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  Weird Wilderness Stories: Volume 2

  M. R. James, E. F. Lewis, J. C....

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  A second collection of strange stories that take place in the oft weird and wonderful great outdoors. 
  Contents: 
  The Ash-tree by M. R. James 
  A cursed estate hides horror in the ash tree outside. 
  The Sunken Land by George W. Bayly 
  A strange expedition leads deep into Canada's mysterious, forgotten interior. 
  The Interlopers by Saki 
  Two bitter enemies meet fate beneath stormy Carpathian trees. 
  The Haunted Wood of Adoure by Elliott O'Donnell 
  Ghostly forces stir in a shunned French woodland. 
  A Neighbour's Landmark by M. R. James 
  Removing a cursed boundary stone invites terrifying consequences. 
  It All Came True in the Woods by M. W. Wellman 
  Spoken words become flesh in the haunted woods of Amasookit. 
  The Ordeal of Wooden-Face by Hal K. Wells 
  A ghostly reunion ignites buried memories—and something more disturbing. 
  Church in the Jungles by Arthur J. Burks 
  A jungle church reveals a discovery both sacred and terrifying. 
  Decay by J. C. Moore 
  Among dying trees, Mr. Cotter senses something unnatural unfolding. 
  The Vengeance of a Tree by E. F. Lewis 
  A wrongly accused man returns through the limbs of vengeance.

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  Jetsam (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.
  JETSAM: I'm not unique; there are hundreds like me, and others who lost limbs or were killed outright. No matter how alert you were, it could happen at any time. Suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices were almost as common as the flies that continually plagued us.

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  The Plague Doctor

  Rachel Lawson

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  The Plague Doctor is set in the age of the great plague starring the time traveler Blake Alexander from the Magicians series he is a near-immortal warlock and doctor from the future who has been trapped in the past and has lived from the days of King Arthur til then.

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  The Premature Burial

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Title: The Premature Burial 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1844 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 37 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the author’s most chilling meditations on fear — not of the supernatural, but of the terrible possibilities of life and death themselves. Blending meticulous realism with mounting horror, Poe explores the paralyzing dread of being buried alive, a fate all too plausible in an age before medical certainty. 
  As the narrator recounts true tales of premature interment and his own spiraling obsession with the grave, the story becomes both a psychological study and a reflection on humanity’s darkest anxieties. Poe’s prose traps the listener in a space between reason and terror — where the heart still beats beneath the coffin lid, and imagination becomes a tomb. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the suffocating tension and morbid fascination that make The Premature Burial one of Poe’s most enduring works of gothic dread. While the text itself is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to resurrecting the masters of the macabre, The Premature Burial stands as a timeless reminder that the truest horror lies not in monsters, but in the fragile boundary between consciousness and the grave.

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  Where furnaces burn

  Joel Lane

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  'A poet of misfits, outsiders and the forsaken, his empathy for their suffering ever poignant.'
  
  – Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual
  'Joel Lane understood and expertly exploited the connection between exterior and interior landscapes like no other.'
  
  – Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearer's Club
  <p?WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY R.M. FRANCIS
  WINNER OF THE 2013 WORLD FANTASY AWARD
  
  Episodes from the casebook of a police officer in the West Midlands:
  
  A young woman needs help in finding the buried pieces of her lover... so he can return to waking life.
  
  Pale-faced thieves gather by a disused railway to watch a puppet theatre of love and violence.
  
  Why do local youths keep starting fires in the ash woods around a disused mine in the Black Country?
  
  A series of inexplicable deaths uncover a secret cult of machine worship.
  
  When a migrant worker disappears, the key suspect is a boy driven mad by memories that are not his own.
  
  Among the derelict factories and warehouses at the heart of the city, an archaic god seeks out his willing victims.
  
  Blurring the occult detective story with urban noir fiction, Where Furnaces Burn offers a glimpse of the myths and terrors buried within the industrial landscape.
  
  First published in 2012, Joel Lane's World Fantasy Award-winning collection is a true modern classic of weird fiction that cemented his place as one of the most important and distinctive British writers of the weird.

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  Blood Mark

  JP McLean

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  What if your lifelong curse is the only thing keeping you alive? Abandoned at birth, life has always been a battle for Jane Walker. She and her best friend, Sadie, spent years fighting to survive Vancouver's cutthroat underbelly. That would have been tough enough without Jane's mysterious afflictions: an intricate pattern of blood-red birthmarks that snake around her body and vivid, heart-wrenching nightmares that feel so real she wakes up screaming.  
  After she meets the first man who isn't repulsed by her birthmarks, Jane thinks she might finally have a chance at happiness. Her belief seems confirmed as the birthmarks she's spent her life so ashamed of magically begin to disappear. Yet, the quicker her scarlet marks vanish, the more lucid and disturbing Jane's nightmares become—until it's impossible to discern her dreams from reality, and Jane comes to a horrifying realization:  
  The nightmares that have plagued her since childhood are actually visions of real people being stalked by a deadly killer. And all this time, her birthmarks have been the only things protecting her from becoming his next victim.  
  Blood Mark is the first in a brand-new paranormal thriller series by JP McLean, author of The Gift Legacy series and whose writing has been described as ". . . deftly crafted, impressively original, and inherently compelling from first page to last." 
  ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD WINNER (HONORARY MENTION) 
  WISHING SHELF BOOK AWARD FINALIST 
  INDEPENDENT AUTHOR NETWORK (IAN) PARANORMAL/SUPERNATURAL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FINALIST 
  CHANTICLEER (CIBA) PARANORMAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 
  LITERARY TITAN GOLD MEDAL WINNER

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