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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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  A View of the Meadow - Devon

  Lisa Johnson

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  David Sellers can’t stop thinking about the beautiful California Napa Sonoma 
  Mendocino Coastline, even though he’s never been there before. He’s grateful for the opportunity to go, thanks to a suggestion and a pair of tickets from his boss’s secretary. It’s a welcome distraction from the dangerous situation he’s currently embroiled in back home. He had planned to return soon, but that all changed when he met Charlotte Von Shillingsfurst.
   
  Meanwhile, Jasper Symthe and Otto Weinberger are puzzling over a relic or artifact found on the Von Shillingsfurst estate. Jasper, an architect tasked 
  with remodeling the estate, and Otto, a university professor of archaeology and theology, are both intrigued. Jasper has no idea what the object is, and Otto is hesitant to investigate further.
   
  As it turns out, Charlotte, an heiress who has never been in danger before, suddenly finds herself under attack. Someone or something is determined to protect her, and the quiet town she’s lived in her whole life is not what it seems. 26 years ago, the town welcomed a wealthy royal couple and their child, Charlotte. But now, things have taken a dangerous turn.

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  Azathoth (The Work of H P...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  The modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic when a man gazing from his window upon the stars comes to observe secret vistas unsuspected by normal humanity. One night the gulf between his world and the stars is bridged, and his mind ascends from his body out into the boundless cosmos.

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  The Grisly Horror

  Robert E. Howard

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  The Grisly Horror by Robert E. Howard is a brutal, atmospheric tale of terror set deep within the shadow-choked swamps of Mississippi. When Bristol McGrath returns to his ancestral homeland after receiving a shocking telegram, he’s plunged into a world of dark family secrets, ancient curses, and a monstrous entity worshipped by a cult lost to time. As he searches for the woman he loves, McGrath must navigate a haunted landscape of decaying mansions, grotesque horrors, and the savage creature known only as Zemba. Packed with pulp-era intensity, relentless suspense, and eerie southern-gothic mood, this gripping short story showcases Howard’s mastery of action-driven horror. Perfect for fans of classic weird fiction, dark adventure, and supernatural thrillers.

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  Intimations - Stories

  Anônimo

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  From the celebrated author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,a thought-provoking, often unsettling story collection that consists, broadly, of narrative diagrams of the three main stages in a human life: birth, life, and death. 
  Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine earned her comparisons to Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Ben Marcus, and Tom Perrotta. It was praised by the New York Times as ""a powerful allegory of our civilization’s many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation.""  
  In her second book, a collection of twelve stories irresistibly seductive in their strangeness, she explores human life from beginning to end: the distress of birth into a world already formed; the brief and confusing period of ""living"" where we understand what is expected of us and struggle to do it; and the death-y period toward the end where we sense it is ending and will end only partially understood, at best. 
  The title is taken from one of the stories (""Intimation""), but is also a play on Wordsworth's ""Intimations of Immortality""—only in this case it’s not clear exactly what is being intimated, but it’s nothing so gleaming and good as Immortality. The middle, ""Living"" section of the book, is fleshed out with a set of stories that borrow more from traditional realist fiction to illustrate the inner lives of the characters.  
  At once familiar and mysterious, these stories have an eerie resonance as its characters find themselves in new and surprising situations. An unnamed woman enters a room with no exit and a ready-made life; the disappearance of people, objects, and memory creates an apocalypse; the art of dance is used to try to tame a feral child; the key to surviving a house-party lies in knowing the difference between fake and real blood.  
  Elegant, surprising, wondrous, and haunting, Intimations is an utterly transporting collection from one of our most ingenious and brilliant young writers.

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  Queen of Teeth

  Hailey Piper

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  Within forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discovering teeth between her thighs to being hunted by one of the most powerful corporations in America. 
   
   
   
  She assumes the vagina dentata is a side effect of a rare genetic condition caused by AlphaBeta Pharmaceutical, decades ago, when she and several thousand others were still in the womb. 
   
   
   
  But, when ABP corporate goons upend her life, she realizes her secondary teeth might be evidence of a new experiment for which she's the most advanced test tube . . . a situation worsened when Yaya's condition sprouts horns, tentacles, and a mind of its own. 
   
   
   
  On the run and transforming, Yaya may be either ABP's greatest success, or the deadliest failure science has ever created.

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