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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Weird...

  Elinor Mordaunt, Alicia Ramsay,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume ‘Weird’ is exactly what these stories are.  Although usually listed by its own library filing these stories, all written by women, may be weird by nature but definitely mainstream by reach.    
   
  01 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Weird Women - An Introduction 
  2 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt 
  3 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay 
  4 - Devereux's Last Smoke by Izola Forrester 
  5 - The Night of No Weather by Violet Hunt 
  6 - The Mystery of the Gables by Elsie Norris 
  7 - The Reaper by Dorothy Easton 
  8 - The Pavement by D K Broster 
  9 - The Wonderful Tune by Jessie Douglas Kerruish 
  10 - In The Fourth Dimension by Clotilde Graves writing as Richard Dehan 
  11 - Whittington's Cat by Lady Eleanor Smith

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  Encounter An

  James Joyce

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  An Encounter is one of James Joyce’s most quietly disturbing and psychologically precise stories, capturing a moment when childhood imagination collides with the uneasy realities of the adult world. 
  Set in Dublin, the story follows two schoolboys who skip class in search of adventure, inspired by tales of the Wild West and dreams of escape from the rigid discipline of school and home. Their day unfolds as a series of small freedoms—wandering the quays, watching ships, imagining distant lands—until a chance meeting in a lonely field alters the tone of their holiday entirely. 
  What begins as youthful restlessness gradually darkens into discomfort and fear as the boys encounter a strange older man whose conversation drifts from nostalgic reflections to unsettling fixations. Joyce renders the scene with restraint and precision, allowing unease to build through repetition, implication, and the narrator’s growing awareness rather than overt action. 
  An Encounter explores themes central to Dubliners: lost innocence, moral paralysis, and the quiet moments when perception shifts and the world reveals itself as more complicated—and more threatening—than expected. Narrated by John Young, this recording preserves Joyce’s subtle pacing and emotional tension, bringing to life a story that lingers long after its final lines.

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  The Woman in the Red Coat

  Mike DeFrench

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  When Kris visited that psychic, she thought it would be fun. She though the woman would tell her things that she wanted to hear: that there was true love in her future, that there was fortune, fame... but what she got was a dire warning. 
  "The woman you kill will come back to you, asking for forgiveness. You must give it to her." 
  but Kris would never kill anyone...

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  The Gentleman from San Francisco

  Ivan Bunin

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  The Gentleman from San Francisco is a short story by Ivan Bunin, a Nobel Prize-winning but often overlooked Russian author. It was translated into English by D. H. Lawrence (with Samuil Koteliansky). The story is often hailed as a classic of the genre.
  
  A 58-year-old American from San Francisco, now in possession of a vast fortune, sets off with his wife and daughter on a world tour. A series of events causes laughter, embarassment, and revolt as he and his family travel through Italy and remarkable changes begin to take effect.

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  The Witch Hunt - a short...

  Rachel Lawson

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  The Plague Doctor 
  A short historical Magicians story. Warlock Blake is captured and tortured by witch hunters and he's not hiding it or escaping when he can easily, but why?

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  Witch's Daughter - An Erotic...

  Erin Pim

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  In this erotic forest fantasy we find ourselves acquainted with Wisteria, a beautiful if somewhat naïve orphan, forced to live with her domineering grandmother - the all-knowing Forest Witch. When our sweet young heroine falls deeply in love with a boy from a nearby village of elves, granny does everything in her power to stop him from taking the young girl’s virginity. With hormones raging, will Wisteria escape the clutches of her wicked guardian? And if so, how will she react to the ecstasy of the sacred rights of hymen? 
  This erotic short story from Erin Pim contains highly sexualised language and graphically descriptive passages of an adult nature. It is therefore intended solely for a mature, open-minded audience.

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