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  The Testament of Magdalen Blair...

  Aleister Crowley

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  Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. 
   
  He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes. 
   
  Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject himself into Western esotericism.  In 1898, he joined the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was trained in ceremonial magic before studying both Hindu and Buddhist practices in India. 
   
  On his Egyptian honeymoon in 1904 he claimed contact with an entity―Aiwass―who gave him the sacred Book of the Law which served as the basis for the Thelema religion where he identified as its prophet.  During the Great War, which he spent in the United States, he claimed to be working for British Intelligence but by the 1920s he had decamped to pursue a libertine lifestyle in Sicily, and in the ensuing scandals was evicted by the Italian Government. 
   
  He divided the following two decades between France, Germany, and England, and the continuing promotion of Thelema. 
   
  During his life he gained widespread notoriety for his drug use, his bisexuality, and his alarming views on society.  In short, polite society frowned on his ways, his thoughts and his influence but to many others his stance had much of value.  Even after death he was a darling for the 60’s counterculture but his influence has since waned.   
   
  His literary works were both prolific and covered many topics.  In the early part of his career he published many poetry books, even plays, before his darker and more forceful works came to dominate his output. 
   
  Aleister Crowley died on 1st December 1947 at Hastings in England. He was 72.

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  Secrets of the Greek Revival

  Eva Pohler

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  Like Nancy Drew meets The Golden Girls! Ellen and her two best friends share a mid-life crisis by hatching a plan to renovate an 1860's Greek revival in the nearby historic district of San Antonio. Although Ellen isn’t one to believe in ghosts, she comes face to face with something inexplicable in the attic. Her ghost-enthusiast friends convince her that they must help the spirit find closure, and as they dig deeper into the past, they uncover a shocking history that someone in the neighborhood doesn’t want exposed. But Ellen and her friends don't give up easily. They realize they've been called to give voice to the invisible women who suffered behind the walls of the house for decades.

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  A Modern Utopia

  H. G. Wells

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  In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government.The premise of the novel is that there is a planet (for "No less than a planet will serve the purpose of a modern Utopia") exactly like Earth, with the same geography and biology. They have, however, "different habits, different traditions, different knowledge, different ideas, different clothing, and different appliances." The narrator's double describes the ascetic Rule by which the samurai live; this includes a ban on alcohol and drugs and a mandatory annual one-week solitary ramble in the wilderness. He also explains the social theory of Utopia, which distinguished four "main classes of mind": The Poietic, the Kinetic, the Dull, and the Base. Poietic minds are creative or inventive; kinetic minds are able but not particularly inventive; the Dull have "inadequate imagination," and the Base are mired in egotism and lack "moral sense."

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  The Thicket

  CM Harris

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  ‘Wow!!! Wow!!!! Wow!!! This book is a total page turner and will keep you guessing with every page. Halfway through I thought I had it figured out and then BAM! The ending floored me’ Michelle, NetGalleySOMETHING IS STIRRING IN THE HEART OF ILLINOIS 
  When Jane and TJ agree to attend their high school reunion they never expect to come face-to-face with classmate-turned-stalker Lincoln the moment they return home. 
  SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WOKEN 
  Unspoken words fester between them of the incident in the local woods twenty years ago when Evie vanished in a flash of amber light. They were the last three people to see her alive. 
  SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PROVOKED 
  But the trees have been whispering to Lincoln ever since, and as Jane and TJ arrive back in town, the voices call to him again, hissing three solitary words: she is here. 
  Sharp Objects meets Stranger Things in this razor-sharp small-town thriller – perfect for fans of Stephen King. 
  Previously published as She Never LeftWhat readers are saying: 
  ‘Will get under your skin and keep playing on your mind even after you finished reading. Really well written and fast-paced … would definitely recommend, especially for a dark winter’s evening!’ Janaya, NetGalley 
  ‘Magnificent… a sci-fi thriller with spooky suspense that will be gobbled up by fans of the genre’ Farshana, NetGalley 
  ‘The plot caught my imagination in a vice from the very beginning. This is a chilling, evocative psychological thriller that is totally addictive to the point I just can't stop thinking about it… An expertly written novel that is darkly compelling and razor-sharp’ Robin, NetGalley 
  ‘Will have you on the edge of your seat the entire time!’ Kori, NetGalley 
  ‘Full of twists and turns … brilliantly written … at times I just couldn’t read quick enough to find out what was going to happen next’ Rubie, NetGalley 
  ‘Wow this book is amazing – so many plot twists… I loved it!!’ Gaynor, NetGalley 
  ‘Ideal for fans of genre-crossing psychological thrillers that include unexpected humour. Beautifully written’ Rachel, NetGalley 
  In the rural heartland of Illinois, a supernatural mystery unfolds, weaving a tale of science fiction and horror that will leave readers breathless. The best of crime fiction, The Thicket by CM Harris is a chilling exploration of the unknown. 
  For fans of S.A Mcewen (Sister in Trouble), Sji Holliday (The Party Season), Susi Holliday (The Street), Minka Kent (Gone Again), and Jo Jakeman (Safe House).

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  Victorian Ghost Story The -...

  Mary Louisa Molesworth,...

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  Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians. 
   
  When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.  
   
  Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your reading and listening pleasure. 
   
  01 - The Victorian Ghost Story - An Introduction - Volume 3 
  02 - The Story of the RipplingTrain by Mary Louisa Molesworth 
  03 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell 
  04 - At the End of the Passage by Rudyard Kipling 
  05 - To Let by B M Croker.wav 
  06 - The Man of Science by Jerome K Jerome 
  05 - From The Dead by Edith Nesbit 
  08 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith 
  09 - Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M R James 
  10 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton 
  11 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs 
  12 - The Tomb of Sarah by F G Loring 
  13 - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry Pain

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  Horror Story Collection 005

  Various Various

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  An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking dead, the fetid pools of slime, the howls in the night that you thought you had confined to your more unpleasant dreams.

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