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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Ghost...

  W Jacobs, Rudyard Kipling,...

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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. 
   
  When light fails and the shadows form, evening trails into inky darkness and a malevolent world takes ethereal shape within our minds then our reasoning is somehow suspended as though hijacked by forces that our authors offer us and we greedily accept. 
   
  In this volume ten of our most cunning authors offer up wares with malevolent purpose and diabolical intent. 
  1 - The Top 10 - The Ghost Men - An Introduction 
  2 - The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins 
  3 - The Signal Man by Charles Dickens 
  4 - How it happened by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  5 - Monkeys Paw  by W W Jacobs 
  6 - Oh Whistle and I'll come to you my lad by M R James 
  7 - At the End of the Passage by Rudyard Kipling 
  8 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  9 - The Judges House by Bram Stoker 
  10 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain 
  11 - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

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  Flayed Ed

  Richard Kadrey

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  "Flayed Ed" is a short horror story by New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey, one of 35 entries in the audio horror anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.  
  The true story of Ed Gein, or is it? 
  Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

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  The Witches of Riegersburg

  Julie Anne Stratton

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  For the fans of The DaVinci Code—with three generations of extraordinary women keeping alive the ancient Goddess faith. 
  "Whenever you are of need, come to Me when the moon is full and I, Hecate, Queen of all witches, will guide you, my daughter, to your heart's desire." 
  In 1665, Baroness Elisabeth von Galler is faced with the frenzy of the witch trials raging through Europe. Her son-in-law acquires dispensation from the Kaiser to hold trials in Riegerburg. As the "Faith-Keeper" of an ancient Goddess-worshipping community, can she save her loved ones from certain death and her faith from disappearing? 
  In 1938, Hitler takes over Austria, and Katarina Lilienthal fears for the lives of her Jewish husband and daughter. Armed with the secret Book of Shadows, her legacy passed down from Baroness von Galler, and her intuition will she be able to save her family before the horror begins? 
  Seventy years later, Sarah Lilienthal inherits her beloved Oma's secret book. Katarina's deathbed wish is for Sarah to travel to Austria—the place Sarah's grandparents barely escaped with their lives on the verge of WWII—and make amends with Oma's estranged family. Sarah is cast on a quest to find her true self and the origins of the book by traveling to Riegersburg, where the Book of Shadows' journey began.

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  Bedside Manner

  Isaac Thorne

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  It's easy to tell yourself there's no such thing as ghosts, at least until you meet one face-to-face. It becomes a matter of convincing yourself that you are not seeing what you think you are seeing. If you happen to be Jake, a barely school-age child who awakens one night to find an elongated abomination in female form floating by his bedside, there is no amount of daylight or parental soothing that can convince you that ghosts are not real. 
  The apparition arrives at a crucial time in Jake's family life. He's beginning to notice that his mommy and his daddy aren't getting along the way they once did. Daddy seems particularly stressed about his job at the hospital. In turn, that stress seems to be making him tired and nearly always irritable. Finally, his new visitor, the start of the school year, and the tension between his parents start to take their toll. Consequently, Jake decides to search for a way to rid himself of at least one of his triad of problems. 
  His schooling is required by law. His parents don't seem to be interested in continuing to get along. That leaves Jake with only one option. Can he determine what the ghost wants and send her on her way back to the realm of the dead? 
  BEDSIDE MANNER is a short tale of dark comic horror from the mind of Isaac Thorne, a nice man who simply wants to provide you with a few fun frights. Throughout history ghosts have haunted the imaginations of young children. BEDSIDE MANNER documents one child's attempts to resist.

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  Wuthering Heights

  Emily Brontë

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  Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

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  The Lost Girl

  D Lynn Smith

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  Josette DuPres Collins gambled her soul, and lost it, in an ill-conceived bid to destroy her rival Angelique. Now the Dark Lord has sent his emissary to bring Josette to her place in Hell. Only a last-minute intervention can give her a final chance at redemption. But, as Josette struggles to win back her soul, she realizes that her guide's life, and soul, are inexorably intertwined with her own. And so, as the sands of time flow, Josette begins her final journey…

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