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  Selected Ghost Stories from Kwaidan

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  A haunting collection of Japanese folktales, translated and interpreted by the acclaimed Irish-Greek author and Japanophile. In 1904, Lafcadio Hearn introduced Western readers to the world of Japanese folklore with his collection of ghost stories, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. His hauntingly lyrical and complex translations, in which he often put his own twist on the traditional tale, are now regarded as preeminent classics in Japan.  This volume presents seventeen of Hearn’s unforgettable stories. A blind performer plays for an audience of ghosts. A maiden reincarnates to search for her beloved. A nurse offers the ultimate sacrifice for her young charge. And a group of rokurokubi plot to end the life of a noble samurai. Whether you’re in the mood for phantoms, demons, ghouls, or ghosts, these otherworldly tales will haunt you long after you’ve finished reading.

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  Dog Meat Samosa

  Stanley Gazemba

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  Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, is a rambling traffic-choked metropolis, bursting at the seams with people striving to earn a living on its mean streets. While Nairobi has every appearance of a fast-growing, modern African city with the mushrooming skyscrapers and superhighways, the city possesses a dark underbelly. Dog Meat Samosa delves into the bowels of Nairobi’s crowded urban backstreets to paint a gritty picture of its underworld, to describe the human experience within this once glorious “City in the Sun” that has since metamorphosed into a cutthroat hustlers’ paradise.

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  Garden of Eden Anthology

  Allen Taylor, Adam Mac, JD...

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  15 Authors give their interpretation of the Garden of Eden, addressing the speculative question, "Who was with Adam and Eve in the garden?" Contains flash fiction stories, short stories, and poetry with a diverse range of characters that includeDust motesGnomesWater RatsRoachesGhostsAngelsVirtual charactersand more 
  You'll be surprised, shocked, frightened, and amused. Every page is riddled with great prose from great writers. These authors take speculative fiction into a whole new arena with weird characters and strange situations.  
  Story titles include: In The Beginning We Did Have Someone On The GroundGossip in the GardMoteRenovationA Ghost and a ThoughtWe Who BleedOne Bit OffWater RatsAgent of GoodThe Genesis of the IncorporeumThe Gardeners of EdenThe Roots of All EvilSurveyBreachBefore Dawn Can Wake Us

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  The Eternal Moment

  E. M. Forster

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  A dystopian classic, The Eternal Moment is the titular title in Forster's classic collection of short stories, The Eternal Moment and Other Stories.
  
  It follows Ms Raby, Colonel Leyland, and Eustace on their journey through the Alps as spirits, animals, and sprites guide the reader on a journey through ideas of nature, freedom, and transformation.

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  The Bishop of Hell - An abusive...

  Marjorie Bowen

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  Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell was born on 1st November 1885 on Hayling Island in Hampshire.  
   
  Her childhood was fraught with problems, her alcoholic father left early in her life and was later found dead on a London Street. Life thereafter was poverty with an uncaring mother. 
   
  However, her talents took her to the Slade School of Fine Art and later to study in Paris.  
   
  Her first fiction, written at a mere 16, was a violent medieval historical novel, ‘The Viper of Milan’. Initially rejected by several publishers it went on to become a best-seller  
   
  After this her prolific writings were the main financial support for the family.  Her literary output numbered over 150 volumes, mainly under the pseudonym of Marjorie Bowen but she also used the names Joseph Shearing, George R Preedy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell.  Within this output she assigned the pseudonyms to the various genres she worked across, from Historical fiction to supernatural short stories.  
   
  Perhaps her best known work is the 1909 book ‘Black Magic’, a Gothic horror novel about a medieval witch. 
   
  Several of her works were also adapted into films.   
   
  She was married twice.  The first to Zefferino Emilio Constanza (they had two children), who died of tuberculosis, and then to Arthur L Long (and another two children) 
   
  Marjorie Bowen died on 23rd December 1952 at St Charles Hospital in North Kensington, London after suffering serious concussion from a fall in her bedroom.  She was 67.

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  A Dream of Wild Bees - From...

  Olive Schreiner

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  The bookshelves of World literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From their countries and continents their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Olive Schreiner.

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