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  The Cask of Amontillado - The...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Experience Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story of frightful revenge through the immersive power of a soundscape audiobook. 
  With meticulous sound design, gripping voice work from voice actors Phil Dragash and Riccardo Ricobello and original music by composer Alexander Amadeo, see why Edgar Allan Poe's masterful short story remains as unsettling as when it was put to pen in 1846. You'll never think of wine and masonry the same way again. 
  Published by Root & Twig Sounds, the production team behind 'The Jungle Book - The Soundscape Audiobook' experience, now available wherever you enjoy your audiobooks.

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  Some Men

  Anonyme

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  Ten short stories about men narrated by the author. Seven of them comical. Eight of them about terrible things. One of them happy, for variety's sake. One of them not in fact a story, just a sequence of silly noises.

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  Ben Pitcher's Elly - Mann delves...

  Mary E. Mann

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  Mary Rackham was born in Norwich on 14th August 1848 to a merchant family.  Little is known of her early life and her biography only re-appears in September 1871 with marriage to Fairman Joseph Mann, a farmer with 800 acres.   
   
  Mary moved to Shropham, Norfolk and became involved with the workhouse, visiting the sick and other unfortunates of the parish, her observations and experiences a valuable source for her later stories.  
   
  She took up writing, partly to offset the dreary village life of her surroundings, in the 1880s and published her first novel, ‘The Parish of Hilby’ (1883) at her own expense. It was well received by the critics.  
   
  Thus began a career that spanning three decades provided thirty-three novels, hundreds of short stories, and fourteen plays.  Her work was largely focused on rural life in Norfolk and centered on the fictional town of Dulditch, with grim but authentic accounts of poverty and deprivation.  
   
  Her marriage produced one boy and three girls. With her husband's death in 1913, she moved to Sheringham.  
   
  She is regarded as a major contributor to East Anglian literature with particular praise given to her short stories. 
   
  Mary E Mann died on 19th May 1929.  She was 80.  Her grave-marker is a carved open book with the epitaph ‘We bring our years to an end, as if it were a tale that is told’. 
   
  Life in ‘Ben Pitcher's Elly’ is degrading, awful and unvarnished.  The chances of this young girl having a happy life are remote but her story must be heard.

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  The Cone

  H. G. Wells

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  In H.G. Wells' gripping tale "The Cone," a visceral story of revenge unfolds within the industrial setting of an ironworks. The narrative follows Horrocks, the ironworks manager, as he guides his friend Raut through the smoky, infernal landscape of his domain. Unbeknownst to Raut, Horrocks is aware of an affair between Raut and his wife. The tour takes a dark turn as Horrocks, fueled by betrayal and rage, leads Raut to the mouth of a gigantic smelting furnace—the cone. Wells masterfully builds tension, culminating in a shocking, tragic climax that explores themes of passion, jealousy, and the destructive power of human emotions.

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  The Moabite Cypher

  R. Austin Freeman

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  Coming to the aid of a man kicked by a rearing police horse, R. Austin Freeman's famous forsensic investigator, Dr. John Thorndyke, stumbles upon an anarchist plot to assassinate a visiting Russian grand duke. The key appears to be a cryptogram written in ancient Moabite found on the man's body.

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  Puppy Love Holiday Surprise

  C. Coal

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  It’s the holiday season at Barks ‘n’ Books and Amy has her hands full juggling shoppers and their canine companions. The last thing on her mind is finding Mr. Right but when an adorable Husky puppy named Princess barrels into her with a Great Dane in fast pursuit, Amy finds herself bowled over in more ways than one. Puppy Love Holiday Surprise is a sweet short story sure to put you in the holiday mood.

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