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  Horror Classics Collection

  Ambrose Bierce, Algernon...

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  This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last namesThe Mysterious Mansion [Honoré de Balzac]The Tomb of Heiri [Arthur Christopher Benson]Chickamauga [Ambrose Bierce] An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [Ambrose Bierce]The Death of Halpin Frayser [Ambrose Bierce]A Halloween Wraith [William Black]The Goblin's Collection [Algernon Blackwood]The Wood of the Dead [Algernon Blackwood]Let Loose [Mary Cholmondeley]The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle]The Lift [Arthur Conan Doyle]The Terror of Blue John Gap [Arthur Conan Doyle]Captain Murderer [Charles Dickens]The Trial for Murder [Charles Dickens]Cold Ghost [Chester S. Geier]Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man [Nathaniel Hawthorne]The Devil in Manuscript [Nathaniel Hawthorne]The Adventure of the German Student [Washington Irving]Rip Van Winkle [Washington Irving]The Romance of Certain Old Clothes [Henry James]The City Of Dreadful Night [Rudyard Kipling]The Untold Sequel to the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Frances Little]Hypnos [H.P Lovecraft]Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft]The Tomb [H.P Lovecraft]Dagon [H.P Lovecraft]The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft]The Devil [Guy de Maupassant]Who Knows? [Guy de Maupassant]When I was Dead [Vincent O'Sullivan]Doom of the House of Duryea [Earl Peirce]The Yellow Wallpaper [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]The Masqued Red Death [Edgar Allan Poe]The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]Silence: A Fable [Edgar Allan Poe]The Tell Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe]The Room of Mirrors [Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem [Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]The Wolves of Cernogratz [Saki] An account of some strange disturbances in Aungier Street [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker]The Squaw [Bram Stoker]The Dualists [Bram Stoker]The Valley of Spiders [H.G Wells]The Sea Raiders [H.G Wells]The Red Room [H.G Wells]Jimmy Goggles the God [H.G Wells]The Eyes [Edith Wharton]The Wind in the Rose-Bush [Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]The Substitute [Georgia Wood Pangborn]

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  Kurt Vonnegut

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  Kurt Vonnegut was a groundbreaking American writer, the author of such classics as Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle. In a future where sickness and disease are a forgotten memory, and death itself has been cured, population control requires special consideration, and the concept of 'Life for Life' has a new definition.

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  Les Misérables: Volume 1:...

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.BOOK 2: THE FALL: Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D The few inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness.

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  Twins and a Wedding The...

  L. M. Montgomery

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.The Twins and a Wedding: Sometimes Johnny and I wonder what would really have happened if we had never started for Cousin Pamelia's wedding. I think that Ted would have come back some time; but Johnny says he doesn't believe he ever would, and Johnny ought to know, because Johnny's a boy. Anyhow, he couldn't have come back for four years. However, we did start for the wedding and so things came out all right, and Ted said we were a pair of twin special Providences.

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  Russian Short Story The - Volume...

  Anton Chekhov, Helena Blavatsky,...

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  The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length.  Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature. 
   
  Perhaps an easier way to enjoy a wider selection of the Russian heritage, with its varied and glorious literary talents, is with the short story.  These gems sparkle and beguile the mind with their characters and narrative, exploring facets of society and the human condition that more Western authors somehow find more difficult to navigate, or to explore, explain and relate to.   
   
  The Russian short story is, in many respects, in a genre of its own.  It is at its captivating best whether it’s an exploration of real-life experiences, through fantasy and fables and on to total absurdity. 
   
  In a land so vast it is unsurprising that it is a world almost unto itself. Cultures and landscapes of differing hues are packed together bound only by the wilful bonds and force of Empire. 
   
  The stories in this collection traverse the decades where one might be a serf under an absolute monarch, and the reality of that was pretty near to slavery, into an emancipation of sorts in the fields, or towns under the despotic will of landowners and the rich into the upheavals of Empire and then the overthrow of the ruling class and its replacement by the communists, who promised equality for all and delivered a society where the down-trodden remained the lowest yet vital cog of the state machine and its will.  
   
  Whilst Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Chekhov are a given in any Russian collection we also explore and include Andreyev, Korolenko, Turgenev, Blavatsky and many others to create a world rich and dense across a sprawling landscape of diverse people, riddled with the class and unfairness in perhaps some of the most turbulent times that Russia has ever experienced. 
   
  01 - The Russian Short Story - Volume 4 - An Introduction 
  02 - The Sentry by Nikolai Lyeskov 
  03 - A Witch's Den by Helena Blavatsky 
  04 - The General's Will by Vera Jelihovsky 
  05 - The Old Bell Ringer by Vladimir Korolenko 
  06 - The Shades, A Phantasy by Vladimir Korolenko 
  07 - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin 
  08 - Dethroned by I N Potapenko 
  09 - The Kiss by Anton Chekhov 
  10 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 
  11 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  12 - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov

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  The After House

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

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  Just out of the hospital and totally out of funds, Ralph Leslie jumped at the chance to sign aboard millionaire Marshall Turner's luxurious super-yacht as steward to the passengers lodged in its after house. His job was easy sailing until one sultry summer night, when the dream voyage suddenly became a nightmare of blood and terror.  One ship's officer was thrown overboard.  Another was hacked to death with an ax. The killer struck again and again, and the Ella was awash in a wave of panic that engulfed passengers and crew alike. Only one hand aboard, ex-landlubber Leslie, seemed enough in control to stay the bloody hand of the murderer. But he'd have to stay alive to do it, and that wasn't going to be easy.

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