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  Two Tales From Alfred C Martino...

  Alfred C. Martino

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  "Two Tales From Alfred C. Martino" includes two short stories from opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. The first, Requiem For An Athlete, is a somber look at the unfulfilled expectations of a once-great athlete. Grad School Daydreams, on the other hand, is a whimsical tale, set at a Southern California university, of a grad school student who daydreams and pines for a beautifully exotic woman sitting next to him in class.

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  The Unnameable

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Title: The Unnameable 
  Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1923 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 49 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  The Unnameable is H. P. Lovecraft’s wry yet deeply unsettling meditation on the limits of language, the arrogance of rationalism, and the encroaching chaos of the ineffable. 
  Set amid the decaying graveyards of New England, the tale follows two friends — one a writer of strange tales, the other a skeptic — as they debate the very existence of the “unnameable.” Their intellectual banter turns to horror when they confront the impossible firsthand, discovering that some horrors defy not only reason but description itself. 
  Blending gothic atmosphere with cosmic dread, Lovecraft transforms a seemingly simple ghost story into a darkly humorous and deeply disquieting reflection on humanity’s need to name — and thereby contain — its fears. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures both the sardonic wit and the creeping terror of Lovecraft’s vision — a world where words fail and madness begins. While the text is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to resurrecting the masters of the macabre and uncanny, The Unnameable endures as one of Lovecraft’s most compact and haunting explorations of the indescribable — a tale that proves some things are better left unspoken.

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  Fall is in the Air

  Kimberly Thomas

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  Twenty-three years and counting . . . that's how long Kerry has been holding on to a secret that changed her life forever. Now, after a seventeen-year marriage, two grown daughters, and toeing the line, it's time to do things differently, on her own terms, even if that means disappointing her father . . . again. 
   
   
   
  Opening her bakery in her coastal hometown of Oak Harbor is a testament of how far she's come from the woman who made circumstances and expectations dictate her every decision. At forty-one, she's proven that her dreams that were pushed aside and forgotten about can still happen. 
   
   
   
  When a newcomer threatens her newfound independence, Kerry is ready to fight thick or thin to remain in control. But she'll also have to face a difficult decision when this newcomer not only tries to demolish her business, but has a secret that if revealed, will wield the power to devastate innocent lives and challenge relationships. 
   
   
   
  Still . . . 
   
   
   
  It could very well be the right time to let go of it all. Now could prove the right time to count on the love and support of her sister and cousins. 
   
   
   
  Will Kerry be able to navigate the paths to forgiveness, hope, and love?

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  The Night Ocean

  H. P. Lovecraft, Robert H. Barlow

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  A quiet, contemplative tale steeped in atmosphere and artistic beauty. A painter retreats to a seaside cottage in search of rest and inspiration, but soon begins to sense strange presences along the shore and beneath the waves. Are they ghosts, sea ghouls, or beings older than time itself? The answers drift just out of reach, like mist over the ocean. 
  The story focuses on the sensations and intuitions of the main character, imbuing the whole narrative with an evocative taste of elusive dread, quite distinct from overt horror. The Night Ocean has long been part of the Lovecraftian canon, even though a manuscript discovered in the early 2000s, with Lovecraft’s revisions, reveals that only 10% of ‘The Night Ocean’ can be attributed to the writer from Providence. This realization underscores how sensitive and precocious the eighteen-year-old Robert H. Barlow was at the time. 
  It stands as the last existing work of fiction in which Lovecraft participated.

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  A Thing That Glistened - From...

  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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  Edith Nesbit - Six of the Best –...

  Edith Nesbit

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
  1 - Six of the Best - Edith Nesbit - An Introduction 
  2 - Edith Nesbit - An Introduction 
  3 - From The Dead by Edith Nesbit 
  4 - The Mass for the Dead by Edith Nesbit 
  5 - The Power of Darkness by Edith Nesbit 
  6 - The Pavilion by Edith Nesbit 
  7 - The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit 
  8 - Man Size in Marble by Edith Nesbit

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