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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume our classic authors invite us in to share hospitality at a house most of us are ever keen to veer away from. But the invitation has been issued and it would be rude to disappoint, despite the rising fear that begins to take its chilling grip on us. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Haunted House - An Introduction 
  02 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  03 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  04 - They by Rudyard Kipling 
  05 - The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft 
  06 - The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit 
  07 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  08 - The Room in the Tower by E F Benson 
  09 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  10 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  11 - The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood 
  12 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen

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  3 Stories About - Having Visions...

  Vernon Lee, Nathaniel Hawthorne,...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  Dead America - El Paso: Creeping...

  Derek Slaton

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  While on a routine supply run to the east of Fort Stockton, Sparks and her team make a horrifying discovery. A million zombies marching as one down the interstate, headed towards El Paso. With time not on their side, they are forced to retreat to Fabens, where the plan for their survival begins. 
  Dead America - The Second Month series follows survivors from coast to coast as they deal with the threats posed by both the living and the undead.

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  Hell Is Empty And All The Devils...

  Rachel Lawson

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  Scratch a killer and you get a monster. 
  "What are you doing in a lonely blind ally in the city at night?" asked the father of a very suspicious character, a man in black wearing a long black trench coat he was wanted as a serial killer. 
  "Go away I'm working Dad," hissed the son Lance. 
  "I won't," said the father hoping to prevent a murder. 
  "Go away I don't need skeletons coming out of closets and getting in my way," said Lance the son cryptically. A car started nearby and left. 
  "You scared them off deadhead," snapped Lance shortly then he stomped off. 
  A man who was hidden in the dark clubbed the father on the head he fell to the ground.Lance seemingly goes mad while trying to find his father will he ever find him alive?

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  The Whisperer in Darkness

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  In The Whisperer in Darkness, H. P. Lovecraft merges cosmic horror with eerie science fiction to deliver one of his most chilling tales of paranoia and the unknown. When Miskatonic University professor Albert Wilmarth investigates strange happenings in the remote hills of Vermont, he uncovers a terrifying conspiracy involving alien entities known as the Mi-Go—fungoid beings from the outer void who can harvest human brains for interstellar travel. As letters, whispers, and shadows close in, Wilmarth’s descent into dread reveals the vast, incomprehensible horror lurking just beyond human understanding. Perfect for readers of dark cosmic fiction, Lovecraft’s 1931 classic remains a cornerstone of the Cthulhu Mythos and modern sci-fi horror alike.

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  The Temple

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  A German U-boat embarks on a horrifying journey after one of its crew claims a strange souvenir in this tale by the author of “The Call of Cthulhu”.During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British freighter. Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a lieutenant-commander in the Imperial German Navy, orders the ship to fire on the British survivors and their lifeboats before submerging. After the U-boat surfaces again, a dead sailor is found clinging to the deck with a mysterious ivory talisman in his pocket. Heinrich’s second-in-command pockets the charm just before the body is thrown overboard. And thus begins the ship’s journey into madness . . .

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