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The Five-Forty-Eight is a short story written by John Cheever that was originally published in the April 10, 1954, issue of The New Yorker [1] [2] and later collected in The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958) and The Stories of John Cheever (1978).
Horrid Henry is a 10-year-old boy who loves doing unimaginable horrible things. He throws food, he snatches things, he pushes, shoves and pinches. He has a younger brother named Perfect Peter, an extremely perfect boy who does uncountable good deeds.
Berta Ruck began to contribute short stories and serials to magazines from 1905. She published her first novel, His Official Fiancée , in 1914, [ 8 ] which was the subject of two films: His Official Fiancée (1919, silent film directed by Robert G. Vignola ) and Hans officiella fästmö (1944, Swedish film directed by Nils Jerring ).
During a promotional tour of his new movie Cold Pursuit, Liam Neeson, Hollywood's favorite gruff uncle with a particular set of skills, told a story of racist revenge that shocked everyone.
The Possibility of Evil" is a 1965 short story by Shirley Jackson. Published on December 18, 1965, in the Saturday Evening Post, [1] a few months after her death, it won the 1966 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery short story. [2] It has since been reprinted in the collections Just an Ordinary Day (1996) and Dark Tales (2016).
The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones is a short story by Stephen Leacock. It was re-published in Literary Lapses in 1910. [1] It is read by John Le Mesurier on a 1976 LP What Is Going To Become Of Us All? [2] It was made into a short film by Gerald Potterton in 1983. [3] It tells the story of a young curate, Melpomenus Jones, who could not bear ...
The thirteen stories feature the amateur detective Miss Marple, her nephew Raymond West, and her friend Sir Henry Clithering. They are the earliest stories Christie wrote about Miss Marple. The main setting for the frame story is the fictional village of St Mary Mead.
The first was called “Miss Eerie” and supposedly sounded like a commercial jingle. Tweaked a bit after handsome frontman Morten Harket joined the band, it was then recorded as “Lesson One.”