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  The Palace of Death - From their...

  Emily Bronte

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  In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world.   
  The middle of the three Bronte sisters, Emily Jane, was born on 30th July 1818. The author of ‘Wuthering Heights’ she was also a very talented poet as witnessed here in this collection.   
  She died of tuberculosis at the age of only 30 on 19th December 1848.  So frail at death her coffin measured only sixteen inches wide.

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  The Way We Live Now

  Anthony Trollope

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  Set in the corrupt and morally bankrupt world of Victorian London, "The Way We Live Now" is a scathing satire of the greed, ambition, and societal vices of the era. The novel weaves together multiple plotlines, revolving around the unscrupulous financier Augustus Melmotte and a cast of ambitious characters seeking financial gain or advantageous marriages. Trollope's incisive portrayal of the financial world, political maneuverings, and social machinations reveals the darker side of Victorian society. With its astute critique and vivid characterizations, "The Way We Live Now" remains a compelling and relevant commentary on the pursuit of wealth and status.

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  Queen of the Black Coast

  Robert E. Howard

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  Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard is one of the most iconic tales of Conan the Barbarian—a gripping fantasy adventure filled with passion, piracy, and peril. When Conan flees tyranny and joins the infamous pirate queen Bêlit, their fiery romance ignites a saga of blood-soaked raids, supernatural horrors, and tragic destiny. Set against a backdrop of cursed rivers, haunted lands, and ruthless battles, this early 20th-century sword-and-sorcery classic blends high-seas adventure with themes of love, honor, and loss. Perfect for fans of epic fantasy, pulp adventure, and timeless tales of heroism and doom.

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  The Village of Youth

  Bessie Hatton

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  In The Village of Youth, Bessie Hatton crafts a poignant tale set in a secluded English hamlet where innocence, idealism, and youthful dreams flourish. Amidst idyllic landscapes, a group of young villagers grapple with love, duty, and the tension between tradition and modernity. When an outsider arrives with radical ideas, long-held beliefs are challenged, forcing each character to confront their desires and the cost of change. Hatton’s lyrical prose explores the fleeting nature of youth and the enduring power of community, weaving a timeless meditation on growing up without losing one’s spirit.

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  The Night Land - An Epic Science...

  William Hope Hodgson

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  Venture into a dying Earth where the sun is extinguished, and the last of humanity cowers within a colossal metal pyramid against a blackened world of cosmic horrors. 
  In the unfathomable future, the sun has long since burned out. The remnants of mankind survive within the Great Redoubt, a towering fortress of grey metal standing seven miles high, besieged by monstrous entities and silent forces of pure evil lurking in the eternal dark of the Night Land. From this heavily guarded sanctuary, a young man armed with the rare gift of Night-Hearing intercepts a mysterious, telepathic signal. Across millions of miles of monster-infested wastelands, another refuge—the Lesser Redoubt—is calling out. To his shock, the voice in his mind belongs to the reincarnated soul of his lost love from a forgotten age. As the Earth-Current powering her distant sanctuary begins to fail, he must choose between the safety of the fortress and an impossible, heroic quest into the pitch-black abyss. 
  Why you will love this: This staggering visionary epic is a masterpiece of early Science Fiction / Fantasy, blending dark fantasy, weird fiction, and post-apocalyptic cosmic terror. Fans of dying earth tropes, epic fantasy, grimdark world-building, and enduring romance will be captivated by this atmospheric, eerie, and monumental survival story. From Watcher beasts to ancient psychic connections, it is a quintessential pillar of weird lit that will haunt your imagination. 
  William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was an English author and pioneer of weird fiction, cosmic horror, and early science fiction. His incredibly imaginative, atmospheric tales deeply influenced later giants of the genre, including H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, securing his legacy as a titan of imaginative literature.

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  L'Amour Apres La Mort - From...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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