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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  HP Lovecraft, Arthur Conan...

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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. 
   
  In this volume Horror and its evil intents try to burrow into our heads and cavort around as only demons, monsters, phantoms and ghosts can do.  They probably have other partners and friends too.  And you, sitting there all alone, and listening….. oh dear. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - 20th Century - Horror - An Introduction 
  2 - The Call of Cthulhu - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft 
  3 - The Call of Cthulhu - Part 2 by H P Lovecraft 
  4 - The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  5 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  6 - The Music on the Hill by Saki 
  7 - The Waxworks by A M Burrage 
  8 - Caterpillars by E F Benson 
  9 - The Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen 
  10 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson 
  11 - August Heat by W F Harvey 
  12 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford

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  Santa's Package

  S.C. Mendes, Nikki Noir

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  "A somewhat silly, somewhat sexy, and definitely bizarre short story that will keep your attention all the way through." 
  - Amara Rethwisch, Netgalley Reviewer 
  "Crazy short story but fun. It was nothing like I expected in any way." - Tavia Malone, Netgalley Reviewer 
  In 2021, Amber James developed an unhealthy fascination with Old Saint Nick. 
  Ever since, she’s chosen boyfriends based solely on their ability to satisfy her Santaphilia. Unfortunately, she can’t find a man worthy to come down her chimney. After multiple fails, she gives up the search for a Santa-with-benefits, and that night, she has an erotic dream featuring the jolly elf himself. 
  She awakens happily, but as the days turn into months, Amber realizes she’s pregnant. 
  The only problem is no one seems to agree. Her roommate Shelly doesn’t see the baby bump or feel the kicks, and the doctor’s pregnancy tests and ultrasounds all come back negative. The results force Amber to face her worst fears about her bio mother and a past she’s worked hard to escape. 
  Angry and scared, she’s bounced from medical doctors to psychiatrists and even an Ufologist trying to understand what’s happening to her body. As Christmas morning approaches, Amber will discover the horrifying truth of what Santa left for her. 
  Santa’s Package is a darkly bizarre Christmas story. 
  "Mendes knows how to weave a mystery" - Joseph Sale, author of Dark Hilarity 
  "Nikki Noir is a sultry new voice in erotic horror." - Kristopher Triana, Splatterpunk-Award winning author of Toxic Love 
  This 14K-word novelette was featured in Petite Mort. This digital edition is to accompany the audiobook narrated by Daisy Morgan.

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  Strung

  Per Jacobsen

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  Author Randall Morgan is on his way home after spending fourteen days in the secluded cabin where he always goes to write the endings of his books. However, when he arrives in his hometown, East Alin, he is greeted by a disturbing sight. 
  At a traffic light near the city limits, someone has turned a lamppost into a makeshift gallows, and in it a man–dead and decomposing–hangs. 
  The sight of the hanged man is terrifying in itself, but it soon dawns on Randall that there are other–and far greater–problems in the small town. Because while he is waiting in his car for the police to show up, several people pass by the crime scene - and not a single one of them reacts to the fact that a dead man is hanging in the middle of the street. 
  Something has gone completely wrong in East Alin while Randall has been away.

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  Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of duality, first published in 1886, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the first work to be produced by Arkbound Classics.

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  The Ripper - Earth's Aberrant...

  James G. Robertson

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  John Pepo, an Irish immigrant in England, led an ordinary life with ordinary dreams—until the nightmares began. At first, they came as whispers: blurry and unmemorable, slipping through his mind like fleeting shadows. But soon, they grew sharper, filled with haunting images—a young man wreathed in lightning, a tattooed girl, a figure marked with a dreaded VI, and most unsettling of all? An unquenchable fire and sinister laughter. 
  After his family’s tragic death, John is summoned to London, where fate leads him to Whitechapel’s twisted streets. In a darkened alley, he meets a figure who claims to be none other than Jack the Ripper. Jack has been watching him, waiting for this day foretold by the gods—the day for when together, they might rid the blight infecting England's soul. 
  Bound by destiny and pursued by the unknown, John is thrust into a chilling alliance with London’s most notorious killer. As Jack carves his legacy through the fog-laden streets, John is drawn into a shadowy world of demons, witches, and souls caught between life and damnation. With each strike and every life touched, John must navigate a game of malevolent forces—one orchestrated by a stingy puppeteer known only as Old Nick.

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  Fetch

  Rachel Lawson

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  Dr Blake Alexander is Dr Death 
  What is Fetch a term meaning the meeting of two doppelgangers. 
  "What the-!" said Dr Death seeing a grim reaper, "You can't be here." 
   "Why?" asked the reaper Mortimer curiously. 
   "You know as well as I do," said the doctor. 
   "Yes, your right, this is ridiculous," said Mortimer. 
   "It is insane," said Dr Death. 
   "Glad you agree," said Mortimer. 
   "Why are you talking to yourself Dad?" asked the Necromancer seeing them as he entered the morgue. 
   "I don't know why, boy," said Dr Death puzzled. 
   "I came to talk to him," said the reaper. 
   "How can you be here I am you?" said Dr Death. 
   "Oh I forgot to tell me did I?" said Mortimer. 
   "Yes!" said Dr Death. 
   "I traveled from the future to warn me I am going to die if I don't catch the Necromancer," said Mortimer. 
   "What?" said Dr Death glaring at his son. 
   "I don't want to hurt you!" said the Necromancer. 
   "Sorry not him the other one," said Mortimer. 
   "What other one?" asked Dr Death. 
   "The fake one," said Mortimer. 
   "I have a copy cat?" said the Necromancer feeling flattered. 
   "He wants to kill me you psycho," said Dr Death. 
   "Sorry," said the Necromancer. 
  The copy cat kills only Magicians. 
  Dr Blake Alexander and the others set out a 
  trap for the killer he can not resist a stage 
  performance by the leader of the magicians 
  but will Blake survive or will he die as foretold.

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