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  The Shadow over Innsmouth

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Forming part of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH tells the strange story of an unnamed student, whose visit to a decrepit Massachusetts seaport—the crumbling town of Innsmouth—leads to a number of shocking and personal revelations… 
  This is HorrorBabble's 2024 recording of the story, featuring immersive sound design intended to enhance the listening experience.

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  As the Crow Flies - From their...

  John Davys Beresford

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  John Davys Beresford was born on 17th March 1873.  His life was blighted by infantile paralysis which left him partially disabled. 
  After an education at Oundle school he trained to be an architect.  However, he quickly decided that his life was to be centred on a literary career.  His first offerings were in drama and as a journalist. 
  As well as being a book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian he contributed to New Statesman, The Spectator, Westminster Gazette, and the Theosophist magazine The Aryan Path.   
  His spiritual journey in early adulthood had claimed him as an agnostic, in defiance of his clergyman father.  This view he later abandoned in preference to describing himself as a Theosophist and a pacifist. 
  As well as many novels, many themed with spiritual and philosophical elements.  Beresford was also a gifted short story writer particularly across the science-fiction, horror and ghost genres. 
  All of these elements helped him to obtain a prominent place in Edwardian Literary London. 
  John Davys Beresford died on the 2nd February 1947. He was 73.

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  A Book of Ghosts: 1

  D. H. Lawrence, Edith Nesbit,...

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  "The Dead Do Not Sleep Soundly in the West Country."
  
  Sabine Baring-Gould was one of the most versatile minds of the 19th century, but it was in the realm of the supernatural that his imagination truly flickered with a dark, cold light. A Book of Ghosts is a cornerstone of Victorian weird fiction, moving away from simple "jump scares" to explore the lingering, uncomfortable presence of those who refuse to leave this world behind.
  
  The Master of the Folkloric Fright: Baring-Gould's ghosts are not mere optical illusions; they are manifestations of history, guilt, and the rugged landscape itself. Drawing on his deep knowledge of English folklore and antiquarian history, he crafts stories where the supernatural feels as tangible as the ancient stone walls and foggy marshes of Devon and Cornwall. His work excels at the "slow burn" of dread—where a simple domestic object or a misunderstood local legend becomes the herald of something truly unsettling.
  
  A contemporary of M.R. James and Bram Stoker, Baring-Gould offers a more grounded, yet equally terrifying, vision of the afterlife. This volume is an essential cornerstone for any library of classic ghost stories, Victorian Gothic, and supernatural fiction.
  
  Step into the shadows of the past. Buy "A Book of Ghosts" today and discover why some doors are better left locked.

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  Club-Hauling of the Diomede The...

  Frederick Marryat

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  Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 - 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code.
  THE CLUB-HAULING OF THE DIOMEDE: We continued our cruise along the coast, until we had run down into the Bay of Arcason, where we captured two or three vessels, and obliged many more to run on shore.

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  The Velveteen Rabbit

  Margery Williams

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  A toy does not question its purpose. It is loved, or it is forgotten.
  Once, a little stuffed rabbit found himself in a child's arms. And for a time, that was enough. But then he learned a terrible, wonderful secret—one whispered by an old, threadbare toy with eyes that had seen too much.
  "Real isn't how you're made. It's something that happens to you."
  But what does it cost, to become Real?
  And is love ever enough?

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  Pickman's Model (Unabridged)

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so graphic that they result in the revocation of his membership in the Boston Art Club and he is shunned by his fellow artists. The narrator is a friend of Pickman, who, after the artist's mysterious disappearance, relates to another acquaintance how he was taken on a tour of Pickman's personal gallery, hidden away in a run-down backwater slum of the city. As the two delved deeper into Pickman's mind and art, the rooms seemed to grow ever more evil and the paintings ever more horrific, ending with a final enormous painting of an unearthly, red-eyed and vaguely canine humanoid balefully chewing on a human victim. A noise sent Pickman running outside the room with a gun while the narrator reached out to unfold what looked like a small piece of rolled paper attached to the monstrous painting. The narrator heard some shots and Pickman walked back in with the smoking gun, telling a story of shooting some rats, and the two men departed.

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