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  The Young Girl

  Katherine Mansfield

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  “The Young Girl” is a 1920 short story written by Katherine Mansfield. Mrs. Raddick’s and her beautiful daughter waited on the steps of the casino. The daughter was incredibly beautiful with flushed cheeks, blue eyes, and golden curls. She “might have just dropped from this radiant heaven” (79), and Mrs. Raddick seemed to think so too - if her appreciative glances were any indication. The girl; however, appeared only bored as if heaven had been full of casinos and they no longer held any interest for her.

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  Edgar Allan Poe - Six of the...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
   1 - Six of the Best - Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction 
  2 - Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction 
  3 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  4 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  5 - The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 
  6 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe 
  8 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 
  9 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  10 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

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  Wuthering Heights

  Emily Brontë

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  "I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
  
  On the bleak and wind-swept Yorkshire moors, a storm of human passion rages. When the orphan Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights, he forms an unbreakable, primal bond with Catherine Earnshaw. But when social ambition and betrayal tear them apart, Heathcliff's love curdles into a decades-long vendetta. Emily Brontë's only novel is a wild, elemental force of nature that defies the conventions of Victorian morality and romance.
  
  A Study in Duality and Conflict: The novel is structured around the stark opposition between two households: the chaotic, ancient Wuthering Heights and the sheltered, civilized Thrushcross Grange. As the story descends through two generations, readers witness the devastating effects of inherited trauma and the relentless pursuit of vengeance that threatens to consume both families.
  
  The Ultimate Anti-Hero: In Heathcliff, Brontë created literature's most enduring and polarizing figure—a Byronic hero driven by a love so absolute it becomes a curse. Haunted by ghosts both literal and figurative, the characters of Wuthering Heights exist in a world where the boundary between the living and the dead is as thin as the mist on the moors. It is a masterpiece of psychological intensity and Gothic horror.
  
  An unfiltered cry of the soul. Purchase "Wuthering Heights" today and experience the most haunting romance ever written.

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  A Dead Secret - From their pens...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  The Complete Collection of H P...

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  What if humanity was never meant to understand the universe?
  
  The Complete Collection of H. P. Lovecraft brings together the full body of fiction from one of the most influential horror writers of all time. Lovecraft created a new kind of terror—cosmic horror—where ancient gods, forbidden knowledge, and indifferent universes reduce humanity to insignificance.
  
  This comprehensive collection includes all of Lovecraft's short stories, novellas, and collaborative works. His tales blend atmosphere, philosophy, and dread, revealing worlds where sanity fractures and reality itself becomes uncertain. From cursed books and forgotten cities to vast cosmic beings beyond comprehension, Lovecraft's imagination reshaped horror forever.
  
  Dark, unsettling, and endlessly influential, his stories inspired generations of writers, filmmakers, and creators across horror, science fiction, and fantasy.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  All short stories and novellas by H. P. Lovecraft in one collection
  
  Iconic works such as The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, and The Shadow over Innsmouth
  
  The foundations of cosmic and weird horror
  
  A cornerstone collection of twentieth-century horror literature
  
  Read worldwide and adapted across countless media, Lovecraft's work remains unmatched in its power to disturb and awe.
  
  Gaze into the abyss—if you dare. Buy now and experience the complete collection of H. P. Lovecraft.

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  Winnie-the Pooh and The House at...

  Alan Alexander Milne

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  Enjoy this collection of all 20 beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories, featuring Christopher Robin and his friends! Join the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and the rest for delightful mishaps and adventures filled with Warmth, Whimsy, and Honey. Rediscover the charming tales that have captured hearts for generations.

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