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  The Con - A short story

  Vineet Verma

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  Love. Lies. Money. 
  Elsa Gardner's career as a con artist has seen better days. After a string of failures, she's broke and racked with self-doubt when another con man, Eddie, enters her life, providing a ray of hope. He offers her an opportunity that could resolve her financial issues forever. But her heart has other plans, and soon she must make a difficult decision - risk following her heart or take the safe path, no matter what the cost. 
  A delightfully tangled web of deceit and trickery!

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  3 Stories About - Hope & Dreams...

  Anton Chekhov, Guy de...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears. 
   
  01 - 3 Stories About - Hope and Dreams 
  02 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  03 - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov 
  04 - From A to Z by Susan Glaspell

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  Washington Irving - A Short...

  Washington Irving

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  Washington Irving was born on 3rd April, 1783, the youngest of 11, in New York. 
    
  Irving found his real interests away from school in literature and the theatre.  An outbreak of yellow fever at 15 moved him away from Manhattan and into the surrounding countryside providing valuable settings for later works such as ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. 
   
  By 19 Irving was writing regularly to the New York Morning Chronicle, commenting on the theatrical and social scenes.  When his health began to fail, he was sent on the Grand Tour of Europe.  Bizarrely he ignored most of the great sights on offer to concentrate on developing his social and conversational powers.  His health, though, did improve.  
   
  In 1806, back in New York to study law, he scraped a pass at the bar and then founded with several others the literary magazine Salmagundi. Irving nicknamed the city ‘Gotham City’, a name still in use today.  Moderately successful, the magazine spread Irving’s reputation beyond New York. 
   
  In 1809 while mourning the death of his teenage fiancée Irving finished his first significant book, ‘A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynsasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker’.  It satirised local history, local historians and politics.  It received great critical acclaim. 
   
  Unfortunately his family’s established trading company was now facing great upheavals and Irving was dispatched to England to try to sort it out.  After two years he could see no way out but bankruptcy.  This left him in England with no real employment prospects, and so he returned to writing.  
   
  He sent some short stories back to New York to be published as ‘The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent’.  The first part included ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and was extremely successful.  The sixth part contained ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’.  
   
  Beset by literary piracy, with no copyright law at the time, he set about publishing legitimate copies in England to outwit the bootleggers.  From now on Irving published concurrently in America and England in order to render piracy obsolete.  
   
  In August 1824, he published ‘Tales of a Traveller’, which included the famed ‘The Devil and Tom Walker’.  
   
  In 1826, the American Minister to Spain, invited him to Madrid where he could examine the many historical documents that he had access to.  Irving reveled in both the size of the libraries he was granted access to and their rich quality.  Historical works flowed from his pen further enhancing his reputation and fortune.   
   
  Following the completion of ‘Tales of the Alhambra’ in 1832, Irving returned to America after 17 years abroad. He was now a figurehead of American literature and dispensed advice to Edgar Allan Poe amongst others.  Irving also became an advocate for American copyright legislation.  
   
  A later appointment as Minister to Spain in 1842 left him disheartened at the antics of the various political factions he encountered.  It also afforded him no time to write as he had hoped.  
   
  On his return home he began an ‘Author’s Revised Edition’ of his works agreeing an unprecedented deal for 12 per cent of the retail profits.  
   
  Washington Irving died of a heart attack at his ‘Sunnyside’ home on the 28th November 1859 at the age of 76, a few months after completing his five volume George Washington biography, in whose honour he had been named. 
   
  01 - Washington Irving - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 
  03 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 
  04 - The Art of Book-Making by Washington Irving 
  05 - The Conquest of the Earth by the Moon by Washington Irving 
  06 - John Bull by Washington Irving

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  Backwater Virgin

  Steven Becker

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  Murder in Paradise 
  Beneath the Tropical Veil Lies a Deadly Mystery. 
  When a chilling murder rocks the tranquil shores of the Virgin Islands, Kurt Hunter, a seasoned Special Agent, finds himself thrust into the heart of paradise with a mission that goes deeper than the azure waters surrounding him. Assigned to the Virgin Islands National Park on a temporary basis, Hunter must untangle the threads of a sinister plot that weaves through the idyllic landscape, turning paradise into a perilous labyrinth. 
  As Hunter plunges into the island's vibrant coral reefs and mysterious underwater caves, he discovers that the victim's life was entangled with the dangerous pursuits of smuggling and treasure hunting. 
  Backwater Virgin is a gripping murder mystery that combines the thrill of underwater exploration with the high-stakes world of crime and corruption. In this sun-soaked thriller, paradise is the perfect disguise for the darkest of secrets.

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  The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias...

  MJ Sydney

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  Expanding upon The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias, this second volume brings thirteen* not-so-irrational fears much closer to home. 
  Find out what happens when a family goes missing in their own home, an acquired piece of artwork turns out to be much more than bargained for, a child is left home alone with his grandma, the kitchen compost gets out of control, doors in the house refuse to open and more. 
  Stories by Mehitobel Wilson, Michael Bailey, Donna JW Munro, Steve Carr, Kealan Patrick Burke, Stephen King*, JG Faherty, John Peyton Cooke, John Palisano, Colleen Anderson, Nancy Kilpatrick, Jill Hand and Sèphera Girón. 
  *Please note that due to contractual limitations and obligations, Stephen King’s story, “Gramma”, is only available in the paperback, limited hardcover and audiobook editions. 

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  Foundations of Fiction The -...

  Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan...

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  A dog may be man’s best friend.  It is also one of his worst nightmares.  The idea that humans could suddenly present themselves as demonic werewolves can only have come from the deepest, darkest and most diabolical recesses of an author’s mind. 
   
  In this volume we present a roll-call of classic authors including Rudyard Kipling, Saki, Arthur Conan Doyle, Catherine Crowe and many others who short story by short story establish the building blocks of this horrific yet thrilling genre.  Here all manner of characters and narratives weave together to bring a unique yet intricate account of the beginnings of this most troubling of literary genres. 
  1 - Foundations of Fiction - Werewolves - An Introduction 
  2 - Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling 
  3 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  4 - Tarnhelm or The Death of My Uncle Robert by Hugh Walpole 
  5 - Gabriel-Ernest by Saki 
  6 - The She-Wolf by Saki 
  7 - The Lame Priest by Susan Morrow writing as S Carleton 
  8 - The Thing in the Forest by Bernard Capes 
  9 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman 
  10 - A Story of a Weir-Wolf by Catherine Crowe

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