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  The Mysterious Dr Death

  Rachel Lawson

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  Blake Alexander the local Coroner called Dr. Death by the people of the hospital he worked. He is treated as the local banshee he is only brought out of the morgue to announce someone has died, but how accurate is the title Dr Death his nemesis the Orderly Jack Taylor will start to wonder in this short story. It is part of the gothic magic realism series the Magicians.

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  The Call of Cthulhu - Audio Drama

  Nathaniel Church, H. P. Lovecraft

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  From Digital Fable Forge comes a cinematic audio-drama of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu. Music and immersive sound design pair with a cast of digital voice actors to trace a mystery from dusty notes to a storm-lashed sea. Lightly modernized and adapted for audio, this is the old terror reborn—best experienced with headphones. 
  New to the tale? A researcher inherits a dead professor’s papers and uncovers a pattern: fevered dreams that spread like a sickness, a hidden cult whispering one name, and a sailor’s log from an impossible city risen from the deep. Piece by piece, the fragments point to a sleeping, ancient power—Cthulhu—and to the awful truth that some things remember us.

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  The Lurking Fear

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Step into the shadows of Tempest Mountain, where ancient secrets and unspeakable horrors await discovery. The Lurking Fear by H. P. Lovecraft plunges readers into a chilling journey of obsession, fear, and the grotesque. Amid violent storms and haunted ruins, an investigator’s relentless pursuit of hidden truths uncovers a darkness more terrifying than he imagined.

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  The Secret of the Growing Gold -...

  Bram Stoker

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  Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on the 8th of November 1847, the third of seven children.  
   
  His early years were plagued with such ill-health that he was unable to start school until the age of seven.  He turned the long periods of recovery into an opportunity for thinking and said “I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years”.  
   
  Strikingly at Trinity College, Dublin his health had returned with such vigour that he was named their University Athlete whilst also achieving a BA in Mathematics with honours.  
   
  At this time his interest in theatre became a job offer to be the Dublin Evening Mail’s theatre critic, co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu.  He now began to also write short stories and in 1872 ‘The Crystal Cup’ was published.  An interest in art developed and he co-founded the Dublin Sketching Club.  
   
  In 1878 came marriage to Florence Balcombe.  She had formerly been courted by Stoker’s acquaintance, Oscar Wilde.  The marriage produced one child.   
   
  Stoker had some years before reviewed Henry Irving’s Hamlet and had dined with him.  That friendship now resulted in a proposal from Irving to move to London and to manage his Lyceum Theatre.  His numerous commercial innovations ensured both he and the theatre thrived.  Irving would also often take Stoker with him when he toured abroad. 
   
  Despite this busy life Stoker continued to write and these works paved the way for his most famous creation, published in 1897, ‘Dracula’.  It is rightly recognised as one of the greatest horror novels of all time and although not the first with a theme of Vampires, it is undoubtedly the most well-known. 
   
  Stoker also wrote poetry and many excellent short stories and continued to write novels and other works throughout his career. 
   
  Politically Stoker supported Home Rule, though only by peaceful means.  He was also keen on following scientific trends particularly in medicine. 
   
  In 1902 his tenure at the Lyceum Theatre ended and although he continued to write his health was deteriorating, mainly due to a series of debilitating strokes. 
   
  Bram Stoker died on the 20th April 1912, in Pimlico, London.  He was 64.

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  The Thing in the Hall

  Edward Frederic Benson

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  The Thing in the Hall, is a rather macabre and strange story - retold by Mike Vendetti - of two friends living in London, one of whom tempts fate by inviting a spirit to visit without limiting what type of spirit he is inviting. As we know, there are "evil" spirits just awaiting a home or a victim.

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  The Turn of the Screw

  Henry James

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  The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 gothic horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly from January 27 to April 16, 1898. On October 7, 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. The novella follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote country house, becomes convinced that they are haunted. The Turn of the Screw is considered a work of both Gothic and horror fiction. 
  In the century following its publication, critical analysis of the novella underwent several major transformations. Initial reviews regarded it only as a frightening ghost story, but, in the 1930s, some critics suggested that the supernatural elements were figments of the governess' imagination. In the early 1970s, the influence of structuralism resulted in an acknowledgement that the text's ambiguity was its key feature. Later approaches incorporated Marxist and feminist thinking. 
  The novella has been adapted several times, including a Broadway play (1950), a chamber opera (1954), two films (in 1961 and 2020), and a miniseries (2020). 
  On Christmas Eve, an unnamed narrator and some of his friends are gathered around a fire. One of them, Douglas, reads a manuscript written by his sister's late governess. The manuscript tells the story of her being hired by a man who has become responsible for his young niece and nephew following the deaths of their parents. He lives mainly in London and has a country house in (fictional) Bly, Essex... 
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  Narrator: Logan Keen 
  Author: Henry James 
  Date of original publication: 1898 
  Genre: Gothic horror novella 
  Language : English 
  Version : unabridged, full/complete 
  Without subtitles

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