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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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  Simon Says Die

  Dale Mayer

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  Detective Kate Morgan arrives at a broken-down house, supposedly the site of a suspicious death, only to receive a screaming warning from Simon not to enter the building. Turns out, she had been given the wrong address but does find a dead body at the corrected address. 
  As Kate sorts out whether she has a Black Widow on her most recent case, Simon tries to help a homeless man, who ends up in the morgue—now one of Kate’s newest files because that poor man’s body had been found in the broken-down house. That’s nothing compared to what else she finds on the premises. 
  Kate’s investigations into these deaths confirms the two properties have connections, including linking Simon to the haunted history of the broken-down house. 
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  When yet another homeless man is found dead at the broken-down house, Kate struggles to sort out the different threads, before the next man is killed—and this one might not be so homeless …

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  Horror Stories At Sea - Scary...

  Joseph Conrad, Guy de...

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  Being on a ship is usually very safe.  The days of sinking after hitting an iceberg are almost unthinkable.  A ship goes from one port to another, seemingly without a care in the world.  Advanced technology has kept this means of transport as no more uncomfortable as maybe a bit of queasiness after going up and down in a storm.  But worse?  No, not really possible, is it? 
   
  In this volume our authors beg to differ.  They would like to bring us stories where being on a ship is simply the worse place to be.  Horror and terror, and worse, infest their narratives and threaten all and everything aboard.  
   
  1 - Horror Stories at Sea - An Introduction 
  2 - The Brute by Joseph Conrad 
  3 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant  
  4 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo 
  5 - The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder by William Hope Hodgson 
  6 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  7 - The Upper Berth by F Marion Crawford 
  8 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

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  The Novel of the White Powder -...

  Arthur Machen

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  Arthur Llewelyn Jones was born in Caerleon, Monmouthshire on the 3rd March 1863. 
  Machen came from a long line of clergymen, and when he was two, his father became vicar of a small parish about five miles north of Caerleon, and Machen was brought up at the rectory there. 
  In his early years he received an excellent classical education, but family poverty ruled out university, and he was sent to London to sit exams to attend medical school but failed the exams.  He did show literary promise with the publication of the poem ‘Eleusinia’ in 1821.  But life in London was difficult and it was only in 1884 that he published again and was taken on to translate several French works which thereafter became the standard editions for many years. 
   
  In 1887, his father died.  That same year he married Amelia Hogg, a maverick music teacher with a passion for the theatre.  He also began to receive legacies from Scottish relatives which allowed him to devote more time to writing. 
   
  After publishing in literary magazines in 1894 he published his first book ‘The Great God Pan’.  Its sexual and horrific content very much helped sales. 
   
  Over the next decade or so he wrote some of his best work but was unable to find a publisher mainly due to the collapse of the decadent market over Oscar Wilde’s scandalous trial. 
   
  In 1899, his wife died and during his long recovery he took up acting and travelled around the country as part of a travelling company.  Three years later he was publishing again and had remarried. 
   
  Re-publishing of earlier works helped anchor both his reputation and his income.  By the time the Great War opened Europe’s wounds he returned to the public eye with ‘The Bowmen’ helped by the publicity around the ‘Angel of Mons’ episode. 
   
  However, by the late 20’s new works had dried up and his back catalogue was no longer a source of regular income. 
   
  In 1932 he received a Civil List pension of ₤100 per annum but other work was not forthcoming.  His finances finally stabilised with a literary appeal in 1943 for his eightieth birthday and allowed him to live his remaining years in relative comfort. 
   
  Arthur Machen died on 15th December 1947 in Beaconsfield. He was 84. 
   
  A man is prescribed a medicine that turns him from a hard studying student of the law to something so compellingly awful that only Machen himself could have willed it into reality.<

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  All the Broken Girls

  Linda Hurtado Bond

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  When one falls 
   
  Crime reporter Mari Alvarez was never able to solve her mother’s murder ten years ago. But when a woman is gunned down on the doorstep of her West Tampa neighborhood, Mari can’t shake the eerie sense of connection. 
   
  The others will break 
   
  Now there have been two murders in two days. Each crime scene awash with arcane clues?and without a trace of DNA from the killer. And for each victim, a doll. The first is missing an eye. The second is missing a heart. But are these clues leading to the killer … or messages for Mari? 
   
  Unless she plays the game … 
   
  Caught up in a maelstrom of Old-World superstition, secrets, and ties to her own past, Mari has only one option. Put the puzzle together before someone else dies?even if it destroys her career. But there’s no escaping the hungry spider’s web when it’s been made just for you …

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  Dead America - The SoCal Mission...

  Derek Slaton

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  Temecula, CA. The last bit of civilization before they reach the nuclear power plan. Time is running short, so the team takes a big risk.  
  Dead America - The Second Month series follows survivors from coast to coast as they deal with the threats posed by both the living and the undead.

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