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  The Fall of the House of Usher

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Fall of the House of Usher is a Gothic tale of terror centered on the isolated Usher mansion. Roderick Usher, a mentally ill recluse, and his dying sister, Madeline, are the last of their line. Haunted by fear and decay, the house mirrors its inhabitants' decline.

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  Foreordained - From their pens...

  Anthony Hope

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  Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London.  
  He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford.  Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time. 
  His early works appeared in various periodicals of the day but for his first book ‘A Man of Mark’ (1890), with no publisher interested, he published with his own resources.  
  More novels and short stories followed, including the mildly successful ‘Mr Witt's Widow’ in 1892. Hope even found time to run as the Liberal candidate for Wycombe in the election that same year but was unsuccessful. 
  His first major literary success came with ‘The Dolly Dialogues’, a collection of previously published magazine pieces followed very quickly by his instant classic, ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’. He now gave up the vestiges of his legal career to pursue writing full-time. 
  Despite never again reaching the same pinnacle of success he was popular and wrote prolifically across novels, plays and of course, short stories though his writing output rapidly diminished after the war. 
  In 1918 he was knighted for his contribution to propaganda efforts during World War I.  
  His short stories are delicate, mannered and often surprising with their wit, humour and interplay of characters who say one thing and usually mean another.  He was very definitely a writer of escapist rather than serious fare but they are no less enjoyable for that. 
  Anthony Hope died of throat cancer on 8th July 1933 at his country home, Heath Farm at Walton-on-the-Hill in Surrey. He was 70.

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  The Affair At Coulter's Creek -...

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language.  
  Growing up in Koscuisko County, Indiana poverty and religion were defining features of his childhood, and he would later describe his parents as “unwashed savages” and fanatically religious, showing him little affection but always quick to punish. He came to resent religion, and his introduction to literature appears to be their only positive effect. 
  At age 15 Bierce left home to become a printer’s devil, mixing ink and fetching type at The Northern Indian, a small Ohio paper. Falsely accused of theft he returned to his farm and spent time sending out work in the hopes of being published. 
  His Uncle Lucius advised he be sent to the Kentucky Military Institute. A year later he was commissioned as an Officer.  As the Civil War started Bierce enlisted in the 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment.  
  In April 1862 Bierce fought at the Battle of Shiloh, an experience which, though terrifying, became the source of several short stories. Two years later he sustained a serious head wound and was off duty for several months. He was discharged in early 1865.  
  A later expedition to inspect military outposts across the Great Plains took him all the way to San Francisco. He remained there to become involved with publishing and editing and to marry, Mary Ellen on Christmas Day 1871.  They had a child, Day, the following year.  
  In 1872 the family moved to England for 3 years where he wrote for Fun magazine. His son, Leigh, was born, and first book, ‘The Fiend’s Delight’, was published.  
  They returned to San Francisco and to work for a number of papers where he gained admiration for his crime reporting. In 1887 he began a column at the William Randolph Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner.  
  Bierce’s marriage fell apart when he discovered compromising letters to his wife from a secret admirer. The following year, 1889 his son Day committed suicide, depressed by romantic rejection. 
  In 1891 Bierce wrote and published the collection of 26 short stories which included ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’.  Success and further works including poetry followed.  
  Bierce with Hearst’s resources helped uncover a financial plot by a railroad to turn 130 million dollars of loans into a handout. Confronted by the railroad and asked to name his price Bierce answered “my price is $130 million dollars. If, when you are ready to pay, I happen to be out of town, you may hand it over to my friend, the Treasurer of the United States”.  
  He now began his first foray as a fabulist, publishing ‘Fantastic Fables’ in 1899.  But tragedy again struck two years later when his second son Leigh died of pneumonia relating to his alcoholism.  
  He continued to write short stories and poetry and also published ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’.  
  At the age of 71, in 1913 Bierce departed from Washington, D.C., for a tour of the battlefields where he had fought during the civil war. At the city of Chihuahua he wrote his last known communication, a letter to a friend. It’s closing words were “as to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination,” Ambrose Bierce then vanished without trace.

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  I've Been Here Before - and...

  Eleanor Wells

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  In five disparate tales, introspective women at key turnings points face otherworldly experiences which force them to consider who they are and who they might have been. 
  An ex-figure skater is haunted by her best friend’s ghost in “The End of All Things.” 
  The frontwoman of a rising punk band navigates a strange liminal space towards a mysterious train in “Our Lifelong Dreams.” 
  In “I’ve Been Here Before,” a nihilistic college student experiences vivid memories of a past life that ended in a tragic roller coaster accident sixty years before. 
  With the supernatural echoes of The Twilight Zone and the melancholy of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the stories of I’ve Been Here Before explore how mortality and imperfection are what give life meaning.

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  The Dunwich Horror — Part 10 of 10

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Welcome to Timeless Terrors No. 62, concluding H. P. Lovecraft’s descent into cosmic nightmare: The Dunwich Horror. 
  The end has come to Dunwich. 
  Across the shattered hills, the aftermath of the unseen terror lies everywhere—homes flattened, fields torn raw, and the very air trembling with the residue of something vast, alien, and grieving in its destruction. The invisible behemoth, once confined to the Whateley farmhouse, now towers over the valley as its final rampage reaches a haunting crescendo. 
  Yet for the first time, a fragile beacon of resistance stands against it. 
  On the heights of Sentinel Hill, a small band of scholars prepares for a confrontation humanity was never meant to face. Armed with forbidden knowledge, perilous incantations, and a desperate understanding of the creature’s tragic origin, they move to end the catastrophe—knowing full well that their minds, their bodies, and their very souls may not survive what comes next. 
  In these final moments, cosmic horror collides with heartbreaking revelation, as the boundary between the human world and the outer void trembles on the brink of collapse. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this concluding chapter delivers the powerful finale to Lovecraft’s masterpiece—a final stand where courage, madness, and the unknowable intertwine beneath a dark and indifferent universe. 
  This is Part 10 of a 10-part complete audiobook. 
  The nightmare ends here… but the echoes will remain.

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  Bliss - A Classic Psychological...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  What if a moment of perfect happiness was only a heartbeat away from shattering? In “Bliss” by Katherine Mansfield, you follow Bertha Young, a vibrant woman overflowing with excitement she can hardly explain - a feeling so bright it seems to spill into every corner of her world. As she prepares for an evening dinner party, every detail feels alive and full of promise. But beneath the shimmering surface of domestic harmony, subtle tensions begin to flicker. A mysterious connection, a lingering glance, a shared smile - each reveals cracks in the perfection Bertha so desperately wants to believe in. Mansfield masterfully exposes the fragile balance between joy and illusion, desire and disappointment, truth and the stories we tell ourselves. With her unmatched sensitivity, she paints a portrait of a woman on the brink of revelation. Press play and step into one of Mansfield’s most celebrated stories, where every moment glows with meaning and every emotion carries its own hidden shadow.

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