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  35+ Anthology of Christmas...

  Charles Dickens, L. M....

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  Enchanting, tragic, and hilarious fairy tales for adults and children grace these pages. An initial glance might lead you to assume that these are satirical versions of classic Christmas ghost stories. However, beneath the humorous stories involving ghosts, repentant sinners, miracles, and good peasants who find well-deserved happiness, lies a psychological undercurrent that sharpens the sense of intrigue and plot movement. Often this is aided by the unrelenting social exposure of the authors who always understood how intangible the "bourgeois paradise" truly was. Even today, idyllic dreams of tolerance, equality, and the triumph of justice have failed to materialize. Perhaps that is why people continue to read these classic stories while the snow falls outside and the lights glow on the Christmas tree.
  Contents:
  Charles Dickens
   A Christmas Carol
   The Chimes
  G.K. Chesterton
   A Christmas Carol
  L.M. Montgomery
   The Red Room
   A Christmas Mistake
   A Christmas Inspiration
   The Josephs' Christmas
   Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
   The Osbornes' Christmas
   Bertie's New Year
   Ida's New Year Cake
   The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road
   Clorinda's Gifts
   The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner
   The Unforgotten One
   Christmas at Red Butte
   Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner
  L. Frank Baum
   A Kidnapped Santa Claus
   Little Bun Rabbit
  Mark Twain
   A Letter from Santa Claus
  Louisa May Alcott
   A Merry Christmas
  Leo Tolstoy
   A Russian Christmas Party
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
   Christmas Bells
   The Three Kings
  Nikolay Gogol
   Christmas Eve
  William Dean Howells
   Christmas Everyday
   The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express
  Joseph Rudyard Kipling
   Christmas in India
  Elizabeth Harrison
   Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe
  John Milton
   On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
  Hans Christian Andersen
   The Fir Tree
  Selma Lagerlof
   The Holy Night
  Hans Christian Andersen
   The Little Match Girl
  Clement Moore
   The Night Before Christmas
  Henry van Dyke
   The Other Wise Man
  Beatrix Potter
   The Tailor of Gloucester
  Anton Chehov
   Vanka

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Nikolai Gogol, Guy de...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume our classic authors share their narratives in the form of letters to create both intimacy and the knowing that the events unfolding, line by line, will bring both knowledge and revelation in very short order. 
   
  01 - Top Ten Stories - Epistolary - An Introduction 
  2 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol 
  3 - Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant 
  4 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  5 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain 
  6 - Diary of a Plain Girl by Amy Levy 
  7 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain 
  8 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 
  9 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  10 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  11 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee 
  12 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee

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  Spontaneous Human Combustion

  Richard Thomas

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  In this new collection, Richard Thomas has crafted fourteen stories that push the boundaries of dark fiction in an intoxicating, piercing blend of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Equally provocative and profound, each story is masterfully woven with transgressive themes that burrow beneath the skin. - A poker game yields a strange prize that haunts one man, his game of chance now turned into a life-or-death coin flip. - A set of twins find they have mysterious new powers when an asteroid crashes in a field near their house and the decisions they make create an uneasy balance. - A fantasy world is filled with one man’s desire to feel whole again, finally finding love, only to have the shocking truth of his life exposed in an appalling twist. - A father and son work slave labor in a brave new world run by aliens and mount a rebellion that may end up freeing them all. - A clown takes off his make-up in a gloomy basement to reveal something more horrifying under the white, tacky skin. Powerful and haunting, Thomas’s transportive collection dares you to examine what lies in the darkest, most twisted corners of human existence and not be transformed by what you find. A foreword by Brian Evenson is included.

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  The Lame Priest - Settlers and...

  Susan Morrow writing as S Carleton

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  Susan Morrow was born in Halifax in Nova Scotia in 1864.   
   
  Little is known of her life although she preferred to write under pseudonyms, one of which she shared with her sister, or as S Carleton, an abbreviated version of her name which gave the illusion of a male identity presumably to give her books a more rugged and male personality given their content. 
   
  Her books only seem to have been published from 1900 onwards when she was in her mid-30’s by which time she had married and became Susan Carleton Jones. 
   
  She died in 1926.   
   
  In ‘The Lame Priest, a story of life on harsh terrain is amplified by the possibility that a werewolf lurks nearby.

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  Eerie Tales - A Fantasy...

  Megan Linski

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  A collection of fantasy and paranormal bonus short stories written by USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Megan Linski. These stories tell tales of witches, dragons, princesses, angels, wolf shifters and more. Some stories feature sweet romance, while others are more passionate in nature. These stories are exclusive to this collection and cannot be found anywhere else. Featuring emotional romance, shocking romance and captivating storytelling, this collection is a short read that can be enjoyed in an afternoon or less, perfect for breaking out of a reading slump. 
  Don't wait to grab Eerie Tales today!

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  F Scott Fitzgerald - Six of the...

  F Scott itzgerald

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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