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  Two Tales From Thomas Hood

  Thomas Hood

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  Thomas Hood (May 23, 1799 - May 3, 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist. Hood wrote regularly for the magazines, The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41, and died at the age of 45. The following includes Hood's short stories: The Widow of Galicia and The Golden Cup and The Dish of Silver.

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  Shadow - A Parable

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Shadow. A Fable: Ye who read are still among the living, but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many centuries shall pass away ere these memorials be seen of men. And when seen there will be some to disbelieve, and some to doubt, and yet a few who will find much to ponder upon in the characters here graven with a stylus of iron.

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  Witchcraft - From their pens to...

  Arthur Machen

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  Arthur Llewelyn Jones was born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire on the 3rd March 1863. 
  Machen came from a long line of clergymen, and when he was two, his father became vicar of a small parish about five miles north of Caerleon, and Machen was brought up at the rectory there. 
  In his early years he received an excellent classical education, but family poverty ruled out university, and he was sent to London to sit exams to attend medical school but failed the exams.  He did show literary promise with the publication of the poem ‘Eleusinia’ in 1821.  But life in London was difficult and it was only in 1884 that he published again and was taken on to translate several French works which thereafter became the standard editions for many years. 
  In 1887, his father died.  That same year he married Amelia Hogg, a maverick music teacher with a passion for the theatre.  He also began to receive legacies from Scottish relatives which allowed him to devote more time to writing. 
  After publishing in literary magazines in 1894 he published his first book ‘The Great God Pan’.  Its sexual and horrific content very much helped sales. 
  Over the next decade or so he wrote some of his best work but was unable to find a publisher mainly due to the collapse of the decadent market over Oscar Wilde’s scandalous trial. 
  In 1899, his wife died and during his long recovery he took up acting and travelled around the country as part of a travelling company.  Three years later he was publishing again and had remarried. 
  Re-publishing of earlier works helped anchor both his reputation and his income.  By the time the Great War opened Europe’s wounds he returned to the public eye with ‘The Bowmen’ helped by the publicity around the ‘Angel of Mons’ episode. 
  However, by the late 20’s new works had dried up and his back catalogue was no longer a source of regular income. 
  In 1932 he received a Civil List pension of ₤100 per annum but other work was not forthcoming.  His finances finally stabilised with a literary appeal in 1943 for his eightieth birthday and allowed him to live his remaining years in relative comfort. 
  Arthur Machen died on 15th December 1947 in Beaconsfield. He was 84.

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  While The Billy Boils

  Henry Lawson

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  While the Billy Boils collates Henry Lawson's most well known short stories of the 1890s, originally published in a variety of Australian and New Zealand newspapers—most prominently the Sydney Bulletin . Lawson presents a satirical and sometimes emotional study of frontier life in late colonial Australia, and the characters living in it. Henry Lawson (died 1922) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. The short story is one of the most demanding and rewarding of literary forms, requiring a writer to achieve in a few pages what a novelist might take hundreds to accomplish. The stories gathered in While The Billy Boils showcase the author's mastery of compression, suggestion, and the perfectly chosen detail. Public domain works like While The Billy Boils represent humanity's shared literary heritage. They have survived wars, revolutions, and the passage of centuries because they speak to something enduring in human experience. Reading them connects us to the long chain of readers who have found meaning, pleasure, and insight in these same pages. This ebook edition makes While The Billy Boils available without cost or restriction, as part of ' ongoing mission to produce beautiful, carefully prepared digital editions of the world's great public domain literature.

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  The Village of Youth

  Bessie Hatton

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  In The Village of Youth, Bessie Hatton crafts a poignant tale set in a secluded English hamlet where innocence, idealism, and youthful dreams flourish. Amidst idyllic landscapes, a group of young villagers grapple with love, duty, and the tension between tradition and modernity. When an outsider arrives with radical ideas, long-held beliefs are challenged, forcing each character to confront their desires and the cost of change. Hatton’s lyrical prose explores the fleeting nature of youth and the enduring power of community, weaving a timeless meditation on growing up without losing one’s spirit.

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  Cool Air - From their pens to...

  HP Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American masters of fantasy and the supernatural.  
  Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative child he began to invent what would in his adult life become a whole macabre fantastic world of his own, peopled by creatures out of his own weird imagination.  
  As an adult he was retiring, almost a recluse. Tall, thin and pale, but with bright alert eyes, he was much given to wandering his native city in the dark hours of the night, and he became a devoted student of its antiquities.  
  Although he began to write early he had nothing published until he was in his twenties. He set many of his stories around the imaginary town of Arkham, and invented an entire mythology of his own, its core being the demoniac cult of Cthulhu, based on the lore or legend that the world was at one time inhabited by another race who, in practising black magic, lost their foothold or were expelled, yet live on outside, ever ready to take possession of this earth again. 
  Since his early death in 1937 his stories have continued to attract attention and praise from an ever-growing audience.

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