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  The Grim Reaper and Child

  Rachel Lawson

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  "I feel weird going to a cemetery," said said a nervous teenage girl to her father. 
  "Why is me?" asked her father the Necromancer who was in the form of a grim reaper. 
  "Nuh," said the Necromantrix, "All the dead people here is freaking me out." 
  "They are just shells their souls are gone they can't hurt you," said her father, "you are my heir you need to get used to this." 
  "Yeah," said she said, "Death still freaks me out." 
  "It's natural, between you me and that grave stone it really freaks me out too," said her father...That's Just The StartYou won't believe how it ends!

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  Las Biuty Queens - Stories

  Iván Monalisa Ojeda, Pedro...

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  Drawing from his/her own experience as a trans performer, sex worker, and undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa Ojeda chronicles the lives of Latinx queer and trans immigrants in New York City. Whether she is struggling with addiction, clashing with law enforcement, or is being subjected to personal violence, each character choses her own path of defiance, often responding to her fate with irreverent dark humor. What emerges is the portrait of a group of friends who express unquestioning solidarity and love for each other, and of an unfamiliar, glittering and violent, New York City that will draw listeners in and swallow them whole.Iván Monalisa's unique narrative talent is on display as he/she artfully transforms the language of the streets, making it his/her own—rich with rhythm and debauchery. This bold new collection positions Ojeda as a fresh and necessary voice within the canon of world literature.Contains mature themes.

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  Vera

  Elizabeth Von Arnim

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  Vera (1921) by Elizabeth von Arnim is a black comedy based on her disastrous second marriage to Earl Russell: a mordant analysis of the romantic delusions through which wives acquiesce in husbands' tyrannies. In outline the story of this utterly unromantic novel anticipates DuMaurier's Rebecca. Naive Lucy Entwhistle is swept into marriage by widower, Everard Wemyss. His mansion "The Willows" is pervaded by the spectre of his dead wife Vera, with whom Lucy becomes obsessed. ... Here the servants are partisan for both wives, and lose no opportunity to disrupt Everard's unctuous, oppressive household routines. An extraordinarily black vision of marriage, also continuously funny, the novel's power lies in the wit and economy of the usually prolix Von Arnim.(Introduction by Wikipedia)

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  Gothic Tales of Terror Volume 2

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary...

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  GOTHIC TALES OF TERROR - VOLUME 2. This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, HP Lovecraft and AM Burrage. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit back, and take in their words as they lead  you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own.  Our stories are The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, The Thing on the Doorstep by HP Lovecraft and Waxworks by AM Burrage.  These stories are read for you by many readers including Ghizela Rowe, David Healy and Richard Mitchley.

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  The Refrigerator Monologues

  Catherynne M. Valente

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  The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics.From the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who's ever been "refrigerated": comic book women who are killed, raped, brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken so that a male superhero's storyline will progress.In an entirely new and original superhero universe, Valente subversively explores these ideas and themes in the superhero genre, treating them with the same love, gravity, and humor as her fairy tales. After all, superheroes are our new fairy tales and these six women have their own stories to share.

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  Little Tobrah

  J. R. Kipling

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  Rudyard Kipling  (1865–1936) had visited many countries, and travels gave inspiration for many works of the writer.  The short story "Little Tobrah" was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on 17 July 1888. The sister of Little Tobrah was found dead at the bottom of a well and there was no person around, except him, but the girl could fall down incidentally. Therefore Little Tobrah was acquitted and he could go. It wasn't so merciful because he had no place to go and had nothing to eat. After he had left the court, an Englishman let bring the boy to his house. There Tobrah told his story to grooms. His sister and he had nothing to eat, and  their parents had died of a sickness. One night Tobrah and his sister came to a well. How did the story end? Read "Little Tobrah" to know it.A SmartTouch Media production.

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