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  The Beast in the Cave

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Between 1903 and 1908, Lovecraft created many stories and sketches, about which we know nothing today beyond the fact that they existed. Almost all met the same fate: death in the flames at the hands of their creator. Lovecraft saved only two texts – "The Alchemist" (1908) and "The Beast in the Cave." 
  The sketch of the story was created as early as the spring of 1904, but Lovecraft needed some time in the Providence Public Library to get to know the location where he set the story, i.e., Mammoth Cave in Kentucky (now a national park). The plot can be summarized in one sentence: a tourist gets lost in a vast cave, where he encounters the titular beast. 
  It is immediately apparent how much Lovecraft had progressed in prose writing since he penned the weak "The Mysterious Ship" three years earlier. The story is mature, with a well-developed psychology of the main character. In the 1930s, the author considered "The Beast in the Cave" to be the first of his works, chronologically, that held any value for him. It is the first story that bears such a clear resemblance to the writer's later works. I particularly note the fact that Lovecraft uses for the first time the phenomenon of the so-called "terminal climax," where the climax coincides with the last sentence of the story. Another striking example of this technique can be found in "Pickman's Model." 
  The story was not published until 1918, just after Lovecraft returned to writing prose (from 1908 to 1917 he was exclusively engaged in studies and poetry). Lovecraft was convinced to publish it by his friend from the amateur writers' society, W. Paul Cook.

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  Breakwater

  Kelly Leow

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  Do moments of trauma leave traces in the universe? Reeling from the breakdown of a friendship, a young woman seeks solace in a new lover. But their first date is haunted by the ghostly imprints of his past conquests.

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  His Wife's Deceased Sister -...

  Frank R. Stockton

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  Frank Richard Stockton was born in Philadelphia on 5th April 1834.  
  His father, a Methodist minister, discouraged Stockton’s literary career from an early age.  Feeling unable to go against those wishes it was for many years that Stockton’s income was maintained as a wood engraver.   
  His first work was published in 1867 and his first collection only appeared in 1870.  Despite this late arrival Stockton’s innovative and often far-fetched stories, with a gentle ‘poking fun’ humour were very popular.  Like his contemporary Mark Twain he avoided the scolding, hectoring and moral tones of many other authors and instead gently teased and cajoled his reader to open their eyes to the ills, the greed and the ambitions of the world around them.  His sci-fi stories in particular were far-seeing and inventive including a tale of negative gravity and a bloodless Anglo-US war won by technological feats.  
  Perhaps his most enduring tale though is ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’ from 1882.  A condemned man is given a choice of being eaten alive or marrying his princess lover.  But he has to choose which door each is behind. 
  Frank R Stockton died in Washington, DC, on 20th April 1902, of a cerebral haemorrhage.  He is buried at The Woodlands in Philadelphia.

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  Browdean Farm - From their pens...

  A M Burrage

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  Alfred McLelland Burrage was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex on 1st July, 1889. His father and uncle were both writers, primarily of boy’s fiction, and by age 16 AM Burrage had joined them.  The young man had ambitions to write for the adult market too.  The money was better and so was his writing. 
  From 1890 to 1914, prior to the mainstream appeal of cinema and radio the printed word, mainly in magazines, was the foremost mass entertainment.  AM Burrage quickly became a master of the market publishing his stories regularly across a number of publications. 
  By the start of the Great War Burrage was well established but in 1916 he was conscripted to fight on the Western Front. He continued to write during these years documenting his experiences in the classic book War is War by Ex-Private X. 
  For the remainder of his life Burrage was rarely printed in book form but continued to write and be published on a prodigious scale in magazines and newspapers.  In this volume we concentrate on his supernatural stories which are, by common consent, some of the best ever written.  Succinct yet full of character each reveals a twist and a flavour that is unsettling…..sometimes menacing….always disturbing.

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  Mother of Wolves - A Dark...

  Ella Stone

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  A vampire Queen and a mad scientist set out to create an army of loyal guards, instead they unleash a primal fury unlike anything the world has ever seen. 
  Kidnapped, tortured and terrorised, Eve awaits her inevitable death with a fierce resilience. But little does she know that instead of death she will be reborn. However, she immediately finds herself and her kin in imminent danger of extinction before they even have a chance to venture into the world.  
  With the help of unlikely ally, can she save them before it is too late? 
  A standalone prequel for the Dark Creatures Saga.

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  My Ride with Nautilus MC Danmark

  Max Ølsted

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  This isn’t a story about outlaws. Not the kind you’ve seen on screen, anyway. There are no shootouts, no staged rebellions, no romanticized lawlessness. If you’re looking for that, you won’t find it here. What you will find is a ledger. A record of early mornings, cold engines, quiet tests, and the slow, unglamorous work of earning a place in a room that doesn’t need you until you prove it does. 
  Nautilus MC Danmark was founded in 1981. Not as a statement. Not as a spectacle. As a response. Men who built things with their hands were watching those things disappear. Roads were getting faster. Rules were getting tighter. And a lot of us were left with empty weekends, quiet houses, and the realization that no one was going to hand us back our purpose. So we built our own. Not outside the law. Outside the committee. The 1% patch never meant chaos. It meant autonomy. It meant refusing to ride by someone else’s schedule, answer to someone else’s consensus, or pretend that convenience is loyalty. That’s all it ever meant. And it’s all it still means. 
  I walked into their space in 2010. Fifty-five years old. Newly divorced. Calendar full of weekends I didn’t know how to fill. I thought I was looking for riding partners. For cold beer. For men who’d laugh at my bad jokes and let me pretend I still belonged to something loud and alive. I was wrong about almost all of it. But I was wrong in the right way. 
  This book is about that process. Not the myth. The work. It’s about the difference between wanting to belong and being willing to pay for it. It’s about learning that brotherhood isn’t a social club. It’s a contract. Signed in sweat. Sealed with discipline. Paid in missed dinners, stiff joints, quiet sacrifices, and the hard understanding that the patch on your back isn’t armor. It’s accountability.

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