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  The Music of Erich Zann

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Music of Erich Zann" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922. Due to lack of funds, a university student is forced to take up lodging in an almost empty apartment building on a street named "Rue d'Auseil". One of the few other tenants is an old German man named Erich Zann. The old man is mute and plays the viol[a] with a local theater orchestra. He lives alone on the top floor and at night he plays strange melodies the student has never heard before. Despite Zann's dissatisfaction with his own music, the student invites himself to hear Zann play at his room. While watching the first night, the student's curiosity attracts him to the window of the room, which is the only window that can oversee the wall at the end of the mysterious street. Zann seems disturbed to discover that the student is able to hear his melody from his room and asks the student in a friendly manner to move to a lower floor where he won't hear Zann's music, only to return the next day to his antisocial behavior once the student has moved...

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  The Fire of Asshurbanipal - A...

  Robert E. Howard

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   'The Fire of Asshurbanipal' is one of Howard's stories that feature in the Cthulhu Mysthos. This is a Cthulhu mythos tale that could just as easily been an episode of Indiana Jones. American adventurer and his Afghan side kick look for a lost city mentioned in the Necronomicon with a fabled jewel. There are armies of bad guys, fighting scenes, and a Lovecraftian baddie to boot. And after all is said and done, the good guys make it out ok

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  Coyote Songs

  Gabino Iglesias

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  A "vivid and visceral, gritty and magical, dark and soaring” (Meg Gardiner) novel from one of the most electrifying voices in contemporary crime fiction, Gabino Iglesias, this deeply honest story follows several, lost, desperate folk in the heart of the southwest. In this mosaic horror/crime novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest. A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the Mother of Chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father. These stories intertwine with those of a vengeful spirit and a hungry creature to paint a timely, compelling, pulpy portrait of revenge, family, and hope.

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  The House by the Cemetery

  Lisa Childs

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  In Gold Creek, Michigan, legend has it that the ghost of a local grave digger still walks the cemetery, swinging his shovel, looking for his next victim to bury. But when the town’s wealthy undertaker dies, his estranged daughter must contend with the ghosts that haunt her own family …  
   
  After she left home at seventeen, River swore she would never return to Gold Creek.  
   
  Growing up at the Gold Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens was a nightmare. Classmates constantly teased her for being part of the “Ghoul” family, while her own family denied that she was actually one of them. Her father, undertaker Gregory Gold, certainly never acted like a loving parent. He was far more interested in profiting off other people’s tragedies. But now Gregory has died. And River has surrendered to the pleas of her mother, Fiona, that she come back for his funeral. 
   
  But the mourning period is cut short when it’s revealed that Gregory died of poisoning—and Fiona is the number one suspect in his murder. Clearly, Fiona, his third wife and the funeral home’s cosmetologist, is being framed. There are plenty of more-likely suspects, and River is determined to prove her mother’s innocence. That she’ll have to work with the sheriff—her high school enemy—is a small price to pay. 
   
  With a fortune at stake, River is sure the killer lies among Gregory’s first two wives and their children and grandchildren. Yet soon, other discoveries will be made, and longstanding secrets unearthed. But when more people are murdered, the danger hits closer to home than River imagined possible. Drawn back into the lives—and lies—of the Golds, she’ll have to use her every resource to keep herself, and her loved ones, safe.

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  Baffling Beasts - 15 Tales of...

  Walter De la Mare, Arlton Eadie,...

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  Fifteen horror stories about strange beings and behaviours that defy conventional definitions. 
  Contents: 
  Warning Wings by Arlton Eadie (Weird Tales, 1929) 
  A seemingly insignificant white moth. 
  Mother of Toads by Clark Ashton Smith (WT, 1938) 
  An unusual witch. 
  The Destroying Horde by Donald Wandrei (WT, 1935) 
  The first BLOB story? 
  Caterpillars by E. F. Benson (The Room in the Tower, 1912) 
  Terrible things in an Italian villa. 
  The Urbanite by Ewen Whyte (WT, 1950) 
  The great city is never still. 
  Rats by F. A. M. Webster (At Dead of Night, 1931) 
  A plague of rats. 
  The Malignant Invader by F. B. Long (WT, 1932) 
  A creature from the bowels of the earth. 
  The Horror in the Museum by H. P. Lovecraft (WT, 1933) 
  A private wax museum that specialises in the grotesque. 
  My Father, the Cat by H. Slesar (Fantastic Universe, 1957) 
  A most unusual cat. 
  The Seeking Thing by Janet Hirsch (Magazine of Horror, 1964) 
  Something in the middle of the road. 
  They by R. B. Johnson (WT, 1936) 
  They dwell in Dead Man's Canyon. 
  The Hyena by Robert E. Howard (WT, 1928) 
  A man with an unusual ability. 
  Sredni Vashtar by Saki (The Chronicles of Clovis, 1911) 
  A secret in the garden shed. 
  Demons of the Film Colony by Theodore LeBerthon (WT, 1932) 
  A tale of 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein'. 
  A:B:O. by Walter de la Mare (Cornhill, 1896) 
  The excavation of a metallic chest.

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  Summary: Fairy Tale - By Stephen...

  Brooks Bryant

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  DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL BOOK. 
  This is a summary, and it does not accompany the official 
  'Fairy Tale' by Stephen King introduces Charlie Reade, a seemingly typical high school student excelling in sports and academics. However, his life is marked by tragedy, as his mother died in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, leading his father down a path of alcoholism. Charlie learned to take care of himself and his father amidst this hardship. 
  At the age of seventeen, Charlie encounters Radar, a dog, and her reclusive owner, Howard Bowditch, who lives on a hill with a mysterious locked shed in the backyard emitting strange sounds. Charlie begins working for Mr. Bowditch and forms a deep bond with Radar. Upon Bowditch's death, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape with an unbelievable story—inside the shed lies a portal to another world. 
  'Fairy Tale' delves into Charlie's journey as he grapples with the mysteries hidden within the shed and the fantastical revelations that will change his life forever. Stephen King weaves a tale of intrigue and wonder, blurring the lines between reality and the extraordinary.

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