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  Dracula – Chapter 5: Letter from...

  Bram Stoker

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  In this chapter, the narrative shifts from Jonathan Harker’s isolated terror to the warm yet increasingly uneasy exchanges between Mina Murray and her dear friend Lucy Westenra. Through their letters, we glimpse everyday Victorian life — seaside holidays, budding romances, and hopeful plans for the future. But beneath the pleasant tone lies a quiet tension, as subtle hints foreshadow the dark forces already beginning to stir beyond their awareness. 
  Mina writes with affection and curiosity, unaware of Jonathan’s growing peril in Transylvania. Lucy responds with confessions of love and uncertainty, revealing her own emotional crossroads. Meanwhile, newspaper clippings and family correspondence widen the world of Dracula, introducing mysterious events that will later intertwine with the unfolding horror. 
  This is Chapter 5 of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne — part of a complete chapter-by-chapter audiobook series that brings the Gothic classic to life with haunting atmosphere, rich characterization, and cinematic storytelling. 
  Experience the calm before the storm, the subtle dread, and the delicate human moments that make the coming darkness all the more terrifying. 
  📖 Public domain text. Original publication: 1897.

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  Bedlam & Belfry Intergalactic...

  Glen Cadigan

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  Bedlam & Belfry are back in a second dozen of stories that test the bounds of legality, morality, and sanity! Travel with them to far off planets, dingy London bars, and dignified courtrooms to watch them bring the law down to their level! See them enter (and exit) rehab, defend celebrity litigants, and employ dubious methods to win the day! Witness their ratings explode, their clients' ascend into infamy, and their own audacity! 
  Stories include: 
  Bedlam & Belfry: Lost In Space 
  Bedlam & Belfry Turn The Tables 
  Bedlam & Belfry Get Evicted 
  Bedlam & Belfry Walk Into a Bar 
  and exactly eight more! 
  Plus! A return visit from the Devil! A surprise appearance by Merlin the Magician! And other notable personages not yet famous in our time! Bedlam & Belfry return to the legal scene with twelve more tales of legal chicanery! To miss it would be criminal!

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  The Moonlit Road

  Ambrose Bierce

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  "The Moonlit Road" is a gothic horror short story by Ambrose Bierce, structured in three distinct parts that reveal the murder of Julia Hetman from multiple perspectives. The narrative begins with Joel Hetman Jr., who returns home from college after his mother is found strangled.

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  Watch With Me - and Six Other...

  Wendell Berry

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  This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife Miss Minnie, remarkable for the comic and affectionate range that—with the mastery of this consummate storyteller working at the height of his powers—here approaches the Shakespearean. 
   
   
   
  Tol Proudfoot is huge, outsized, in the tradition of the mythic. The three-hundred-pound farmer, personally imposing and unkempt, is also the most graceful of presences, reserved and gallant toward his tiny wife, the ninety-pound schoolteacher. 
   
   
   
  Their contrasts are humorous, of course, and recall the tall tales of rural Americana. In the novella Watch with Me, we are given a story of such depth, breadth, and importance it earns being listed as one of the most important short stories written in the American language during the twentieth century.

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  The Undying Man

  D H Lawrence

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  'The Undying Man' is a slight unfinished piece, drawing its inspiration from Shelley's 'Frankenstein' about the creation of life and the fear of death. It is interesting to speculate where Lawrence would have gone with the story but the sound of broken glass is the most likely ending.

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  3 Stories - Stream of...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce,...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.   
   
  01 - 3 Stories - Stream of Consciousness 
  02 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  03 - The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf 
  04 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

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