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  Louise de la Vallière -...

  Alexandre Dumas

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  It is early summer, 1661, and the royal court of France is in turmoil. Can it be true that the King is in love with the Duchess d'Orleans? Or has his eye been caught by the sweet and gentle Louise de la Valliere? No one is more anxious to know the answer than Raoul, son of Athos, who loves Louise more than life itself. Behind the scenes, dark intrigues are afoot.

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  The Sea Lady

  H. G. Wells

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  A mermaid contrives to have herself "rescued from drowning" and adopted by a respectable family on the English coast. Her motive, which she conceals for quite a while, is to win the heart of a handsome but irresponsible young man whom she glimpsed when he went swimming in the Pacific.Introduced into polite society as an invalid, she proves to be intelligent and charming, but as an immortal she regards the concerns of the English gentry with critical detachment. The young man, who is already engaged, falls under her spell and begins to doubt the importance of the political career into which his fiancée has been directing him. There are, after all, "other dreams." But does his new relationship offer him any real future?

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  Flight A (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  A Flight is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was thrown into debtors' prison.

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  Old Curiosity Shop The (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Dickens's Little Nell became one of his best-known heroines when The Old Curiosity Shop was first published in 1841. Virtuous and stoic, Nell takes care of her grandfather in his gloomy shop until his gambling debts force the pair of them to flee London. They are hunted by the grotesque and villainous moneylender Quilp and Nell's own worthless brother, Fred, who wrongly believes that their grandfather has a hidden fortune. Through a kaleidoscopic round of people and events, Nell and her grandfather eventually reach a safe refuge, although neither of them is destined to enjoy it for long

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  Hop-Frog

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Hop-Frog is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character is a dwarf taken from his homeland who becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for striking his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses them as orangutans for a masquerade. In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta. It has been suggested that Poe wrote the story as a form of literary revenge against a woman named Elizabeth F. Ellet and several others.

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  99 Classic Horror Short Stories...

  H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan...

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  CONTENTS:A Suspicious Gift [Algernon Blackwood],Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp [Algernon Blackwood],The Wood of the Dead [Algernon Blackwood],A Baby Tramp [Ambrose Bierce],The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce],Dagon [H.P Lovecraft],The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle],The Descendant [H.P Lovecraft],The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft],The Evil Clergyman [H.P Lovecraft],He [H.P Lovecraft],The Book [H.P Lovecraft],In the Vault [H.P Lovecraft],Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft],Death and the Woman [Gertrude Atherton],The Striding Place [Gertrude Atherton],Hop-Frog [Edgar Allan Poe],The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe],The Tell-Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe],Shadow [Edgar Allan Poe],The Beast in the Cave [H.P Lovecraft],The Doom That Came to Sarnath [Lovecraft],The Vampire Maid [Hume Nisbet],A Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Poe],The Demon Spell [Hume Nisbet],Out of the Earth [Arthur Machen],The Signal-Man [Charles Dickens],The Colloquy of Monos and Una [Poe],Demons of the Sea [William Hope Hodgson],Glámir [Sabine Baring-Gould],Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story [Sabine Baring-Gould],Tales of Secret Egypt [Sax Rohmer],Some Words with a Mummy [Poe],In the Dark [Edith Nesbit],The Sea Raiders [H. G. Wells],The Baron of Beauguard [Gilbert Parke],The Vampire [Jan Neruda],A Journey of Little Profit [John Buchan],The Keeper of Cademuir [John Buchan],Dickon the Devil [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],The Child That Went With The Fairies [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling [Le Fanu],Two Doctors Montague [Rhodes James],A School Story Montague [Rhodes James],The Diary of Mr. Poynter Montague[ Rhodes James],In the Forest of Villefére by [Robert E. Howard],The Dream Snake [Robert E. Howard],The Thing On the Roof [Robert E. Howard],The Imp of the Perverse [Poe],The Devil in the Belfry [Poe],The Crawling Chaos [Lovecraft],Aunt Joanna [Sabine Baring-Gould],The Outsider [Lovecraft],The Hound [Lovecraft],The Disinterment [Lovecraft],The Horror At Martin's Beach [Lovecraft],The Tree On The Hill [Lovecraft],The Outgoing of The Tide [John Buchan],The Curse of Yig [Lovecraft],The Haunter Of The Dark [Lovecraft],Berenice [Poe],The Angel Of The Odd [Poe],Black Ram [Baring-Gould],The Cask Of Amontillado [Poe],Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker],The Mother Of Pansies [Baring-Gould],On The Leads [Baring-Gould],McAlister [Baring-Gould],Mustapha [Baring-Gould],The Ghost and the Bone-setter [Le Fanu],The Drunkard's Dream [Le Fanu],The Novel of the White Powder [Arthur Machen],The Merewigs [Baring-Gould],Xélucha [Matthew Phipps Shiel],Solange [ Alexandre Dumas],The Fall of The House of Usher [Poe],The Assignation [Poe],The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade [Poe],Laura Silver Bell [Le Fanu],Descent Into The Maelstrom [Poe],The Power of Darkness [ Edith Nesbit],An Authentic Narrative of A Haunted House [Le Fanu],The Night Wire [H. F. Arnold],The Dualists [Bram Stoker],Stories of Lough Guir [Le Fanu],The Vision of Tom Chuff [Le Fanu],The Three Strangers [Thomas Hardy],Crooken Sands [Bram Stoker],The Cairn of the Headland [Robert E. Howard],The Shining Pyramid [Arthur Machen],Schalken The Painter [Le Fanu],Hellhound Of The Cosmos [Clifford Donald Simak],Ibid [Lovecraft],The Grove Of Ashtaroth [John Buchan],The Moon Bog [Lovecraft],An Account of Some Strange Disturbances [Le Fanu],Ultor De Lacy A Legend of Cappercullen [Le Fanu],The Red Hand [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 98,The Inmost Light [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 100.

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