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At a sales convention in Providence, Sam Potter receives a telegram directing him to a midnight train and a destination called Nothing. He assumes it is a practical joke and throws it away. When the message returns, his attempts to dismiss it become a growing struggle with fear and the approaching hour.
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Traveling salesman Connor arrives in Springfield late at night and asks where he can get a quiet meal. A hotel clerk sends him to a small restaurant known for serving customers with special diets. An unpleasant steak and an increasingly strange conversation make Connor suspect that the staff have mistaken him for someone else.
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Ce tome des Chroniques de Jean Froissart couvre la période allant du voyage de Charles VI à l’Écluse jusqu’à la fin de l’expédition du duc de Lancastre en Espagne. Il présente les préparatifs d’une grande entreprise en Angleterre, avec l’assemblée de nombreux princes, chevaliers, arbalétriers et gens d’armes, ainsi que les déplacements de la cour de France en Flandre et dans plusieurs villes du nord. Le récit insiste aussi sur les lourdes réquisitions et les dévastations subies par les populations de Flandre et du royaume de France au passage des troupes.
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American visitor Newsome Holder comes to Styles determined to commit a murder worthy of British detective fiction. After carrying out his plan, he meets a local writer whose reaction is far from what he expected. This dark satire follows Holder’s desire for distinction into a community with peculiar ideas about crime.
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David Hughes stays in Queens while his wife and children spend the summer in the country. An affair with Janice Keller, who lives across the hall, offers an escape from his dissatisfaction with married life. Secrecy becomes harder to maintain as Janice’s expectations and the risk of discovery grow.
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Robert E. Howard’s historical adventure follows Tamerlane and the aftermath of the Battle of Nicopolis, where Bayazid’s Turkish forces defeat the crusading army. Seen through the Tatars, the story dwells on the chaos of combat, the retreat of the Christians, and the grim treatment of the captured and the dead. Ak Boga then moves away from the battlefield on a separate mission, where he notices a wounded knight nearby.
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Store clerk Sheldon Thorpe spends his days in a basement stockroom with Red, a younger colleague who dreams of becoming an artist. Red's plans stir Sheldon's own desire to escape a life of duty and routine. A possible promotion and his wife's expectations make him question whether the security he has worked for is worth staying.
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New York bookkeeper Sylvester Dodge is looking forward to a long-awaited holiday in Europe. Then he notices a pale man in a raincoat on his daily journey and becomes convinced that he is being followed. As the stranger keeps appearing, Sylvester’s fear begins to govern his movements through the city.
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A plain pine coffin seems to bring improved health to each person who owns it. When it reaches Emery’s wealthy uncle Sim, the young bank clerk fears that his hoped-for inheritance will never arrive. His plans to marry Meg become tangled with greed and the coffin’s apparent ability to keep its owner alive.
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After her death, Mona Wilson wakes in a gray world that resembles her former roominghouse. Bells, repetitive work and unfamiliar devices regulate life there, but the routines offer her little comfort. Her attempts to escape raise troubling questions about whether death has changed the conditions she wanted to leave behind.
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Carter consults Dr. Harcourt about a nightmare that is disrupting his sleep and disturbing his wife. In it, trees turn into enormous white legs that begin to threaten him. The doctor looks for an explanation in Carter’s years as a truck driver, but the recurring dream gives their conversation an unsettling urgency.
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In prison, Luis hears Old Juan describe a cell where a hidden scorpion is said to kill its occupants during the night. When the guards move him there, the story becomes a threat he cannot put out of his mind. Alone in the darkness, he listens for movement and tries to endure until morning.
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Helen R. Hull’s *The playboy* follows Gregory, a young man who lives at home, oversleeps, borrows money from his mother, and resents the practical demands around him. His morning is crowded with family interruptions, while he keeps thinking about Mina, who is coming back that day and seems to be the one woman who truly matters to him. The opening also shows Gregory uneasy about bills, money, and the way others see his flirtatious, self-indulgent habits.
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Adele accepts a canoe outing with David, a reserved young man whom other students call the Monk. She approaches their time together as a flirtation, while he takes their growing intimacy seriously. As they move upriver, the difference between their expectations turns an apparently carefree afternoon into an uncomfortable encounter.
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John Hardy becomes caught in a widening conflict as Dr. Yen How organizes a campaign of conquest against Europe. Naval battles and threatened cities turn personal rivalries into a war between nations. This invasion novel presents its imagined conflict through the racial fears and imperial rivalries of its period.
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