The collection, which opens the “Black Glove” series, presents short stories of various popular genres: detective, mystery, horror, science fiction, written ...

The Road to Heaven is four author's collections, an almost complete collection of stories by Roald Dahl (1916–1990), an outstanding master of black humor, on...

This is a story about how a cunning and bloodthirsty Huge crocodile dreamed of feasting on little children. And that everything turned out to be not as simpl...

A reference collection of one of the best storytellers of our time, an outstanding master of black humor, an adept of militant cleanliness and gentle misanth...

Roald Dahl is a master of the story, and in the collection “Ah, this sweet mystery of life!” his talent was fully demonstrated. Juicy, colorful, paradoxical ...

Ball, Shock and Thorn, three of the most greedy and evil farmers imaginable, hate Mr. Fox and his family. They shoot the foxes with guns and plan to starve t...

Sir Basil Turton, the new heir to the newspaper and magazine empire, was about forty when a dazzling creature named Natalia took Sir Basil to the registry, w...

A small elderly man from the south in an immaculate white suit sat down at the table. An American sailor and a girl were located nearby. Having decided to li...

What is pain, where does it come from? Today was not a very good day, and there was also this fragment. It's better to leave your thoughts in the past. Remem...

He was shot down by the Germans in the skies of Greece. The road, winding, stretched between destroyed houses and descended from the hill to the shore. The d...

A husband and wife invited guests to their home to play bridge. That couple of guests are playing just great, and at decent stakes. However, everyone plays c...

This was at the beginning of the war against fascism, when the British were fighting the Italians in Libya. The old man was very old and sensible - he was tw...