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  A Stranger on the Highway

  Amol Raikar

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  At midnight on the deserted Mumbai Pune highway, Rajiv finds a girl in her wedding dress looking out for help. He offers her a ride in his car, but for some reason, the journey seems never-ending. Who is this girl and where did she come from?

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  Tickets to Hell

  Veronica Preda

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  An ambitious lawyer eyes big profit when he realises his client is the Devil. But what will their pact do to his soul?

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  Six Stories of Horror by H P...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  H.P. Lovecraft honed his ability to write horror stories from a very young age. His genius was obvious even as a 17 year old teenage. These six stories span the entirety of his career from very early to late and will keep you entertained and looking over your shoulder from start to the end. Several are tied into the Cuthululo mythos. The stries are: The Beast in the Cave; The Tomb; The White Ship; The Alchemist; The Shunned House; and Nylarashop. I hope you enjoy them.

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  Nyarlathotep

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Nyarlathotep is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft. The character is a malign deity in the Lovecraft Mythos, a shared universe. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem "Nyarlathotep", he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers. Later writers describe him as one of the Outer Gods, a malevolent pantheon.In a 1921 letter to Reinhardt Kleiner, Lovecraft related the dream he had had—described as "the most realistic and horrible [nightmare] I have experienced since the age of ten"—that served as the basis for his prose poem "Nyarlathotep". In the dream, he received a letter from his friend Samuel Loveman that read:Don't fail to see Nyarlathotep if he comes to Providence. He is horrible—horrible beyond anything you can imagine—but wonderful. He haunts one for hours afterwards. I am still shuddering at what he showed.Lovecraft commented:I had never heard the name NYARLATHOTEP before, but seemed to understand the allusion. Nyarlathotep was a kind of itinerant showman or lecturer who held forth in public halls and aroused widespread fear and discussion with his exhibitions. These exhibitions consisted of two parts—first, a horrible—possibly prophetic—cinema reel; and later some extraordinary experiments with scientific and electrical apparatus. As I received the letter, I seemed to recall that Nyarlathotep was already in Providence.... I seemed to remember that persons had whispered to me in awe of his horrors, and warned me not to go near him. But Loveman's dream letter decided me.... As I left the house I saw throngs of men plodding through the night, all whispering affrightedly and bound in one direction. I fell in with them, afraid yet eager to see and hear the great, the obscure, the unutterable Nyarlathotep.Will Murray has speculated that this dream image of Nyarlathotep may have been inspired by the inventor Nikola Tesla, whose well-attended lectures did involve extraordinary experiments with electrical apparatus and whom some saw as a sinister figure.

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  The Novel of the White Powder -...

  Arthur Machen

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  Arthur Llewelyn Jones was born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire on the 3rd March 1863. 
  Machen came from a long line of clergymen, and when he was two, his father became vicar of a small parish about five miles north of Caerleon, and Machen was brought up at the rectory there. 
  In his early years he received an excellent classical education, but family poverty ruled out university, and he was sent to London to sit exams to attend medical school but failed the exams.  He did show literary promise with the publication of the poem ‘Eleusinia’ in 1821.  But life in London was difficult and it was only in 1884 that he published again and was taken on to translate several French works which thereafter became the standard editions for many years. 
   
  In 1887, his father died.  That same year he married Amelia Hogg, a maverick music teacher with a passion for the theatre.  He also began to receive legacies from Scottish relatives which allowed him to devote more time to writing. 
   
  After publishing in literary magazines in 1894 he published his first book ‘The Great God Pan’.  Its sexual and horrific content very much helped sales. 
   
  Over the next decade or so he wrote some of his best work but was unable to find a publisher mainly due to the collapse of the decadent market over Oscar Wilde’s scandalous trial. 
   
  In 1899, his wife died and during his long recovery he took up acting and travelled around the country as part of a travelling company.  Three years later he was publishing again and had remarried. 
   
  Re-publishing of earlier works helped anchor both his reputation and his income.  By the time the Great War opened Europe’s wounds he returned to the public eye with ‘The Bowmen’ helped by the publicity around the ‘Angel of Mons’ episode. 
   
  However, by the late 20’s new works had dried up and his back catalogue was no longer a source of regular income. 
   
  In 1932 he received a Civil List pension of ₤100 per annum but other work was not forthcoming.  His finances finally stabilised with a literary appeal in 1943 for his eightieth birthday and allowed him to live his remaining years in relative comfort. 
   
  Arthur Machen died on 15th December 1947 in Beaconsfield. He was 84. 
   
  A man is prescribed a medicine that turns him from a hard studying student of the law to something so compellingly awful that only Machen himself could have willed it into reality.<

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  Dracula - An Audiobook Empire...

  Bram Stoker

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  “The blood is the life!” 
  Narrator RJ Bayley and Audiobook Empire have joined forces to bring you Bram Stoker's Dracula. The first to be published on audio from a series of classics first performed by RJ on the "Bayley's Bookshelf" podcast. 
  “I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.” 
  Originally published in 1897, this story has become as immortal as Count Dracula himself. When solicitor Jonathan Harker journeys to Transylvania to help a wealthy client purchase a house in London, he discovers that there's more to the count than he had originally assumed. A string of peculiar and deadly incidents surround the Count's move from Transylvania to London and it's up to a ragtag group, led by Professor van Helsing, to stop them from continuing. 
  The ultimate tale for fans of the gothic, Horror, vampire fiction, Victorian London, and all that's to be found in between.

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