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  The Devil's Cocktail

  Alexander Wilson

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  Sir Leonard is not a man to desire fame or notoriety. His chronicler has been forced to fall back on office records and information supplied by various members of the secret service, to tell of the struggles of Wallace and his intelligence officers and their battles against the Soviet Union, terrorism and subversion in the British Empire, Nazi Germany and the tentacles of global organised crime.

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  The Invisible Man

  H. G. Wells

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  Classic Science Horror novel, by an early master.When a med student switches to physics, he becomes obsessed with the properties of light. His research leads him to the discovery of the secret of invisibility. Now how can he use this unique attribute to his advantage? What power may he wield? What terror can he inflict?

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  Doug Bradley's Spinechillers...

  H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James,...

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  This triumphant final volume of Spinechillers begins with Doug Bradley's personal guide to the writers and the history of the stories.M.R. James' classic Number 13 starts off this volume with a mystery about a disappearing and reappearing hotel room, can you guess the room number?Story two is the tale of a cat that can not only talk, but spills secrets that should have been truly left behind.Next, we present one of the most famous stories by H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu.  Doug transports you into Lovecraft's world of indescribable horror, accompanied by Alistair Lock's outstanding orchestral score.Edgar Allan Poe's well-known allegory on our mortality, The Masque of the Red Death, follows.Then Jeffrey Combs reads the concluding part of Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator series, The Tomb Legions.Finishing up Volume 13 is Poe's 1843-penned poem, "The Conqueror Worm".

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  Out of Town (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.OUT OF TOWN: Sitting, on a bright September morning, among my books and papers at my open window on the cliff overhanging the sea-beach, I have the sky and ocean framed before me like a beautiful picture.

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  Lazarus (CopyrightGroup)

  Leonid Andreyev

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  Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born on 21st August in Oryol, Russia to a middle-class family of Polish, Ukranian and Finnish ancestry. 
   
  He studied law in Moscow before working as a police-court reporter for a daily newspaper.  His literary efforts at this time were confined to poetry and those he did try to get published were all rejected.  
   
  In 1898 his first short story ‘Bargamot and Garaska’, published in the ‘Kurier’ newspaper caught the attention and friendship of Maxim Gorky.  Andreyev now discarded any other career path apart from that of author. 
   
  His first collection of short stories appeared in 1901 and sold over a quarter of a million copies.  He was a sensation. Using his interest in psychology and psychiatry gave him an almost unrivalled ability to delve into the human psyche and create astonishing characters. 
   
  During the first Russian revolution Andreyev was a staunch defender of democratic ideals and many of his stories reflected the heated mood of the times. With the 1905 Revolution’s failure his work became pessimistic and despairing. By the beginning of the following decade he began losing his audience to new literary movements such as the Futurists. 
   
  He published little after 1914 except political writings, instead working as the literary editor of the ‘Russian Will’ newspaper.  When the Bolsheviks took power he sensed catastrophe was coming and moved to Finland where he spent his last years in poverty distraught at the outcome of the Revolution. 
   
  Leonid Andreyev died of heart failure on 12th September 1919 at the age of 48 in Mustamäki, Finland. 
   
  His classic story ‘Lazarus’ brilliantly tells the story of Christ’s disciple, forced to wander the earth for all time it is both chilling and heart-breaking in its Russian setting.

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  Medea (NHB Classic Plays)

  Euripides Euripides

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  Euripides' classic about the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.
  Winner of the Saltire Society's award for SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2001
  'This outstanding work should firmly establish the Glasgow playwright as Scotland's greatest living dramatist... the finest piece I have seen on the Scottish stage this year' - Scotland on Sunday
  'Liz Lochhead's stunning new version of Medea is the kind of interpretation - brave, visionary, risky - that blows a well-known text apart and reassembles it in a completely new light... ancient but new, cosmic yet agonisingly familiar' - Scotsman
  'Some of the most exciting recent work on Greek drama in the English language' - Sunday Times

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