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  Monstrilio

  Gerardo Sámano Córdova

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  A "genuinely scary" horror debut written in "prose so beautiful you won't want to rush" about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes (Ana Reyes) 
   
     
   
  Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses—though curbed by his biological and chosen family's communal care—threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life. 
   
    
   
  A thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty, Gerardo Sámano Córdova blends bold imagination and evocative prose with deep emotional rigor. Told in four acts that span the globe from Brooklyn to Berlin, Monstrilio offers, with uncanny clarity, a cathartic and precise portrait of being human.

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  Present at a Hanging and Other...

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. Nothing is known of his death, as he went missing while an observer with Pancho Villa’s army in 1913/14. (Summaries by Peter Yearsley)The Ways of Ghosts: Stories of encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer.Contents (with beginning time):Present at a Hanging (02:06)A Cold Greeting (07:07)A Wireless Message (11:15)An Arrest (17:04) 
  Soldier Folk: Oddities of death and life; from a man who finds that his death is uncertain, through the effects of war on the family, duty that survives death, to the memory of revenge.Contents (with beginning time):A Man with Two Lives (00:31)Three and One are One (06:23)A Baffled Ambuscade (14:18)Two Military Executions (19:45) 
  Some Haunted Houses - Part One: Encounters of the living with the spirits of the dead who have been bound into buildings. An old man revenges himself; a journalist investigates a haunted house; and the quivering vine that tangles the face of a deserted home.Contents (with beginning time):The Isle of Pines (00:31)A Fruitless Assignment (10:39)A Vine on a House (17:54) 
  Some Haunted Houses - Part Two: Houses where the living are never seen again, memories of the mortuary live on, and a murdered man wanders through. Contents (with beginning time):At Old Man Eckert’s (00:30)The Spook House (06:36)The Other Lodgers (16:04)The Thing at Nolan (21:50) 
  Mysterious Disappearances: Three short tales of men who have vanished living their ordinary lives, sometimes in full view of witnesses; plus a short, probably fictional, description of a theory to partly explain these events.  
  Contents (with beginning time):The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (00:32)An Unfinished Race (05:18)Charles Ashmore’s Trail (07:50)Science to the Front (12:23)

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  The Shadows on the Wall

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: The Shadows on the Wall 
  Author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1903 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 82 
  Description: 
  The Shadows on the Wall is one of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s most unsettling works of supernatural and psychological horror—a quiet, relentless study of grief, guilt, and unseen terror. After the sudden death of a brother, a family becomes haunted by an impossible phenomenon: a life-sized human shadow that appears nightly on the wall, cast by nothing and resembling the dead man with horrifying precision. 
  Central to the story is the shadow itself—motionless, silent, and utterly inexplicable. As fear deepens, another brother attempts to confront the apparition with desperate violence, only to discover that reason and force are powerless against it. Freeman transforms an ordinary domestic space into a site of mounting dread, where silence and stillness become instruments of terror. 
  Rather than relying on spectacle, Freeman builds horror through psychological pressure and restraint, allowing fear to grow naturally from the characters’ reactions to the impossible. Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s slow-burn tension, escalating panic, and devastating final revelation. 
  The Shadows on the Wall endures as a masterclass in subtle horror—a reminder that the most frightening forces are often those that cannot be seen, explained, or escaped.

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  Pagan's Pilgrimage

  John Herdman

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  John Herdman's beautiful and mysterious Edinburgh tale, Pagan's Pilgrimage, first published in Scotland 1978.
  
  
  With nascent love abandoned and the recurring presence of the creeping 'wrinkled-nosed' laundry man of a traumatic childhood, the stagnating life of Pagan must be revived by the discovery of a somewhat questionable raison d'être ― the assassination of an aristocrat.
  
  The spleenful nature of Herdman's titular protagonist and a selection of odd experiences perfectly sets up a strife deep within himself: can Pagan commit to his partially book-found life-calling, tangled into his pilgrimage?
  
  In Pagan's Pilgrimage, John Herdman expertly demonstrates his capacity to evoke complicatedly moralising characters with haunting effect. Equal parts absurd and ephemeral Pagan's Pilgrimage is an enigmatical Edinburgh tale.
  
  
  "A sustained and often brilliant performance ... sheer comic invention and verbal ingenuity ... This is an observant, intelligent and humorous novel of great merit."
  
  Alan Bold, The Scotsman
  
  
  ".... the writing is brilliant .....a kind of exploration of the Scottish soul .... An unforgettable piece of writing."
  
  Cuthbert Graham, Press & Journal
  
  "There is a seriousness at the heart of it, a wide philosophical background, and an acute psychological verity ... all that I have spoken of will delight you."
  
  Catherine Lockerbie, The Student
  
  "Remarkable in its clarity and disturbing in its implications. The novel is an impressive construct, amusing, climactic, at times dreadful, and locked together in tidily effective prose."
  
  David Campbell, Scottish Educational Journal

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  The Nimby Invasion - Attack of...

  Rachel Lawson

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  It is all out war on the Magician in this compilation of Magicians stories. 
  "To think it all started with one alien being murdered. by a magician," said Lance. 
  "Not the first war that started with a murder world war one for example," said Blake sadly. 
  "Now we are being hunted and cancelled by the greys," said Lance, 
  "It started peacefully but the politics and darker elements got into it," said Blake sadly. 
  "Most of them are passionate about their causes whatever they are," Lance said. 
  "I wonder if the killer was caught would their thirst for vengeance be quenched?" Blake asked hopefully. 
  "No, they want more than vengeance for one life! They want more than that now. It is beyond that they want nothing more than the fall of the empire and the Magicians," said Lance. 
  "But Lance! We have to stop them! They are trying to pull down a statue of your granddad!" Said a magician a dimension away to Lance's teenage son Lance Junior. They were watching an angry mob of grey aliens and human sympathizers. Who were trying to rip down a statue of the local hero Blue Midnight, the Emperor of the local solar system in a park. 
  Blue Midnight being of course Blake. 
  "Let them, Gabriel, to fight them would cause them to be angrier and they will turn on us! It is only a statue It is only a symbol! It is not the man," said Lance Junior in the magician's head as he dragged the mad magician away from the place.

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  Konstandin and Doruntina - The...

  Al Nika

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  A promise made in life must be honored even beyond death. 
  Konstandin and Doruntina are Arbëreshë siblings from Civita, a stone village in southern Italy where ancient Albanian traditions still live in language, ritual, and memory. Fascinated by an old legend about a brother, a vow, and a road that does not forgive, they decide to travel and investigate the story themselves. 
  Before leaving, Konstandin gives his mother his word that if anything happens, he will bring Doruntina home. In their world, a promise is not comfort. It is law. It is besa. 
  When Doruntina disappears far from home, Konstandin must honor the vow he has made. What follows is a quiet, relentless journey across borders and memory, along the thin line between the living and the dead. Small details begin to feel wrong. Silence gathers meaning. And the promise that once seemed simple reveals its true cost. 
  Inspired by the legendary Balkan ballad of Konstandin and Doruntina, this haunting mythic novella explores the power of a word given to a mother and kept beyond the limits of life itself.

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