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  Dealings in the Dark

  Samantha Moran

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  All she wanted was to save her friend, so she made a deal with the darkness, but her good intentions came with a steep cost, and it's so much more than she bargained for. 
  Magick always comes with a price. This is the lesson that Alex Hendricks, a young practitioner, learns when she is forced to confront a terrifying entity set on claiming her soul for his own. Secrets from her past are revealed, and she must decide whether to meet the entity's demands or sacrifice herself, allowing him to end her life and condemn her to eternal torment. This short tale follows Alex on her journey over the course of two days time as she battles supernatural forces and comes into her own power. But, will it be enough to save her life and retain command of her own soul? 
  Note from the Author: Dealings in the Dark is a horror novella that deals with the dangerous consequences of magick usage. As such, the story you are about to read contains graphic scenes depicting physical violence, gore, mention of the deaths of a parent and grandparent, mention of child death and harm, limited depictions of dementia, and depictions of demonic creatures and forces. If any of these topics are disturbing to you, you may not wish to proceed with this text.

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  Whittington's Cat - Is this...

  Lady Eleanor Smith

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  Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in England on the 7th August 1902 into a privileged family steeped in titles and politics. 
   
  Part of her education was at Miss Douglas's school at Queen's Gate.  Here she met and befriended several other young women that the British tabloid press would later call the ‘Bright Young Things’, a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London. 
   
  Smith's paternal great-grandmother, was said to have been a Gypsy, and this sparked an early and life-long interest with the Romani people, she even went so far as to learn to read and speak the language, which she called ‘musical and broken.’ 
   
  Her life was full of adventure and mishaps.  A mistaken encounter with a man she thought could help her into the film business turned out to threats of marriage and death from a man wanted for the murder of his father.  She was even arrested twice.  Once for listing her career as a journalist and another, in Rome, for walking around in a sleeveless dress. 
   
  Smith began her career writing society gossip columns for various newspapers but later received an offer to write for the newly-formed Great Carmo Circus, with which she travelled for several years and was the source material for many of her books. 
   
  Her first novel, ‘Red Wagon’, was published when she was 28 and it was an immediate bestseller.  A prolific writer several of her works were also adapted for films. 
   
  Smith also wrote ghost stories and others flavoured with evil.  Her support for the Conservative party may be forgiven but her attributed quote to be a ‘warm adherent of General Franco’ less so. 
   
  Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith died on the 20th October 1945 in Westminster after a long illness. She was 43.

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  The Locked Tomb Mystery - And...

  Elizabeth Peters

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  Four classic stories by the New York Times bestselling grandmaster of mystery, each paired with an incisive new introduction. 
   
   
    
  A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead with her hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. Two sisters take shelter in a shuttered old house at the end of a country road . . . only to discover they're not alone. And the author's most beloved characters, Amelia Peabody and Radcliff Emerson, make an appearance in a newly uncovered tale with a witty nod to Sherlock Holmes. 
   
   
    
  Settle in with this quartet of short stories—now available for the first time in a single volume—from one of the most popular mystery writers of all time. The Locked Tomb Mystery and Other Stories features a preface and introductions to each story by mystery authors Tasha Alexander, Juliet Blackwell, and Daniel Stashower, and Egyptologist Salima Ikram.

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  The Dream Woman

  Wilkie Collins

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  Spooky. Weird. and a tale well told as Wilkie Collins does so well.    
  A medical man who had gone to another town for a consultation encountered a hotel landlord and heard a rather odd tale about an old man in his employ. This man would only sleep during the day because of horrible dreams that plagued him at night. The medical man’s interest was piqued believing he may be able to help this man, so he asked the landlord to tell him everything he knew about this man’s past life. Over lunch, the medical man settled in to hear the “extravagant and incredible” story from the landlord. And as he spoke, the story within a story began. 
  If you’re not quite a horror fan, but enjoy spooky little tales, try this one.

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  The Sisterhood - Prequel to Guilt

  Maisie Moon

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  At the Summer Solstice, the prophecy states the greatest powers in the history of the Sisterhood will pass down to the next daughter of Eve, imbuing her with an ancient and powerful energy. She must be made to understand her purpose by the previous daughter of Eve. It is a great honour, and the ancient magic should be used wisely. The ancestral light energy is full of love and passion, always remembering, we are human, and have both light and dark within us, but the light will always beat the dark. 
  Listen to the exciting stories of four notable and powerful daughters of Eve, Sidonie, Angelique, Gertrude and Siobhan, and their adventures within the Sisterhood. Follow these women through the ages as they fight for justice. Each of their journeys reflect the historical times they lived in from the medieval ages through to the Second World War and the difficult challenges they faced. These women fought for their emancipation and right to live freely from fear, hate and evil. 
  Women have the right to a voice and need to be heard. These women fought not only the challenges of the historical times they lived in, and the patriarchy which existed, but their destinies were to fight evil and eradicate it from the earth. Their stories will inspire and uplift you.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Oscar Wilde, Washington Irving,...

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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 volume close encounters of a spectral kind come to visit and offer us their stories through the pens of such literary masters as Alexander Pushkin, Oscar Wilde, Amelia Edwards, Washington Irving and many others can.  
   
  The excellence of their story-telling craft makes each story a journey into certain and unsettling fear.  
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - 19th Century Ghost Stories - An Introduction 
  2 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 
  3 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 
  4 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 
  5 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  6 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott 
  7 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin 
  8 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 
  9 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 
  10 - The Deserted House by E T A Hoffman 
  11 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 
  12 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu

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