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  Weird Tales

  E. Nesbit

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  E. Nesbit is best known for her children's books such as The Railway Children, the “Psammead” series. and the stories of the “Bastable” family. She was also a poet and wrote many works for adults including short stories in the genre of the supernatural and the macabre, eight of which are included in this collection.Public Domain ©2016 E. Nesbit (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

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  The Other Gods

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author, writer who achieved fame after passing away. He is known for influential works of horror fiction.  "The Other Gods" is a short story that was written on August 14, 1921, published in November 1933 and it tells about Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet who learned in the lore of the “gods of the Earth”. One day he attempted to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla along with his young disciple Atal in order to look upon their faces. But when he got to the mountain he found that the “gods of the Earth” were not alone there. What will happen to Barzai the Wise? Will he be punished? Get answers by reading this amazing story.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  The Short Stories of Henry W...

  Henry W. Nevinson

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  Henry Woodd Nevinson was born on October 11th, 1856. 
  Nevinson was schooled at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford. John Ruskin influenced his time at Oxford. Fascinated by German Culture he spent some time at Jena before publishing, in 1884, Herder & His times, a study on Johnann Gottfried Herder. 
  In 1897 he became the Daily Chronicle's reporter for the Greco-Turkish War. He was also noted for his reporting on the Second Boer War. 
  During the 1880s Nevinson had attached his politics to Socialism and by 1889 had joined the Social Democratic Federation. 
  In 1904, he was hired by Harper's Monthly Magazine to report on a supposed trade in slaves from Angola to the cocoa plantations of São Tomé. He produced evidence of people being trafficked to settle debts or seized by Portuguese agents and taken in shackles to the coastal towns. Once there he wrote that Portuguese officials "freed" them and continued the charade by declaring they were now voluntary workers who agreed to go to São Tomé for five years. Despite severe ill health he continued to follow the slaves to São Tomé. He found plantation conditions so appalling that one in five workers died each year. His account was serialised from August 1905 and then published as ‘A Modern Slavery’ in 1906. 
  He was also a suffragist, being one of the founders in 1907 of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage. 
  In 1914 he co-founded the Friends' Ambulance Unit and later in World War I, as a war correspondent, was wounded during the infamous Gallipoli campaign. 
  E. M. Forster described Nevinson's book, ‘More Changes, More Chances’ in 1925 as "exciting", and that "He has brought to the soil of his adoption something that transcends party-generosity, recklessness, a belief in conscience joined to a mistrust of principles". 
  A committed Socialist Nevinson could see, during the 20s and 30s, the foundations of a titanic struggle began to gather its forces. He would later state "I detest the cruel systems of persecution and suppression now existing under Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and Stalin in Russia". 
  Nevinson married Margaret Wynne Jones and, after her death in 1933, he married his long-time lover, and fellow suffragist, Evelyn Sharp. 
  Henry W. Nevinson died on November 9th, 1941. 
   
  01 - Henry W. Nevinson. A Short Story Volume - An Introduction 
  02 - St George of Rochester by Henry W. Nevinson 
  03 - The Aristocrat of Labour by Henry W. Nevinson

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  Pop Art - A Short Story from...

  Joe Hill

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  Arthur Roth is a lonely sixth-grader with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting the hell kicked out of him. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town.
  A HarperAudio production.

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  Father Was a Wise Old Man

  Donald Davis

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  Joe Davis was in his mid-40s when he became a father, and the experience he was able to apply in raising his sons lent creativity to his parenting. The five stories here recall the wisdom of fathers with humor and rich detail: a visit to the Smithsonian inspires father's memory; father "cures" a boy's impulse to try cigarettes; Santa Claus learns an important lesson; and someone plays a trick on a visiting preacher.
  ©2001 August House Publishers, Inc; (P)2001 Donald Davis, Storyteller, Inc.

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  The Tower of the Antilles -...

  Achy Obejas

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  PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist: A “superb story collection” about America and Cuba, escape and return, and history and hope (Los Angeles Times). 
   
  Longlisted for The Story Prize 
   
  One of Electric Literature’s Best Short Story Collections of the Year 
   
  In “Superman,” several possible story lines emerge about a 1950s Havana sex-show superstar who disappeared as soon as the revolution triumphed. “North/South” portrays a migrant family trying to cope with separation and the eventual disintegration of blood ties. “The Cola of Oblivion” follows a young woman who returns to Cuba and inadvertently uncorks a history of accommodation and betrayal among the family members who stayed behind during the revolution. And in the title story, an interrogation reveals a series of fantasies about escape and a history of futility. 
   
  The Cubans in Achy Obejas’ story collection are haunted by islands: the island they fled, the island they’ve created, the island they were taken to or forced from, the island they long for, the island they return to, and the island that can never be home again. 
   
  “[A] memorable short fiction collection.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “By turns searing and subtly magical . . . Obejas’ plots are ambushing, her characters startling, her metaphors fresh, her humor caustic, and her compassion potent in these intricate and haunting stories of displacement, loss, stoicism, and realization.” —Booklist 
   
  “Obejas writes with gentleness, without flashy wording or gimmicks, about people trying to figure out where they belong.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

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