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  Hellions - stories

  Julia Elliott

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  “Every sentence drips and unsettles, every character lusts and schemes, every landscape is alien and forbidding. … I am obsessed with these lush, feral stories.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties 
    
  “Beautiful, visceral, surprising stories, both wild and dangerous, with a Southern twang but universal appeal. Elliott is an Angela Carter for our times.”—Jeff VanderMeer, author of Absolution 
    
  From the acclaimed author of The Wilds comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal. 
    
  In a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript. In rural South Carolina, an alligator named Dragon becomes a beloved pet for a precocious, tough-talking twelve-year-old. During a long, muggy July, an adolescent girl finds unexpected power as her family obsesses over the horror film The Exorcist. On the outskirts of a Southern college town, a young woman resists the tyranny of a shape-shifting older professor as she develops her own sorceress skills. And at a feminist art colony in the North Carolina mountains, a group of mothers contends with the supernatural talents their children have picked up from a pair of mysterious orphans who live in the woods. 
    
  With exuberance, ferocity, and astounding imagination, Julia Elliott’s Hellions jumps from the occult to the comic, from the horrific to the wondrous, in eleven stories of earthbound characters who long for the otherworldly.

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  Penny and The Monsters

  Ridhhaan Jaiin

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  About Book 
  The book "Penny and The Monster" is a story of a girl named Penny who moves to a new house and slowly discovers there are monsters in the house. It’s a combination of horror with a touch of humor and has a moral "how one can overcome their fear." 
  About Author and Narrator Ridhhaan Jaiin 
  Ridhhaan Jaiin is one of India’s youngest and most talented authors. At just 9 years old, he is already an accomplished author, audiobook narrator, and motivational speaker. He is also a passionate child philanthropist, using his platform to raise awareness and funds for causes close to his heart. 
  His parents encouraged him to put his thoughts to paper, and he created magic! His first book – ‘Once Upon in My Mind’ – was published when he was just 8 years old, making him one of India’s youngest authors. 
  In 2022, three more books by Ridhhaan were released: “The Mirror and The Greedy Man”, “The Despicable Virus”, and “Penny and the Monsters”. All these stories have happy endings with good morals, adding values. He has also narrated audiobook of same titles. 
  As a motivational speaker, Ridhhaan has visited numerous schools, clubs, events and hosted motivational sessions for over 1000 children and 250 adults.  
  Ridhhaan Jaiin is an author who believes in giving a platform to other children to express themselves through story writing. In 2022, he founded a story writing competition for children aged 5 to 12 and sponsored the book publishing of all the winners.  
  Ridhhaan also donates portion of his income from audiobooks with blind students for their welfare. Additionally, Ridhhaan is officially signed as Brand Ambassador of BVJSS Foundation, an orphanage based in Pune providing shelter and education to children of 6 to 16 years of age.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Born...

  Anthony Trollope, G K...

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  The Top 10 – Born in London – An Introduction 
   
  The teeming metropolis of London has a long history of innovation. Amongst its most gilded are the literary talents of its world-famous authors.  From Anthony Trollope and Daniel Defoe to Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf and many others, have come iconic works that still to this day underpin our culture. 
   
  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. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - Born in London - An Introdction 
  2 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton 
  3 - Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy 
  4 - Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy 
  5 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf 
  6 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 
  7 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe 
  8 - The Death Room by Edgar Wallace 
  9 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood 
  10 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley 
  11 - The Sexton's Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  12 - Where Was Wych Street by Stacy Aumonier

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  The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of short stories featuring the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. John Watson. First published in 1892, the book includes some of Sherlock Holmes's most famous cases, such as "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." These stories showcase Holmes's unparalleled powers of observation and deduction as he solves various mysteries, from thefts and kidnappings to more complex and unusual crimes.

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  A Haunted Villa - From their...

  Ömer Seyfettin

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  The bookshelves of World literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From their countries and continents their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Ömer Seyfettin.

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  The Whale Tooth

  Jack London

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  In his tales of the South Seas, Jack London so often employs dark humor and grim irony in order to illuminate the clash of cultures. In The Whale Tooth, a white man becomes the victim of his own impulse to proselytize the benighted "heathen" on Melanesia.

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