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  The Novices of Lerna

  Angel Bonomini

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  The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramón Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland. After he reluctantly complies with the unusual qualifying paperwork requiring several pages of detailed measurements and photographs of his entire body, Beltra soon finds himself in the deserted university town of Lerna, together with twenty-three other "novices" subject to the same undisclosed project—all of them doppelgangers of Beltra himself. At first, Beltra is the only one to bristle at the school's dizzying array of rules and regulations, but this all changes with the onset of an uncontrollable epidemic, and the fellows begin dying off one by one . . . 
   
   
   
  An overlooked master of Argentine fantastic literature, Ángel Bonomini garnered praise among peers and contemporaries like Jorge Luis Borges, before slipping mysteriously into obscurity. Bonomini was forty-three years old in 1972 when he published The Novices of Lerna, the first of four books of short stories he released before his death at age sixty-four.

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  The Adventure of a German Student

  Washington Irving

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  Title: The Adventure of a German Student 
  Author: Washington Irving 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1824 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 72 
  Description: 
  The Adventure of a German Student is one of Washington Irving’s darkest and most unsettling tales — a chilling blend of Gothic horror, psychological obsession, and fatal delusion. Set in the shadowed streets of post-Revolutionary Paris, the story follows a lonely German student whose fascination with death, philosophy, and the macabre slowly unravels his grasp on reality. 
  When the student encounters a mysterious young woman amid the city’s executions and unrest, desire and dread intertwine. What appears at first to be a strange romance descends into a nightmarish spiral of obsession, graveyards, and forbidden longing. As reason erodes, the boundary between life and death collapses, revealing a horror born not of superstition alone, but of the human mind’s darkest fixations. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance brings out the story’s somber atmosphere, mounting unease, and tragic inevitability. Irving’s restrained prose and eerie imagery combine to create a haunting meditation on isolation, obsession, and the seductive pull of the morbid. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series dedicated to reviving the most influential works of classic horror, The Adventure of a German Student endures as a quiet yet devastating reminder that the most terrifying monsters are those we create within ourselves.

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  At the Mountains of Madness —...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Title: At the Mountains of Madness — Part 11 of 12 
  Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1936 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 84 — Part 11 of 12 
  Description: 
  In Part Eleven of At the Mountains of Madness, terror reaches its most immediate and overwhelming form as Dyer and Danforth come face to face with the full, unthinkable reality of the ancient city. What had been pieced together through murals and inference now manifests in a way that defies both reason and endurance. 
  The vast corridors and alien structures become a maze of dread, where every turn threatens revelation—or worse. The explorers’ fragile composure begins to fracture under the strain, as the true nature of the forces within the city emerges with horrifying clarity. 
  No longer observers, but participants in a nightmare beyond human comprehension, they are driven by a single, desperate impulse: escape. Yet even flight offers no assurance of safety, for what they have seen—and what may have seen them—cannot be easily left behind. 
  In this eleventh installment of the 12-part complete audiobook series, Lovecraft unleashes the culmination of mounting suspense, plunging the narrative into raw cosmic horror as the explorers confront a truth that threatens to shatter both mind and reality itself.

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  Scandalize Me

  Caitlin Crews

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  I’m not going to stop. I’m going to drown in you, and then I’m going to do it again.  And again.  Until I’ve had my fill.Zoe Brook has been sent to clean up a bad boy’s reputation. And that’s just fine—she knows all about hiding the sins of the past. But Hunter Grant, sports hero and renowned womaniser is so much…more than she ever expected.Money, passion and power come as naturally to this man as the women who flock to his bed. But Zoe’s determined not to be another notch on his bedpost. So when Hunter turns his considerable focus and energy to seducing her, she draws on every sharp put-down in her arsenal. But with no sassy comebacks left, the final words on Zoe’s lips are…Yes. Oh, yes.Collect all three novels in the Fifth Avenue Trilogy:AVENGE ME by USA TODAY bestselling author Maisey YatesSCANDALIZE ME by USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin CrewsEXPOSE ME by USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Hewitt

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  Beware of the Dog

  Roald Dahl

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  Published in Harper's Magazine in 1946, "Beware of the Dog," by Roald Dahl, is a short story that recounts the experiences of Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot Peter Williamson after he is shot down during a World War II bombing mission. 
   
  Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990), born in Cardiff, Wales, was a novelist, poet, screenwriter, and short story author, as well as a fighter pilot and intelligent officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II. Considered one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century, Dahl's classic works include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, The Twits and Matilda. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide.

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  Demons in my bloodstream

  Candace Nola

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  Award-winning Author Candace Nola' s debut collection, Demons in my Bloodstream, is a fiendishly woven tapestry of short fiction. These nightmarish tales include a mobsters bucket list, a neighborhood gardening competition gone wrong, a serial killer patiently waiting for one last kill, and a colorblind man that finally cures what ails him. Six blood-soaked tales of terror for your own demon to feast upon.

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