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  The Three Sisters - From their...

  WW Jacobs

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  William Wymark Jacobs was born on 8th September 1863 in Wapping, East London.  
  He was educated at a private school and then Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, now part of the University of London. 
  In 1879, Jacobs began work as a clerk in the civil service, in the Post Office Savings Bank.  In 1885 his first short story was published but it was not until almost the turn of the century that he would abandon his post office career to that as a full-time writer. By then he was a very popular author, his collections selling extremely well and with an excellent income. 
  His best-known work is the macabre ‘The Monkey's Paw’ and he is also highly regarded for his ghost stories although much of his remaining short story output is streaked with humour.  His characters are immediately identifiable and we all know that life will take chunks out of them in no time at all.  
  Jacobs married the noted suffragette Agnes Eleanor Williams in 1900 at West Ham, Essex. They went on to have two daughters and three sons as they settled down to life.  
  By the outbreak of the First World War his literary output had declined and he now mainly spent his time rewriting his earlier stories for the stage.  In all he wrote 18 plays. 
  W W Jacobs died on 1st September 1943 at Hornsey Lane, Islington in London. He was 79.

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  Lord Peter Views the Body

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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  "Lord Peter Views the Body," first published in 1928, stands as a brilliant testament to Dorothy L. Sayers' mastery of the detective genre. This collection of short stories offers readers an intimate glimpse into the world of Lord Peter Wimsey, one of the most beloved detectives in literary history. With his characteristic charm, incisive wit, and an unerring sense of justice, Lord Peter navigates a series of perplexing cases, each showcasing Sayers' exceptional storytelling prowess.

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  The brothers van eyck

  P. G. KONODY

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  The unusual activity which during the latter half of the fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth centuries throbbed throughout the whole of the Netherlands forms one of the most interesting and surprising studies of national progress that history has furnished.

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  The Zeppelin's Passenger

  E. Phillips Oppenheim

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  A Zeppelin drops a passenger on the English coast, and he walks into the house of a woman who must now decide what she owes her country and what she owes an old debt. Oppenheim wrote it in 1918, when the raids were real and the coast really was watched; the spy story here is domestic, played out over dinner.

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  Mary Shelley: Complete Novels...

  Mary Shelley

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  This definitive collection gathers together the complete novels of one of the most visionary and influential writers of the Romantic era.
  
  Blending Gothic atmosphere, philosophical inquiry, psychological intensity, and early science fiction imagination, Mary Shelley's novels explore the boundaries of ambition, creation, isolation, morality, and the human condition. Her works examine the dangers of unchecked power, the fragility of social bonds, and the profound emotional consequences of exile and longing.
  
  From storm-lashed landscapes and ruined castles to speculative futures and historical settings, these novels reveal the remarkable range of Shelley's imagination. Beyond her most famous creation, her fiction spans apocalyptic vision, historical romance, political reflection, and deeply personal meditations on loss and survival.
  
  Included in this volume:
  
  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
  
  Valperga (1823)
  
  The Last Man (1826)
  
  The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830)
  
  Lodore (1835)
  
  Falkner (1837)
  
  Darkly atmospheric, intellectually daring, and emotionally powerful, these novels helped shape Gothic literature, proto–science fiction, and modern speculative storytelling. This edition presents the complete, unabridged texts in one comprehensive volume.

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  The Beast with Five Fingers

  W. F. Harvey

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  When a brilliant but blind scholar dies, his legacy leaves behind more than books and unfinished theories. What remains is a presence—subtle at first, then impossible to deny. 
  The Beast with Five Fingers is a masterwork of early 20th-century supernatural horror, where intellect, skepticism, and rational explanation steadily erode under the pressure of something that should not exist. Set within shadowed libraries, lonely houses, and candlelit rooms, the story follows a man of science confronted by an entity that moves with purpose, memory, and malice—yet defies every known law of nature. 
  W. F. Harvey builds terror not through spectacle, but through accumulation: strange movements in the dark, marks left behind, doors opened without cause, and the growing certainty that the human hand—once trained, disciplined, and educated—may not be finished with its work after death. 
  Calm, intelligent, and deeply unsettling, this is horror rooted in restraint and psychological dread rather than violence. A classic of supernatural fiction, The Beast with Five Fingers remains as disturbing today as when it first appeared, posing a quiet but unforgettable question: 
  What happens when skill, intention, and will survive the body? 
  Narrated by Myriam Berger, this audiobook brings a refined, atmospheric voice to one of the most enduring and chilling ghost stories of the Edwardian era.

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