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  The Trial for Murder

  Charles Dickens

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  An eerie and evocative ghost story by one of English literature's greatest writers. On looking out of his window, the narrator sees two men going down Piccadilly. The second man looks strangely unwell and waxen. When he is later called to jury service, the accused turns out to be the first man he had seen in Piccadilly...and the second his murder victim. Stranger still, the ghost of the murdered man is actively participating in the trial to ensure his murderer is brought to justice.

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  Night Terrors Vol 2 - Short...

  Jude Reid, Michael D. Nye, Brian...

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  Nightmares can’t really hurt you… can they? 
  An evil from beyond the stars haunts a young boy and his father at Roswell Airbase. The survivors of a sunken warship take refuge on a deserted island, and discover they are not alone. And terror checks in at an old motel, when a vacationing family finds themselves trapped in an ancient curse… 
  Scare Street journeys into the night to bring you a new volume of skin-crawling terror. This macabre collection contains thirteen chilling tales of supernatural horror. And each story will sweep you away to a world of dark dreams and fantastical nightmares… 
  Some believe that if you see yourself die in your dreams, then your heart will stop. But that’s just an old wives’ tale, isn’t it? After all, the icy chill of death lurks within every story in this ghastly tome. And your heart hasn’t stopped yet. 
  In fact, with each turn of the page, you can hear it beating faster and faster… 
  This bone-chilling supernatural collection contains: 
  1. Live Bait by Jude Reid 
  2. The Hungry Worm by Michael D. Nye 
  3. The Magician Needs a Volunteer by Matt Brandenburg 
  4. Lab Incident, 1947 by Martin Zeigler 
  5. A House Divided by M. B. Vujacic 
  6. Sundown and Shadows by Michelle Tang 
  7. The Old Coach Inn by Kris Ashton 
  8. Ashes to Ashes by Robert Douglas 
  9. Folie-a-Deux by Gina Easton 
  10. Do Something Funny by Clark Boyd 
  11. Fertile Soil by Brian Sperl 
  12. Night Dive by Drew Starling 
  13. Home Sick by Ron Ripley

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  Gay All Year - Twelve Stories by...

  Richard May

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  How do men meet? Each story is connected to a holiday or event—Epiphany, Valentine’s Day, Pi Day, Arbor Day, Mothers’ Day, Fathers’ Day, summer vacation, a rodeo, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, and Hanukkah—but may not be quite the celebration you’re expecting. 
  Neither may the men, and when these men meet, attraction does not always equal love—at least immediately—but chemistry finds a way. 
  WARNING: 
  This book contains sexually explicit content, which is only suitable for mature readers, racial prejudice, racist language, racial stereotypes, homophobic slurs, infidelity, puppy play, death of a partner, and abuse by a priest.

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  Dressing Up for the Carnival - A...

  Carol Shields

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  Carol Shields had a knack for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary and nowhere more than in this luminous collection of short stories. Throughout these stories runs Shields' preoccupation with identity—as in the title story, about a compacted day in the life of the world, in which a procession of characters try on new selves. Yet these stories and their quiet epiphanies reflect all the contrasts of human existence—from the bittersweet sexuality of “Eros” to the wicked skewering of pompous academic conversation in “The Next Best Kiss.” Playful, graceful, acute yet tender, Dressing Up for the Carnival distills all Shields' elegance, wisdom, and humor into stories that are more like concise novels.

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  The Ghost at the "Blue Dragon"

  William J. Wintle

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  William James Wintle (1861-1920) was a Welsh writer who later became Oblate for the Abbey of Caldey Island in Wales. It was there that he wrote a series of ghost tales for the entertainment of eight boys who attended there. Wintle wrote that the stories were originally told on Sunday nights while "crouching over a wood fire on a wind-swept island off the Western shore".'The Ghost at the Blue Dragon' tells the story of Professor Latham, an academic who spends the summer at The Blue Dragon - an old inn in Saltminster with a reputation for being haunted. Early on in his stay he realizes that he has a doppelganger in the hotel. To begin with, the mysterious double seems bent on damaging the professor's reputation...but as the story progresses, it emerges that the intent is far more sinister....

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  Saki - A Short Story Collection

  Saki Saki

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  Hector Hugh Munro, more familiarly known by his pen-name ‘Saki’ was born in what was then Akyab in British Burma on 18th December 1870. His father was an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and his mother the daughter of a Rear Admiral. 
   
  When he was 2 his mother died and he and his siblings were sent back to England to be raised by their grandmother and paternal maiden aunts in a strict, puritanical household near Barnstaple, Devon. Educated by governesses Saki used many of these women as character models for his later writing. 
   
  At 17 his father retried and returned to England and then embarked on a series of European travels with Saki and his siblings. 
   
  After a short stint working in Burma with the Indian Imperial Police Saki decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Initially he wrote as a journalist for a number of newspapers and magazines before attempting an historical study, ‘The Rise of the Russian Empire’, whose real value lay in directing him to writing short stories instead, the first of which, ‘Dogged’, he published in 1899. 
   
  From here it was a short stab of the pen to writing political satire before in 1902 he became the foreign correspondent for The Morning Post, first in the Balkans, then Russia, Paris and back to London in 1908, where 'the agreeable life of a man of letters with a brilliant reputation awaited him.'  
   
  Collections of his short stories full of witty, mischievous and often macabre stories that satirized Edwardian society and two novels now appeared in the years up to the Great War.  At its’ outbreak he was 43 but managed to join as an ordinary trooper. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially too sick or injured.  
   
  On 14th November 1916 Hector Hugh Munro was sheltering in crater during the Battle of the Ancre, when he was shot and killed by a German sniper. According to several sources, his last words were "Put that bloody cigarette out!" 
  1 - Saki - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Reticence of Lady Anne by Saki 
  3 - The Open Window by Saki 
  4 - A Bread and Butter Miss by Saki 
  5 - The Story of St Vespaluus by Saki 
  6 - Esme by Saki 
  7 - Laura by Saki 
  8 - Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped by Saki 
  9 - The Mouse by Saki 
  10 - The Easter Egg by Saki 
  11 - The Bull by Saki 
  12 - The She-Wolf by Saki 
  13 - The Interlopers by Saki

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