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  The Judas Glass - A Novel

  Michael Cadnum

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  Richard Stirling is a successful lawyer who specializes in defending the rights of the underprivileged. He falls in love with the pianist Rebecca Pennant, and as their romance develops, a tragic event takes Rebecca out of his life. In the wake of this dramatic misfortune, Richard re-encounters an heirloom, an astonishing mirror.   This is a vampire story unlike any other, a tale of this contemporary world reflected from that other land where the dead are more alive than any dreamer.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, D...

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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. 
   
  In this volume beings of a spectral kind come to visit and offer us their stories through the pens of such literary masters as M R James, Edith Nesbit, W W Jacobs, William Hope Hodgson and many others can. 
   
  The excellence of their story-telling craft makes each story a journey into certain and unsettling fear. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - 20th Century Ghost Stories - An Introduction 
  2 - They by Rudyard Kipling 
  3 - The Power of Darkness by Edith Nesbit 
  4 - The Border Line by D H Lawrence 
  5 - The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood 
  6 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton 
  7 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker 
  8 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 
  9 - Three Sisters by W W Jacobs 
  10 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 
  11 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

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  Ax to Grind

  Tonya Kappes

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  Bestselling author Beryle Stone, the most famous citizen to ever come out of Cottonwood, Kentucky, has died and put all her worldly possessions up for auction—but not without leaving one more manuscript behind: a hidden tell-all about Cottonwood that's got more gossip than a ladies' luncheon. When Beryle's assistant turns up with an ax in her back and the only witness is in a coma, Sheriff Kenni Lowry reckons someone in town will do anything to keep the manuscript from seeing the light of day. Her poppa's ghost returns to help piece together the life of the Beryle he once knew, but his memory's a little foggy, and any misstep could cause them a world of trouble. With the help of Deputy Finn Vincent, can Kenni sort through the secrets buried in Beryle's books, or will this be her final chapter?

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  Lend Me Your Ears

  Rachel Lawson

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  When Fate's assassin Lance, the Necromancer, quits job his job when a ghost follows him home leaving actor Fate to do his job and his friend the Reaper king Blake to cover for him on the stage. 
  "The Necromancer was spooked apparently a ghost of a victim followed him home and terrorized his family, so he went on strike," said Blake. 
  "Terrorized his family, that's enough to make anyone break," said the Fox. 
  "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; 
  I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." said Argent Lumiere who was playing Marc Antony in a production of Julius Caesar. 
  A man walked from the auditorium on stage dropping a pile of ears out of an old wooden bucket at Argent's feet. 
  "Mind I'm only lending them," said the Necromancer obviously amused. 
  "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" said Juliet In a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 
  Romeo had just dematerialised she was sticking to the script. 
  "Where did he go?" asked audience member Angela Alexander. 
  "To do Lance's job I think," said her husband Blake. 
  "He complained he's being run off his feet doing the Necromancer's killing and paperwork. He has to run off at odd hours," 
  Blake materialised on the stage in the Romeo costume. 
  "I am Blake Fire will be filling in for Argent as Romeo, He is on pressing business which he deserves" Blake announced. 
  "Hi all, I'm Marcus Brutus," said Blake. 
  "I'm Julius Caesar," an actor said, "I'm on, bye, Brutus!" 
  "Kill you later," said Blake smiling.

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  Child of Fear and Fire

  G.R. Thomas

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  Fear feeds Wickedness. 
  It hungers for the tremor of a voice, the drop of a tear. Wickedness dines on the echo of a racing heart, delights in the falsetto of a scream. 
  Eliza lives darkness’ dream. A maid in a great house, owned by indifferent aristocrats, run by their three cruel daughters. 
  Daily beatings, tricks and cruelties by the Norlane sisters have left Eliza a mute shell, a vacant vessel besieged by fear. Yet, alone as she feels, as small and insignificant as her life seems, something is watching her. 
  Darkness lives in the forbidden forest beyond the neat and orderly civility of Norlane Hall. Wickedness hears Eliza’s silent tears, rises to the vibrations of her body that quivers in terror. 
  Wickedness awakens from its slumber and calls to her. 
   

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  Don't Turn on the Lights

  Cassandra Khaw

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  "Don't Turn on the Lights" is a short horror story by Cassandra Khaw, one of 35 entries in the audio horror anthology Come Join Us by the Fire. 
  Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the lights? 
  Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

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