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  Sticky Fingers 3 - More...

  JT Lawrence

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  JT Lawrence is back with more short stories that are creepier than ever. 
  You won't be able to get these deliciously twisted tales out of your head... 
  Grab them while they're hot and sticky. 
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  This collection includes: 
  Tears of a Dead Man 
  A man tries to convince his doctor that he is dead. 
  The Shelter 
  Would you take the noose around your neck if it meant saving everyone you knew? 
  The Children in the Walls 
  The storm tried to keep her out; she should have listened. 
  Death is a Woman in a Blue Dress 
  What happens if you let Death in the front door? 
  Fenrir 
  A viking is called to fulfill his bloody destiny despite his desire to stay home with his love. 
  Blackwater Estuary 
  Witch panic spreads like wildfire in this poignant tale of a midwife accused of saving a baby.​ 
  Perky Pilgrim 
  Jeffrey Sacks is back, and this time he's taking no prisoners. 
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  "Lawrence makes every word count, telling each story with elegance and emotional punch.” — Patsy Hennessey 
  "Each story is masterfully constructed ... Humorous, touching, creepy, but most of all entertaining, this collection is superb." — Tracy Michelle Anderson 
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  If you're a fan of Roald Dahl or Gillian Flynn you'll love these unsettling stories with a twist in the tale.  
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  The Cats of Ulthar

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Lovecraft is an American writer, who became famous for his works of horror fiction. Nowadays he is considered as one of the best 20th-century authors in his genre.  "The Cats of Ultar" is a story of one city, where it was forbidden to kill cats. It was first published in the journal Tryout in 1920. This tale was Lovecraft’s favorite as he was a cat lover. It is one of the most popular stories by the writer. There was an old couple in the city Ultar who liked to trap and kill their neighbors’ cats. Nobody knew exactly, why they did this, but it was a pleasure for them. Once a caravan of dark strangers came through the city. With the caravan came a boy orphan Menes. The only friend he had was a little black kitten. One morning Menes didn’t find his precious kitten and villagers told him about the man and his wife and strange sounds heard the night before. The boy started to pray and the clouds in the sky started to take weird shapes. What happened then? You will recognize when you read the story. But for sure the old couple got what they deserved.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Faith and Beauty

  Jane Thynne

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  Berlin, on the eve of war. Clara Vine, Anglo-German actress and spy, has been recalled to London by British Intelligence to probe reports that the Nazis and the Soviet Union are planning to make a pact. When Clara investigates the death of a young woman from the ‘Faith and Beauty Society' - the elite finishing school for Nazi girls, what she uncovers is something of infinite value to the Nazi regime - and now she herself is in danger.

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  Every Night Is Ladies' Night -...

  Michael Jaime-Becerra

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  Ten interconnected stories set in a blue-collar town that captures the essence of Latino life in Southern California. 
   
  With a cast of characters so vivid they seem to leap from the page, this collection of linked short stories offers a portrait of individuals aching to find their place in an indifferent world. The characters who inhabit these stories—teenagers, beauty queens, race car drivers, and even grandfathers—fall in love, strive to make ends meet, or search for answers to their future while reconciling the past. Michael Jaime-Becerra casts a warm glow on each of them. 
   
  Praise for Every Night Is Ladies’ Night 
   
  “A realistic, humorous, and poignant story collection by a strong new voice in fiction, a writer who observes with great skill, leading him to portray ordinary scenes in the ongoing human drama thoroughly and realistically. . . . Jaime-Becerra is a wonderful storyteller, and this collection is quite simply a joy to read.” —Booklist 
   
  “The writing is fluid, the details brisk and vivid as newcomer Jaime-Becerra reveals his characters without judging them harshly. Learn Spanish in richly affecting narratives from a strong new talent.” —Kirkus Reviews

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Katherine Mansfield, Virginia...

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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 decade the equality of the sexes is now law.  In real life it’s patchy.  Power refuses to ebb or cede.  In literary terms though women are again second to none with writing that strides confidently forward addressing the issues, the characters and the stories in unique and individual ways. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The Women - The 1920's - An Introduction 
  2 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 
  3 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf 
  4 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall 
  5 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow 
  6 - Rhapsody by Dorothy Edwards 
  7 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt 
  8 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb 
  9 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen 
  10 - The Night of No Weather by Violet Hunt 
  11 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson

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  The Overcrowded Iceberg

  Morley Roberts

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  Morley Roberts (1857-1942) was an adventurer who worked on railways, cattle, and sheep ranches all over Africa and the Americas and still found time to write a large number of very varied novels and stories with a zest that only real-life experience can give.The Overcrowded Iceberg is the story of the argumentative crew of a fog-bound ship in the northern Atlantic, which eventually strikes an iceberg and sinks. The crew are able to take refuge on part of the iceberg which sank their vessel. But as the berg drifts south to warmer waters, the iceberg begins to melt.

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