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  Baffling Beasts - 15 Tales of...

  Walter De la Mare, Arlton Eadie,...

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  Fifteen horror stories about strange beings and behaviours that defy conventional definitions. 
  Contents: 
  Warning Wings by Arlton Eadie (Weird Tales, 1929) 
  A seemingly insignificant white moth. 
  Mother of Toads by Clark Ashton Smith (WT, 1938) 
  An unusual witch. 
  The Destroying Horde by Donald Wandrei (WT, 1935) 
  The first BLOB story? 
  Caterpillars by E. F. Benson (The Room in the Tower, 1912) 
  Terrible things in an Italian villa. 
  The Urbanite by Ewen Whyte (WT, 1950) 
  The great city is never still. 
  Rats by F. A. M. Webster (At Dead of Night, 1931) 
  A plague of rats. 
  The Malignant Invader by F. B. Long (WT, 1932) 
  A creature from the bowels of the earth. 
  The Horror in the Museum by H. P. Lovecraft (WT, 1933) 
  A private wax museum that specialises in the grotesque. 
  My Father, the Cat by H. Slesar (Fantastic Universe, 1957) 
  A most unusual cat. 
  The Seeking Thing by Janet Hirsch (Magazine of Horror, 1964) 
  Something in the middle of the road. 
  They by R. B. Johnson (WT, 1936) 
  They dwell in Dead Man's Canyon. 
  The Hyena by Robert E. Howard (WT, 1928) 
  A man with an unusual ability. 
  Sredni Vashtar by Saki (The Chronicles of Clovis, 1911) 
  A secret in the garden shed. 
  Demons of the Film Colony by Theodore LeBerthon (WT, 1932) 
  A tale of 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein'. 
  A:B:O. by Walter de la Mare (Cornhill, 1896) 
  The excavation of a metallic chest.

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  The Mayor of Casterbridge

  Thomas Hardy

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  A shameful act of drunken impetuousness results in Michael Henchard losing his wife and daughter in an auction. This evil deed remains secret for years, during which time Henchard climbs the social ladder from working as a roving hay-trusser to becoming the upstanding Mayor of Casterbridge.
  
  An intricate tale of duplicity, comeuppance and regret, this novel puts its characters' principles to the test.

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  The Odyssey

  Homer Homer

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  The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. After the war itself, which lasted ten years, his journey lasted for ten additional years, during which time he encountered many perils and all his crewmates were killed. In his absence, Odysseus was assumed dead, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus had to contend with a group of unruly suitors who were competing for Penelope's hand in marriage. 
   
  The Odyssey was originally composed in Homeric Greek in around the 8th or 7th century BCE and, by the mid-6th century BCE, had become part of the Greek literary canon. In antiquity, Homer's authorship of the poem was not questioned, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently, and the stories themselves formed as part of a long oral tradition.  
   
   Scholars still reflect on the narrative significance of certain groups in the poem, such as women and slaves, who have a more prominent role in the epic than in many other works of ancient literature. This focus is especially remarkable when considered beside the Iliad, which centers on the exploits of soldiers and kings during the Trojan War. 
   
  The Odyssey is regarded as one of the most significant works in the Western canon. The first English translation of the Odyssey was in the 16th century. Adaptations and re-imaginings continue to be produced across a wide variety of mediums. In 2018, when BBC Culture polled experts around the world to find literature's most enduring narrative, the Odyssey topped the list. Here is the great tale as an exciting extended Icon Audiobook!

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  The Sea-Wolf

  Jack London

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  When literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued from a shipwreck by the seal-hunting schooner Ghost, he enters a world far removed from his sheltered existence. At the helm of the ship is Wolf Larsen—a brutal, brilliant, and enigmatic captain whose philosophy of survival and dominance challenges everything Van Weyden believes. Trapped aboard with a crew ruled by fear and violence, Van Weyden is forced to confront both the physical hardships of life at sea and the psychological warfare of Larsen’s ruthless worldview. 
  A gripping tale of man versus nature, intellect versus instinct, and morality versus might, The Sea-Wolf is one of Jack London’s most powerful and enduring novels. This audiobook brings the storm-lashed Pacific and its unforgettable characters vividly to life in a classic high-seas adventure that is as thought-provoking as it is thrilling. 
  Cover Photo by Nayla Charo: https://www.pexels.com/photo/bird-flying-over-the-sea-wave-4799392/

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  The Mystery of the Blue Train

  Agatha Christie

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  Heading for the French Rivieria, recently retired detective Hercule Poirot boards Le Train Bleu in London. This luxury trip, however, quickly turns south—in more ways than one. When the train arrives in Nice, France, American heiress Ruth Kettering is found murdered, and the Heart of Fire ruby that just came into her possession from her father has vanished in an apparent robbery. Add in a jilted husband, a secret lover, and a supposed curse on the missing gemstone, and it's a mystery that just might lure Poirot from his supposed retirement.

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  Country of the Blind The...

  H. G. Wells

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  'The Country of the Blind' is the strange story of a mountain guide who accidently falls off a cliff ledge in the Andes. He survives the fall unhurt, and finds himself in a remote valley where a tribe lives completely cut off from the rest of the world. A hereditary illness has meant that for 15 generations all the members of the tribe have been born blind. As a result, they now have a highly evolved sense of hearing, scent and touch. 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,' thinks the mountaineer. But he finds that the gift of sight is far less useful or appreciated that he had expected in the country of the blind.

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