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  Forbidden by Destiny - Forbidden...

  Negeen Papehn

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  The author of Forbidden by Faith delivers “a very touching story . . . [of] Iranian culture and family dynamics . . . completely relatable” (InD’tale Magazine). 
   
  When Leyla’s best friend Sara goes through a complicated breakup, Leyla reluctantly agrees to pick up Sara’s things from her boyfriend Ben’s home. She thinks she is doing what any good friend would do, until she finds Ben completely shattered. His pain speaks to Leyla’s heart, and she suddenly finds herself feeling what it’s like to fall in love for the first time ever. 
   
  An afternoon of an innocent lunch and a walk on the beach to cheer him up turns into fireworks—and Leyla can’t get Ben out of her head. Pushed to her limits, fighting for a love she’s always dreamed of, and against a demon she never knew existed, Leyla must ultimately make a choice. Her decision will come down to loyalty to her best friend, the expectations of her family, or the desires of her wanting heart . . . 
   
  Praise for the Forbidden Love series 
   
  “Forbidden by Faith shows how family, love, and faith can collide, even in this modern age.”—A. K. Leigh, author of See Her Run 
   
  “A heartfelt immigrant love story.”—Publishers Weekly 
   
  “Ms. Papehn is a wonderful storyteller! I was immediately caught up in the lives of her characters. In Forbidden by Destiny, the heroine, Leyla, might be of Iranian descent but her story belongs to all women.”—Carrie Nichols, author of the Small-town Sweethearts series

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  Wyrde and Wild

  Charlotte E. English

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  Charlotte E. English brings her trademark quirky humour to a mad Regency romp — with the strangest family in England… 
  'I don't know quite how it has come about, but we appear to have developed a corpse.' 
  It’s winter at the Werth residence, and someone has turned up dead. 
  Not that this is unusual. There’s Great-Aunt Honoria on the premises, after all. 
  Only this corpse is freshly dead, and nobody knows how the lady came to be leaking blood all over Lady Werth's best parlour. 
  The disastrous Miss Gussie confesses herself delighted, for nothing enlivens a dull week in February like a mysterious murder. 
  And the culprit really ought to be discovered, for the circumstances suggest Lord Bedgberry might have had something to do with it… 
  With what passes for Theo's life on the line, and good carpets in need of preservation, the situation is dire. 
  But can any mere murderer hold their own against the ruthless House of Werth? 
  The dark and devious Werths return for another crazy caper, this time with homicide! More dead bodies (ambulatory); more severed heads (talkative); and more wit and mischief (abundant). It's time to find out what Gussie did next…  
  Don't miss the previous adventures of Werth, in: 
  Wyrde and Wayward 
  Wyrde and Wicked

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  Kurt Vonegut: 2BR02B - A perfect...

  Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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  In the story, the title refers to the telephone number that one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination.   
  The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million, a number which is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide. In short, for someone to be born, someone else must first volunteer to die. As a result, births are few and far between, and deaths occur primarily by accident.  The scene is a waiting room at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, where Edward K. Wehling Jr. is faced with the situation that his wife is about to give birth to triplets, but he has found only one person, his maternal grandfather, who will volunteer to die

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  The Book

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  "The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death.In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it, weird and sinister events ensue.In October 1933, Lovecraft wrote in a letter:I am at a sort of standstill in writing—disgusted at much of my older work, and uncertain as to avenues of improvement. In recent weeks I have done a tremendous amount of experimenting with different styles and perspectives, but have destroyed most of the results.[2]The H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia suggests that "The Book" was one of the undestroyed experiments—an attempt to translate Lovecraft's poem sequence Fungi from Yuggoth into prose. (The completed fragment corresponds to the first three sonnets, which form more of a coherent narrative than the rest of the sequence).

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  The Black Cat

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe is a masterclass in psychological horror and Gothic storytelling. First published in 1843, this unsettling short story explores the dark recesses of guilt, madness, and the supernatural through the eyes of an unreliable narrator. As he recounts the events that led to the grisly death of his beloved pet—and much worse—the boundaries between reality, obsession, and delusion begin to blur. 
  The tale unfolds with Poe’s signature precision and intensity, using themes of alcohol-fueled violence, domestic horror, and eerie coincidence to draw listeners into a haunting confession of murder and moral collapse. 
  This full audiobook channels the tension and psychological unease that Poe so famously crafted, making it a must-listen for fans of gothic fiction, dark psychological thrillers, and classic horror literature.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  The word ‘Gothic’ may be teamed with romance but here it brings an immediate feeling of unease.  This unease, this disquiet, is sumptuously captured by ten masters of their art. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Gothic - An Introduction 
  02 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  03 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  04 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  05 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  06 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 
  07 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 
  08 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 
  09 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  10 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  04 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 
  12 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 1 by John William Polidori 
  13 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 2 by John William Polidori

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