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  Deborah - From their pens to...

  Josephine Tey

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  Elizabeth MacKintosh was born on the 25th July 1896 in Inverness, Scotland. 
  After attending Inverness Royal Academy and then the Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington, Birmingham she taught physical training at schools throughout England and Scotland. 
  In 1923, she returned to Inverness to care for her invalid mother. She stayed after her mother's death later that year to keep house for her father.  It was now that she began her literary career and first published in The Westminster Gazette in 1925, under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot.  She continued to write and publish in periodicals until, in 1929, her first novel ‘Kif: An Unvarnished History’ was published to good reviews followed, three months later, by her first mystery novel, ‘The Man in the Queue’.   
  Despite her good fortune and talents her mind was set on writing a play that would receive a West End run.  ‘Richard of Bordeaux’, under the Daviot pseudonym, made its debut in 1932 at the Arts Theatre. 
  In all she completed about a dozen one-act plays and a dozen full-length plays, many with biblical or historical themes, and all with the Daviot pseudonym.  Only four of these plays were produced. 
  Perhaps her best-known books all involve the Scotland Yard Inspector, Alan Grant, and required yet another pseudonym.  This time Josephine Tey. 
  She was intensely private, and during the last months of her life, when she knew she was terminally ill, she avoided all of her friends.   
  Elizabeth Mackintosh died from liver cancer on 13th February 1952 in London.  She was 55.

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  Arck Industries: Origins

  Alex Arck

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  What if the key to creative freedom was letting go of control? 
  Under the weight of an impossible deadline, an independent musician turns to spiritual practices and mystic rituals, desperate to balance the relentless pressures of surviving as an artist. But when one of his psychic experiments unlocks access to future technology, he discovers a shocking solution: biomechanical clones capable of sharing his creative burden. 
  At first, the clones appear to be the perfect answer, amplifying his productivity and talent. But after transferring his consciousness into these beings, he uncovers a dark truth about the price of splitting himself across multiple lives—and the dangers lurking within his newfound power. 
  Written by musician and songwriter Alex Arck, this gripping sci-fi novella serves as a thrilling prequel to the events of his concept album, Arck Industries. Dive deeper into the story with the immersive audio adaptation, narrated by Garan Patrick. 
  Discover a world where creativity meets cutting-edge technology—and automation comes at a cost.

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  Tales of Mean Streets - Lizerunt...

  Arthur Morrison

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  Arthur Morrison was born on November 1st, 1863, in Poplar, in the East End of London. From the age of 8, after the death of his father, he was brought up, along with two siblings, by his mother, Jane. 
  Morrison spent his youth in the East End. In 1879 he began as an office boy in the Architect's Department of the London School Board and, in his spare time, visited used bookstores in Whitechapel Road. He first published, a humorous poem, in the magazine Cycling in 1880. 
  In 1885 Morrison began writing for The Globe newspaper. In 1886, he switched to the People's Palace, in Mile End and, in 1888, published the Cockney Corner collection, about life in Soho, Whitechapel, Bow Street and other areas of London.  
  By 1889 he was an editor at the Palace Journal, reprinting some earlier sketches, and writing commentaries on books and articles on the life of the London poor. 
  By 1890 he was back at The Globe and published ‘The Shadows Around Us’, a supernatural collection of stories.  Also at this time he began to develop a keen interest in Japanese Art. 
  In October 1891 his short story A Street appeared in Macmillan's Magazine. The following year he married Elizabeth Thatcher and then befriended publisher and poet William Ernest Henley for whom he wrote stories of working-class life in Henley's National Observer between 1892-94.  
  In 1894 came his first detective story featuring Martin Hewitt, described as "a low-key, realistic, lower-class answer to Sherlock Holmes”. 
  Morrison published A Child of the Jago in 1896 swiftly followed by The Adventures of Martin Hewitt. 
  In 1897 Morrison wrote seven stories about Horace Dorrington, a deeply corrupt private detective, described as "a cheerfully unrepentant sociopath who is willing to stoop to theft, blackmail, fraud or cold-blooded murder to make a dishonest penny."  
  To London Town, the final part of a trilogy including Tales of Mean Streets and A Child of the Jago was published in 1899. Following on came a wide spectrum of works, including novels, short stories and one act plays.  
  In 1911 he published his authoritative work Japanese Painters, illustrated with art from his own collection.  
  Although he retired from journalistic work in 1913 he continued to write about Art.  
  In his last decades Morrison served as a special constable, and reported on the first Zeppelin raid on London. Tragically in 1921 his son, Guy, who had survived the war, died of malaria.  
  The Royal Society of Literature elected him as a member in 1924 and to its Council in 1935.   
  In 1930 he moved to Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. Here he wrote the short story collection Fiddle o' Dreams and More. 
  Arthur Morrison died on the 4th December 1945.  He was 82 years.

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  Villages and Illnesses - A...

  Tao Wong

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  Expectation conceals the truth.  
  Noblewoman and cultivator Li Yao is called to a small village to investigate a mysterious illness that has drained residents of their chi. Accompanying her are her suitors Xiang An and Shen Wei, both more trouble than they're worth in Li Yao's eyes.  
  Perhaps not all is as it seems. In the village and her suitors.  
  This is a short story set in the A Thousand Li universe. Does not need to be read to follow the main series.

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  Cool Air

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Title: Cool Air 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 124 
  Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1928 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Description: 
  Cool Air is a chilling tale of scientific obsession and unnatural preservation from the master of cosmic horror, H. P. Lovecraft. 
  Set in a sweltering New York boarding house during an oppressive summer heatwave, the story follows a narrator who forms an uneasy acquaintance with a reclusive doctor living upstairs. The physician, brilliant yet unnervingly cold in manner and habit, maintains his rooms at an unnaturally frigid temperature through elaborate refrigeration machinery. As their acquaintance deepens, the narrator begins to suspect that the doctor’s dependence on cold air is far more than a matter of comfort. 
  Lovecraft builds dread through atmosphere and suggestion, allowing the mounting heat outside to contrast cruelly with the sterile chill within the doctor’s chamber. What begins as eccentricity gradually reveals itself as something grotesque and blasphemous — a defiance of nature sustained by will, intellect, and terrible necessity. 
  Unlike vast cosmic epics that gesture toward indifferent universes, Cool Air delivers a more intimate horror — one that lingers in confined rooms and clings to the senses. The terror lies not in distant stars, but in decay held at bay… and the dreadful consequences when the machinery fails. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s mounting claustrophobia, creeping revulsion, and unforgettable final revelation — bringing Lovecraft’s macabre vision vividly to life.

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  Alpine Divorce An - From their...

  Robert Barr

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  Robert Barr was born in Glasgow, Scotland on the 16th September 1849.  Five years later the family emigrated to a farm near Muirkirk in Upper Canada.  
  His early years were uneventful as the family settled into their new lives and Barr began his education. 
  A career path as a teacher opened up for him and, by 1874, he had been appointed as headmaster at the Central School at Windsor.  Concurrently he also wrote travel and humourous articles for magazines.  Within two years their success in the regional periodicals encouraged him to change careers to become a reporter and columnist. 
  In August 1876, at age 27, he married Eva Bennett and they began a family. 
  A half decade later he was the exchange editor of the ‘Free Press’ but decided to relocate to London to establish an English edition and to write fiction, which both met with much success. 
  Over the years he was a prolific writer and in 1892, along with Jerome K Jerome, he established ‘The Idler’ magazine and, just after the turn of the century, became its sole proprietor. 
  Although a number of his crime novels and short stories are parodies on Sherlock Holmes and other best-selling detectives of the time, he also wrote short stories across a whole range of subjects and genres usually with intriguing ideas and many laced with wit and humour. 
  Robert Barr died at his home in Woldingham, Surrey of heart disease on the 21st October 1912.  He was 63.

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