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  Ten Macabre Tales 1

  Zahid Zaman

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  Enter a world where shadows breathe, darkness whispers, and every twist brings you closer to the edge. Ten eerie stories, each more chilling than the last, will haunt your thoughts long after the final page. Dare to discover what lurks beneath the surface in this spine-tingling collection of macabre tales.

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  The Open Door - An acclaimed...

  Margaret Oliphant

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  Margaret Oliphant Wilson was born on 4th April 1828 in East Lothian in Scotland but spent her childhood in Midlothian, Glasgow and Liverpool.   
   
  She wrote from a young age and in 1849 had her first novel about the Scottish Free Church movement, a cause her parents sympathized with, published.  Her next, ‘Caleb Field’, a couple of years later, led to a lifelong association with Blackwood Magazine to which she contributed more than a 100 articles and reviews. 
   
  In May 1852, she married her cousin, Frank Wilson Oliphant, an artist working in stained glass, and settled in Camden, London. Together they had six children but tragically three died in infancy.   
   
  Unfortunately, Frank developed tuberculosis and so they moved in January 1859 to Florence, and then south to Rome, where he died. Margaret was devastated and was left with the burden of supporting herself and their three children.  
   
  She returned to England and with her prolific literary work increased her commercial reputation and the size of her reading audience.  Margaret worked tirelessly to sustain her popularity with her supernatural tales and historical fiction. 
   
  Unfortunately, her family life continued to be fraught with tragedies due to the further death of her one remaining daughter, financial ruin for her alcoholic brother and unfulfilled ambitions for her two sons followed by their deaths in 1890 and 1894.  She had settled in Windsor near Eton where her sons had been educated in 1866 and was buried there following her death on 25th June, 1897. 
   
  Despite the short time she lived in Scotland, much of her writing displays strong connections in terms of settings, themes and its oral tradition.   
   
  Margaret was admired for her range of supernatural tales, which resonated with her fascination for the afterlife and given her own experience, provided a sense of comfort to those grieving.   
   
  In this story a family’s return from India to Scotland is soon brought to a state of tension when their fragile son experiences hallucinations.  The pursuit of the truth brings many consequences.

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  Other Tales for the Spooky Season

  Jr. Frank Belknap Long, Robert...

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  SCIENCE FICTION and FANTASY stories of STRANGEST ilk. 
  This special Other Tales release features ten startling and terrifying stories from the golden age of pulp fiction and beyond. Horrors abound, of cosmic, romantic, metaphysical, and further varieties. Let Robert W. Chambers (The King in Yellow), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), George Eliot (Middlemarch), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), and others chill and delight you this spooky season! 
  This special volume contains stories by: 
  Frank Belknap Long, Jr. 
  H.P. Blavatsky 
  Robert W. Chambers 
  Arthur Conan Doyle 
  George Eliot 
  Frances Garfield 
  Greye La Spina 
  Rog Phillips 
  Sidney Porcelain 
  Mary Shelley

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  Fountain Dead

  Theresa Braun

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  Mark is uprooted from his home and high school in the Twin Cities and forced to move with his family into a Victorian in Nowhere-ville. Busy with the relocation and fitting in, Mark’s parents don’t see what’s unfolding around them—the way rooms and left behind objects seem alive with a haunted past. 
  That past is the mid-1800s where Emma dwells. Tormented by the loss of her mother and having to live with her overbearing father who hopes to see the eradication of all indigenous people, she nurses soldiers back to health. Her torment escalates as she develops a passion for the Native American hired hand who sleeps just beyond her bedroom door. Together, they must unite to battle the supernatural force threatening to consume—and curse—all who dare to tread on the grounds. Will their forbidden love survive? 
  Back in the 1980s, Mark keeps his ghostly encounters to himself, all the while sinking deeper into the house's dark, alluring, and ultimately terrifying history. As romantic entanglements with the ghostly Emma intensify, the paranormal activity heightens. Past and present come together. Everything is connected—from the bricks in the walls to the hearts beating in their chests, all the secrets of Fountain Dead are finally unearthed.

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  Jogcasts - 6 Motivational Audio...

  Robert Lendrum, Jamie Roberts

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  Running Scared Media produces motivational and immersive audio dramas for running. We call them "Jogcasts". In "Jogacsts" we've included 6 of our best original immersive audio drams the will be sure to get you moving and motivated on your next run. With over 4 hours of content Running Scared Media Jogcats are designed to accompany you a variety of race lebths ansd terrains. Whether it be on your next 5, 10 half or full marathon let US be your running buddy! Our stories span a variety of genres and storylines with interesting and intriguing characters all wrapped up in a professional soundscape. We hope you enjoy and Happy Running! 
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  The Forgotten - With 4 hired assassins on her trail, Princess Elspeth flees to join the rebellion and overthrow her corrupt father, but runs straight into Hell. 
  The Belly - 2 prisoners attempt to escape an underwater prison as a mysterious sound turns everyone violently mad. 
  Time to Burn - Martin returns to the site of the mysterious cabin fire to rebuild and beat his 5 mile time. Haunted by a family secret, he uncovers the truth before time is up. 
  Insulam Creatura - Your mission: retrieve 4 components of a genetic mutagen hidden on an isolated jungle island. Be warned, not everything is as it seems. 
  Blood at Night - Rob and Jamie's night run turns into a sprint for survival through the forest and tunnels of a secret vampire lair. 
  Hell in Hamilton - Rob is new to Hamilton, so when a zombie apocalypse ignites the downtown core, Jamie must guide him through the madness.

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  Vampirismus or Aurelia - An...

  E T A Hoffmann

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  Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave. 
   
  His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by. 
   
  At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to the art that now surrounded him.  Two years later he was in Berlin attempting a career as a composer with an operetta called ‘Die Maske’.  His gift for drawing caricatures and sharing them often got him into trouble that was easier to avoid. 
   
  The years of Napoleon ravaging Europe were bad for Hoffman; he moved often and took on works as varied as theatre management and music critic.  In this his talents were now more evident.  His works on Beethoven where highly regarded by the master himself. 
   
  His literary breakthrough came in 1809, with ‘Ritter Gluck’, about a man who believes he has met the composer 20 years after his death.  However the various jobs and the wars continued and plagued any career advancement despite his constant travel for opportunities, often through dangerous territories. 
   
  In the wake of Napoleon’s defeat in 1814, Hoffmann returned to Berlin where his opera ‘Undine’ was performed by the Berlin Theatre.  Life was now more settled and many of his most famous works were written at his time. 
   
  From 1819, Hoffmann was struggling with both legal disputes and ill health.  Alcohol abuse and syphilis were physically weakening him and from 1822 paralysis set in.  His last works were dictated to his wife or to a secretary as all around him society descended into an anti-liberal agenda, stifling dissent with threats of legal action and even treason.  The ailing Hoffman was among them. 
   
  E T A Hoffmann died on the 25th June 1822 in Berlin of syphilis.  He was 46.

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