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  The Captain of the Polestar - A...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A frozen Arctic expanse, a Captain who appears to be hardly of sound mind and a strange wailing from across the ice fields makes for an eerie and desolate voyage. John M’Allister-Ray, a student of medicine aboard the Polestar, records the events in his diary whilst scarcely believing what he is witnessing. The Captain of the Polestar is a standalone enhanced audio tale from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

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  Three Odd Tales

  George Thomas S.

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  Welcome to Creelyville:..when a loser on the run from the police finds his was to Creelyville he thinks he may have hit on some good luck and opportunity, but did he? 
    
  The Failure:...His pitiful life of failure has left him with nothing. Is there a way to redeem himself? Perhaps even become famous?   
    
  The Counselor:..Everyone can use some good advice, from time to time. The people of Cross Corner, an old west town in the 1800's, in the middle of nowhere and on deaths door, are no exception. But is the advice always worthwhile?  

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  Two Tales From Herman Melville -...

  Herman Melville

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  Two Tales From Herman Melville includes "The Lightning-Rod Man" and "The Bell-Tower." After spending the summer of 1853 in the Berkshire Mountains, where he supposedly had a real life encounter with a lightning-rod salesman, Melville published "The Lightning-Rod Man." At the end of this short story, the lightning-rod salesman is exposed for the fraud that he is. However, that will not keep his successors from fanning out to the Middle West, where lightning storms abound and farmers were gullible. On another level, the story can be interpreted as a confrontation between Good and Evil. Through description and diction, the narrator is understood as a follower of God, someone who believes in The Almighty watching over him. On the other hand, the lightning-rod man is seen as a negative character, someone who only has faith in the product he's peddling. "The Bell-Tower," published in 1856, is the story of an eccentric architect named Bannadonna and his quest to build a magnificent bell-tower. As building progresses, local townspeople begin to hear of mysterious occurrences in the tower, leading to a suspenseful conclusion.

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  Riders Upon the Storm

  Phillip Parotti

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  An American commands a subchaser herding a convoy across the Atlantic through horrific weather during World War I in this engaging novel. 
   
  Finalist, 2023 Arizona-New Mexico Book Awards, Historical Fiction 
   
  “Parotti’s expertly detailed accounts make for constant tension.” —The Historical Novels Review 
   
  Phillip Parotti’s new novel chronicles the fast-paced action of a collection of American submarine chasers as they battle to reduce the German U-Boat menace in the English Channel during the last year of World War I. Lieutenant (junior grade) Ben Snow takes a commission in the United States Naval Reserve, and whips a dissolute crew into fighting shape. They then take their little submarine chaser, SC 65X, out into the English Channel to hunt for German U-boats in the midst of the worst winter in more than fifty years. Their achievements climax with the sinking of a German submarine and taking sixteen of her crew prisoner. 
   
  When the war ends on 11 November 1918, the chaser crews expect to return home, but their exposure to danger is by no means concluded. Instead, the chasers are tasked with exploding the 70,000 dangerous mines planted in the North Sea Mine Barrage. Having survived the war, will Ben and his crew survive the peace?

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - H P...

  HP Lovecraft

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  His name is a byword for unspeakable horror and dread.  Across ten stories this dark master holds a fascinating lure for all of us.  Word by word, line by line we are drip-fed stomach-churning terror of a mesmerizing kind… 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - H P Lovecraft 
   
  2 - Re Animator 
   
  3 - The Call of Cthulu 
   
  4 - The Color Out of Space 
   
  5 - The Lurking Fear 
   
  6 - The Thing On the Doorstep 
   
  7 - Pickman's Model 
   
  8 - The Cats of Ulthar 
   
  9 - The Picture in the House 
   
  10 - Polaris 
   
  11 - The Rats in the Walls

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  Best British Short Stories 2024

  Nicholas Royle

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  The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth year
  Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth volume.
  Best British Short Stories 2024 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2023 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.
  'If the latest iteration of Salt's Best British Short Stories collection is anything to go by then the genre remains in safe hands.' —Lawrence Foley, TLS

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