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  Edith Nesbit: The Ghost Stories

  Edith Nesbit

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  Edith Nesbit – The Ghost Stories.  Edith Nesbit is more famously known as a writer of children’s stories such as The Railway Children.  But in this volume we explore her short stories of the macabre and ghostly sort.  Born in 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now London.  Her early life was one of constant house changes before meeting, age 17, Hubert Bland who she was to marry three years later – whilst she was 7 months pregnant.  Additionally Bland kept his affair with another woman going throughout.  The two children of this relationship were raised by Edith as her own as well as their own three.  They founded the Fabian Society in 1884.   Thought of as the first modern writer for children she also wrote for adults producing over 50 books in total as well as a collections of poetry which we shall explore in a separate volume.  These stories are brought to your ears in eerie detail by Ghizela Rowe, George Irving and Richard Mitchley.

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  Omega Deep

  Christopher Cartwright

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  Name: USS Omega Deep 
  Cost: 30 billion dollars 
  Class: Experimental 
  Noise Emissions: Undetectable by current sound monitoring capabilities 
  Current Status: Unknown. Last contact 96 days ago. Presumed sunk. 192 souls lost. 
  The US Navy’s most advanced nuclear attack submarine, the USS Omega Deep was the first to disappear. 
  It was followed swiftly by the loss of the Russian spy vessel Vostok, and then the Feng Jian, a Chinese Aircraft Carrier. 
  Sam Reilly and his unique team of troubleshooters are requested at the express order of the President of the United States of America to locate the Omega Deep and determine the cause of these unexplained tragedies, before they lead to World War III.

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold many secrets for Holmes and Watson to unravel. The detective is contemptuous of supernatural manifestations, but the reader will remain perpetually haunted by the hound from the moor.

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  Enchanted April (version 2)

  Elizabeth Von Arnim

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  Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holiday in a medieval castle. They are brought there by the promise of the advertised 'wisteria and sunshine', but they find so much more than they bargained for, as the place transforms them and changes their lives in ways they could never have expected. The novel is dominated by four wonderfully drawn characters: timid Lotty Wilkins, terrified of her domineering husband; sober and religious Rose Arbuthnot; rigid and judgemental Mrs Fisher; and the breathtakingly beautiful but disillusioned and unhappy Lady Caroline Dester. Von Arnim's story of their transformation under the Italian sun is warm, witty, intelligent, and as enchanting as the title suggests. - Summary by Helen Taylor

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  M R James - Six of the Best -...

  M R James

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
  1 - Six of the Best - M R James - An Introduction 
  2 - M R James - An Introduction 
  3 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 
  4 - The Ash Tree by M R James.wav 
  5 - The Mezzotint by M R James 
  6 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  7 - Casting the Runes by M R James 
  8 - Count Magnus by M R James

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  Death Marks Time in Trampas - A...

  T. Flynn

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  Stories include: "Battle Hymn for a Last Lawman", "Valley of the Damned", "Glory Blast", "Border Blood".

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