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  Samuel Brohl and Company - A...

  Victor Cherbuliez

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  A Polish count of romantic manner courts a French heiress, and a shabby man from Vienna turns up who knows what the count was called before. Cherbuliez was a Genevan who took French citizenship at fifty and was in the Académie six years later; his subject was the cosmopolitan adventurer, and this 1877 novel handles the impostor with more sympathy than the people exposing him. Sixty plates of society portraiture by Manet, Degas and their contemporaries, from 1850 to 1910, give faces to the world of masquerade and false names this novel inhabits.

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  The Ghost Kings

  H. Rider Haggard

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  In The Ghost Kings, H. Rider Haggard presents an evocative story set against the wild and untamed landscapes of Africa, where the protagonist embarks on an expedition to uncover the secrets of a lost and ancient civilization. Haggard combines adventure, mystery, and the supernatural to create a gripping narrative that pushes the boundaries of imagination. As the story unfolds, the characters face not only physical challenges but also supernatural forces that challenge their understanding of reality. The novel's plot centers on the exploration of the long-forgotten kingdom of the Ghost Kings, a realm where ancient rituals and spirits from the past exert an uncanny influence on the present. Through themes of exploration and discovery, The Ghost Kings captures the reader's attention with its vivid descriptions of Africa's landscapes and its portrayal of mystical and terrifying encounters. Haggard masterfully combines adventure with historical and supernatural intrigue, offering a thrilling narrative that keeps readers on the edge of their seats.

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  The Case of Lady Sannox

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Case of Lady Sannox (also published as "The Kiss of Blood") is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published in The Idler in November 1893.The story features an arrogant surgeon, Douglas Stone, who is in love with the married Lady Sannox, one of the most beautiful women in London. On his way to a rendezvous with her, the surgeon is asked by a Turkish man to operate on the latter's wife, who has cut her lip with a poison envenomed scimitar. The doctor is informed the woman will die if the poison is not cut out.Because of his desire to meet his lover, his need for money, his professional arrogance, and the opinion of the Turk that any delay would kill his wife, the surgeon goes ahead with the operation on the heavily drugged wife, whose face is obscured by a veil. After he has performed the operation, Dr. Stone realizes his patient is Lady Sannox, and the Turk her husband, who believes the disfigurement will be morally good for his wife. The surgeon suffers a breakdown.

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  The War of the Worlds

  H. G. Wells

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Multiple times adapted for the screen (including by Steven Spielberg), and in 1938 reworked by Orson Welles into a radio drama, the broadcast of which went down in history. Read years later, it turns out to be a prophetic work, a kind of foreshadowing of the 20th-century world wars. 
   
  How do people - both individuals and entire communities - behave in the face of an invasion that threatens mass destruction? Who are we to the invaders, and who are they to us? What role do new technologies play in this? And what can save us? Herbert George Wells attempts to answer these questions in a way that remains attractive to contemporary readers, and perhaps the widespread sense of unease, uncertainty, and threat makes "The War of the Worlds" a compelling and relevant novel even in the 21st century. 
   
  'The War of the Worlds,' H.G. Wells's most brilliant work, is also one of the few novels that, going beyond the fantastical nature of its assumptions, has entered the treasury of world literature.

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  Carmilla (Legend Classics)

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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  “You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish.” 
  Noted as the first vampire novel, this late 19th century Gothic romance takes place in Austria, following a girl who lives in solitude but is visited by a beautiful, unexpected guest. Imbued with sexual tension, Carmilla blurs the lines between love and death. The book touches on common issues during the Victorian era, including the rise of the middle class and social and industrial reform. The novel was inspired by the poem ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, which tells the tale of a fairy who seduces men into a life of misery and passion. Carmilla is best known as being the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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  A Warning to the Curious - From...

  M R James

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  Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. 
  James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.  
  From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated initially as a boarder at Temple Grove School in East Sheen, west London, before gaining a scholarship to Eton and thence Cambridge where he gained a double first, becoming a distinguished linguist and mediaevalist.  
  Before the Great War vacations were usually spent touring Europe absorbing cultures and references for his later writing. 
  A man of enormous knowledge it was said he timed his breakfast egg whilst he completed the Times crossword.  
  Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic cliches and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting.  Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. 
  Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times. 
  James was also a medievalist scholar and translator whose work remains highly respected. He was also Provost of Eton College between 1918 and 1936. 
  M R James died on 12th June 1936 at Eton in Buckinghamshire.  He was 73.

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