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  The Stalls of Barchester...

  M.R. James

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  This is the unabridged audio recording of M.R. James' excellent ghost story The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral. The author's stories were written with the purpose of being read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. This highly-praised version, narrated by David Collings, is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.(P)2009 Andrews UK Ltd under exclusive license from Craftsman Audio

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Charles Dickens, Nikolai Gogol,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume our authors present tales of dark, macabre, and disturbing deeds.  From the pens of Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Mor Jokai, E T A Hoffman and many others come carefully crafted literary journeys designed to disrupt reality, jangle nerves and feed upon our souls.    
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - European Gothic -An Introduction 
  2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  3 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol 
  4 - The Force of Blood by Miguel de Cervantes 
  5 - Olalla - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  6 - Olalla - Part 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  7 - The Ghost at the Wrath by Rosa Mulholland 
  8 - The Sand-Man - Part 1 by E T A Hoffman 
  9 - The Sand-Man - Part 2 by E T A Hoffman 
  10 - The Spectral Hand by Jean Lorrain 
  11 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 
  12 - Green Tea - Part 1 by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  13 - Green Tea - Part 2 by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  14 - The Bundle of Letters by Moritz Jokai 
  15 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach 
  16 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach

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  A Holiday Haunting at the Biltmore

  Eva Pohler

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  Ellen should have known that a gathering in America's last castle would entail a few uninvited guests. During a Christmas eve wedding at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Ellen and her friends are visited by multiple ghosts. The spirits have come to tell their stories, to right the wrongs that history has done to their memories. Each of them died in Asheville with their voices stifled. One spirit is particularly adamant and threatening, despite her small size, and her mood fluctuates like the mountain winds surrounding the great estate. She claims to be the ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald, and she wants her story told, even if she has to kill to make it happen. Voted Best Mystery Book of the Year for 2022 at Utopia Con! The books in this series can be read in any order.

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  Zanoni Book Two: Art Love and...

  Lon Milo DuQuette, Edward Bulwer...

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  Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection—The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate.An ancient manuscript and hidden occult powers all tangled into a love story, Zanoni is one of the most unsung novels of its time. Written in 1842 by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, most known for the classic introductory line: "It was a dark and stormy night."

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  The Plattner Story

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction"The Plattner Story" is the strange tale of Gottfried Plattner, the modern languages teacher at a private school in England, who while conducting a chemistry experiment, accidently causes a explosion. The results of the explosion are mysterious. First, Plattner disappears completely. Not a trace of him remains, despite the damage to the school being fairly minimal. For nine days, nothing is seen or heard of him, although many people locally have strange and very similar dreams about him. Second, after nine days, Plattner reappears in a very unusual and equally explosive manner. Third, when he reappears, he has been oddly transformed. His internal organs are all reversed. He is now left, instead of right-handed, and writes from right to left. Moreover, the tale of what happened to him during the nine days of his absence is quite extraordinary.

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  The Dark Prince

  Rachel Lawson

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  Stories of gothic emo magician Jnr.The Haunting of the Necromancer 
  A hilarious farce. 
  When the king of the grim reaper's son needs help to take a ghost haunting his home, he asks his father to help remove it but was it a mistake.The children of the Necromancer 
  When their granddad arrives for tea with a cursed book his grand kids have to look at it and it takes them to underworld to meet the most unexpected people.The Witch Doctor 
  Blake comes out as miracle healer in the paper Jack Taylor want him to bring back a dead actor. Blake tell him to find another Necromancer. 
  He does only he doesn't know it.The Dark Rainbow 
  Jnr starts to have dark visions and tries to stop them and ends up arrested for his girlfriend's murder and his family must save himWho was that masked man 
  Jnr has a vision of a terrorist attack and tries to stop it and his family wonder who the mystery man was.May You Live In Interesting Times, An Old Chinese Curse 
  "To think it all started with one alien being murdered. by a magician," said Lance. 
  "Not the first war that started with a murder world war one for example," said Blake sadly. 
  "Now we are being hunted and cancelled by the greys," said Lance, 
  "It started peacefully but the politics and darker elements got into it," said Blake sadly.The Rose 
  A killer wants the chicken dead. Jnr enchants the chicken to make him less careless as they try to catch the killer.The Grudge 
  Blake is framed of attacking a woman Jnr and the Chicken plot to clear his nameThe Rise of the Necromantor 
  The Gothic emo Prince of Darkness called Mr Average has grown up and took up the family business as a stage Illusionist when his wife, his assistant in his act dies of a trick going wrong after he predicted it he has the eyes of the press and law on him. Will he go to prison as a murderer or will he go free

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