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  Treasure Island

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Barnaby...

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  When young Jim Hawkins unexpectedly inherits a treasure map, he little knows what adventures await him. Pursued by pirates, betrayed by friends and beset by skulduggery, Jim must brave high seas before he reaches the shores of Treasure Island...

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  The Coin of Dionysius

  Ernest Bramah

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  Ernest Bramah was born on 20th March 1868.  He was an intensely private man and very little about his life was ever released. 
   
  Bramah dropped out of Manchester Grammar school at sixteen, in almost all his subjects he was close to the bottom of his class, and took a job at a farm.  His father then invested substantial sums in setting him up with his own farm but Bramah’s long term interests were elsewhere. In his spare time he would write vignettes on local subjects and send them to The Birmingham News for publication. 
   
  In a now rather dramatic change of career he obtained the position of secretary to Jerome K Jerome and then to editing one of Jerome’s magazines.  Thereafter Bramah edited journals for a publishing firm that only ceased with its bankruptcy. 
   
  He obtained success in his own right with the creation of the storyteller Kai Lung with humourous tales set in China, usually laced with fantasy elements.  There seems to have been a certain vogue for stories with an oriental element at this time which Bramah was happy to take advantage of. 
   
  His career blossomed across many genres; in humour, science-fiction, and supernatural he was ranked with the very best of the day.  Even Orwell cited his work as an influence and as a predictor for the rise of Fascism and his own novel, 1984. 
   
  At a time when the English Channel had yet to be crossed by an aeroplane, Bramah foresaw aerial express trains traveling at 10,000 feet, a nationwide wireless-telegraphy network, fax machines and cypher writing typewriters similar to the German Enigma machine.   
   
  In 1914, Bramah created the blind detective Max Carrados. Despite the obvious obstacle to his deductive powers he was a literary and commercial success.   
   
  Ernest Bramah died in Weston-Super-Mare on 27th June 1942 at the age of 74.

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  They

  Rudyard Kipling

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  "I found hidden villages where bees, the only things awake, boomed in eighty-foot lindens that overhung grey Norman churches; miraculous brooks diving under stone bridges built for heavier traffic than would ever vex them again; tithe-barns larger than their churches, and an old smithy that cried out aloud how it had once been a hall of the Knights of the Temple. Gypsies I found on a common where ...the gorse, bracken, and heath fought it out together up a mile of Roman road; and a little further on I disturbed a red fox rolling dog-fashion in the naked sunlight."  "They" is one of the spookiest and most moving short stories ever written.

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  The Doorway Prince

  Dawn Blair

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  Eclipse searches for the new king after the previous ruler dies leaving no heirs. 
  Unclear signs block his path. Be brave, the magical omens keep directing him through his multitude of attempted calculations. Eclipse never liked that answer.  
  When one gets told to keep their courage, danger always follows. 
  With only a star to follow, who knows what Eclipse will find? 
  Travel the Wells of the Onesong for another fantasy adventure from the author of Quest for the Three Books. 
   

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  57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry...

  Sam J. Miller

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  A young student grapples with his tormentors and a dangerous new power in "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides", a short horror story by Nebula Award-winning author Sam J. Miller.  
  Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

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  Lizzie Leigh

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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  The trope of the "fallen woman" has been a constant presence in world literature for centuries. Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell breathes new life into that tired archetype in the engaging short story "Lizzie Leigh," in which love ultimately triumphs even in the face of the most formidable odds.

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