by George Eliot (1985)
George Eliot's Gothic story, published the same year as her staunchly realist novel, Adam Bede, continues her preoccupation with human communication and sympathy through the figure of the telepathic narrator. Latimer, one of her least likeable characters, suffers tremendously under his heightened awareness of others' petty and selfish thoughts. Latimer chooses to tell the story of his abilities as a tale of disability, a kind of pathography about his gift. The vehemence of his disgust for human frailties suggests that Latimer's pain derives at least in part from his failure of empathy for others (except at his father's death)--that his discomfort with telepathic communication rests on his resistance to human connection in general. Thus, his uncanny hearing unmasks a kind of sympathetic deafness to others, and his progressive heart disease indexes the shriveling of his capacity for human love and friendship.
R.L. Stine
Everyone in Goshen Falls knows about weird Vanessa. She dresses all in black and wears black lipstick. People say she puts spells on people. Crystal and her brother Cole made Vanessa mad. After she whispered that strange warning, "Chicken chicken" something weird has happened. Crystal's lips have turned as hard as a bird's beak, and Cole has started growing ugly white feathers all over his body.
Tamora Pierce
Daine and Numair are suddenly swept into the otherworldly home of the gods after facing certain death on earth. But they cannot remain there for long, because they are both needed to help fight the desparate battle raging in Tortall. And so they undertake the dangerous journey back to earth...a journey that will teach them a great deal about life and about each other, a journey that will lead to the startling culmination of the conflicts, both mortal and immortal, that have long plagued Tortall. (Fourth in the Immortals series)
Stephen King
All her life, people have made fun of Carrie. She has no friends, and her mother is a cruel and insane woman. Selected from Carrie tells the story of Carrie's last days in high school. When her classmates pull their worst trick ever, Carrie strikes back with the full force of her deadly powers. See also: - [Carrie][1] [1]:
Lily Moresby Adams Beck
L. Adams Beck began her career by publishing stories in The Atlantic Monthly, Asia, and the Japanese Gassho. These stories were later put into collections. Stories in this collection include: -- The Ninth Vibration -- The Interpreter: A Romance of the East -- The Incomparable Lady: A Story of China with a Moral -- The Hatred of the Queen: A Story of Burma -- Fire of Beauty -- The Building of the Taj Mahal -- How Great is the Glory of Kwannon! -- The Round-Faced Beauty.