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  3 Stories - Supernatural...

  M R James, May Sinclair, Wilkie...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
   
  01 - 3 Stories - Supernatural Thrillers Set in France 
  02 - Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M R James 
  03 - The Villa Désirée by May Sinclair 
  04 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins

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  The Woman at Seven Brothers

  Wilbur Daniel Steele

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  Alone on an offshore lighthouse known as the Seven Brothers, a young assistant keeper recounts the events that destroyed his life—and his certainty of what is real. 
  Raised in strict innocence and untested by the world, he arrives at the light expecting solitude, routine, and honest work. What he finds instead is confinement: the ceaseless pounding of the sea, the narrow rituals of duty, and a household sealed off from time and society. In that isolation, attention sharpens. Silence grows heavy. Ordinary glances begin to feel charged. 
  The keeper’s wife—quiet, watchful, and restless—slowly becomes the center of his thoughts. Her presence is unsettling, her desires unspoken yet unmistakable. As fog thickens and storms gather, the line between loneliness and obsession begins to erode. The sea listens. The light must be kept burning. And somewhere between faith, fear, and desire, a terrible choice waits to be made. 
  The Woman at Seven Brothers is a masterwork of maritime psychological horror—a tense, confessional descent into madness where guilt, devotion, and the elemental force of the ocean conspire against the fragile defenses of the human mind. Spare, relentless, and quietly devastating, Wilbur Daniel Steele’s classic tale remains as unnerving today as when it was first written.

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  Mystery of a Turkish Bath

  E. M. Gollan

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  A group of guests, at an exclusive luxury hotel in Hampshire, are the witnesses of an illustration of occult powers, demonstrated by “the Mystery”, as Mrs. Jefferson named the beautiful stranger who one day appeared in the Turkish Baths of the hotel. The events that follow lead Mrs. Jefferson to question the wisdom of her interest in the occult. (Summary by Bev. J. Stevens)

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  The Legacy of Molly Southbourne

  Tade Thompson

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  From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Tade Thompson, The Legacy of Molly Southbourne continues his chilling series. 
   
  Whenever Molly Southbourne bled, a murderer was born. Deadly copies, drawn to destroy their creator, bound by a legacy of death. With the original Molly Southbourne gone, her remnants drew together, seeking safety and a chance for peace. The last Molly and her sisters built a home together, and thought they could escape the murder that marked their past. 
   
  But secrets squirm in Molly Southbourne's blood—secrets born in a Soviet lab and carried back across the Iron Curtain to infiltrate the West. What remains of the Cold War spy machine wants those secrets back, and to get them they're willing to unearth the dead and destroy the fragile peace surrounding the last copies of Molly Southbourne. 
   
  The Legacy of Molly Southbourne brings the story to a bloody end.

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  The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias

  MJ Sydney

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  Phobias are defined as an irrational and extreme fear to something. It could be anything as long as it causes an intense and debilitating fear. What happens when these irrational fears/phobias become reality? When the irrational becomes rational and there’s a reason to be scared? Find out in The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias. We’ve created an A to Z phobia list and elevated each one to a new level of fear. These stories come to life in ways that will make you want to sleep with the light on, double check the locks on your door, and think twice before dismissing your fear as irrational.A — A TOUCH OF MADNESS — TIM WAGGONERB — IT CAME FROM THE GRAVE — JAMES PYNEC — ENTWINED — COLLEEN ANDERSOND — DESTINY'S ROAD TRIP — JAY SEATEE — MORBID DREAD OF THE DAWN — PHILIP ATHANSF — MUTUAL POSSESSION — WT PATERSONG — RIGHT OF CROSSING — JAMES CHAMBERSH — PASSING JUDGEMENT — CHAD LUTZKEI — THE CLINIC — ASHER ELLISJ — NOT JUST DESSERTS — JONAH BUCKK — THE MAN WHO FEARED THE SKY — JOHN SKIPPL — CHILDREN OF BLOOD — GREG CHAPMANM — THE YEARNING JADE — HANK SCHWAEBLEN — THE CEMETERY MAN — JG FAHERTYO — WHITE TO BLACK — MICHAEL BAILEYP — THE HUNCH — RICHARD CHIZMARQ — FIVE IN THE SIX — SEPHERA GIRONR — THE TOXIC MAGICIAN — SHERI SEBASTIAN-GABRIELS — FEEDING THE ORISHAS — GABINO IGLESIAST — MUNCHAUSEN — MAX BOOTH IIIU — TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE HAPPIEST PISTACHIO — MEHITOBEL WILSONV — BEAUTIFUL WOMEN — RAY GARTONW — A BOLT OF LIGHTNING — EDWARD M ERDELACX — HALFPENNY — STEVEN M VANCEY — TOO HOT IN BOILERTOWN — JILL HANDZ — THE CATALYST TO GROW SOME GUTS — KERRY LIPP 
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  Short Ghost and Horror...

  Various

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  A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night.  Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

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