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  The Little Sparrow

  JT Lawrence

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  “Maybe,” says Margaret, “when you see this place you’ll understand. It’s like Club Med! There’s a heated pool and a rec centre and a cocktail bar and everything. They have 24-hour room service!” 
  Andrew guffaws. “A cocktail bar? At a nursing home? What’s next? Happy Hour?” 
  "It's not a ‘nursing home,' Andrew, dear. It's a ‘Retirement Destination.'" 
  “A what?” 
  “It’s all about marketing, you see? Kids don’t feel half as bad sending their decrepit parents off to a ‘holiday club’.” 
  “Still. A cocktail bar?” 
  “Judy, do you see now why I can’t live with you two? I’m 86 bloody years old—” 
  “Language!” scolds Andrew. 
  "As I was saying, I'm 86 BLOODY years old, and if I want to spend the days swearing and drinking Pimm's and playing bloody strip poker, then I will do it WITHOUT the disapproving glare from the very boy whose bare bottom I used to smack for stealing my menthol cigarettes." 
  "That does sound quite lovely, Marge. If Andrew gets too strict with me, I shall come and spend a few days with you. We can drink cocktails together. Although I’m not sure about the strip poker …” 
  Margaret pats Judy on the shoulder. “We all have our boundaries, dear.” 
  “Some fewer than others,” Andrew murmurs.

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  The Great God Pan

  Arthur Machen

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  "The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, although it has since garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. Machen’s story was only one of many at the time to focus on Pan as a useful symbol for the power of nature and paganism. The title was taken from the poem "A Musical Instrument" published in 1862 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which the first line of every stanza ends "... the great god Pan."(via Wikipedia)

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  Dracula

  Bram Stoker

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  Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. 
  Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel, and invasion literature. The novel touches on themes such as the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism. 
  Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film, and television interpretations.

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  4 Classic Ghostly Tales

  Anita Miller

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  Here lie four remarkable ghost stories, carefully culled from a genre that had a great flowering in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They have been chosen because they are skillfully written; the reader—like the protagonists—is drawn slowly and inexorably into a nightmare that seems all the more credible because the world in which it happens is ordinary, filled with realistic detail. In addition, each of the four authors employs consideration psychological insight, so that the tales operate on multiple levels. The length of these stories has prevented them from being frequently anthologized. Aficionados of ghost stories are in for a treat! Included in this collection: "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions, "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" by Robert Hichens, "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell, "Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster

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  Haunting Fireside Stories -...

  A.S. Mott

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  More devilish delights for fireside reading by the Connoisseur of Creepy himself, A.S. Mott. An ideal stocking stuffer!
  		 
  
  		
  		A beautiful young widow is shocked to discover, upon her own accidental death, that her late husband has chosen to spend his afterlife haunting another woman…
  		After a 16 year-old girl dies from a botched operation, her spirit decides to remain with her family. During the year that follows, the young ghost records what she sees in her diary…
  		In order to win his girlfriend’s father’s approval, a nervous young man agrees to go on a hunting trip, only to learn — too late — what the older man is really hunting for… 
  		A group of cynical contestants on a reality game show wander through a haunted insane asylum, completely unaware of what is happening to the show’s crew…

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  Why did I take a stake to a...

  Rachel Lawson

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  The vampire hunters know hunt has gone totally wrong when they see the "vampire" 
  The horror story which inspired the author's twisted horror story What the-?

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