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  One Hand Screaming - 20 Haunting...

  Mark Leslie

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  "A wonderfully weird gallop through nightmare country. Dark, often hilarious, twisted, and filled with magic. Loved every single story" 
  - Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of NecroTek and The Dragon in Winter 
  For centuries, philosophers have pondered the Zen Buddhist koan: "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" What, then, is the sound of one hand screaming? 
  Within these stories you will find . . .a bookstore that keeps more than dusty old tomes on its shelves . . .a phantom limb that can reach into the next world . . .the exquisite taste of a book-aged skull . . .a comic that colors people's lives with terror . . .graves unable to hold their wares . . .a collector of haunted artifacts who gets more than he bargains for . . .a deserted northern highway that brings back a man's worst childhood fears . . .bogeymen, anthropomorphic terrors, and more . . . 
  In 2004 Mark Leslie released his first collection of chilling fiction and disturbing poetry in a volume called One Hand Screaming. Twenty years later, this special anniversary edition that is more than twice as long as the original includes all the stories and poems from the first edition plus new ones published in the past twenty years along with all new pieces crafted specifically for this volume. This collection includes previously published award-nominees alongside original and never-before published works. 
    
  This haunting collection of tales read by Mark Leslie, Eric Bryan Moore, Scott Overton, Aaron Fors, Chris Humphreys, and Shaun Smith are sure to bring a delicious shiver to any fan of The Twilight Zone, Amazing Stories, and Black Mirror. If, that is, you're interested in opening your imagination to the sound of those silent screams.

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  A Defensive Diamond

  Saki Saki

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  In "A Defensive Diamond," Saki (H.H. Munro) presents a humorous vignette set in a gentleman's club during a dreary October afternoon. The story centers around Treddleford, who seeks solace in a book while trying to avoid the incessant chatter of Amblecope, a loquacious fellow club member.As Treddleford attempts to immerse himself in poetry, Amblecope interrupts with his own anecdotes about sports and personal exploits, revealing his tendency to dominate conversations. Treddleford cleverly deflects Amblecope's attempts at engagement by sharing exaggerated and absurd tales of his own

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  The Boy Who Drew Cats

  Anushka Ravishankar

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  "Akiro, a young Japanese boy, drew only cats. Cats, cats and more cats! No matter what
  he was asked to do, all he did was draw cats everywhere, and this artistic tendency led
  to an adventure for him one day - an adventure that would change his life. Go on a
  journey to Japan in this folktale narrated by Jaaved Jaffrey."

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  The Buried and the Drowned - A...

  J.F. Penn

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  Some things are not meant to be forgotten. 
  An ancient timber circle emerges from a storm-lashed coast. A secret chamber is discovered beneath a Victorian zoo. A long-lost tomb of undead knights is unearthed beneath the streets of Paris.What happens when the buried and the drowned break free? 
  The Buried and the Drowned is my collection of dark, thrilling short stories that will take you from the volcanic shores of Iceland to the silent depths of the Pacific, from the catacombs of history to the frontiers of genetic science. These stories explore the thin veil between our world and the next, between myth and reality, science and the supernatural.

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  The General's Will - An emotive...

  Vera Jelihovsky

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  The Ukrainian writer Vera Jelihovsky was born on the 29th April 1835.  At that time Ukraine, or Little Russia as it was also called, was part of the Russian Empire.   
   
  Vera was also the sister of Helena Blavatsky, herself a noted writer and a co-founder of the Theosophical Society. 
   
  As a writer Vera’s works rests mainly on her children’s stories and little of any of her work is known in the West.   
   
  ‘The General’s Will’ is a fascinating story of a dying man who tries, with the writing of a new Will, to right the wrongs his second marriage has caused to the children of his first.   
   
  His scheming second wife attempts to change that.  But will her selfish plan succeed? 
   
  Vera Jelihovsky died on the 17th May 1896.  She was 61.

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  One Good Story That One - Stories

  Thomas King

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  One Good Story, That One is a collection steeped in native oral tradition and shot through with Thomas King's special brand of wit and comic imagination. These highly acclaimed stories conjure up Native and Judeo-Christian myths, present-day pop culture, and literature while mixing in just the right amount of perception and experience.

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