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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Men...

  James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Arnold...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  A decade of catastrophic worldwide war.  Empires in tectonic collision, a society heaving under the yoke, tired of sacrifice, ready for revolution.  In literature ideas were explored and detailed revealing a world and people that seem so long ago but also very near. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1910's - The Men - An Introduction 
  2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 
  3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 
  4 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  5 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 
  6 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence 
  7 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 
  8 - Casting the Runes by M R James 
  9 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson 
  10 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  11 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 
  12 - August Heat by W F Harvey

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  HorrorBabble's Mysterious Forces...

  Algernon Blackwood, Wilford...

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  A collection of weird tales concerning strange, elemental forces of nature. 
  Contents: 
  The Swooping Wind by Wilford Allen (Weird Tales, 1927) 
  The story of a scientist with a strange connection to the winds. 
  The Spirits' Mountain by Gustavo Bécquer (The Contemporary, 1861) 
  A young man is tasked with the retrieval of a scarf from a haunted mountain. 
  The Glamour of the Snow by Algernon Blackwood (The Pall Mall Magazine, 1911) 
  A writer falls in love with a ghostly ice-skater in the Valais Alps. 
  The Transfer by Algernon Blackwood (Country Life, 1911) 
  The story of a child’s fascination with a barren patch of land in a big garden. 
  The Willows by Algernon Blackwood (The Listener and Other Stories, 1907) 
  The story of a strange adventure through a desolate portion of the River Danube. 
  The Tree of Life by Paul Ernst (Weird Tales, 1930) 
  A curious tree whose leaves could revivify a corpse. 
  Fog Country by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales, 1945) 
  The story of a peculiar mist that occasionally settles over a small, coastal town. 
  Night Must Not Come by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales, 1943) 
  Man has never allowed complete darkness, for evil things are waiting beyond the light. 
  Night of Impossible Shadows by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales, 1945) 
  Shadows, doing things not meant to be done. 
  The Red Brain by Donald Wandrei (Weird Tales, 1927) 
  The tale of a strange cosmic dust that engulfs the universe.

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  Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

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  ""Is this a dagger I see before me?"" 
  Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Disc series.

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  Ella D'Arcy - A Short Story...

  Ella D'Arcy

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  Ella D'Arcy was born on 23rd August 1857 in London, one of nine children.  
   
  Her education spanned London, Germany, France and the Channel Islands. A student of fine art, her poor eyesight meant a switch to literature was needed and with this she had hopes to be an author. 
   
  She worked as a contributor and unofficial editor, alongside Henry Harland, to The Yellow Book, Aubrey Beardsley’s sensational quarterly magazine that combined art, stories, poetry, essays and much else besides.  D'Arcy wrote several stories for the magazine and her stories have an undeniable psychological and realist style through her engagement with various themes from marriage, the family, imitation through to deception.  
   
  Recognition of her talents grew after the publication of ‘Irremediable’, in the Yellow Book, where it received much praise from critics.   
   
  She also wrote and published in the Argosy, Blackwood's Magazine, and Temple Bar.  
   
  However, D’Arcy’s canon was small and, apart from her magazine stories, her book publishing was limited to ‘Monochromes’ (1895), ‘Modern Instances’ and ‘The Bishop’s Dilemma’ (1898). She also translated André Maurois's biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley entitled ‘Ariel’ (1924). 
   
  Her diligence with work aside she was notorious for her inability to maintain relationships with friends.  When she did appear to them it was often unannounced.  This earned her the sobriquet 'Goblin Ella.' 
   
  D'Arcy spent much of her life living alone, though she had a constant urge to travel, but usually she resided on the edge of poverty. Her writing was often motivated by this need. 
   
  Much of her later life was spent in Paris before returning to London in 1937, where she died, in hospital, on 5th September 1937. 
   
  01 - Ella D'Arcy - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - At Twickenham by Ella D'Arcy 
  03 - White Magic by Ella D'Arcy 
  04 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy 
  05 - The Death Mask by Ella D'Arcy 
  06 - Sir Julian Garve by Ella D'Arcy

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  The War of the Worlds

  H. G. Wells

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  "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
  
  From the first mysterious cylinder landing in Horsell Common to the total devastation of London, H.G. Wells crafts a harrowing first-person account of a world under siege. Armed with devastating Heat-Rays and suffocating Black Smoke, the Martian invaders move across the countryside in towering, three-legged fighting machines. The British military—the greatest power of the age—is rendered helpless. As the narrator flees through a landscape transformed by the alien "Red Weed," the novel explores the primal terror of being hunted and the humbling realization that humanity is not the master of its own planet.
  
  The Biological Reality of Mars: Wells avoids the "little green men" tropes of later sci-fi. His Martians are biologically plausible creatures—vast, leathery heads with tentacles, evolved for a dying planet with low gravity. They do not eat; they inject the blood of living creatures directly into their veins. This chilling detail turns the invasion from a political conquest into a biological harvest.
  
  A Masterclass in Suspense and Satire: The War of the Worlds was a shocking critique of British Imperialism, forcing Victorian readers to experience the terror of being colonized by a superior force. Through the narrator's encounters with the broken Curate and the delusional Artilleryman, Wells examines how human social structures—religion, military pride, and logic—crumble under the weight of an existential threat.
  
  Experience the terror that stopped the world. Purchase "The War of the Worlds" today and witness the survival of the human spirit.

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  Margaret's Patient (Unabridged)

  L. M. Montgomery

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
  Margaret's Patient: Margaret paused a moment at the gate and looked back at the quaint old house under its snowy firs with a thrill of proprietary affection. It was her home; for the first time in her life she had a real home, and the long, weary years of poorly paid drudgery were all behind her.

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