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  Redburn: His First Voyage

  Herman Melville

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  Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head was filled with dreams of foreign travel and adventure. In Redburn, the protagonist enlists for a stint as a seaman aboard Highlander, a merchant ship running between New York and London. As with many of Melville's works, this one is as much about class and race as it is about the sea.

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  The Rivals of Dracula

  Nick Rennison

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  Bram Stoker's Dracula, still the most famous of all vampire stories, was first published in 1897. But the bloodsucking Count was not the only member of the undead to bare his fangs in the literature of the period. Late Victorian and Edwardian fiction is full of vampires and this anthology of scary stories introduces modern readers to fifteen of them. A travel writer in Sweden unleashes something awful from an ancient mausoleum. A psychic detective battles a vampire that has taken refuge in an Egyptian mummy. A nightmare becomes reality in the tower room of a gloomy country house. The Rivals of Dracula is a collection of classic tales to chill the blood and tingle the spine, including the following stories:
  Alice & Claude Askew - 'Aylmer Vance and the Vampire'
  EF Benson - 'The Room in the Tower'
  Mary Cholmondeley - 'Let Loose'
  Ulric Daubeny - 'The Sumach'
  Augustus Hare - 'The Vampire of Croglin Grange'
  Julian Hawthorne - 'Ken's Mystery'
  E and H Heron - 'The Story of Baelbrow'
  MR James - 'Count Magnus'
  Vernon Lee - 'Marsyas in Flanders'
  Richard Marsh - 'The Mask'
  Hume Nisbet - 'The Vampire Maid'
  Frank Norris - 'Grettir at Thorhall-stead'
  Phil Robinson - 'Medusa'
  HB Marriott Watson - 'The Stone Chamber'

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  Unwinding

  W. F. Harvey

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  William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres.Born into a wealthy Quaker family in Yorkshire, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, and took a degree in medicine at Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted much of his recuperation to writing short stories. "Unwinding" is a strange story based around a simple parlour game. The guests take it in turn to say what the thing mentioned by the previous player reminds them of. But when the vicar says that first class railway compartments remind him of murder, everyone is puzzled. Over supper the vicar tells a very peculiar story. But it is the behaviour of the newcomer, the mysterious Mr. Cholmondery, which is most peculiar...

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  The Cape Cod Enigma

  Steven Becker, Chuck Benton,...

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  Blackmail on the High Seas 
  Kendra Hale and Ian Starbuck, agents for the FBI’s Special Projects Group and fresh from their recent case solving a string of murders on the Maine coast, are tasked with stopping a group of wreckers, modern-day criminal counterparts of 19th-century marine salvors. Technology is their weapon of choice and blackmail is the payoff. Can the duo stop a plot to destroy an iconic harbor on the New England coast? 
  Filled with the action, adventure, and seaworthy settings you’ve come to expect in bestselling author Steven Becker’s books, the second book in this new series promises not to disappoint.

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  Candlemas - 1588: A Calendar of...

  Shirley McKay

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  A candlemaker’s life is extinguished in this short story of murder and intrigue featuring the sixteenth-century Scottish lawyer Hew Cullan. On Candlemas eve, an apprentice candle maker finds his master, John Blair, dead in his workshop, and the evidence points to the surgeon Sam Sturrock. Lawyer Hew Cullan finds himself, together with his friend, the physician Giles Locke, drawn into the investigation when they are enlisted by Sturrock’s desperate apprentice. At first it seems like Blair’s death is the result of reckless surgical practice, but as Hew delves deeper into the life of the candle maker he discovers a web of extortion. It seems John Blair was a man with many enemies . . . “McKay is to be congratulated for the continued quality and inventiveness of her tales.” —The National

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  Hikayat - Short Stories by...

  Roseanne Saad Khalaf

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  From Lebanon's golden age, through years of civil conflict and its aftermath, these women offer a captivating portrait of a country in flux. Well-known authors such as Emily Nasarallah, Hanan al-Shaykh and Alawiya Sobh, alongside newer voices, share he desire to push boundaries, tackling subjects from the crippling effects of war in past decades, through longing for romantic adventures in a conservative society, to the functioning of families across the divides of emigration and generational conflict. The characters in these stories are on the brink of something - whether it be religious or social divides, or sexual awakening. The language reflects the great tension, and the great beauty in their transformation. And the collection as a whole reveals the rich diversity of the complex multi-cultural society out of which these stories have emerged. 'In turn lyrical, sensuous, comic and ironic ... rare and fascinating ...' Independent 'Some truly insightful, engaging work ...' New Statesman

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