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  The Oval Portrait

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842.
  The tale begins with an injured narrator (the story offers no further explanation of his or her impairment) seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion in the Apennines. The narrator spends his or her time admiring the paintings that decorate the strangely shaped room and perusing a volume, found upon a pillow, that describes them...

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  Until I Don't

  T.I. Lowe

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  What happens when a brooding soldier by the name of Asher Reid with a penchant for using the phrase "I don't" moves into the vacant townhouse beside inquisitive journalist Neena Cameron? Exactly what the free-spirited soul vowed she would never do—fall in love.  
  Problem is trying to convince Asher this is a good idea, but with him saying, "I don't do relationships," a challenge presents itself and the determined woman sets out to show him he can.

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  It Burns Me Up!

  Ray Bradbury

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  It Burns Me Up! by Ray Bradbury - “Don’t knock a man when he’s down,” they say.… But my cold blooded visitors paid no heed, as they laughed and wondered how I could talk to Saint Peter–with my throat cut from ear to ear! 

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  Irish Coco

  Tricia Holbrook

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  CoCo Higgins lives in the shadow of her famous artistic father, who has made his name painting nude paintings of her mother. The same mother that walked out of her life when she was only nine years old. Together with her sister, and a baby brother who is obviously not her father’s child, they live with this man, who can only truly communicate on canvas.Ten years later CoCo gets a scholarship to the prestigious Art Academy in London. There she finds herself following in her father’s footsteps; the same college, the same boarding house with the same landlady. CoCo throws herself into new experiences; the bohemian world of ‘70’s London where love, sex, drugs and a wild evening in the Bunny Club are all part of CoCo’s liberated exciting life.Until that fateful Monday morning when a new life drawing model turns up in college. She would recognise that body anywhere, she saw it often enough in her father’s paintings. CoCo comes face to face with the woman she hasn’t seen since she was nine years old.

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  King Thrushbeard

  Brothers Grimm

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  King Thrushbeard is a fairy tale written by the Brothers Grimm. The king wants his daughter to marry. But she rejects all the men, she is very arrogant. One of the suitors, King Thrushbeard, disguises himself and tricks her. The moral of the story is: don't be full of yourself. Recommended for age 4+.

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  The Shadow Over Innsmouth

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "Where does madness leave off and reality begin?"
  
  Written in late 1931, The Shadow over Innsmouth is a typically Lovecraftian blend of creeping dread and cosmic horror that emphasises the danger inherent in the pursuit of forbidden knowledge.
  
  It tells the story of a young historian who, while investigating the genealogy of his family in New England, is intrigued to learn about the mysterious and decrepit fishing-town of Innsmouth, a place with a reputation for strangeness and a notoriously unusual-looking population. When he investigates the town's strange customs and unsettling inhabitants, he uncovers a horrifying truth about ancient pacts, deep-sea horrors, and personal revelations that challenge his own sanity.
  The Shadow over Innsmouth forms part of the "Cthulhu Mythos", referencing several motifs, shared place names and mythical creatures that have appreared in other stories set in that universe.
  
  Though virtually unknown and financially unsuccessful during his lifetime, H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is now regarded as one of the most influential 20th-century writers of supernatural horror fiction. Widely credited with inventing the "cosmic horror" genre—fiction that explores humanity's insignificance in the face of vast, unknowable cosmic forces—he also created the "Cthulhu Mythos", a shared universe of ancient alien beings and forbidden knowledge that has influenced generations of horror and science fiction writers.

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