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  Amelia Edwards - A Short Story...

  Amelia Edwards

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  Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards was born on 7th June 1831 in Islington, London.  She was educated at home by her mother and showed early promise as a writer, publishing her first poem at the age of 7 and her first story at 12.  Thereafter several popular periodicals published her poetry, stories and articles. 
   
  In addition she also illustrated some of her own writings and painted scenes from books she had read.  This talent was not supported by her parents, who saw an artist’s life as scandalous.  Undeterred Amelia took up composing and performing music until a bout of typhus caused throat damage.  Other interests soon followed until, early in the 1850s, Amelia focused exclusively on writing.  Her early novels were well received, and with ‘Barbara's History’ in 1864, a work revolving around bigamy, her reputation was established.  
   
  Amelia’s pen was also the purveyor of ghost stories for magazines and are still anthologized as classic tales to this day. 
   
  In January 1851, Amelia became engaged, apparently to please her parents, but she quickly broke it off.  In reality her emotional attachments were almost exclusively with women.  From the early 1860s she lived with Ellen Drew Braysher, a widow 27 years her senior, until both women died in early 1892.  During this relationship other women also entered and left her life.  Her frequent travelling companion, Lucy Renshaw, accompanied her to Egypt in the winter of 1873 and there she found a life-changing interest in Egyptology.  Aware of increasing threats from tourism and modern development she became an advocate for their research and preservation.  
   
  To advance the work Amelia largely abandoned much of her writing in favour of Egyptology and even took on strenuous lecture tours to raise funds. 
   
  After catching influenza, Amelia Edwards, ‘the Godmother of Egyptology’ died on 15th April 1892 at Weston-super-Mare.  She was 60.  
   
  1 - Amelia Edwards - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - No 5 Branch Line. The Engineer by Amelia Edwards 
  3 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards 
  4 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 
  5 - The 4 15 Express by Amelia Edwards 
  6 - The Story of Salome by Amelia Edwards

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  Walking Tour (Unabridged)

  Rosalie Parker

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  Rosalie Parker runs the independent UK publishing house Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell. Her previous collections include The Old Knowledge (Swan River Press 2010) and Damage (PS Publishing 2016). "In the Garden" was selected for Best New Horror 21 (2010), and "Random Flight" for Best British Horror 2015. Rosalie lives in Coverdale, North Yorkshire, the magnificent landscape of which inspires and sometimes provides the settings for her writing.
  WALKING TOUR: We had no intention of going away that summer. Carrie had come to stay with me for a couple of weeks before we started at separate universities in the autumn.

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  Nikki

  Marcus Sabom

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  It isn't easy being Nikki. Living in a small Texas town with her abusive family and bullies at school, some folks just can't catch a break. But then a gift from Nikki's dearly departed grandmother changes her life. It's a gift that allows Nikki to explore her creativity and create things. Things made of metal, and when Nikki figures out that those things can be used to protect herself against her tormentors, she does so, and so much more. But how far will Nikki's rampage go, when will it end, and who and what will be left of them when she's finished?

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  Vampire Hunter D

  Hideyuki Kikuchi

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  12,090 AD. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires—and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves. 
   
   
   
  Every village wants a Hunter—one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and their swords to the eradication of the Nobility. But some Hunters are better than others, and some bring their own kind of danger with them . . .

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  A Victorian Gentleman's Ghostly...

  W.W. Fenn, Albert Smit, Ada...

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  Twelve of the very best Victorian short ghost stories, all written by incredibly talented, but oft-times overlooked or forgotten, authors. 
  The Victorian era is remembered for many things, but one of the fondest is the wide and varied array of short, ghostly, suspenseful tales…often enjoyed around the fireside at Christmas time. 
  In this new anthology, John Banks performs twelve of the very best, all written by incredibly talented, but oft-times overlooked or forgotten, authors. Once you tire of Dickens and James, these are the true masters of short-form suspense: “The Steel Mirror” by W.W. Fenn“A Real Country Ghost Story” by Albert Smith“The Weird Violinist” by Anonymous“Walsham Grange: A Real Ghost Story” by E. Morant Cox“Haunted” by Coulson Kernahan“Nicodemus” by Alfred Crowquill“The Veiled Portrait” by James Grant“The Ghost Chamber” by Anonymous“The Doll’s Ghost” by F. Marion Crawford“How Peter Parley Laid A Ghost: A Story of Owl’s Abbey” by Anonymous“The Ghost’s Summons” by Ada Buisson “A Terrible Retribution; or, Squire Orton’s Ghost” by Anonymous

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  The Mass for the Dead

  Edith Nesbit

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  E. Nesbit’s The Mass for the Dead is a haunting tale of love, guilt, and the supernatural — a gothic romance where the boundaries between devotion and damnation blur in the flicker of candlelight. 
  When Jasper learns that the woman he loves is to marry another man — a wealthy Spaniard named Benoliel — his sleepless night turns into a waking nightmare. In the still hours before dawn, he hears a strange and beautiful music: a funeral mass for the dead. But when his beloved Kate confesses she too heard the same ethereal requiem, their destinies become entwined in a chilling mystery that stretches beyond the veil of life and death. 
  Driven by love, haunted by fate, and shadowed by the sins of pride and greed, The Mass for the Dead captures the eerie elegance of Victorian gothic fiction — where faith becomes fear and every vow carries a ghostly echo. 
  Narrated by Christopher Mireider, this dramatized performance brings E. Nesbit’s rarely heard masterpiece to life with haunting clarity and emotional depth. 
  Perfect for fans of Crimson Peak, The Turn of the Screw, and Wuthering Heights.

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