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  Better Watch Out

  Willow Rose

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  He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. Some kids are scared of the dark, others of monsters living under their beds. Some are even afraid of clowns. None of those things scare Sara. But she is terrified of one man, who comes to her house every year, in the middle of the night. Santa. Curl up with some frightening Christmas horror from the Queen of Scream, Willow Rose. Warning: You might not feel like putting out cookies for Santa ever again after listening to this short story.

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  Only Jack Knows: Origins and Death

  Jack Steen

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  Everyone has a final secret. I collect them.  
   My patients aren’t on my ward just to die - they’re here to confess.  
  Before the body bag, there’s a final reckoning. Murderers. Serial Killers. Monsters in human skin. They tell me their truths because I don’t flinch - and because I’ve made a deal with death.  
  These are the confessions no one gets to hear.  
  These are the behind-the-scenes confessions that don’t make it into the Asylum Confession books, the ones I hear but wasn’t sure I’d share.  
  Well, now I am.  
  And you get to hear them. 
  One confession at a time. 
  Welcome to Only Jack Knows. 
  What to expect: 
  They say curiosity killed the cat—but in my case, it just gave me a job. 
  In Origins and Death, you’ll find out how I ended up in the deepest, darkest ward of an asylum the world forgot existed. I’ll introduce you to Newman—the man who changed everything for me. A paralyzed rapist with a mouth full of lies and one dying wish: to be remembered. 
  He was the first to confess. 
   He wouldn’t be the last. 
  This is a guided descent into the minds of the damned. And I’m the one holding the flashlight. 
  Come closer. You’ll want to hear this. 
   Because once the dead start talking… 
   You can’t unlisten.

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  Stories From the Shadows -...

  Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling,...

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  An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories. 
   
  But where do these ideas and stories come from?  A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form?  An inspiration from a Muse?  A suggestion from an everyday event? 
   
  Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work.  They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twisted revelation that may thrill, may disturb, but will always engage and help us explore the edge of darkness where some of the very best literature patiently lurks …. waiting …. for the likes of me and you. 
   
  1 - Stories From the Shadows - Ghosts - An Introduction 
  2 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain 
  3 - My Own True Ghost Story by Rudyard Kipling 
  4 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 
  5 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 
  6 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton 
  7 - Only A Dream by H Rider Haggard 
  8 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe 
  9 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott 
  10 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker 
  11 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce 
  12 - The Closed Window by A C Benson 
  13 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton 
  14 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant 
  15 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant 
  16 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman 
  17 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik 
  18 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward 
  19 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 
  20 - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House by Clara Venn 
  21 - To Let by B M Croker 
  22 - The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne 
  23 - The Ghost at the Rath by Rosa Mulholland 
  24 - The Tyburn Ghost by Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster 
  25 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker 
  26 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 1 by Richard Harris Barham 
  27 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 2 by Richard Harris Barham 
  28 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt 
  29 - John Charrington's Wedding by Edith Nesbit 
  30 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves 
  31 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood 
  32 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 
  33 - The 9.30 Up-Train by Sabine Baring-Gould 
  34 - The Story of the Rippling Train by Mary Louisa Molesworth 
  35 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard 
  36 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  37 - A Smiling Ghost by W G Kelly 
  38 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley.wav 
  39 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 
  40 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 
  41 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
  42 - A Collector's Company by R H Malden

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  A Night of Horrors - A group of...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia.  
  His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said; ‘our talents we got from our father, but our soul from our mother’.  
  At school Chekhov was distinctly average. At 16 his father mis-managed his finances and was declared bankrupt. His family fled to Moscow. Chekhov remained and eked out a living by various means, including writing and selling short sketches to newspapers, to finish his schooling. That completed and with a scholarship to Moscow University obtained he rejoined his family. 
  He was able to help support them by selling satirical sketches and vignettes of Russian lifestyles and gradually obtained further commissions. In 1884, he qualified as a physician and, although it earned him little, he often treated the poor for free, he was fond of saying ‘Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.’ 
  His own health was now an issue as he began to cough up blood, a symptom of tuberculosis.  Despite this his writing success enabled him to move the family into more comfortable accommodation.  
  Chekhov wrote over 500 short stories which included many, many classics including ‘The Kiss’ and ‘The Lady with a Dog’.  His collection ‘At Dusk’ won him the coveted Pushkin Prize when was only 26.  
  He was also a major playwright beginning with the huge success of ‘Ivanov’ in 1887.   
  In 1892 Chekhov bought a country estate north of Moscow. Here his medical skills and money helped the peasants tackle outbreaks of cholera and bouts of famine. He also built three schools, a fire station and a clinic.  It left him with less time for writing but the interactions with real people gained him detailed knowledge about the peasantry and their living conditions for his stories.  
  His most famous work, ‘The Seagull’ was received disastrously at its premiere in St Petersburg. It was later restaged in Moscow to highlight its psychological aspects and was a huge success. It led to ‘Uncle Vanya’, ‘The Three Sisters’ and ‘The Cherry Orchard’.  
  Chekhov suffered a major lung hemorrhage in 1897 while visiting Moscow. A formal diagnosis confirmed tuberculosis and the doctors ordered changes to his lifestyle.  
  Despite a dread of weddings the elusive literary bachelor quietly married the actress Olga Knipper, whom he had met at rehearsals for ‘The Seagull’, on 25th May 1901. 
  By May 1904 with his tuberculosis worsening and death imminent he set off for the German town of Badenweiler writing cheerful, witty letters to his family and assuring them his health was improving.  
  On 15th July 1904 Anton Chekhov died at Badenweiler.  He was 44.

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  Tales of Men and Ghosts

  Edith Wharton

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  Edith Wharton's "Tales of Men and Ghosts" offers a haunting collection of stories that intertwine the supernatural with the human psyche. Through an array of characters confronting love, ambition, and regret, Wharton explores the spectral remnants of past choices and hidden desires. Each narrative subtly merges eerie occurrences with profound psychological depth, crafting an atmospheric journey through the shadowy realms of human emotions and the spectral echoes that linger.

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  The Illeagal Aliens

  Rachel Lawson

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  "Blake, you hear the news," said Blake Alexander's Grandfather the galactic Emperor Sapphirus Argent aka Fred Alexander. 
  Blake was the local solar system's, Emperor Alexandrite Argent using his actual name. 
  "What news, Grandpa?" asked Blake. 
  "The Americans found more X-Zeraciens dead in Death Valley," said Fred. 
  "Not more illegal aliens abandoned in the wilderness?" said Blake shocked by the news. 
  "We are afraid so," said Blake's great-uncle Reynard Alexander the Martian king, Fred's brother a policeman. 
  "Why do they abandon them in remote places?" asked Chariote Magnesite the ambassador of the Andromeda System. 
  "They want money and have no honor," said Lance, Blake's son.

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