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  Hunted Down

  Charles Dickens

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  Hunted Down is a detective story by Charles Dickens. The astute Sampson suspects that a certain Mr. Julius Slinkton who turns up in his office one morning is not all that he seems.  As Slinkton crops up more and more frequently in Sampson's life, he realises that a monstrous crime is about to be committed. But a counter plot is hatched and the hunter quickly becomes the hunted. Dickens excels again in his masterful portrayal of character and insightful description the society of his day. The story functions both as a fast paced narrative which draws the reader swiftly into the story and as a psychological analysis of the most villainous conman imaginable.  Truly gripping.

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  Portrait of a Lady

  Jerome K.

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  An enchantingly sentimental tale of a traveller who finds a very beautiful miniature portrait of a young woman in his temporary lodgings.Seeking to learn more about the beauty, he eventually comes across some personal papers which reveal the tragedy of her life. Now all he needs to do is find out her identity....

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  Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Red-Headed League was the second of Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories to be published in Strand Magazine. 
  Doyle ranked The Red-Headed League second in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. It was first published in August of 1891, and was, later, the first of the stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1892. 
  Public Domain (P)2015 Listen & Live Audio

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  Jack London - Six of the Best -...

  Jack London

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
  1 - Six of the Best - Jack London - An Introduction 
  2 - Jack London - An Introduction 
  3 - An Odyssey of the North by Jack London 
  4 - To Build a Fire by Jack London 
  5 - A Piece of Steak by Jack London 
  6 - The White Silence by Jack London 
  7 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London 
  8 - In a Far Country by Jack London

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  Doug Bradley's Spinechillers...

  H.P. Lovecraft, W. F. Harvey,...

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  Volume 12 begins with Doug Bradley's well researched insight into the stories and their authors.  This is followed by what H.P. Lovecraft considered to be one of his best stories, 'The Music of Eric Zann.'   ‘The Tool’ by WF Harvey is a horrifying tale narrated by an inmate of a mental institution.  Next Edgar Allan Poe revisits his terrifying fear of being buried alive in 'The Premature Burial'.  Then an eavesdropper overhears five creepy and scary ghost stories in Charles Dickens 'To Be Read at Dusk'.  Ambrose Bierce’s haunting ‘The Moonlit Road’ relates a murder tale from three perspectives, including the murdered wife's.  Jeffery Combs reads Part 5 of ‘Herbert West Reanimator’ and this volume is completed with Edgar Allan Poe's 'Dreamland'.  The poem describes the strange sights the speaker sees along his journey in a different and disturbing world.

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  The Pit and The Pendulum

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum", a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition faces psychological and physical torture in a dark cell. He struggles to survive deadly traps, including a sharp pendulum and a deep well, using his ingenuity to escape.

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