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  Street The (The Work of H P...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I. As the city grows up around the street, it is planted with many trees and built along with "simple, beautiful houses of brick and wood", each with a rose garden. As the Industrial Revolution runs its course, the area degenerates into a run-down and polluted slum, with all of the street's old houses falling into disrepair.
  After World War I and the October Revolution, the area becomes home to a community of Russian immigrants. Among the new residents is the leadership of a "vast band of terrorists," who are plotting the destruction of the United States on Independence Day. When the day arrives, the terrorists gather to do the deed, but before they can get started, all the houses in the street collapse concurrently on top of each other, killing them all. Observers at the scene testify that immediately after the collapse, they experienced visions of the trees and rose gardens that had once been in the street.

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  House of Shadows

  Chasity Bowlin

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  House of Shadows is Part One of a three part series. Both Veil of Shadows, Part Two and Passage of Shadows, Part Three, are avalable on Amazon, as well.  
  After losing her father and nearly losing her life when their ship sank off the coast of Cornwall, Adelaide Hampton Parke is faced with a terrible dilemma. Her stepmother has demanded that they immediately set sail for New York but the very idea of stepping foot on board another ship and facing the uncertainty of a Transatlantic crossing leaves her paralyzed with fear. Not to mention that her relationship with her stepmother is contentious at best and she's been given only six months to return to New York and find herself a husband or be put out of the family's Park Avenue home to make her own way in the world.  
  Salvation comes, unexpectedly, in the form of a telegram from Eldren Llewellyn a Welsh lord and the sole owner of a mining empire. He'd partnered with her father in multiple business ventures, and upon the man's death, proposed to Adelaide in order to spare her the ordeal of returning home in her stepmother's less than tender care. But as she travels to his remote estate in Snowdonia, Adelaide comes to realize that his ancestral home, Cysgod Lys, literally the Shadow Hall, is filled with secrets and dark things she cannot name. Fear is her constant companion and she begins to wonder if her new husband is her savior... or her doom.

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  The Frangitelli Mirror

  G.R Thomas

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  In 1915 a book was stolen, a crow appeared, and fate dealt its hand.  
  Rose Carbonelli sees ghosts. 
  She doesn’t sleep. 
  She watches every corner, studies every shadow, listens to the screams that no one else hears. 
  Rose Carbonelli is terrified. 
  Her father hasn’t been heard from since he volunteered to go to war in 1915. 
  The money ran out a year ago, her mother, Edith, is fading away. 
  Rose needs a job to save them both, and an excuse to flee the ghosts of her home. 
  When Rutherford House advertises for a lady’s maid, Rose seizes the opportunity. 
  A wage to save her mother, food to fill her belly, and an escape from the dead that occupy the shadows… 
  It seems just so perfect. 
  But is it the escape Rose has been dreaming of? 
  Is there truth to the rumours about Rutherford House? What lurks within the bones of it? Why has the Lady Mary Rutherford not been seen in over a decade? 
  Is this the perfect escape, or is it another nightmare Rose could never have imagined?

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  J Habakuk Jephson's Statement

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published anonymously in The Cornhill Magazine in january 1884.
  Conan Doyle has been inspired by the real case of the ship Mary Celeste which has been found drifting in the Atlantic off Portugal, under full sail but apparently abandoned. He has been one of the first to publish a version of what happened. He drew heavily on fact but included significant differences that have since accredited to the real story, not least in calling the ship the Marie, rather than Mary, Celeste. Some journalists even took his account for real.
  Joseph Habakuk Jephson, a soldier who was hurt in the battle of Antietam during the American Civil War, is in convalescence. One day, an old black maid offers him a black oval shaped stone which belonged to her ancestors. At the end of the war, Jephson gets married and establishes himself as a doctor in Brooklyn.

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  Treasured by the Troll

  Ami Wright

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  Would you make a deal with a big, grumpy troll? 
   
   
   
  Trolls belong lurking under bridges, not in the arms of beautiful human women. That's what Hisondine tells me. He's not fooling me, though. I see the way he looks at me. I know the way he touches me. He's huge and muscled and hard as stone. But that's not the only thing about him that makes me feel safe. He treats me like I'm precious. I've been a companion to plenty of monsters, but I've never met one who makes me feel special the way he does. 
   
   
   
  Despite our size difference, it's clear he can't stop thinking about me. So I'm going to do everything I can to make him mine, even if it's only fake dating. 
   
   
   
  I should be smarter than this. I'm only doing this job to pay off my college debt. I know it's just work and I shouldn't be feeling this way, but I can't help counting the hours until I see him again. But at the end of the day, it's not real. He's a billionaire and I'm an escort. 
   
   
   
  So how do I turn this dream into a reality? Because I want the fairytale, but it's not the prince I want to take home. It's the monster! 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Light as a Feather Stiff as a Board

  Kyle "Trigger" Coroneos

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  A propulsive story that is just as much an adventure as it is a self-help guide, Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board is much more than child’s play. It’s the key to unlocking the mysteries and meaning of life. 
  When a professional thief chooses to reverse his ethical alignment and starts using his skills for altruistic purposes, it leads him to unlocking hidden wisdom that dramatically elevates his physical capabilities and awareness of man’s place in the Universe, while concurrently leading him down the path of uncovering a nefarious underground syndicate that implicates those in the highest reaches of society and power. 
  Through his journey, he explores subjects such as self-discipline, the encroachment of technology into daily life, and eventually, catastrophic natural disasters, terrorism, and Armageddon, all as he navigates through enlightening moments counterintuitive to modern conventional and prevailing thought.

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