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  Some Words with a Mummy

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  One of Edgar Allen Poe’s more lighthearted stories, this details the investigation of a mummy named Allamistakeo. After finding the body of the mummy in good condition, the mummy researchers use electricity to bring him back to life. Allamistakeo then proceeds to have a conversation with the crew – from what Ancient Egypt was like to what religion was like. The conversation ends abruptly when the researchers ask him a question about the beginning of the universe, calling to play the reigning religion at the time. 

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  Love bites

  Richa S. Mukherjee, Ravinder Singh

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  The world is under lockdown. Meera is confined to her flat. With no internet, her only comfort is cooking for her family.Then, one morning, she meets Kevin, a US returned NRI living in the flat above hers. Both Kevin and his father are under a 14-day quarantine.Meera and Kevin talk across their balconies, but Kevin's quarantine prevents them from meeting, and the lack of internet keeps them from even sharing photographs. Despite never seeing each other's faces, the two connect, and soon, Meera finds herself sending baskets of food, recipes and messages across to Kevin and waiting for his replies.Will Meera and Kevin finally get to meet one day, or does fate have other plans?

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  Deadly Night - A Detective Jane...

  OMJ Ryan

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  Two identical murders, thirty years apart. 
   
   
   
  Thirty years ago, gangland enforcer Archie Boothroyd was brutally slain in an apparent ritual killing. The case was never a high priority for the police—after all, it meant one less gangster on the streets—and his murderer was never caught. 
   
   
   
  Now, almost three decades later, when Paul Bradley—a close friend of Boothroyd's—is murdered in exactly the same way, DCI Jane Phillips and the Major Crimes Unit are called in to investigate. Is Bradley's death the work of a copycat? Or has the original killer finally returned? 
   
   
   
  As the team delve deeper, they find themselves immersed in the dark underworld of gangland Manchester, where kidnapping, torture, and murder are an everyday hazard. 
   
   
   
  When a third body is found mutilated in exactly the same way, Phillips and the team realize they are in a race against time to catch the killer. But what they don't understand is the next victim could be one of their own. 
   
   
   
  Can Phillips find the murderer before they strike again? Or is she about to lose everything she holds dear to the Deadly Night?

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  Double Booked in Corfu

  Samantha Pennington

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  Two reservations, two rivals, one room. What could go wrong? 
   
  In the bustling world of high street bookselling, Annabel is battling to keep her small branch afloat in the shadow of the larger local store, which happens to be run by her sworn rival, Liam. But just as corporate restructuring jeopardizes Annabel's treasured childhood bookstore, she finds herself unexpectedly double booked in a Corfu villa with the last person she wanted to encounter. 
   
  Caught between loyalty to her dreams and an unexpected bond, Annabel must navigate a sea of uncertainty to save not only her beloved bookshop but also the fragile connection she's forged with Liam. Will the mystery messages she discovers in a second-hand copy of her favourite book be the answer? 
   
  In a summer filled with misunderstandings, hidden truths, and heartfelt confessions, she'll discover that sometimes, the greatest stories are found between the pages of a book.

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  The Bee-Man of Orn and Other...

  Frank R. Stockton

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  A collection of nine enchanting short stories filled with curious beasts and unexpected endings. Included are The Bee-Man of Orn; The Griffin and the Minor Canon; Old Pipes and the Dryad; The Queen's Museum; Christmas Before Last: Or, The Fruit of the Fragile Palm; Prince Hassak's March; The Battle of the Third Cousins; The Banished King; and The Philopena(summary by Gryphon Perkins)

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  The Willow Landscape

  Clark Ashton Smith

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  The Willow Landscape - Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz 
  Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". 
  Smith was one of "the big three of Weird Tales, with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft", though some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. The fantasy writer and critic L. Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse".[3] Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle, and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. His work is marked by an extraordinarily rich and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor. 
  Of his writing style, Smith stated: "My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation."

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