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  Earth Angel - Stories

  Madeline Cash

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  In this reissue of her electric debut collection, Madeline Cash, the author of Lost Lambs, synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, life-affirming collage of stories.  Earth Angel is a book like no other, a story collection of postmodern angst that swallowed the smartphone. An Isis recruit, an adolescent beauty queen, and a childless millennial walk into a bar. A Biblical plague rains down head lice, aerial drone strikes, and gender nonconforming frogs. An app throws a slumber party for a friendless office worker. It’s a world of images both familiar and warped: Texans in the winter, the Taliban in springtime, Teslas with COEXIST bumper stickers, Frozen 5 in Arabic, architectural consistency laws in Laurel Canyon, the longest recorded nosebleed in history. Published to acclaim in 2023 and reissued now with revised stories, Earth Angel captures, with brilliant surrealism and cutting humor, the electric chaos of the digital age and the post-millennial generation.

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  Bernard Capes - A Short Story...

  Bernard Capes

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  Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on the 30th August 1854 in London.  He was one of 11 children. 
   
  His early work was as a journalist and this developed into writing many short stories for the periodicals of the time including Blackwood's, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Illustrated London News, Macmillan's Magazine, Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, and The Queen. 
   
  It took him many years to decide that writing full-time could be a sustainable career path.  His initial success came with ‘The Mill of Silence’.  As well as being published it garnered second prize at a competition sponsored by the Chicago Record.  He exceeded that by winning it the following year with ‘The Lake of Wine’.   
   
  Capes quickly became both prolific and popular.  As well as his stories and articles for the periodicals he wrote around 40 volumes across novels, poetry, history as well as romance and mystery novels. 
   
  Bernard Capes died on 2nd November 1918 in the flu epidemic. 
   
  1 - Bernard Capes - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - A Danse Macabre by Bernard Capes 
  3 - A Voice From The Pit by Bernard Capes 
  4 - Bullet-Proof by Bernard Capes 
  5 - The Strength of the Rope by Bernard Capes 
  6 - The Thing in the Forest by Bernard Capes 
  7 - An Ugly Customer by Bernard Capes 
  8 - Dark Dignum by Bernard Capes 
  9 - The Voice by Bernard Capes

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  The Horror in the Burying-Ground

  H. P. Lovecraft, Hazel Heald

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  A gravedigger in a certain village discovers a substance that gives the appearance of death to living beings. He intends to use it on his enemies, but in the end, he himself becomes a victim. 
  The horror in the cemetery is distinguished by a slightly gallows humor and the rustic slang of the characters. The story at times resembles the works of the master of macabre, Ambrose Bierce. 
  The last of the stories written by Lovecraft for Hazel Heald. Common to all of them is the motif of transformation and paralysis or incapacitation. Heald paid regularly, and H.P. Lovecraft didn't seem to complain about her, which cannot be said about other clients

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  The Best of Bova Vol 2

  Ben Bova

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  The second volume of the best stories from legendary hard science fiction writer Ben Bova, the creator of the New York Times bestselling Grand Tour science fiction series, a six-time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society. 
  The stories included in this volume span the five decades of Bova’s incandescent career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy. 
  Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you’ll also find stories of humanity’s astounding future on Earth, on Mars, and in the Solar System beyond—stories that always get the science right. And Bova’s gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values, and human failings, that are as timeless as the stars.

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  The Readjustment - From their...

  Mary Austin

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Mary Austin'

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  Captain Rogers - From their pens...

  WW Jacobs

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  William Wymark Jacobs was born on 8th September 1863 in Wapping, East London.  
  He was educated at a private school and then Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, now part of the University of London. 
  In 1879, Jacobs began work as a clerk in the civil service, in the Post Office Savings Bank.  In 1885 his first short story was published but it was not until almost the turn of the century that he would abandon his post office career to that as a full-time writer. By then he was a very popular author, his collections selling extremely well and with an excellent income. 
  His best-known work is the macabre ‘The Monkey's Paw’ and he is also highly regarded for his ghost stories although much of his remaining short story output is streaked with humour.  His characters are immediately identifiable and we all know that life will take chunks out of them in no time at all.  
  Jacobs married the noted suffragette Agnes Eleanor Williams in 1900 at West Ham, Essex. They went on to have two daughters and three sons as they settled down to life.  
  By the outbreak of the First World War his literary output had declined and he now mainly spent his time rewriting his earlier stories for the stage.  In all he wrote 18 plays. 
  W W Jacobs died on 1st September 1943 at Hornsey Lane, Islington in London. He was 79.

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