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  Classic Short Stories - Volume 2...

  H.P. Lovecraft, A. M. Burrage

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  Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements.  Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page. 
   
  Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. But ask any writer and they will tell you that distilling the essence of narrative and characters into a short story is one of the hardest acts of their literary craft.  Many attempt, but few achieve.

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  Anthology of Scrolls - Short...

  P.A. Wikoff

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  A unique collection of eclectic stories and poetry designed to entertain, delight and make you ponder everything. It has been compared to Alfred Hitchcock and The Twilight Zone for its creepy tone and themes. 
  This single-author anthology contains the following subject matter: 
  Magical libraries, ego-eccentric gravity experts, O.C.D. people, scary stage shows, dirt-poor romance, spirit guides, calming yourself down, moment stealing harpies, corrupt elections, gluttonous cake eaters, evil doppelgangers, drunken incoherence, circles, cross dressing witches and warlocks, catching up with the past, antiquated technology, treasures in the trash, brain surgery, irreplaceable loss, gangbangers and their dogs, comic books that contain bats and/or wolves, the murder of relatives, revengeful ex-girlfriends, changing fact into fiction, magical smartphones, facing your unfiltered fears, severed lizards and dangerous Christmas gifts. 
  Take a wild ride into P.A. Wikoff's mind and learn how this book almost never came to be.

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  The Watson (Golden Deer Classics)

  Jane Austen

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  This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh printed it in his A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1871. The title is from him. Mr Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. There she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her twenty-something sisters.

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  Death & Texas

  Clive Sinclair

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  Clive Sinclair's first collection of stories won the Somerset Maugham Award. His second was short-listed for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Award. His third won both the PEN Silver Pen, and the Jewish Quarterly Award. This is his fourth. The new stories range from New Orleans and Texas, to Peru, Venice, and Jerusalem. Their subjects are loss, the fear of loss, and love, most especially that between husbands and wives, fathers and sons. Their cast includes the quick and the dead, the real and the imagined: Davy Crockett, Kinky Friedman, Captain Haddock, Princess Diana, and Shylock. They are as cruel as life, and as funny. "I think you're a fine practitioner of the short story indeed. If some of such work is to be published in America in book form, ask the publishers to send me a copy. I'd be delighted to give you a blurb." Norman Mailer "I found Hearts of Gold quite wonderful ... And all this despite my immense dislike for football, cunts and national movements of any kind. So it had to be a very good book ... and it was." Sir Angus Wilson "I have reread the Laptop story. It is truly wonderful. Almost every sentence a surprise. Stuck in a rut as I am at the moment it's hard not to turn green with envy at the sight of such seemingly effortless prose. I don't think I have ever seen anyone performing comical tricks so high up in the air." WG Sebald "Witty, playful and magnificently compassionate." Kazuo Ishiguro [on The Lady with the Laptop] Sunday Times, Books of the Year "This outstanding collection [The Lady with the Laptop] should consolidate Clive Sinclair's reputation as one of the most inventive writers working in the form today." Elizabeth Lowry Times Literary Supplement

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  This Christmas

  Jane Green

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  In this trio of warm, witty, insightful stories, three very different women face questions of the heart that could change all their Christmases to come. Vacation by Jane Green: When her husband's job takes him away from home indefinitely, a restless suburban wife and mother must confront Christmas alone - and decide whether she's better off that way. The Second Wife of Reilly by Jennifer Coburn: A newlywed is haunted by thoughts of her husband's first wife - and comes up with an unusual plan to cure herself in time for Christmas... Mistletoe and Holly by Liz Ireland: Longing to fit into her family's picture perfect holiday celebration, a young woman finally brings home the perfect boyfriend - only to find that nothing is as she expected. Infused with the hopes and dreams of the season, these entertaining and exquisitely written stories will inspire your Christmas spirit and will stay with you all year long.

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  Edgar Allan Poe-Tales of Terror...

  Edgar Alan Poe

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  American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is universally recognized for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. His stories are characterized by an original kind of supernatural horror, often using the awareness of death as a catalyzing force in its own right. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth and intense imagery, made vivid through his musical language and hypnotic rhythms, which are especially captivating when heard aloud. 
  This special audio collection features some of Poe’s best known classic stories, including: 
  1. The Tell Tale Heart2. Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar3. Hop Frog4. Murder in the Rue Morgue5. The Masque of the Red Death6. The Pit and the Pendulum7. The Fall of the House of Usher8. The Black Cat9. The Cask of Amontillado

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