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  Stories About Curses - The...

  Thomas Hardy, W F Harvey,...

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  All words have a value, they have a truth.  Even misinforming us is part of their job.  But they are only words, sticks and stones etc etc. 
   
  But in this volume our authors explore the use of curses.  These strings of words might seem harmless enough if you don’t believe they can have any ill effect.  Little by little, though, sometimes they do.   Our brains connect curse with that action, that happening and now we might be seeing them as cause and effect.   Perhaps that curse really does have some power, some potency, and if that is so maybe that curse is malevolent and its true purpose is not to wish us good.    
   
  1 - Stories about Curses - An Introduction 
  2 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy 
  3 - The Arm of Mrs Egan by W F Harvey 
  4 - The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling 
  5 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 
  6 - The Brute by Joseph Conrad 
  7 - Lost in a Pyramid (or the Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard 
  8 - The Ash Tree by M R James.wav 
  9 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman 
  10 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt 
  11 - The Mass for the Dead by Edith Nesbit 
  12 - The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin 
  13 - Casting the Runes by M R James

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  House with Good Bones A: Book...

  Alexander Pike

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas. 
  A House with Good Bones guides you through one woman’s journey to reclaim her family’s legacy amid whispers of the uncanny. Faced with structural decay and buried secrets, she combines methodical assessment—honing in on foundation repairs, moisture control, and period-accurate restorations—with deep respect for the home’s hidden histories. Along the way, she mobilizes cross-discipline experts, engages the local community in storytelling rituals, and integrates modern technology behind preserved facades. This audiobook weaves gothic suspense with a dynamic productivity playbook, showing listeners how to blend technical rigor, empathetic stakeholder collaboration, and adaptive planning to transform even the most timeworn, haunted spaces into enduring landmarks of value and belonging.

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  Rose

  David Haynes

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  Civilization has fallen. The public revelation that shapechangers are real, secretly living among ordinary people, has brought down the government and spread complete chaos. 
  Shaw and Captain Case, both mutated by the monstrous Wendigo, must face the conspiracy of werewolves that successfully ended humanity’s dominance. 
  Ex-detective Lenny and cryptid-hunter Dandy struggle to survive as America collapses around them. In this horrific new world, vicious armed gangs prey on the weak and helpless. 
  There is no future, no hope. 
  But there is Rose. The hybrid child of human and cryptid, she is the only chance of bringing together all the warring species. If she can survive…

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  The Imp of the Perverse

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Title: The Imp of the Perverse 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1845 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 44 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  The Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe is a chilling exploration of the human compulsion toward self-destruction — that sinister whisper urging us to do precisely what we know we must not. Told in Poe’s hypnotic, confessional style, the story begins as a philosophical essay on impulse and perversity, then descends into the fevered confession of a murderer undone by his own mind. 
  This tale reveals Poe at his most psychologically incisive, dissecting guilt, pride, and the dark delight of defiance. Beneath its gothic calm lies a truth as disturbing now as in 1845 — that the greatest horror may be found not in the supernatural, but in the secret architecture of the human soul. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance evokes Poe’s morbid eloquence and the relentless pull of conscience that drives his doomed narrator to madness. While the text is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to resurrecting the masters of the macabre and uncanny, The Imp of the Perversestands as one of Poe’s most haunting studies of inner torment — a reminder that sometimes, the truest demon wears our own face.

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  Time to Burn - A Running Scared...

  Robert Lendrum, Jamie Roberts

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  Every night, Martin Haelstrom has the same nightmare: he’s running to save his father trapped in a burning cabin, but Martin never makes it in time. Just like that night all those years ago. Now, Martin is back in Washington State to rebuild the cabin and beat his time in a 5-mile race. The same time he’s beat all over the world on different terrain, but this time it’s not the environment that will challenge him. Something from the past wants to push him to his limits. Something wants him dead. Haunted by a horrible family secret, Martin must unravel the mystery of the cabin fire before his time is up. An immersive audio-horror, this Running Scared Jogcast will motivate and entertain you on your next jog! Best experienced with headphones on a long run.

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  Dead-Wood

  Joe Hill

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. 
  Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . 
  Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . 
  Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . 
  John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . 
   

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