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  Plain Jane

  G.S. Bailey, Sher Chambers

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  The desire to 'feed' and 'drink' can't be fully supressed. Jane needs flesh and blood. She has also come of age and would like to live a normal life... maybe have a boyfriend. But what kind of guy would want to get with a ghoul? Jane's sister has an idea..!

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  Button Bright

  Michael Kurland

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  “Somebody was yelling in the room now, one of the strange men, and her mother was screaming and screaming. But Button was only dimly aware of the sounds. Her consciousness had shrunk down to focus on the body that was blocking her hole—and the warm, thick liquid that was dripping onto her hand.”Button is an 11 year old, bubbly and intelligent girl who is haunted in her dreams by a tapping sound…Living with her mother and father in Cottsborough, Vermont, Button had been trained to hide and not ever answer to her secret name, ‘Rachel’.One day, two men arrive at Button’s family home searching for her by this secret name. Refusing to give Button up, things turn violent and the men shoot her father dead. Through a narrow crack in the floor boards, Button bears witness to the murder.Eluding the two men who tried to catch her, Button uses her wits to navigate herself from Vermont to Boston and then to New York.Button has a plan to find her uncle Dromkin.When her search seems hopeless, Button is taken in by a resident of her uncle’s apartment building, Phil, who claims he can help.But when they find Dromkin sprawled on the floor with his throat cut, Button is convinced she is somehow the cause of these family murders...Will Phil be able to keep her identity hidden long enough for her to find out the truth?

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  The Call of Cthulhu

  Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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  The Call of Cthulhu is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928.The story's narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of various notes left behind by his great uncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died during the winter of 1926, suspecting eldritch goings-on after being bumped into by a "nautical-looking negro".

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  The Music of Erich Zann

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  A poor student of metaphysics becomes obsessed with the odd music of an elderly German viol player who lives in the same boarding house on the mysteriously mysterious Rue d'Auseil - a street that no one else has ever heard of, and which the man is never able to find again later in his life. Unfortunately for both our narrator and the elderly musician someone (or something) else is also obsessed with The Music of Erich Zann.

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  The Black Cat

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Black Cat" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both, a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable, but eventually breaks down and reveals himself, impelled by a nagging reminder of his guilt.

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  Frankenstein

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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  Frankenstein, begins in epistolary form, documenting the correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. Walton sets out to explore the North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving fame and friendship. The ship becomes trapped in ice, and, one day, the crew sees a dog sled in the distance, on which there is the figure of a giant man. Hours later, the crew finds a frozen and emaciated man, Victor Frankenstein, in desperate need of sustenance. Frankenstein had been in pursuit of the gigantic man observed by Walton's crew when all but one of his dogs died. He had broken apart his dog sled to make oars and rowed an ice-raft toward the vessel. Frankenstein starts to recover from his exertion and recounts his story to Walton. Before beginning his story, Frankenstein warns Walton of the wretched effects of allowing ambition to push one to aim beyond what one is capable of achieving. In telling his story to the captain, Frankenstein finds peace within himself.An Author's Republic audio production.

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