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  Corona Jokes Tim Tim Pappu

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  Back to back laughter and thrill. Enjoy listening.

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  The Raising - A Novel

  Laura Kasischke

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  “Kasischke’s writing does what good poetry does—it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of facade and reflection.”  —New York Times Book Review “Haunting, unsettling, and unforgettable, The Raising limns love, longing, belonging and the things we only think we know about life—and yes, death.” —Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of YouFrom Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of In a Perfect World and The Life Before Her Eyes, comes a hypnotic mystery about one girl’s  tragic death and the fallout that occurs on her closely-knit college campus. Part Stephen King, part Donna Tartt, and wholly  unforgettable , Kasischke’s The Raising sets a new standard for hair-raising literary suspense.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Miguel de Cervantes, Guy de...

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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. 
   
  The Gothic short story is one of the most enduring of genres.  In this volume we explore works by classic authors from all corners of Europe as they explore and exploit narratives with their undeniable talents. 
   
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - European Gothic - An Introduction 
  2 - The Force of Blood by Miguel de Cervantes 
  3 - The Hand by Guy de Maupassant 
  4 - The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers 
  5 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach 
  6 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach 
  7 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol 
  8 - Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  9 - Belphagor by Niccolo Machiavelli 
  10 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin 
  11 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman 
  12 - The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier

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  East End Girls

  Rena Mason

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  With East End Girls, three-time Bram Stoker Award winner Rena Mason offers a fascinating new perspective on some of the most remembered and written about murders in history.  
  Seized by the vicious killings of Jack the Ripper, Victorian London's East End is on the brink of ruin. Elizabeth Covington, desperate and failing to follow in her beloved father's footsteps, risks practicing medicine in the dangerous and neglected Whitechapel District to improve her studies.  
  Elizabeth crosses paths with a man she believes is the villain, triggering a downward spiral that exposes her to a depth of evil she never knew existed.  
  Only she knows the truth that drives the madness of a murderer.

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  MS Found in a Bottle

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript, telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. Some critics believe the story was meant as a satire of typical sea tales.
  Poe submitted "MS. Found in a Bottle" as one of many entries to a writing contest offered by the weekly Baltimore Saturday Visiter. Each of the stories was well liked by the judges but they unanimously chose "MS. Found in a Bottle" as the contest's winner, earning Poe a $50 prize. The story was then published in the October 19, 1833, issue of the Visiter.

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  Out of His Mind

  William R. Perry

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  One year has passed since a string of vicious murders shocked the quiet block of Goshen Street. While deep scars remain for the survivors, William Parson lays in his hospital bed tormented by the murders committed by his hand, but not of his will. 
  Completely paralyzed, he has no means to communicate. Thought to be in a vegetative state, and utterly despised, he is deprived of music, books, movies or even a single soul to speak to him. 
  Was he possessed? Did he just snap? At least he can't hurt anyone ever again. 
  Unless he was telling the truth...

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