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  The Four-Fifteen Express

  Amelia B. Edwards

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  A fog-shrouded train. A vanished passenger. A truth that defies the living. 
  When William Langford boards the 4:15 express on a damp December evening, he expects nothing more than a quiet journey to his friend’s country estate. But his solitary compartment is unexpectedly intruded upon by a familiar traveler — a reserved, pale-faced gentleman carrying a heavy deed-box and an unsettling air. 
  By the time the train slows into Blackwater station, the stranger disappears into the swirling mist. And then — he is gone. Not merely from sight, but from the world. 
  Langford soon learns the unthinkable: the man he shared the compartment with died months before. His arrival at Dumbleton Manor sets off shock, whispers, and a chilling realization that reason cannot explain. 
  Driven by duty — and haunted by what he saw — Langford becomes entwined in a mystery that bridges the natural and the supernatural. What begins as a polite Victorian travel tale unravels into a ghostly investigation, a financial scandal, and a murder buried beneath brambles, secrets, and time. 
  Amelia B. Edwards delivers one of the finest railway ghost mysteries of the Victorian age — a tale steeped in cold iron, lamplight, and a chilling question that echoes long after the final page: 
  What travels with us when justice has not yet been served? 
  Perfect for fans of M.R. James, Charles Dickens’ ghost stories, and Sherlock Holmes-era intrigue. 
  Narrated with atmospheric depth by Jason Miller.

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  The Bootlegger's Dance - An...

  Rosemary Jones

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  Christmas comes to Arkham Horror in this action-packed eldritch adventure full of secret whispers, haunted streets, and a lost actor falling through time 
   
   
   
  Ruby Malone Gutierrez is running away, although she won't admit that to herself. Suffering from hearing loss after an illness, the former music teacher wants to find a way to retain her independence, but only a wealthy relative offers any hope of that. Put to work in her aunt Nova's Kingsport dance hall, Ruby stumbles upon a mystery when her new hearing aids begin picking up conversations that no one else can hear. As Christmas draws closer, Ruby realizes the voice comes from a hunted man lost in time. Now she must do everything she can to free him before the monsters chasing him can catch up and break through.

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  Existential Stories - Tales of...

  Franz Kafka

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  Everything we know must end.  In the fundamentals of our lives its usually our own deaths which bring that to an end.  But what if we widen that premise.  What if we are caught in its quixotic jaws. Held fast with escape merely a fleeting thought. 
  In this volume authors of real note bring their narratives of existential crisis and threat directly to our senses.  That conflict can yield terrible results. 
  And for that place the blame on Franz Kafka, Boleslaw Prus, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde and many others. 
   
  1 - Existential Stories - An Introduction 
  2 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  3 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville 
  4 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville 
  5 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus 
  6 - An Egyptian Cigarette by Kate Chopin 
  7 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 
  8 - Mold of the Earth by Boleslaw Prus 
  9 - Solid Objects by Virginia Woolf 
  10 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyveskey 
  11 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  12 - Shades by Boleslaw Prus 
  13 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce 
  14 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  15 - The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde 
  16 - Youth - Part 1 by Joseph Conrad 
  17 - Youth - Part 2 by Joseph Conrad

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  Call of the Deep Ones The: 7...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  There are secrets beneath the waves ... older than mankind, and hungry still. 
  In this salt-soaked collection, H. P. Lovecraft conjures horrors from the deep: ancient beings that slumber beneath black seas, forgotten isles lost to time, and coastal towns whose bloodlines trace back to something not entirely human. Each tale explores the terror of isolation—geographical and existential—as characters find themselves adrift in waters not meant to be charted. 
  Whether wrecked on a strange shore or pulled downward by unseen forces, the fate is the same: madness, revelation … or worse. 
  Including: 
  Dagon 
  The Temple 
  The Shadow Over Innsmouth 
  The Strange High House in the Mist 
  The White Ship 
  The Call of Cthulhu 
  The Doom That Came to Sarnath

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  Blackwood Manor

  Anônimo

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  The story revolves around John, Mary, and their daughter Emily, who move 
  into the eerie Blackwood Manor. From the moment they arrive, they are 
  confronted with unsettling occurrences and a palpable sense of decay and
   malevolence. The house seems to pulse with a low hum, and the silence 
  is pregnant with something unseen and sinister. As they settle in, they 
  experience cold spots, whispers, and shadows that seem to move on their 
  own. Emily becomes increasingly affected, experiencing vivid nightmares 
  and visions of a fiery claw and shadowy figures.
   
  
  The family discovers a hidden compartment in the attic containing 
  photographs and newspaper clippings about the previous occupants, the 
  Vance family, who mysteriously disappeared in 1889. The clippings 
  mention a legend of the "Claw of Fire," a shadowy entity associated with
   the house. They also find a journal written by Eleanor Vance, detailing
   the family's terrifying experiences and their attempts to contain the 
  entity through a ritual.
   
  John, Emily, and Sarah decide to perform the ritual to banish the 
  entity. They gather the necessary artifacts and descend into the 
  subterranean chamber beneath the house. The ritual is complex and 
  dangerous, requiring precise timing and movements. As they perform the 
  ritual, the entity emerges, a monstrous form of fire and shadow. The 
  battle is fierce, but they manage to channel their combined energy and 
  banish the entity, though at a great cost.

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  Blood In The Milk - A Short...

  Michael van der Voort

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  It is late in the Nineteenth Century and monsters stalk the narrow cobbled backstreets of a gaslit Victorian London.On the heath strange stories about the Bloofer Lady, whom Stoker's novel would reveal as Lucy Westenra, tempts the children with sweet delights, behind which lie the sharper points of fangs.Blood in the Milk is a gothic tale that explores the relationship between mothers and monsters, vampires and those other creatures who feed on the young in the dark.

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