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  Night Terrors Vol 22 - Short...

  Jack Neel Waddell, Nina...

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  Terror lurks just out of sight. But it won’t stay hidden for long… 
  A terrifying science experiment unleashes a phantasmal killer from beyond the grave. An ancient tome devours the minds of all who dare read its endless pages. And a donut shop waitress discovers a sinister secret ingredient, that keeps customers coming back for more… 
  Scare Street is proud to present a breathtaking new collection of diabolical tales. Every page unleashes a new terror, torn straight from the darkest shadows of the night. 
  You’ve seen them before, just out of the corner of your eye. Dark, slimy things, slithering through the shadows when you turn off the light. 
  And now you hear them, scraping on the door of your bedroom, as you pull the covers over your head. 
  And as their footsteps creak across the floor, you wonder… 
  Will this be the last sound you ever hear? 
  This volume features the following stories: 
  1. Soul Bottle by Jack Neel Waddell 
  2. Good Help is Hard to Find by Nina Wachsman 
  3. Snowblind by Clarence Carter 
  4. Jaws of Glass by Matthew R. Davis and Roger Davis 
  5. Aiyana’s Hearth by Craig Crawford 
  6. The Dashwood Donut Emporium is Now Hiring by Kat Sokol 
  7. Black Wolf's Sedan by P. D. Williams 
  8. Something in the Water by Margaret Eve 
  9. At the Cemetery Gates by D. C. Marcus 
  10. The Nobody Book by Adam Vine 
  11. Good Company by Madeline Jacobson 
  12. Haunting Memories by Justin Boote 
  13. Darling Daughter by Justin Moritz 
  14. The Doll by Ron Ripley and Kevin Saito

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  Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You...

  M R James

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  Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. 
   
  James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.  
   
  From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated initially as a boarder at Temple Grove School in East Sheen, west London, before gaining a scholarship to Eton and thence Cambridge where he gained a double first, becoming a distinguished linguist and mediaevalist.  
   
  Before the Great War vacations were usually spent touring Europe absorbing cultures and references for his later writing. 
   
  A man of enormous knowledge it was said he timed his breakfast egg whilst he completed the Times crossword.  
   
  Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic cliches and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting.  Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. 
   
  Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times. 
   
  James was also a medievalist scholar and translator whose work remains highly respected. He was also Provost of Eton College between 1918 and 1936. 
   
  M R James died on 12th June 1936 at Eton in Buckinghamshire.  He was 73.   
   
  His classic story ‘Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad’ exquisitely reveals how a young professor on holiday chances on a buried whistle and folklore becomes terrifying fact.

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  Batchelors

  Hugh Walpole

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  Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.Batchelors is a charming tale of two brothers, Robin and Harry, who live in a mutually codependent relationship. Robin is timid and subservient while Harry is brash and hearty. But then one day, Harry announces that he is engaged to be married...an announcement which throws Robin into internal turmoil as he struggles to cope with the new situation.

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  The Cormorants of Udröst

  Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

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  Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885) was a Norwegian writer, scholar and collector of traditional folktales. 
  The Cormorants of Udröst is one of the stories he collected. It tells of a fisherman who found the mythical island of Udröst and befriended its strange and wonderfully generous inhabitants.

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  E F Benson - A Short Story...

  E F Benson

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  Edward Frederic Benson was born in Berkshire, England on 24th July 1867. 
   
  Educated at Marlborough and Kings College Cambridge he began his career as a writer at an early age and was published whilst still studying. 
   
  Benson was also a gifted athlete and represented his country at figure skating. 
   
  His career was prodigious and widely acknowledged.  Perhaps he is best known for his collection of novels about ‘Mapp & Lucia’ which have proved very popular throughout the decades.   
   
  Benson was also well regarded as a writer of ghost stories—‘spook stories’ in the then vernacular—as well as biographies.  His ghost and supernatural fiction covered a range of subjects but all were exceptionally well-written, drenched in atmosphere, riven with chills and have stood the test of popularity over the decades as testament to his literary talents.  
   
  Benson was never married and practised his homosexuality discreetly. 
   
  E F Benson died on 29th February 1940 at University College Hospital, London of throat cancer.  He was 72. 
   
  1 - E F Benson - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - Caterpillars by E F Benson 
  3 - Mrs Amworth by E F Benson 
  4 - The Bus Conductor by E F Benson 
  5 - The Face by E F Benson 
  6 - The Room in the Tower by E F Benson 
  7 - The Terror by Night by E F Benson

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  I Can't Live Without You

  Maxim Kaluzhny

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  Robert was born a weird and peculiar man and was exiled by his religious parents when he turned eighteen years old... 
  Julie is a teenager, a good student, and a scholar. She begins to be followed by a weird tall pale man, who wears a black coat, and a top hat. This man just follows her throughout her life, stalks her and stares at her. 
  After countless run-ins throughout her life, after police confrontations, she believes she has seen the back of her stalker, ten years on....he reappears and he has plans for Julie.

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