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  Carnivorine - From their pens to...

  Lucy H Hooper

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Lucy H Hooper.

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  The Wendigo

  Algernon Blackwood

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  A monster lurks in the Canadian forests. If the legends are to be believed, a small band of hunters is about to meet the Wendigo.  
  The legend of the Wendigo originates from folk stories from the Plains and Great Lakes Native Americans. The creature is a malevolent spirit, known to possess and even eat humans.  
  Algernon Blackwood crafts this ghostly tale masterfully, filling it with atmosphere, tension, and drama.

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  The Diary of a God - From their...

  Barry Pain

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  Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children. 
  He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read classics and contributed to and edited Granta. 
  Four years of service as an Army coach followed before he moved to London. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine published his short story ‘The Hundred Gates’.  This opened the way for Pain to advance his literary career on several fronts. He became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, as well as joining the staff of both the Daily Chronicle and Black and White.  
  In 1897 he succeeded Jerome K Jerome as editor of To-Day but still contributed regularly, until 1928, to the Windsor Magazine. 
  It is often said that Pain was discovered by Robert Louis Stevenson, who compared his work to that of Guy de Maupassant.  It’s an apt comparison. Pain was also a master of disturbing prose but able to inject parody and light comedy into many of his works.  A simple premise could in his hands suddenly expand into a world very real but somehow emotionally fraught and on the very edge of darkness as many of these short stories demonstrate.   
  Despite applying his talents to several genres and forms today Pain is more readily thought of, especially during the first decade of the 20th Century, as perhaps the leading British humorist of his day.  These stories reveal a darker side and beg to differ. 
  Barry Pain died on 5th May 1928 in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

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  When the World Screamed

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The bombastic Professor Challenger is convinced that a sentient being lurks in the mantle of the earth. Aided by Edward Malone and Peerless Jones, he must drill down through the earth’s crust to alert the creature of humankind’s existence.  
   
  After his debut in The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle went on to develop the grandiloquent Professor Challenger in four other works. When the World Screamed is the fourth in the series, and a satisfying addition to the canon. 

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  Superhero Shrink: Climate Change

  Jackson Allen

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  The Superhero Shrink' is "'The Avengers' Meets 'Ordinary People,'" an honest look at the people behind the masks. Dr. Christopher has a very difficult, unique job. He's a psychiatrist who works with superheroes. Some legendary warriors come with baggage and his job is to help 'keep 'em flying.' How are you supposed to save people who are supposed to be saving us? Half-serious, half-dark comedy. Climate Change is about the disasters of superhero fights - how do you clean up the pollution from a hyperdimensional monster robot war?

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  Posthumous Stories

  Roberto Bolaño

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  “One of the more colorful gods in the pantheon of  international literary myth . . . [Bolaño] follows his restless talent  down every available rabbit hole.” —Sam Anderson, New York“When I read Roberto Bolaño, I think: Everything is possible again.” —Nicole Krauss, author of To Be a ManThis program is read by award-winning narrator André Santana.. . . because stories like this don’t have an ending . . . Gathering the short works, in various states of completion, found on Roberto Bolaño’s computer shortly after his death, Posthumous Stories is animated by indeterminacy. Fragments of fantasies, memories, monologues, fears, and dreams proceed one into the other, seeming neither to begin nor to end. Each is haunted by time: its tick, its weight, its eternity. Forever open, and forever becoming, these stories make collaborators of us all, and offer, like a ghost, the great gift of infinity.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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