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  A Victorian Lady's Ghostly...

  Ellen Wood, Emily Arnold, Eliza...

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  Four of the very best Victorian short ghost stories, all written by incredibly talented, but oft-times overlooked or forgotten, female authors. 
  The Victorian era is remembered for many things, but one of the fondest is the wide and varied array of short, ghostly, suspenseful tales…often enjoyed around the fireside at Christmas time. 
  In this new anthology, Billie Fulford-Brown performs four of the very best, all written by incredibly talented, but oft-times overlooked or forgotten, female authors:“A Mysterious Visitor” by Ellen Wood“The Ghost of the Treasure Chamber” by Emily Arnold“Number Two, Melrose Square” by Theo Gift aka Dora Havers“Christmas Eve in Beach House” by Eliza Lynn Linton

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  Only a Dream

  H. Rider Haggard

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  Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 – 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure stories, often set in exotic locations, especially Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre."Only a Dream" is a ghost story about the strange experience of a widower about to remarry, who is visited on the eve of his wedding by the ghastly apparition of his dead first wife.

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  The Young Bride - A Novel

  Alessandro Baricco

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  A young woman enters a fantastically strange family in this “luminous and alarming lesson on desire” by the international-bestselling author (La Stampa, Italy). 
   
  A young woman is promised to the scion of a noble family. While her betrothed is away traveling, she is sent to the family’s villa to make her marriage preparations. There, the woman discovers that her future in-laws fear the coming of night, each and every night, and seem to never sleep. As the days pass, the atmosphere turns increasingly surreal, and the young bride’s interactions with the family turn increasingly erotic. 
   
  In this “virtuoso literary performance,” Alessandro Baricco portrays a cast of mysterious characters who exist outside of the normal rules of causation. The Young Bride is an adult fable about fate, otherness, and the author’s own act of creation (European Literature Network). 
   
  “Baricco spins it all together into a work of elegance, eroticism and playful make-believe.” —The Wall Street Journal

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  Fortunes Adrift

  Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne

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  Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1866-1944) was a British writer of popular adventure fiction and fantastic literature.'Fortunes Adrift' is the story of a small trading steamer than comes across a broken down passenger liner off the coast of Africa just as a hurricane is bearing down on the two vessels. Never one to miss a commercial opportunity, the captain of the steamer strikes a deal. For £100,000, to be paid by the wealthy cruise passengers, he will attempt to tow the liner to safety. But will their groaning engines hold? And if not...will they even survive the storm?

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  Kittentits - A Novel

  Holly Wilson

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  “Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I’ve had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams’s The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!” —Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books “Holly Wilson’s Kittentits is sacred and profane, filled with big emotions, all amplified by grief. Molly is a wholly unique and charismatic narrator, navigating (and creating) chaos as she seeks out a way to hold onto both the living and dead. This is a wildly funny and utterly convincing coming-of-age novel like nothing I’ve read before.” —Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searching for friendship and ghosts. It’s 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike–riding ex-con with a shady past, moves in, she quickly becomes the object of Molly’s adoration. She might treat Molly terribly, but they both have dead moms and potty mouths, so naturally Molly is the moth to Jeanie’s scuzzy flame. When Jeanie fakes her own death in a hot-air balloon accident, Molly runs away to Chicago with just a stolen credit card and a sweet pair of LA Gear Heatwaves to meet her pen pal Demarcus and hunt down Jeanie. What follows is a race to New Year’s Eve, as Molly and Demarcus plan a séance to reunite with their lost moms in front of a live audience at the World’s Fair. A surrealist and bold take on the American coming-of-age novel, Holly Wilson’s debut is about the interstices of loss, grief, and friendship.

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  Prisoners of a Dark Night

  Timothy Bryan

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  Liam Stone is a quiet man whose personal life has taken a turn for the worse. Going through a devastating divorce, he flies to Sweden for a short vacation with old college friends. A time of relaxation and enjoyment is just what he needs to brighten his flagging spirits and recover from a traumatic breakup. 
  But when Liam and his friends make a daytrip to an isolated and beautiful island, they quickly find something is horribly wrong with the locals. What began as a carefree historical excursion soon becomes a battle for survival, forcing the companions to flee for their lives from ancient creatures intent on hunting them for food. 
  Facing a cunning and merciless enemy, their only path to freedom means cooperating with a local ally. But as their numbers decrease and chances for escape fade, the frantic party finds that only a painful and unspeakable choice offers any real hope for making it home alive.

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