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  A Room with a View

  E.M. Forster

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  "A Room with a View" is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. The novel  is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.

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  Clouds of Witness - The Lord...

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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  Clouds of Witness: A Murder Mystery Novel by Dorothy L. SayersDelve into the captivating world of Lord Peter Wimsey with Clouds of Witness, the second installment in Dorothy L. Sayers' iconic mystery series. This timeless classic offers a gripping tale of murder, family secrets, and aristocratic intrigue.When the Duke of Denver, Lord Peter's own brother, is accused of murder, the stakes couldn't be higher. Armed with his razor-sharp intellect and unyielding determination, Lord Peter uncovers a web of secrets, lies, and political entanglements. As the truth unfolds, readers are treated to Sayers' signature blend of wit, suspense, and literary charm.Perfect for fans of classic detective fiction, Clouds of Witness showcases Dorothy L. Sayers' masterful storytelling and the enduring appeal of her brilliant and charismatic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey.

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  After the Funeral - From their...

  Mary Butts

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  Mary Frances Butts was born on 13th December 1890 in Poole, Dorset. 
  Her early years were spent at Salterns, an 18th-century house overlooking Poole Harbour.  Sadly in 1905 her father died, and she was sent for boarding at St Leonard's school for girls in St Andrews. 
  Her mother remarried and, from 1909, Mary studied at Westfield College in London, and here, first became aware of her bisexual feelings.  She was sent down for organising a trip to Epsom races and only completed her degree in 1914 when she graduated from the London School of Economics.  By then Mary had become an admirer of the occultist Aleister Crowley and she was given a co-authorship credit on his ‘Magick (Book 4)’. 
  In 1916, she began the diary which would now detail her future life and be a constant reference point for her observations and her absorbing experiences. 
  During World War I, she was doing social work for the London County Council in Hackney Wick, and involved in a lesbian relationship.  Life changed after meeting the modernist poet, John Rodker and they married in 1918. 
  In 1921 she spent 3 months at Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Sicily; she found the practices dreadful and also acquired a drug habit.  Mary now spent time writing in Dorset, including her celebrated book of short stories ‘Speed the Plough’ which saw fully develop her unique Modernist prose style. 
  Europe now beckoned and several years were spent in Paris befriending many artists and writing further extraordinary stories.   
  She was continually sought after by literary magazines and also published several short story collections as books. Although a Modernist writer she worked in other genres but is essentially only known for her short stories.  Mary was deeply committed to nature conservation and wrote several pamphlets attacking the growing pollution of the countryside. 
  In 1927, she divorced and the following year her novel ‘Armed with Madness’ was published.  A further marriage followed in 1930 and time was spent attempting to settle in London and Newcastle before setting up home on the western tip of Cornwall.  By 1934 the marriage had failed. 
  Mary Butts died on 5th March 1937, at the West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance, after an operation for a perforated gastric ulcer. She was 46.

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  History

  Isaac Asimov

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  "History" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1941 issue of Super Science Stories and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov.

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  The Heathen

  Jack London

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  "The Heathen" is a short story by the American writer Jack London. It was first published in Everybody's Magazine in August 1910.
  In the story, two people, from different cultural and racial backgrounds, are the only survivors of a ship that encounters a hurricane in the Pacific, and they remain together.
  The narrator, a pearl buyer named Charley, is a cabin passenger on a schooner, the Petite Jeanne, sailing from Rangiroa to Tahiti with a Kanaka crew, at the end of the pearling season in the Paumotas. The boat, having eighty-five deck passengers, is overloaded. Several passengers die of smallpox; Charley and the other cabin passengers drink whisky, until it runs out, in the belief that it will kill the smallpox germs.
  The boat is in the direct path of a hurricane. "The second sea filled the Petite Jeanne's decks flush with the rails, and, as her stern sank down and her bow tossed skyward, all the miserable dunnage of life and luggage poured aft. It was a human torrent.... Out of all my experiences I could not have believed it possible for the wind to blow as it did.... It was a monstrous thing, and the most monstrous thing about it was that it increased and continued to increase."

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  Diary Horror - The 'Found...

  Robert Bloch, Guy de Maupassant,...

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  Fifteen stories told through the recovered pages of diaries/journals. 
  Contents: 
  What Killed Granded? by Ian Gordon (HorrorBabble, 2020) 
  An investigation told through a series of audio logs. 
  The Diary of Alonzo Typer by H. P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales, 1938) 
  An occult researcher disappears without a trace. 
  The Horror in the Lighthouse by E. A. Poe and R. Bloch (Fantastic, 1953) 
  Bloch completes Poe's famous fragment. 
  The Diary of Philip Westerly by Paul Compton (WT, 1936) 
  Unsettling incidents involving a mirror. 
  Notebook Found in a Deserted House by Robert Bloch (WT, 1951) 
  A boy hides from 'them ones'. 
  The Hall Bedroom by M. E. W. Freeman (Short Story Classics, 1905) 
  A peculiar room in a boarding house. 
  The Diary of a Madman by Guy de Maupassant (Le Gaulois, 1885) 
  The thoughts of an undiscovered murderer. 
  The Polar Vortex by Malcolm Ferguson (WT, 1946) 
  A terrible experiment. 
  The Impossible Adventure by H. T. W. Bousfield (WT, 1940) 
  A curious set of notes. 
  The Bed of Shadows by Fred R. Farrow, Jr. (WT, 1929) 
  What lurked above the man in the bed? 
  The Way Home by P. F. Stern (WT, 1935) 
  A man suffering from amnesia. 
  The Floor Above by M. Humphreys (WT, 1923) 
  A man's troubling stay with an old friend. 
  The Horla by Guy de Maupassant (1887) 
  A man is haunted by an invisible presence. 
  The Hollow Moon by Everil Worrell (WT, 1939) 
  A vampire and strange icebergs. 
  The Green Meadow by H. P. Lovecraft (The Vagrant, 1927) 
  A notebook found in a meteorite.

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