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  Drastic - Stories

  Maud Casey

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  Meet the college graduate working in a whole body–donation clinic; a young woman obsessed with Benedictine monks; a middle-aged woman who becomes a stand-in talk-show guest; unlikely friends who meet in a domestic violence shelter; a young girl and the father who stole her away to escape his wife's mental illness; a graduate student from a suburban family who believes her physical connection to the world is deteriorating. Maud Casey -- author of The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable Book -- explores how we survive modern crises of loss and love through the lives of emotional and geographic nomads. Each flirts with madness and self-destruction while reaching toward life. These simple gestures of optimism and vitality, gorgeously rendered, make drastic an unforgettable collection.

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  Eight Ghosts - The English...

  Jeanette Winterson, Mark Haddon,...

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  Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories.
  'An impressive line-up of established and emerging names.' The Sunday Times
  'These eerie, unsettling stories are guaranteed to send shivers down your spine.' Daily Express
  Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories.
  'Subtly evocative of human relations loss, grief, or the fear of loneliness.' TLS
  'A satisfying and spooky read.' Sun
  Also includes a gazetteer of English Heritage properties which are said to be haunted.

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  Bumps in the Night - Creepy...

  Mark Leslie

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  If you go into the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise! 
  BUMPS IN THE NIGHT collects four short stories perfect for listening to around a campfire or on a sleepover. 
  The stories are read by film and stage actor Chris (C.C.) Humphreys. Chris is also a playwright, a fight choreographer, and a novelist. His dynamic and rich reading of the tales will draw you right in and keep you on the edge of your seat. 
  ERRATIC CYCLES involves a man stranded on an abandoned highway in Northern Ontario, forcing him to face his childhood fears of the wilderness after dark. 
  ALMOST draws upon one of the most beloved and common classic campfire tale situations with a bizarre new twist. 
  In THE PIZZA MAN, four students keep getting pizza deliveries that they never ordered. Is it a strange prank, or is there something more to the mysterious man who keeps showing up at their door? 
  THE SHADOW MEN was specifically crafted to be read around a campfire. Pay no attention to those strange noises and bumps in the night taking place while this story unfolds. It's likely only the Shadow Men.

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  In the Forest of Forgetting

  Theodora Goss

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  Theodora Goss's first major short story collection showcases such stories as "The Rose in Twelve Petals," "The Rapid Advance of Sorrow," "Lily, With Clouds," "In the Forest of Forgetting," "Sleeping With Bears," and many more.

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  The Mystery of the Grave-Yard

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is an American writer, poet and journalist. He wrote horrors, mysterious and fantastic stories and also created the famous Cthulhu Mythos. Along with Robert Ervin Howard he is considered to be a founder of a fantasy genre in literature. Here is a detective story "The Mystery of the Grave-Yard" or “A Dead Man’s Revenge”. On a funeral of some Joseph Burns a strange thing happened. Mr. Dobson went into the tomb to put a golden ball there as the late wished. But Mr. Dobson disappeared in the tomb. After that a strange man came to his daughter and offered his help for money. Who is that man? What has happened to Mr. Dobson? Was he kidnapped or fell into some secret basement? That's what the main characters of the story have to figure out.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Tales of the Out & the Gone -...

  Amiri Baraka

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  Stories spanning over three decades, many previously unpublished, from “a keen observer of the outlandish and outrageous in politics and human behavior” (Booklist). 
   
  Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century—most of which has never been published—Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America’s most provocative literary anti-hero. 
   
  The first section of the book, “War Stories,” offers six stories enmeshed in the volatile politics of the 1970s and 1980s. The second section, “Tales of the Out & the Gone,” reveals Amiri Baraka’s increasing literary adventurousness, combining an unpredictable language play with a passion for abstraction and psychological exploration. 
   
  Throughout, Baraka’s unique and constantly changing style will enlighten readers on the evolution of one of America’s most accomplished literary masters of the past four decades.

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