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  The Telegram - A mothers death...

  Violet Hunt

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  Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists.   
   
  As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her activities fighting for and promoting better rights for women. 
   
  Although she remained unmarried she had lovers as notable as Somerset Maugham, H G Wells and Ford Maddox Ford, the latter whom she lived with for a number of years. 
   
  Her collections of supernatural short stories contain much of her best work and despite her considerable talents and literary output her reputation rests both on the literary salons she held at her home in Campden Hill, where the very best of literary society attended, and for her founding of the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and her participation in the founding of International PEN in 1921. 
   
  Violet Hunt died of pneumonia at her home in Campden Hill on 16th January 1942. She was 79 and is buried at Brookwood Cemetery. 
   
  Once more Hunt takes a common occurrence, the delivery of a telegram, as the stepping off point for a woman to question whether she should get married, but fate has not yet dealt its final hand.

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  The Devil's Mark

  WD Jackson-Smart

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  A gory display in a London park sets the police scrambling, in this new thriller by the author of From Inside the House. When a bloodstained effigy made of body parts is found in a park, DI Daniel Graves must discover what it means and find the person responsible. Symbols at the crime scene suggest the occult. Who is behind this horrific scene and what’s his purpose? As Graves and his partner, DI Charlie Palmer, begin to investigate, they enlist the help of Molly Gooding, a talented professor specialising in the arcane. Then the next crime scene is found. More blood, more symbols, and again, out in the open. It seems the killer wants the world to pay attention, but why? How are they choosing their victims? The pressure is on for Graves to put an end to the murders before more victims appear. In addition, Graves’s past is still not behind him. Someone is eager to make sure he doesn't forget and cannot move on. And they’re not playing games anymore. There may be a killer out there, but someone else is out for blood—Daniel Graves’s blood . . .Praise for the DI Graves series “Panic inducing moments.” —Scream magazine “Lures readers in and holds them.” —Online Book Club

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  When Darkness Falls

  Heather Graham

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  What You See
  
   
  In an ancient cemetery, travel writer Jade MacGregor’s tour of a Scottish tomb is marred by a terrifying attack that leaves her surrounded by corpses drained of blood. A year later, back home on a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses the oddly compelling stranger she met that day. Coincidence - or is it something far more disturbing?
  
   
  Could Kill You
  
   
  Surrounded by her friends and engrossed in her work, Jade should feel secure. But then new bodies start showing up, and somebody is dogging her every move. Somebody who knows what she saw on that long ago afternoon among the gravestones and mausoleums. Somebody who will try to rescue her from the undead waiting to make her one of them.

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  The Pope's Mule

  Alphonse Daudet

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  Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was one of France's finest writers of short stories."The Pope's Mule" is the amusing story of an animal which waited patiently for seven years to repay a man who mistreated her.

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  Putul Khelar Arale :...

  Abhijnan Roychowdhury

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  Death due to mob lynching on suspicion of witchcraft is still occasionally heard from the underdeveloped corners of India. The trigger to such tragedies is rooted in illiteracy and superstitions. The deadly vortex of power games and greed for money victimize many helpless women. This story centers around one such victim where your favorite fictional social crusader Anilikha strives to unravel the truth behind a sinister conspiracy. 
  Anilikha met with a tribal woman named Sita, coaxed by a curious child named Munna – an ardent follower of Sita, at a remote tribal nook in Jharkhand in India. The woman startled Anilikha by displaying a puppet show where she infused supernatural power into her puppets to bring the show alive. Anilikha started to ponder whether that magical spell was only a game of hallucination or whether it entailed some hidden message. 
  The story is a heady concoction of a ghostly supernatural presented in a scientific tempo – the hallmark of Author - Abhijnan Roychowdhury. Tune in to yet another racy thriller bordering the supernatural from "My StoryGenie" Bengali Audiobooks series.

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  White Hands and Other Weird...

  Mark Samuel

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  This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan, European feel. Mark Samuels writes about the fundamental fears of modern life, especially the effects of isolation and the dislocation that city dwellers can experience in their inhospitable, man-made environment. H.P. Lovecraft wrote about entities beyond human comprehension that might be summoned from beyond the stars, but did he ever consider that they would feel quite at home in the sodium glare of some run-down inner-city? When one of Samuels's characters stands alone looking up at the vast, illimitable darkness of space, the reader is forced to wonder if there is much difference between the hopeless emptiness of eternity and the bleak interstices between the concrete and steel of their daily life?

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