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  Impasse The (Unabridged)

  Mark Samuel

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  The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan, European feel. Mark Samuels writes about the fundamental fears of modern life, especially the effects of isolation and the dislocation that city dwellers can experience in their inhospitable, man-made environment.
  The Impasse: The Ulymas Organisation was located in a sprawl of dilapidated buildings on the far west side of the city. None of the structures were more than four floors high and the exteriors were of bland, whitewashed brickwork, the paint flaking away from the walls.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, D...

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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 beings of a spectral kind come to visit and offer us their stories through the pens of such literary masters as M R James, Edith Nesbit, W W Jacobs, William Hope Hodgson and many others can. 
   
  The excellence of their story-telling craft makes each story a journey into certain and unsettling fear. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - 20th Century Ghost Stories - An Introduction 
  2 - They by Rudyard Kipling 
  3 - The Power of Darkness by Edith Nesbit 
  4 - The Border Line by D H Lawrence 
  5 - The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood 
  6 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton 
  7 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker 
  8 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 
  9 - Three Sisters by W W Jacobs 
  10 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 
  11 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

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  The Princess of Darkeness -...

  Rachel Lawson

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  Vampires Queen Astra and King Max of Vampires's daughter is on her first day at kindergarten will this ankle biter be a pain in the neck. 
  "Hurry up Astry we're late!" cried Astry Starfire's Mum, "get in the car." 
  Astry jumped in her Mum's car. 
  "You remember every thing?" asked her mother Astra, Queen of Vampires. 
  "Yes Mum," Astry said.," got my lunch bottle." 
  "Remember to call it tomato juice not blood and don't share it," said her mum. 
  ''Yes mum" said Astry. 
  "And don't tell any one about vampires," said Astra. 
  "Yes mum," said Astry. 
  "We're here!" said Astra a while later. 
  "Out you hop," said said Astra. 
  "Mummy why is that girl so pale," a young child asked seeing Astry. 
  The mum of the child saw Astra and Astry scooped up their child and put them in their car and said "You're going to another Kinder," and sped off in their car.

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  Witch You Were Here - A...

  Tee Harlowe

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  Time travel, a sea serpent, and a long-lost aunt . . . what could go wrong? 
   
   
   
  It's not that I thought life was going to be easier now that I've settled into being forty, happily married to the man of my dreams, living my best life as a witch, but, well, okay yes, that is what I thought. 
   
   
   
  Reality comes knocking the day I try to open the door to my shop and the key doesn't work. Neither does anything else: bricks to the window, my strongest spells, an actual half-giant punching in the door—nada. 
   
   
   
  This magical shop has been in my family for over a hundred years. It's our legacy, what I want to pass down to my daughter. 
   
   
   
  Something sinister is brewing, a dark magic that's keeping me from entering. I thought my investigative days were over, but I've got to figure out what kind of magic is afoot. If I don't, I'm at risk of losing my entire heritage—and maybe more.

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  A Tale of The Ragged Mountains

  SAMPI Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  In "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains", Edgar Allan Poe tells the story of Augustus Bedloe, who, during a walk in the Ragged Mountains, experiences a series of supernatural events and a visible temporal overlap, culminating in an intriguing revelation about his own identity and destiny.

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  He (The Work of H P Lovecraft...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  'He' is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written August 1925, it was first published in Weird Tales, September 1926. Plot: The story's anonymous narrator has moved from New England to New York City, and greatly regrets it. One night, while wandering in a historic part of Greenwich Village, he happens upon a man dressed in garments from the 18th century. The man offers to show the narrator the secrets of the town. - The man brings the narrator to his home; there, he tells him the story of a squire who bargained with Native Americans for the secrets of their rituals concerning time and space, which were practiced on the land where the squire had recently taken up residence. After learning these secrets, the squire killed the Native Americans by giving them "monstrous bad rum"; within a week all of them were dead, and he alone had the secret knowledge. The man shows the narrator visions of the city's past and future so terrifying that the narrator begins to scream wildly. The screams rouse the spirits of the Native Americans to take vengeance on the man, who is the same squire from 1768.

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