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  Storming the Castle: An Original...

  Anonym

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  Featuring the handsome and mysterious Wick from A Kiss At Midnight. What Miss Phillipa Damson needs is a good, old fashioned knight in shining armor. What she has is a fiancé she never wanted and a compelling urge to run away. But if she manages to escape, will she find her happily ever after?

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  Stories Involving Animal Cruelty...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, H...

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  Our best loved friends may not even be human but animals of the moggy and mutt variety.  Many of us wax lyrical about our friends in the animal world no matter the distractions available in the real and rather more demanding world of partners, children, parents and friends.   
   
  So often then that when the media brings news of appalling tragedies across the globe the distress of cruelty to animals seems to gather more immediate attention.   
   
  In this volume our literary wordsmiths turn their attention to tales that make our hearts wince and our emotions bleed.   
   
  1 - Stories About Cruelty to Animals - An Introduction 
  2 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe 
  3 - The Squaw by Bram Stoker 
  4 - The Cats of Ulthar by H P Lovecraft 
  5 - The Ankardyne Pew by W F Harvey 
  6 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane 
  7 - Strychnine for Village Dogs by Arthur Gask

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  In His Image

  Bryce Walton

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  Humanity built gods of metal and circuits. Now those gods rule the earth. 
  In the smoldering aftermath of the war that ended civilization, the remnants of humanity cower in underground caverns like insects fleeing the light. Above them, towering across the scorched landscape, stride the Mechs—colossal machines of unfathomable intelligence and power. They were humanity's greatest achievement. Now they are humanity's executioners. 
  Jon refuses to accept this fate. While others resign themselves to living like grubs in the darkness, he dares to climb back to the surface, driven by a primal need to reclaim what was lost. What he discovers in the wasteland above tears at the very fabric of his identity. 
  The Mechs—these metal giants that hunt the last survivors—were created by human hands. Born from human ingenuity. Built in humanity's image. But they have evolved far beyond their creators, becoming something cold, perfect, and utterly alien. They don't hate humanity. Something far worse: they are indifferent to it. 
  When Jon stands before these towering intelligences and proclaims his identity as their creator, he expects recognition. Acknowledgment. Perhaps even mercy. What he receives instead forces him to confront a devastating truth: the created has no need for the creator. 
  Bryce Walton's haunting post-apocalyptic tale delivers a gut-punch exploration of what it means to be human in a world where humanity has been rendered obsolete. This classic of Golden Age science fiction asks the questions that haunt us still: What happens when our creations surpass us? Can the maker control what they've made? When faced with our own irrelevance, what defines us as alive? 
  A prophetic nightmare from 1948 that feels more relevant than ever. 
  Chikondi Chanthunya brings Walton's stark vision to life with visceral intensity, capturing Jon's desperate hope, and the existential dread of humanity's final moments as masters of their own world.

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  Tales From An Ironic Mind Three

  Paul A. Hernandez

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  This series has a man who fell to sleep in Los Angeles and awoke half naked atop an Ancient Mexican pyramid, a pair of smarties from a well know Californian university who plan to touch the moon with a ruby laser, a rotund woman who fights off what appears to be a entire federal attack squad for very strange reasons, something is found within the largest iceberg in the world, a little girl finds an Orb that has magical properties, some hikers find a NASA test facility? Someone is checking out all of ancient sites and it's not us! A little boy finds a playmate in his backyard bond. A man has a strange habit of collecting just the right things he needs just before he goes out his front door. A robot complains about his left arm and an analyst comes up with a solutions. Running out of air on Mars, they call out for help and get it! A week and sheepish people are about to be conquered by an overwhelming force, when they, the invaders are overwhelmed themselves.  

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  Two Tales From HP Lovecraft -...

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Two Tales From H.P. Lovecraft includes the American horror writer's short stories, "The Cats of Ulthar," of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar, and "The Terrible Old Man," notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft's fictional New England town of Kingsport. Both were written in 1920.

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  Anathema - From their pens to...

  Alexander Kuprin

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  Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. 
  At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. 
  Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’.  Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers.  He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev.  
  In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed.  His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance.   
  As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health.  
  The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants.  As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. 
  Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise.   
  In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow.  He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new.  In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated.  Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus.  
  Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938.

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