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  Hiss Don't Bite!

  Sandhya Rao

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  A bad-tempered snake killsa cow and everyone isafraid. A wandering monktells the snake a secretthat changes its life.

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  Detective Stories – Volume 3 -...

  George Griffiths, Beatrice...

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  The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.   
  Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals. 
  In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a range and depth to the whole culture of criminality as we send in the Long Arm of the Law to bring justice on behalf of the society it serves. 
   
  01 - The Detective - Volume 3 - An Introduction 
  02 - Five Hundred Carats by George Griffiths 
  03 - The Riddle of the Lilac Room by Thomas W Hanshew 
  04 - The Adventures of Lady Pearl-Broker by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell 
  05 - The Sapient Monkey by Headon Hill 
  06 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson 
  07 - The Criminologists' Club by E W Hornung 
  08 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy 
  09 - The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling 
  10 - Green Tea - Part 1 by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  11 - Green Tea - Part 2 by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  12 - The Arrest of Arsene Lupin by Maurice LeBlanc 
  13 - The Horror at Red Hook by H P Lovecraft 
  14 - Conscience by Richard Marsh

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  Case of Charles Dexter Ward The...

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Title: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Part 2 of 3) 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 150 
  Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1941 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Description: 
  As Charles Dexter Ward’s obsession deepens, the boundaries between scholarly pursuit and dangerous obsession begin to collapse entirely. His studies of Joseph Curwen move beyond historical curiosity into obsessive reconstruction — as though he is not merely learning about the past, but attempting to rebuild it. 
  In his secluded laboratory, Ward performs increasingly strange and secretive experiments. Witnesses report unsettling disturbances: odd smells drifting from sealed rooms, lights burning late into the night, and a growing sense that Ward is no longer acting alone. His handwriting begins to shift in subtle but alarming ways, and his behavior grows more erratic, alternating between periods of intense focus and unsettling detachment. 
  At the same time, Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett, a family physician and friend of the Ward household, begins to suspect that something profoundly unnatural is unfolding. His quiet investigation leads him through hidden records, forgotten correspondence, and disturbing clues tied to Curwen’s long-discredited reputation. What he uncovers suggests not only that Curwen was far more than a mere occult enthusiast, but that his influence may not have ended with his death. 
  As Ward’s experiments escalate, the line between past and present begins to blur. There are hints of impossible survivals, forbidden knowledge passed down through hidden means, and a growing implication that Curwen’s presence is not merely historical — but active. The city of Providence itself becomes a backdrop of mounting unease, as ordinary life continues unaware of the uncanny forces gathering just beneath its surface.

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  Angel in Disguise An - From...

  T S Arthur

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is T S Arthur.

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  3 Stories - Set Entirely on...

  Virginia Woolf, Saki Saki, W G...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  Making a Living - From their...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on 3rd July 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to an unaffectionate mother and a father who abandoned her and her older brother to a life of poverty. 
  Inevitably her schooling was limited and by 15 she had attended seven different schools but received only four years education.  However Charlotte was resourceful and did spend time with her father’s aunts – the suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker and the ‘Uncle Tom Cabin’s’ author, Harriet Beecher Stowe as well as many hours at the public library studying ancient civilisations. 
  In 1878, she enrolled in classes at the Rhode Island School of Design where she met Martha Luther and they developed a close relationship until Luther married in 1881. Charlotte was devastated and detested romance and love until she met and married the artist Charles Walter Stetson.  
  Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson, was born in 1885 but left Charlotte with post-natal depression, then often dismissed as a case of hysteria or nerves.  Unsuited to domestic life she ruptured her life and moved to California with Katherine.  She divorced in 1894 and then sent Katharine east to live with her father and his second wife confirming that his paternal rights be acknowledged and that Katherine establish a relationship with her father. 
  After her mother died in 1893, Charlotte moved back east and became involved with her first cousin, Wall Street attorney, Houghton Gilman who she married in 1900. After his death she moved back to California, where Katherine now lived.   
  Her most popular story is ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which touched on her own post-partum depression and underlined the need for women to be responsible for their mental and physical well-being, as the narrator is ordered by her husband/doctor to take compete rest in her room where she is isolated and becomes obsessed with the revolting yellow wallpaper.   
  She wrote other notable short stories the best of which we also include.   
  Charlotte lectured widely for social reform, wrote important non-fiction works that questioned our patriarchal system and left a legacy as a leading and positive spokesperson for feminism.  
  She was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in 1932 and, as she wrote in her suicide note and autobiography, she ‘chose chloroform over cancer’    
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman took her own life on 17th August 1935, aged 75, in Pasadena, California.

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