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  Trio of Stories A - Alun Lewis -...

  Alun Lewis

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  Alun Lewis was born on the 1st July 1915 in Cwmaman in South Wales. 
  He studied history at Aberystwyth and Manchester Universities before beginning a career as a teacher. 
  In 1940, despite his pacifism, he enlisted to serve in the Royal Engineers and later received a commission in the South Wales Borderers. 
  His first poetry collection ‘Raider’s Dawn’ was published in 1942 as was his short story collection ‘The Last Inspection’.  Both brought him critical acclaim and an admiring audience. 
  Later that year he was posted to India where his conscience and morality wrestled with suffering and poverty that so was so evident all around him. 
  Alun Lewis died on the 5th March 1944 in Rakhine, Myanmar, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, that was officially declared accidental.  He was 28.  
  His second poetry collection, ‘Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets’, was published posthumously in 1945.

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  The Last Suspicious Holdout -...

  Ladee Hubbard

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  Great God Pan — Ch 2 The: The...

  Arthur Machen

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  Description: 
  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan Dunne Horror Stories & Audiobooks: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  The experiment is over — but its consequences have only begun. 
  In the uneasy quiet that follows Dr. Raymond’s forbidden triumph, something is terribly wrong. The veil was lifted, and though it has fallen back into place, the human mind was never meant to endure what lay beyond it. What remains is not revelation, but ruin. 
  As whispers of the event linger in drawing rooms and private conversations, we begin to understand the true cost of forbidden knowledge. The horror is no longer a distant glimpse of another world — it has taken root in this one. Subtle, insidious, and impossible to explain, its presence unsettles all who come near it. 
  Narrated by Jonathan Dunne, Amazon bestselling horror author, this is Timeless Terrors No. 109, continuing Arthur Machen’s haunting masterpiece — where the veil, once lifted, can never fully be restored.

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  Hunger

  Devon Vesper

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  What happens when the resident twink of your adult club summons a demon to save your sister? 
  You sell your soul and grab your ankles. 
  Nothing was going right. Lucas Davenport did everything he could to save his dying sister. But after spending every penny he had and digging himself into debt, his attempts are failing. Now, he suffers the consequences as his creditors demand repayment. 
  Facing the foreclosures of his home and his BDSM club, HUNGER, he lets a friend talk him into summoning a demon. 
  Selling his soul is worth the cost to save his sister and claw his way back out of debt. But with the Demon General Asherus, Lucas has never felt more alive. 
  Relinquishing control has never been sweeter. 
  Will Lucas save his soul, or is he damned forever? Find out in HUNGER, a scorching MM monster-lover short story. 
  Demons do it better.

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  Death in the Woods - From their...

  Sherwood Anderson

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  Sherwood Anderson was born on 13th September 1876 in Camden, Ohio. 
  When his father’s business failed the family was forced to move on a regular basis before finally settling in Clyde, Ohio.   
  Anderson, one of 7 children, left school at 14 to take a number of jobs to help with the family finances. These were difficult years. 
  He moved to Chicago in search of opportunities before joining the Army for the US-Spanish War of 1898.  He then entered Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio to complete his education before moving back to Chicago to take up a writing job. 
  In 1904 he married Cornelia Lane, her family had resources and Anderson was keen, with this family backing, to run a business. 
  The early years of their marriage produced 3 children but a nervous breakdown in 1907 and another in 1912, despite his success as a business entrepreneur, resulted in him abandoning his family and deciding that a literary career would be best for him.   
  A move back to Chicago resulted in a job in advertising, a divorce from Cornelia and marriage to Tennessee Mitchell.  
  That same year his first book ‘Windy McPherson’s Son’ was released and in 1919, his most famous book, ‘Winesburg, Ohio’, a collection of short stories about life in an Ohio town was released. 
  Anderson continued to write short stories, novels and non-fiction but his only true bestseller came with ‘Dark Laughter’.  His influence on writers that followed, from Faulkner to Hemingway, was immense. He also married a further two times.   
  Sherwood Anderson died in in Colón, Panama, on the 8th March, 1941. He was 64. An autopsy revealed that a swallowed toothpick had resulted in peritonitis. 
  His headstone epitaph reads ‘Life, Not Death is the Great Adventure.’

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  The Best of America - Seven...

  Washington Irving, Nathaniel...

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  This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Mermaids by Louisa May Alcott, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, and The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry.

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