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  HorrorBabble's Ghost Stories:...

  E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood,...

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  A second, broad selection of ghost stories both classic and obscure. 
  Contents: 
  "The Third Shadow" by H. R. Wakefield 
  A mountaineer's fate is sealed by a vengeful supernatural force. 
  "The Dance of Death" by Algernon Blackwood 
  Ignoring warnings, a frail man dances—death is his final partner. 
  "The Demon Lover" by Elizabeth Bowen 
  A wartime letter rekindles a long-forgotten, ghostly appointment. 
  "The Suicide" by Malcolm Ford Henry 
  A dead man mourns his own passing, filled with vain regret. 
  "Lens-Shy" by W. M. Clayton 
  A photographer of corpses discovers death's unsettling final portrait. 
  "The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh" by H. Sivia 
  A maid's promised inheritance vanishes with the widow’s cold refusal. 
  "Mommy" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman 
  An orphan girl claims visits from her mother—long since dead. 
  "Yuki-onna" by Lafcadio Hearn 
  A snow spirit haunts a woodcutter after a chilling encounter. 
  "Graves and Goblins" by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  A ghostly narrator seeks peace from limbo’s lonely eternity. 
  "The House Party at Smoky Island" by L. M. Montgomery 
  Strangers gather at a remote house to share chilling tales. 
  "Keeping His Promise" by Algernon Blackwood 
  A man receives a ghostly visit from a forgotten friend. 
  "The Frontier Guards" by H. R. Wakefield 
  Curiosity leads Brinton into a haunted house’s invisible defences. 
  "The Theater Upstairs" by Manly Wade Wellman 
  A cinema screens forgotten films starring actors long since dead. 
  "The Terror by Night" by E. F. Benson 
  Ghosts, illusions, or madness? Night brings terror either way. 
  "The Burned House" by Vincent O'Sullivan 
  A traveller sees a burning house that never truly existed.

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  Ruthless Charity - A Charity...

  Wayne Stinnett

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  After licking her physical and emotional wounds for several months, Charity Styles finally has a shot at redemption when her handler offers her a mission. It's dangerous, sure, but Charity also knows that it's meant as a test of her self-control. 
  In the jungles of Venezuela, a land baron controls the native population with an iron fist and a security team with over-indulged libidos and quick trigger fingers. The indigenous people live in fear; all but one old shaman, who has a vision of the future. A vision that includes piranha and crocodiles. 
  Charity's target is a single man. But when she learns of the atrocities committed by the land baron, and the carnage inflicted on the defenseless Wanadi people by his security team, will she stop at that? Can she keep her bloodlust in check this time?

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  The Lurking Fear

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Step into the shadows of Tempest Mountain, where ancient secrets and unspeakable horrors await discovery. The Lurking Fear by H. P. Lovecraft plunges readers into a chilling journey of obsession, fear, and the grotesque. Amid violent storms and haunted ruins, an investigator’s relentless pursuit of hidden truths uncovers a darkness more terrifying than he imagined.

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  A Thing That Glistened - From...

  Frank R Stockton

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  Frank Richard Stockton was born in Philadelphia on 5th April 1834.  
  His father, a Methodist minister, discouraged Stockton’s literary career from an early age.  Feeling unable to go against those wishes it was for many years that Stockton’s income was maintained as a wood engraver.   
  His first work was published in 1867 and his first collection only appeared in 1870.  Despite this late arrival Stockton’s innovative and often far-fetched stories, with a gentle ‘poking fun’ humour were very popular.  Like his contemporary Mark Twain he avoided the scolding, hectoring and moral tones of many other authors and instead gently teased and cajoled his reader to open their eyes to the ills, the greed and the ambitions of the world around them.  His sci-fi stories in particular were far-seeing and inventive including a tale of negative gravity and a bloodless Anglo-US war won by technological feats.  
  Perhaps his most enduring tale though is ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’ from 1882.  A condemned man is given a choice of being eaten alive or marrying his princess lover.  But he has to choose which door each is behind. 
  Frank R Stockton died in Washington, DC, on 20th April 1902, of a cerebral haemorrhage.  He is buried at The Woodlands in Philadelphia.

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  Laughter is the Best Medicine:...

  Peter Sykes

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  It is said that a surgeon must have ‘the eyes of a hawk, the heart of a lion, and the hands of a lady,’ but have you ever wondered how a surgeon learns to operate, how he ‘cuts his teeth’ progressing from naive newly-qualified doctor to competent surgeon? 
  In this collection of medical tales, the training of one slightly naive young trainee is viewed through the experiences of the patients he treats as he embarks on this most challenging of careers. We share his joy when things go well, his anguish when they don’t and learn that, at the end of the day, compassion and a sense of humour make wonderful medicine.

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  Antarctica - Stories

  Claire Keegan

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  The compassionate, witty, and unsettling short stories collected here announced Claire Keegan as one of Ireland's most exciting and versatile new talents and earned comparison to the works of Joyce Carol Oates, Alison Lurie, Raymond Carver, and others. From the titular story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind—to sleep with another man—Antarctica draws listeners into a world of obsession, betrayal, and fragile relationships. 
   
   
    
  In "Love in the Tall Grass," Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date, with her lover, that has been nine years in the waiting. In "Passport Soup," Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife who has gone mad with grief. Throughout the collection, Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory, and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved. 
   
   
    
  A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, and recipient of the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the William Trevor Prize, Antarctica is a rare and arresting debut.

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