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From two former military officers and award-winning authors comes a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.

日常生活に忍び寄る恐怖を映し出す奇才・H・P・ラヴクラフトが源流を作った“クトゥルー神話”の一部と見なされる短編作品 男ふたりがカフェで話をしている。しゃべりかけている男の名前はサーバー。聞いているのがエリオット。人間関係で心がぐらついているサーバーのことを、エリオットは心配している。そして、その話題の中心にいるのがリチャード・アプトン・ピックマンというひとりの画家だ。サーバーがおかしくなったのは、そのピックマンのアトリエに行ってかららしい。いったいその場所で何があったのか…? 「顔なんだよ、エリオット、あの呪われた顔なんだ。あれがカンバスのなかからにらんでて、涎を垂らしてて、まるで生きて息をしてるみたいなんだ! うああ、やつらが生きてるんじゃないかって本気で思えるんだ! あのいやらしい魔法使いは、絵の具でもって地獄の炎を目覚めさせた。その絵筆は悪夢を生み出す杖なんだよ」 ピックマンの描く絵とはいったい…!?

This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, who displays many characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth - from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds - collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot.

Follow the greatest of the greatest detective in the world in Agatha Christie’s short-story collection Poirot Investigates. Featuring 11 adventures around the world, this collection show’s Christie’s famous character Hercule Poirot at his best as he travels and unravels mysteries of all sorts.

Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime - beginning in Japanese - has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a fine marriage, two daughters, and an enviable career as the proprietor of two jazz clubs. Yet a nagging sense of inauthenticity about his success threatens Hajime's happiness. And a boyhood memory of a wise, lonely girl named Shimamoto clouds his heart.

Things started out so sweet. Everyone was going to be rich. All because of Trunk Man. He was the guy Papa and his meatheads stuffed in the back of a stolen Nissan and drove to a forest preserve outside Detroit. He owed Papa big-time. To save his own sorry neck, Trunk Man made an offer: a million dollars in bonds tucked away in a safe. Boost it, split it, and toss Trunk Man from a roof. Easy.

Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel - The Vipers. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses. Yes, sold me. They own me now. I’m theirs in every sense of the word. But I’ve never been meek and compliant.

この短編作品の中でポーはこう書いている。「まだ生きているうちに埋葬されてしまう。これこそは疑いもなく、これまで人間に降りかかった極度の苦痛のうちでも、最も恐ろしいものであるに違いない。」と。まだ生きている間に埋葬されることの恐怖に取りつかれた男の心理的恐怖が見事に描かれています。オーディオブックでお楽しみください! ※本作品は発表時の未熟な時代背景から、今日の社会では一般的でなく、不適切と思われる表現が含まれている箇所がございます。しかし作品のオリジナル性を最大限に尊重し、なるべく当時のまま忠実に再現することを優先いたしました。(C)2008青空文庫

When a postwar search for London lodgings introduces ailing doctor John H. Watson to quirky chemist Sherlock Holmes, their collaboration in the art of observation and deduction begins. Congenial flatmates and even better colleagues, the pair is quickly drawn into a case of murder and revenge that has Scotland Yard at their wits’ end.

これは「夢の国」の話… 灯台守のベイジル・エルトン。生まれたときからずっと海を見続けてきた彼は、海から不思議な話を聞いた。満月の夜にいつも南からやってくる一隻の白い船。ある夜、エルトンはその白い船に乗り込み夢の国へと旅立つことに。 謎に満ちた千の不思議の都、死の匂いの満ちる喜びの訪れぬ地、美と幸福に満ち足りた都… 夢と空想の中に横たわる人知を超えた国々への航海へと向かう。先を飛ぶ天空の鳥を先導として。 奇才H・P・ラヴクラフトによる不思議で幻想的なファンタジー掌編。

ラヴクラフト作品に幾度か登場するランドルフ・カーター。この『ランドルフ・カーターの証言』が初めての登場となる。ラヴクラフト得意の怪奇物であり、短い作品であるが、得体の知れない禍々しい不気味さに満ち溢れている。 夢の旅人ランドルフ・カーターは、その人生において幾度となく奇怪なもの、摩訶不思議な出来事に遭遇する。この時もカーターは、友人ハーリィ・ウォーレンと出かけた先で、とんでもない事態に陥り、そのため法廷で証言を強いられることとなる。 深夜の人知れぬ墓地でいったい何が起こったのか…!?

私は自分がどこで生まれたのか知らない。記憶にあるのはおのれの住む古い城のなかのことのみ。いつからどれくらいここにいるのかもわからない。ここは暗く光がない。外へ出たい、何としても光を浴びたい。「空を一目見てから死んだ方が、日を見ることなく生き延びるよりもずっといい」 そう考えた私は危険を顧みず、いまだ知らぬ外界の空へと続く壁に手を掛けた…

Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious “butterflies” - young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi see it as justice done, and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton - including the KKK - hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. A national media circus descends on Clanton.

The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children.

Some bizarre thingshave been happening to the eccentric Hatter family. First, the body of York Hatter is recovered from the ocean. But he didn't drown. He died of poison. Next, another poisoning occurs in the Hatters' old mansion in New York's Greenwich Village. This time the police have a witness. But what a witness! She is a blind, deaf mute. Naturally the authorities call in Drury Lane - retired Shakespearean actor, matinee idol, master of disguise, and amateur sleuth.

『伊勢物語』になぞらえて、＜毒草師＞御名形史紋（みなかたしもん）が、密室からの連続失踪事件を解き明かす！「恐ろしいのは毒草ではなくて人間です」。名家・鬼田山家で、「1つ目の鬼を見た」と言い残し、施錠された離れから家人が次々と失踪する事件が発生。さらに長男・柊也が何者かに毒殺され……。関係者全員を前に、古今東西の薬と毒に精通した＜毒草師＞を名乗る男・御名形史紋が、鮮やかすぎる推理を披露する！ （「flumen 九段坂の春」は2017/12/27配信予定、全7/8巻）