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  H P Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Horror stalks the earth. There are many dimensions that coexist with our universe and, unfortunately, overlap it in very special places. The horrific beings that live in these other dimensions are ancient, terrifying and very malign. This story is about one of these overlapping spots in a decaying community in the USA where these beings can interact with our world and where humans succeed in calling them forth in all of their stench, fetor and power with the intent of destroying all life on our planet. Mere humans cannot resist their power. Is there any hope? - 

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  The Ghost Behind Me

  Ashlei Prince

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  I'm alone, in the apartment my girlfriend and I used to share. But she's gone. Dead. Strange things are happening. I think it's my sleepwalking. 
  I need to find out.

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  The Cats Of Ulthar

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz, and includes a fully immersive cinematic music score. 
  "The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. As the narrative goes, the city is home to an old couple who enjoy capturing and killing the townspeople's cats. When a caravan of wanderers passes through the city, the kitten of an orphan (Menes) traveling with the band disappears. Upon hearing of the couple's violent acts towards cats, Menes invokes a prayer before leaving town that causes the local felines to swarm the cat-killers' house and devour them. Upon witnessing the result, the local politicians pass a law forbidding the killing of cats. 
  Influenced by Lord Dunsany, the tale was a personal favorite of Lovecraft's and has remained popular since his death. Considered one of the best short stories of Lovecraft's early period, aspects of "The Cats of Ulthar" would be referenced again in the author's works The Other Gods and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. It was first published in the literary journal Tryout in November 1920 and now resides in the public domain.

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  Fisherman The: Book summary &...

  Alexander Pike

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  
   
  A haunting, immersive journey into grief and resilience, The Fisherman plunges listeners into the fog-shrouded waters of Dutchman’s Creek, where every cast of the line becomes a step toward healing. Guided by the enigmatic Abe Packer’s disciplined rituals—mindful casting, breath-centered anchors, and nightly rites of release—Dan Jenkins transforms sorrow into structured growth. With each trout landed, each journal entry logged, and each supernatural ripple faced head-on, the story demonstrates that focused routines can illuminate even the darkest currents of the soul.
   
  This audiobook delivers spine-tingling suspense—whispered legends of a spectral fisher, eerie moonlit encounters, and a climactic confrontation with grief’s monstrous embodiment—while interweaving practical, motivational strategies for emotional mastery. Perfect for listeners who crave atmospheric horror laced with actionable insight, The Fisherman offers not only a chilling tale but a blueprint for converting loss into purpose, one intentional cast at a time.

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  The Water Child

  Matthew West

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  What the sea takes for its own can never return… 
  Portugal, 1754. Cecilia Lamb knew being a sea captain’s wife would mean a life of waiting and watching the horizon for her husband’s ship. But John has been gone longer than any voyage should last. Everyone else has given up hope of his return. But she knows in her bones that he is not lost. Gone, but not lost. 
  Barely able to tear her eyes from the shimmering sea, she feels drawn to the sun-baked shoreline, and amid the bustle of the docks she feels certain that her husband will come back to her. Though along with that feeling is another sense – that something darker is coming. As she sickens, she doesn’t know what the next tide will bring – but she begins to fear as well as crave her husband’s homecoming. 
  Soon, even on dry land, Cecilia can feel the pull of the ocean at her feet, the movement of the tides within her. Warning, seduction or promise, she cannot tell, but one thing is certain – the sea holds many secrets, and some of them are too powerful to ever be drowned. 
  In this latest work of fiction by Mathew West, the supernatural and gothic elements intertwine to create a thrilling narrative that will leave readers on the edge of their seats. The Water Child, a top pick among thrillers, delves into the darkest corners of the human psyche, exploring the horror that can arise from the depths of despair and longing. 
  For fans of Margery Allingham (The Tiger in the Smoke), Jess Kidd (The Night Ship), Elizabeth Macneal (The Burial Plot), Rebecca Netley (The Black Feathers), and Susan Stokes-Chapman (Pandora). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George...

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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 we examine Gothic short stories from the woman’s point of view.  More usually in this genre the main examples are almost always given as male.  Well, in this volume we prove that view needs severely testing.  Here we explore works by classic women authors who, with the sheer breadth of their talents and narratives, can make mere men seem tame by comparison. 
   
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Women's Gothic - An Introduction 
  2 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  3 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot 
  4 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot 
  5 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  6 - The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit 
  7 - In Dark New England Days by Sarah Orne Jewett 
  8 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen 
  9 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 
  10 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton 
  11 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman 
  12 - The Ghost at the Rath by Rosa Mulholland

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