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  Short Ghost and Horror...

  Various Various

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  A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night.  Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

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  At the Mountains of Madness

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  A large scale and much publicized expedition to Antarctica is about to take place. While excitement runs high in the scientific community over this expedition, one geologist tries his hardest to stop the trip from ever happening. This is because William Dyer has been to Antarctica on an expedition before, and knows of the unspeakable horrors that lie in its frigid terrain. Dyer goes into explaining that during his last trip, he and another small group led by Professor Lake, encountered ancient alien life forms dubbed The Elder Things. Told from Dyers perspective, this story goes into detail of Dyer's fatal encounters with the aliens in Antarctica and how this new expedition will surely end in nothing but more tragedy.

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  It's In Us All

  Tony Gunn Jr.

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  Have you ever wondered if you were sitting next to a murderer? Maybe you have. But, here's a more intriguing question. Have you ever wondered if you had it in you to kill?
  
  Like a lion in the wild, humans have an innate sense to fight or flight. When seriously stressful situations leave us with only those two options, many of us choose to take flight. We choose to remove ourselves from the stress, the pain, or the fear before the urge to fight is only a hairsbreadth away.
  
  Still doubting your ability to be a murderer? Okay, question: Have any of your primal instincts ever kicked in? Your palms start to sweat, your muscles start to tense, maybe a little shortness of breath, or, the most conscious, the hair on the back of your neck start to stand. I figured you had. Then you, my friend, have it in you to murder. This is what I like to call the "Rustling in the Grass Effect". Does this make you a bad person, or mean you will ever kill in your lifetime? No.
  
  It makes you human.
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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  The Cask of Amontillado

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The bloody-minded Montresor leads the pompous Fortunato deep into the catacombs, seeking the famed Amontillado wine. Here we have one of Poe’s most terrifying, and most “beloved” tales. Revenge and pomposity commingle beneath the river’s bed, leading to a delightfully sinister conclusion.

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  The Suitable Surroundings

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Can a tale of terror invoke such horror that under the right circumstances it can scare its reader to death? Two gentlemen are about to find out.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan...

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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. 
   
  The word ‘Gothic’ may be teamed with romance but here it brings an immediate feeling of unease.  This unease, this disquiet, is sumptuously captured by ten masters of their art. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Gothic - An Introduction 
  02 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  03 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  04 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  05 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  06 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 
  07 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 
  08 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 
  09 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  10 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  04 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 
  12 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 1 by John William Polidori 
  13 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 2 by John William Polidori

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