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  London's Burning

  Joseph Lidster

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  1941: As bombs fall on the city of London, Quentin Collins is reunited with his old friend, Rose. Trapped in an Underground station, she claims to have no memory of him. So he tells her how they met… 1906: Music hall star Rosie Fay is the talk of the town. But what connects her to the cases of spontaneous human combustion plaguing London’s ladies of the night? And why is Quentin so interested in the song she sings?

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  The Ebony Swan

  Phyllis A. Whitney

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  Family secrets are locked away at the intimidating Virginia estate of a prima ballerina in this suspenseful tale from a New York Times–bestselling author.   Susan Prentice is a young nurse at a crossroads. She’s broken off an engagement, the father who raised her has just died, and now she’s leaving the western shores behind for a trip to her family’s home on Virginia’s Northern Neck—where she saw her mother fall to her death twenty-five years ago. There, Susan’s grandmother, former ballet diva Alexandrina “Alex” Vargas Montoro, proves a formidable sentinel for the family’s mysterious history.   At first welcomed by her long-estranged relatives, spied on by suspicious neighbors, and drawn to Peter, Alex’s handsome young doctor, Susan has nothing but questions. And for every answer, there’s a warning—and the fear that she has only Peter to trust in. But even the doctor’s past is shaded with murder. Soon Susan will discover that she alone holds the key to her mother’s suspicious death, hidden away in her shattered memories. And someone intimately close to her is prepared to bury the truth forever.  The Ebony Swan is a “carefully crafted novel of psychological suspense by . . . [a] Mystery Writers of America Grand Master” (Publishers Weekly).  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author’s estate.  

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  The World's Slow Stain

  Ella Hepworth Dixon

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  Ella Hepworth Dixon (1855 - 1932) was a British short story writer, journalist and novelist. "The World's Slow Stain" is the story of a reconciliation which goes catastrophically wrong. Adela Buller and Anthony Mellingham, whose love affair had ended badly ten years earlier meet again and agree to marry. But after they broke up the first time Adela had published a bitter novel under a pseudonym in which she had modelled the lead character - a dreadful cad - on Mellingham. Since their bitter split, Adela has had affairs with numerous men - including the cynical dramatist Gilbert Vincent. When Adela tells Gilbert she will no longer see him after her marriage, Vincent decides to give Mellingham a copy of his new wife's book as a surprise wedding gift.

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  Rooftops

  Michael J.E.Barry

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  Rooftops is a story about trauma, survival and forgiveness of self, set in a magical version of reality. 
  Growing up in a 1970’s Australian immigrant family with ties to Organised Crime, Eddy is a survivor with a troubled past. 
  Now as an adult, Eddy is trying to write a story about Demons and Vampires while living in a world between reality and his experiences. 
  Jackdragon is a creature Eddy brought back from childhood dreams of flying at night. Jack has returned to help Eddy make peace with his past by telling Eddy’s story. 
  In part fantasy, part magical reality, Rooftops follows Eddy from 1970’s Sydney to New York and back again, as he survives The Family as Jack helps Eddy to make sense of the world he lives in and at last, find forgiveness.

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  Rats in the Walls The (Unabridged)

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924.Plot summary:Set in 1923, "The Rats in the Walls" is narrated by the scion of the de la Poer family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, the ruined Exham Priory. To the dismay of nearby residents, he restores the Priory, plainly revealing his ignorance of the horrific history of the place. After moving in, the protagonist and his cats frequently hear rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further (and as revealed in recurring dreams), he learns that his family maintained an underground city for centuries where they raised generations of "human cattle" (some regressed to a quadrupedal state) to supply their taste for human flesh. Maddened by the revelations of his family's past and driven by a hereditary cruelty, the narrator attacks one of his friends in the dark of the cavernous city and begins eating him. He is subsequently subdued and placed in a mental institution. At least one other investigator, Thornton, has gone insane as well. Soon after, Exham Priory is destroyed. The narrator maintains his innocence, proclaiming that it was "the rats, the rats in the walls," who ate the man. He continues to be plagued by the sound of rats in the walls of his cell.

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  Dark Glass

  Orlando A. Sanchez

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  Sometimes, being immortal can get you killed. 
  When Fate pays Simon a visit accusing him of disrupting causality, she makes him an offer he can’t refuse—become mortal or die. 
  There’s only one small problem. 
  In order to become mortal, Simon must find the goddess, Kali the Destroyer, and convince her to remove her curse. To complicate matters further, Haven and Roxanne are under attack by an ancient spell-an entropic sphere designed to kill everyone inside the facility. 
  Now, Monty and Simon must find out why Simon is disrupting causality, stop a lethal sphere from killing innocents, and convince an angry goddess to lift a curse. 
  A typical day in the Montague and Strong Detective Agency. 
  Join the Trio of Terror as they discover that not everything is as it seems, and sometimes, the past can kill you.

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