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  Halloween Scary Stories

  Lord Byron, Saki Saki, Hume...

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  A classic collection of short stories written to be listened to.

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  Rip Van Winkle

  Washington Irving

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  In New York's Catskill Mountains before the American Revolution, a Dutch-American villager named Rip Van Winkle falls asleep and wakes up twenty years later without realizing how much time has passed. Unaware that the Revolutionary War has taken place, he must come to terms with the changes he encounters. Washington Irving wrote “Rip Van Winkle” while living in England as part of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., alongside his other famous tale, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Irving later admitted that When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills. Since its publication in 1819, the story has become part of American pop culture and has been adapted many times for stage, film, radio, and television.

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  Monstress - Stories

  Lysley Tenorio

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  A luminous collection of heartbreaking, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino communities of California and the Philippines—now with a new preface by the author   
  Monstress stands as a landmark of American multicultural short fiction. Lysley Tenorio’s tales are framed by tense, fascinating dichotomies: tenderness and power, the fantastical and the realistic, pop culture and high culture, the American and the Filipino. Tenorio balances these opposites with rare skill, humor, and deep understanding, exploring universal themes—the sometimes-suffocating ties of family, the melancholy of isolation, the need to find connections—with uncommon empathy and breathtaking originality.

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  Curious Animal Tales

  Saki Saki

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  A quartet of short stories by Britain’s raconteur supreme, Hector Hugh Munro, better known under his pseudonym “Saki”. This collection brings together four of his most curious and amusing tales, all of which involve animals. Saki’s satirical take on the morals and eccentricities of Edwardian society, combined with a compelling narrative and an unexpected ending draw keep the reader hanging on until the very last word. 
  
  
  'Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger': Mrs. Packletide is determined to shoot a tiger in order to get one up on her arch rival Loona Bimberton. In a comical and at times ironic sequence of events, Mrs. Packletide finds herself at the mercy of another rival, just when she had least expected it. 
  
  
  'Tobermory': When Mr. Cornelius Appin announces that he has succeeded in teaching the cat, Tobermory, to speak, nobody in the house party believes him. But when Tobermory makes his entrance and begins to reveal the kind of personal secrets only a cat can know about the assembled company, chaos breaks out. Tobermory must be destroyed at all costs. 
  
  
  'The Mouse': When Theodoric Voler boards a train he finds he is not alone in the compartment. Not only is there a female companion asleep in one corner, there is a mouse that has hidden itself inside his clothes. Can the sensitive and prudish young man manage to undress and extricate the mouse without his female companion waking up? 
  
  
  'Esme': The Baroness recounts a hunting story with a twist. Instead of a fox, the quarry turns out to be an escaped hyena, which adopts her and Constance Broddle and leads them to cover up a heinous killing.

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  Christmas - In Stories and Poetry

  William Wordsworth, Fyodor...

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  Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day.   
   
  Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words. 
   
  In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.-  
  1 - Christmas. In Stories and in Poetry - An Introduction 
  2 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott 
  3 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  4 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  5 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson 
  6 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
  7 - Carol by Ben Jonson 
  8 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  9 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton 
  10 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere 
  11 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
  12 - No Mercy Here by Daniel Sheehan 
  13 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  15 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  16 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick 
  17 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 
  18 - Nativity by John Donne 
  19 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  20 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 
  21 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling 
  22 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan 
  23 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
  24 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  25 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi 
  26 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell 
  27 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell 
  28 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan 
  29 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats 
  30 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson 
  31 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick 
  32 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan 
  33 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy 
  34 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton 
  35 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe 
  36 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  37 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  38 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti 
  39 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson 
  40 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  41 - Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti

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  Mrs Packletide's Tiger

  Saki Saki

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  Mrs. Packletide is determined to shoot a tiger in order to get one up on her arch rival Loona Bimberton. In a comical and at times ironic sequence of events, Mrs. Packletide finds herself at the mercy of another rival, just when she had least expected it. Hector Hugh Munro at his most witty and ironic. A masterpiece!

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