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  The House of Cobwebs

  George Gissing

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  George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire.  
   
  He was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield. Gissing loved school. He was enthusiastic with a thirst for learning and always diligent.  By the age of ten he was reading Dickens, a lifelong hero. 
   
  In 1872 Gissing won a scholarship to Owens College. Whilst there Gissing worked hard but remained solitary. Unfortunately, he had run short of funds and stole from his fellow students. He was arrested, prosecuted, found guilty, expelled and sentenced to a month's hard labour in 1876. 
    
  On release he decided to start over.  In September 1876 he travelled to the United States. Here he wrote short stories for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. On his return home he was ready for novels. 
    
  Gissing self-published his first novel but it failed to sell.  His second was acquired but never published. His writing career was static.  Something had to change.  And it did. 
   
  By 1884 The Unclassed was published.  Now everything he wrote was published. Both Isabel Clarendon and Demos appeared in 1886. He mined the lives of the working class as diligently as any capitalist. 
   
  In 1889 Gissing used the proceeds from the sale of The Nether World to go to Italy. This trip formed the basis for his 1890 work The Emancipated. 
   
  Gissing's works began to command higher payments. New Grub Street (1891) brought a fee of £250.  
   
  Short stories followed and in 1895, three novellas were published; Eve's Ransom, The Paying Guest and Sleeping Fires. Gissing was careful to keep up with the changing attitudes of his audience.  
   
  Unfortunately, he was also diagnosed as suffering from emphysema. The last years of his life were spent as a semi-invalid in France but he continued to write. 1899; The Crown of Life. Our Friend the Charlatan appeared in 1901, followed two years later by The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. 
   
  George Robert Gissing died aged 46 on December 28th, 1903 after catching a chill on a winter walk.

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  A Tropical Horror

  William Hope Hodgson

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  William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author of horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean. He became one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. He died in World War I at age 40.'A Tropical Horror' is the vivid story of a ship which is attacked by a hideous sea serpent.

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  The Abandonment of Miss Plum

  Dion Clayton Calthrop

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  Dion William Palgrave Clayton Calthrop (1878 - 1937) is best known as a popular writer of humorous stories and an illustrator.The Abandonment of Miss Plum is the tale of Alice Honoria Plum, a 19-year-old orphan who takes a dull position as companion to an elderly lady - although secretly she dreams of travel and the high life. When two years later the old lady dies and leaves a fortune to Alice Honoria, she determines to travel to Paris for a 'fling'.

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  Tales of the Supernatural: Volume 2

  M.R. James

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  M. R. James was one of the finest English-language ghostwriters ever published. These short stories are not only classics of their genre, but are outstanding examples of beautifully paced, understated terror and sociological horror, reaching to the dark expanse of the unconscious mind.Volume 2 of Tales of the Supernatural features the stories "The Ash Tree", "A View from a Hill", "The Tractate Middoth", and "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook".

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  The Christmas Miracle - Tales...

  Josh Hilden

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  One year after the Shattering and the great collapse, survivors in Columbus, Ohio, are barely holding things together. Then, on December 24th, when all seemed lost, a new hero appears, and he is determined to protect all the children of the earth.

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  Human readable

  Błażej Mikuła

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  The city of Cambridge is a dark place. Streets are infested with cybernetically enhanced college gangs inflicting violence at the order of the Porters and the Uni Corp. Ra is a young coder with a gift for writing smart “recreational” codes for the addicted losers of Camdump. Life was good until today when she got the gig to kidnap and extract data from one of St. John’s College students.

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