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Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.",2018,"en","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx7dngfnfwnhpbf243438fry.jpg?v=96ecf3bb2c","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks-3d\u002F01\u002F01kx7dngfbatp11wgn5kpgvnqw.png?v=577eec4f03","LAL~E-RP.8_Nxuj[j[WB.8x[IBIA","4.00",1,64,73,0,"complete",false,true,[18,18,18,18,18,18,18,15,18,18],[24],{"id":25,"slug":26,"name":27,"role":28,"bio":29},"01kjr9ns1504989kx6d1k05qj9","shirley-jackson-4oe3","Shirley Jackson","author","Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer, known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.\r\n\r\n**Source**: [Shirley Jackson](https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FShirley_Jackson) on Wikipedia.",[31,35,39],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":21},7,"Horror","horror",{"id":36,"name":37,"slug":38,"is_fiction":21},142,"Short Stories","short-stories",{"id":40,"name":41,"slug":42,"is_fiction":21},58,"Classics","classics",[],[],[],[],[48],{"id":49,"title":6,"edition_name":7,"format":50,"format_label":51,"page_count":16,"audio_duration_minutes":7,"narrator":7,"publish_date":52,"cover_url":11,"cover_blurhash":13,"isbn_13":53,"asin":7,"publisher":54,"language":10,"quality_score":55,"submission_status":56},"01kx7dngfnfwnhpbf243438fry","paperback","Paperback","2018","9780241339282","Penguin Canada",10,"approved",{"summary":7,"pace":58,"complexity":59,"complexity_score":32,"audience":60,"mood":61,"themes":64,"setting_period":7,"content_warnings":65},"moderate","dense","adult",[62,63],"dark","creepy",[],[66,67],"child-death","kidnapping",{"id":49,"title":6,"edition_name":7,"format":50,"format_label":51,"page_count":16,"audio_duration_minutes":7,"publish_date":52,"cover_url":11,"cover_blurhash":13,"isbn_13":53,"asin":7,"publisher":54,"language":10},[],"2026-07-11T01:46:27.000000Z",[72,115,146,194,227,251,287,308,332,373],{"id":73,"slug":74,"title":75,"description":76,"primary_cover_url":77,"cover_blurhash":78,"first_publish_year":79,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":18,"page_count":80,"authors":81,"genres":86,"series":110,"enrichment":111},"01ks60majedtqvr54hs6bbeejq","the-penguin-complete-tales-and-poems-of-edgar-allan-poe-aqgc","The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe","This comprehensive collection brings together the most famous tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Experience his chilling stories of terror, macabre detective mysteries, and pioneering works of science fiction, including 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'. 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The title story follows a family who hides a WWII army deserter for eight years after the war's end, sustaining him inside a false reality where the fighting never stopped. Other stories in the volume include \"Bio House,\" \"Face Thief,\" \"Where the Sandman Lives,\" \"The Devil's Logic,\" \"The Long Hair in the Attic,\" \"Scripted Love,\" \"The Reanimator's Sword,\" \"A Father's Love,\" \"Unendurable Labyrinth,\" \"Village of the Siren,\" and \"Bullied\" — ranging from a pair of look-alike girls who aren't twins to a man who refuses to sleep for fear of his dreamworld counterpart taking over his body. 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Yuuma, a high schooler obsessed with the devil, and his middle-school sister Chizumi bring disaster to everyone around them: an \"evil electromagnetic wave\" links Yuuma to a demonic presence, and his compulsive apologies and flattery cause the people who hear them to melt, dissolve, or become disfigured. The stories move beyond the school setting after the opening chapter into a series of escalating, grotesque encounters built around guilt, obsession, and the rituals of apology. 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