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  Love Offers No Safety -...

  Jude Dibia, Olumide F. Makanjuola

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  Love Offers No Safety: Nigeria’s Queer Men Speak is a raw and powerful collection of 25 first-person narratives that explore the diverse experience of queer Nigerian men. These stirring stories cut across age, class, religion, ethnicity, family and relationships, offering a glimpse into what it means to survive as a queer man in Nigeria. From Tunji, who takes us back to the thriving networking community before social media, to Chukwori, who struggles to reconcile his need to serve God with his sexuality, and Abdulkarim, who frustratingly wonders if he’ll ever stop working twice as hard to be accepted, these stories are full of contradictions, anger, resiliency, profound insight, and radical hope.With heightened levels of oppression, violence, and discrimination faced by LGBTQ Nigerians due to the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Law, these voices remind us of what the queer community in Nigeria has always been fighting for—the freedom to be themselves, love themselves, and love each other, despite being viewed as unworthy. Love Offers No Safety is a heartbreaking yet hopeful reminder that love knows no boundaries and offers no safety, but it is worth fighting for."Told from the points of view of gay, queer, and bisexual men spread across Nigeria from the South to the North, [Love Offers No Safety] will provide insight and open up conversations around this misunderstood demography."—Toni Kan, author of The Carnivorous City and Nights of the Creaking Bed

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  Shrouded Reflections - An...

  Alex Integras

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  Unearth the Unimaginable… 
  In the shadows of ordinary lives, where reality blurs with the inexplicable, lies a collection of stories that will chill your bones and ignite your imagination. 
  Enter a world where a mirror refuses to reflect, where shadows come to life, where dreams turn into nightmares, and where prophecies whispered in the dead of night may seal your fate. From the haunting melody of a cursed music box to the twisted allure of a diabolical toyshop, each tale is a dark and thrilling journey into the unknown. 
  Dare to explore the twisted corridors of "The Hospice," where a dying patient's prophecy sends shivers down a young nurse's spine. Feast upon the unimaginable at Club Numinous, where culinary delights hide a terrifying secret. Discover the terror of "Crybaby Bridge," where a haunting legend becomes all too real. These tales and more await you within the pages of this anthology, penned with a touch of madness and a love for the macabre. Every story is a doorway, and behind each lies a realm of fear, mystery, and dark fascination. 
  Do you dare to cross the threshold?

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  The Island of Dr Moreau

  H. G. Wells

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  Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life. 
  While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells's prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing "smarter" human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick's adventures on Dr. Moreau's island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read.

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  The Bell-Tower

  Herman Melville

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  Considered to be the least characteristic of Melville's stories, somewhat resembling the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, The Bell-Tower is a dark literary work that explores, though never fully reveals, its central mystery. An eccentric artist and architect dreams up plans for a magnificent bell tower. After receiving approval from the city, he happily begins construction. When city residents begin to notice strange occurrences associated with the project, their complaints eventually force the city magistrates to investigate. Showing the magistrates around the tower, the artist proudly shows off his work and answers their questions, but one curiosity remains unanswered-what lies beneath the shroud in the bell-tower?

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  The Sea-Raiders

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. "The Sea-Raiders" is a gruesome tale of a rapacious shoal of cephalopods which attack the coast of southern England.

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  The Dreams in the Witch House

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town. The house once harbored Keziah Mason, an witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.

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