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  Look The (Unabridged)

  Reggie Oliver

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  Reggie Oliver is a stage actor and playwright. His biography of Stella Gibbons was praised as "a triumph" by Hilary Spurling in the Daily Telegraph, his play Winner Takes All, was described as "the funniest evening in London", by Michael Billington in The Guardian, and his adaptation of Hennequin and Delacour's Once Bitten opened at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in December 2010.
  THE LOOK: Three weeks after I had arrived in Nairobi in January 1976 my father wrote to me. I took it to be a sign that he was reconciled to the fact that his only son had decided to join a theatre company in what he called 'the back of beyond'.

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  The Epiphany Of Death

  Clark Ashton Smith

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  The Epiphany Of Death - Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz 
  Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics alongside Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French and remembered as "The Last of the Great Romantics" and "The Bard of Auburn". Smith's work was praised by his contemporaries. H. P. Lovecraft stated that "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled", and Ray Bradbury said that Smith "filled my mind with incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures". 
  Smith was one of "the big three of Weird Tales, with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft", though some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions. The fantasy writer and critic L. Sprague de Camp said of him that "nobody since Poe has so loved a well-rotted corpse".[3] Smith was a member of the Lovecraft circle, and his literary friendship with Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937. His work is marked by an extraordinarily rich and ornate vocabulary, a cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic and sometimes ribald humor. 
  Of his writing style, Smith stated: "My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation."

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  M R James, Charles Dickens,...

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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 authors present tales of dark, macabre, and disturbing deeds.  From the pens of Rudyard Kipling, M R James, Marjorie Bowen, Algernon Blackwood and others many others come carefully crafted literary journeys designed to disrupt reality, jangle nerves and feed upon our souls.    
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - English Gothic - An Introduction 
  2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  3 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 
  4 - The Music on the Hill by Saki 
  5 - In the Dark by Edith Nesbit 
  6 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 
  7 - The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood 
  8 - Count Magnus by M R James 
  9 - Mrs Amworth by E F Benson 
  10 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 
  11 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen

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  The Fall Of The House Of Usher

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  In The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe masterfully weaves a gothic tale of psychological horror and supernatural dread. The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits the decaying mansion of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher. As the story unfolds, the narrator uncovers the deep mental and physical decay of the Usher family, mirrored by the eerie and crumbling house itself. As tensions rise, the line between reality and madness blurs, leading to a terrifying and tragic conclusion. 
  Narrated by Rob Sogomonian, this audiobook captures the atmospheric gloom, suspense, and underlying horror of Poe's classic tale, bringing the haunted world of Usher to life in a chilling performance. 
  Perfect for fans of gothic literature, horror, and classic tales of the macabre, The Fall of the House of Usher remains one of Poe's most iconic and unsettling works.

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  The Necromantrix Earns Her...

  Rachel Lawson

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  The king of the reapers son's heir the Necromantrix was given her first scythe by her grand father the reaper king in a quiet park out of town in a small ceremony. 
  They try to explain reapers to her to her father's amusement she thinks they are gardeners who use lawn mowers. 
  "we are like lawn mowers then, we cut the grass and collect the grass and put it where it is judged needs to be placed." his son laughed he was amused by the description of them as lawn mowers. A couple of walkers saw the 2 reapers and the black dressed Necromantrix holding an old scythe. The walkers screamed. "We're just here to mow the lawn! You never seen The Mower King before," shouted the Necromancer, The Mower King was a big gardening franchise in that town. The walkers ran off. "You scared them you psycho!" snapped back the king at his son. The king turned his attention back to the girl, "Do you understand what I was talking about?" asked the king. "You are gardeners I thought you were killers?" she said. 
  This is a darkly funny short story

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  The Haunted Sentry Box of Puerto...

  Lewis Miller

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  The Haunted Sentry Box of Porto Rico" by Lewis Miller is a short story written in the early 20th century. This intriguing tale blends elements of adventure and supernatural mystery, revolving around the enigmatic disappearance of a sentry and a priest in the old fort of San Cristobal in San Juan, Porto Rico. The narrative evolves through the recounting of local lore and personal encounters, highlighting themes of betrayal, revenge, and the weight of guilt. 

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