dawn of the 1970s, this novel is the brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant. As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's grand masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old, and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything...read more