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  Marcel Schwob - A Short Story...

  Marcel Schwob

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  Mayer André Marcel Schwob was born in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 23rd August 1867 into a cultivated Jewish family.  
   
  As a child he devoured the works of Poe and Stevenson in French and then again in English.  His attachment to the bizarre and dark was already forming. 
   
  His education at the Lycée of Nantes earned him the 1st Prize for Excellence.  In 1881, he was in Paris with his maternal uncle to study at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.  Schwob quickly developed his multilingual abilities and then studied philology and Sanscrit at the École pratique des hautes études before completing his military service in Vannes with the artillery. 
   
  After completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1888 he became a professional journalist and worked for the Phare de la Loire, the Événement and L'Écho de Paris. 
   
  The 1890’s marked his establishment as a brilliant writer with the publication of six short story collections.   
   
  He fell ill in 1896 with a chronic, incurable intestinal disorder.  He also suffered recurring bouts of influenza and pneumonia.  Intestinal surgery was given several times, at first with success but, by 1900, after two more surgeries, he was told that nothing more could be done for him.  Schwob now existed on kefir and fermented milk. 
   
  By the turn of the century, despite failing health, and often too ill to write, he embarked on several long travels, including to Vailima in the South Pacific where his literary hero Stevenson had died.  
   
  Schwob was regarded as a symbolist writer and a ‘precursor of Surrealism’.  He wrote over a hundred short stories, journalistic articles, essays, biographies, literary reviews and analysis, translations and plays.  
   
  Marcel Schwob died on 26th February 1905 of Pneumonia.  He was 37. 
   
  01 - Marcel Schwob - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - Arachne by Marcel Schwob 
  03 - Spiritualism by Marcel Schwob 
  04 - The Mouthless by Marcel Schwob 
  05 - The Opium Gates by Marcel Schwob 
  06 - The Strong by Marcel Schwob

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  A Cold Christmas and the Darkest...

  Rasta Musick (Editor)

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  A Cinnabar Moth Publishing anthology, A Cold Christmas and the Darkest of Winters is a collection of short stories with themes that range from sad to dark to horrifying. Each story is set during Christmas or in Winter. Many talented authors worked to create these short stories, and we are proud to present them to you in this anthology. 
  The full list of contributing authors is included below: 
  Angelo Lorenzo 
  Vashelle Nino 
  Kisstopher Musick 
  T. War Powers Tilden 
  A.M. Weald 
  Chad Musick 
  Cynthia McDonald 
  Archita Mittra 
  Alexis Hansen 
  Ashe Thurman 
  Katie Groom 
  Elyse Russell 
  Joe Haward 
  Hector Duarte, Jr. 
  Suraya 
  Kasimma 
  Zoë Markham 
  Gwen C. Katz 
  André Santana 
  Roy Christopher 
  Frances Ogamba 
  Phoenix Blackwood

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  Confessions of a City Girl: San...

  Juliette Sobanet

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  From the Amazon bestselling author of Sleeping with Paris comes a sexy and hilarious novella that will have you laughing, swooning, and reaching for your yoga mat… 
  When overworked CIA agent Liz Valentine sets off for a yoga retreat on the gorgeous beaches of San Diego, the last thing she expects to find is love. But when one oh-so-enlightened yoga instructor catches her eye—and her heart—Liz must decide if the loveless life of a secret agent is truly what she wants after all.

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  Man Overboard - A Jesse...

  Wayne Stinnett

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  Jesse McDermitt has returned to the Florida Keys. But things in the islands are different now. The locals are worried, but nobody can explain why. A sense of foreboding hangs in the humid July air. 
  One of the locals, an investment banker, is waiting tables at the Rusty Anchor Bar and Grill. He seems a shell of the man he used to be—a hollow man whose fortune and wife are gone. He’s tight-lipped about how he came to be a guest in Rufus’s little shack behind the bar. 
  Something very sinister is going on—Jesse smells it. He’s usually very good at rooting out the source of a problem, but is stumped this time. 
  Until another tight-lipped hollow man shows up.

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  Gauntlets and Conches - A Short...

  Gordon Bonnet, Marlon S Hayes

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  Since the beginning of human interaction, there have been storytellers who have spun tales to inspire and capture the imagination. In homage to Golding's Lord of the Flies and the act of flinging a gauntlet before a duel, these two writers, Gordon Bonnet, and Marlon S. Hayes, have shown their multi-genre talents. 
  Two guys in a bar, grandmas, fathers and sons, and myths are a few of the themes in this collection, and the results are noteworthy, entertaining, and soul filling. What if an opportunity arose to have a conversation with one's younger self? Or, what if the pictures on the wall started whispering warnings? Ever imagined how an orc might view humans? What about an epic road trip across America's heartland where anger and grief also ride along? Exactly. 
  It's a duel of well-written short stories, with each writer inspiring the other to continue to ascend with their storytelling skills. It's not a competition, simply an acknowledgement of each other's talents.

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  Partners in Crime

  Agatha Christie

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  Partners in Crime is a collection of short stories featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, a couple who own and manage Blunt's International Detective Agency.
  
  In their previous adventure Tommy and Tuppence rescued the pink pearl against all odds. Now the best and brightest are at their door, and throughout these 15 storiues we see them crack cases from the mysterious to the murderous.
  
  The short stories included in this collection are:
  
  - A Fairy in the Flat
  - A Pot of Tea
  - The Affair of the Pink Pearl
  - The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
  - Finessing the King/The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper
  - The Case of the Missing Lady
  - Blindman's Buff
  - The Man in the Mist
  - The Crackler
  - The Sunningdale Mystery
  - The House of Lurking Death
  - The Unbreakable Alibi
  - The Clergyman's Daughter / The Red House
  - The Ambassador's Boots
  - The Man Who Was No. 16
  Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976) was an English author. She was a prolific writer, most famous for her detective novels and short story collections which centred around the iconic characters of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Renowned as the 'Queen of Crime', she remains the bestselling novelist of all time, with her sales only second to the Bible.
  This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each story will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.

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