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  Rats - A Short Story Collection...

  Bram Stoker, HP Lovecraft, M R...

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  An urban myth is often quoted that you are never further than six feet from a rat in any built-up area.  The true figure is nearer one hundred and fifty feet but that too seems too close for comfort. 
   
  Wherever these creatures settle there is an undeniable fear amongst most of us that they are malevolent, vile and disgusting creatures.  A chill and a shudder are our bodies natural reactions.  Fear lurks in our hearts and souls. 
   
  Enter our storied arena of authors.  This, for them, is fertile territory with which to torment and torture the reader and listener with all sorts of dark deeds that, somehow, we just can’t resist.  
   
  From the macabre and talented pens of Lovecraft, Stoker, James we add Cowles and Mann and others to assault your ears. 
   
  1 - Rats - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker 
  3 - The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft 
  4 - The Devilish Rat by Edward Page Mitchell 
  5 - Rats by Mary E Mann 
  6 - Rats by M R James 
  7 - Rats by Frederick Cowles 
  8 - Alexander the Ratcatcher by Richard Garnett

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  Memoirs of a Madman

  Nikolai Gogol

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  Memoirs of a Madman or Diary of a Madman is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with The Overcoat and The Nose, Diary of a Madman is considered to be one of Gogol's greatest short stories. 
  The tale centers on the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I. Following the format of a diary, the story shows the descent of the protagonist, Poprishchin, into insanity. Diary of a Madman, the only one of Gogol's works written in first person, follows diary-entry format. 
  Diary of a Madman centres on the life of Poprishchin, a low-ranking civil servant and titular counsellor who yearns to be noticed by a beautiful woman, the daughter of a senior official, with whom he has fallen in love. Sophie, the daughter of his boss, with whom he has fallen in love. As he said in his first sight of her, just after being a beast of a civil servant himself, "A footman opened the carriage door and out she fluttered, just like a little bird." Nothing comes of this love he feels for her; Sophie is effectively unaware of him. His diary records his gradual slide into insanity.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Anton...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov is amongst the most vaunted of authors. His tales can take a small fragment of a person’s life and turn it into a narrative of unrivalled and compelling power.   This volume perfectly illustrates Chekhov and his miniature masterpieces. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - Anton Chekhov 
   
  2 - The Bet 
   
  3 - Vanka 
   
  4 - Misery 
   
  5 - The Lady with the Dog 
   
  6 - The Kiss 
   
  7 - The Death of a Government Clerk 
   
  8 - Volodya 
   
  9 - The Student 
   
  10 - About Love 
   
  11 - Gooseberries

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  The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Dr. Jekyll, a well-respected doctor, concocts a potion to unleash his hidden evil as Mr. Hyde. Initially relishing this dark freedom, Jekyll loses control as Hyde's monstrous nature takes over, leading to a battle for his identity.

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  Struggle with a Devil Fish A...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo 26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
  A STRUGGLE WITH A DEVIL FISH: The sea was growing calmer. But there was still a heavy swell, which made his departure, for the present at least, impossible. The day, too, was far advanced.

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  Notes from the Underground

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  In "Notes from Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, we are not talking about revolutionary personalities, a secret struggle for some ideas Fyodor Dostoyevsky tells the story of a man who is "too conscious." The man, whose name we never learn is so aware of his own thoughts and feelings as to cause him to be indecisive and overly self-critical. Add in his belief that societal expectations are shaping his actions. 
  Notes From Underground is one of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's most well renowned novels. It is thought to be one of the first existentialist Russian works. The novella is the disorganized memoir of an unknown narrator, who is referred to by critics as the Underground Man. His narration is disjointed and unreliable, and is colored by a general sense of disdain. The reoccurring themes in Dostoyevsky's Notes From Underground, such as hopelessness, self-consciousness, and his grotesque Gogol-esque style of prose, proved to hold much literary influence on 20th century Russian writers, exemplified in novels such as We, Envy, and Master and Margarita.

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