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  H P Lovecraft - Chapter & Verse...

  H P Lovecraft

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - H P Lovecraft - An Introduction 
  2 - The Lurking Fear by H P Lovecraft 
  3 - Laeta - a Lament by H P Lovecraft 
  4 - Despair by H P Lovecraft 
  5 - The Conscript by H P Lovecraft 
  6 - Nemesis by H P Lovecraft 
  7 - Hallowe'en in a Suburb by H P Lovecraft 
  8 - What the Moon Brings by H P Lovecraft 
  9 - Sunset by H. P. Lovecraft 
  10 - The City by H P Lovecraft 
  11 - Providence by H P Lovecraft 
  12 - The Wood by H P Lovecraft 
  13 - Fact and Fancy by H P Lovecraft 
  14 - The Picture In The House by H P Lovecraft

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  Stories To Scare You Witless

  Hector Hugh Munro, Wilkie...

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  Genuinely chilling narratives of paranormal phenomena, the returning dead, uncanny apparitions, sinister happenings and inexplicable events which make your blood run cold. Listen in the dark... if you dare! "What Was It?" - Fitz-James O'Brien "Laura" - Hector Hugh Munro "A Terribly Strange Bed" - Wilkie Collins "The Three Drugs" - Edith Nesbit  "The Philosopher's Joke" - Jerome K. Jerome "Sredni Vashtar" - Hector Hugh Munro  "The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot" - Ambrose Bierce "The Open Window" - Hector Hugh Munro  "Number Thirteen" - M.R. James "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" - Ambrose Bierce

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - 20th...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa...

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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. 
   
  Industrialisation and global wars have given man a new dimension as master of a world that he also pillages for his own short-term needs.  Whilst many suffer, journalism begins a more widespread examination of why this is and authors begin to write for the plethora of journals and magazines that spring up to deliver broad based entertainment to the masses.  
   
  In this volume the household names of literature speak for and on behalf of these uncertain and demanding times. 
  1 - The Top 10 - The 20th Century - An Introduction 
  2 - Pauls Case  by Willa Cather 
  3 - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell 
  4 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald 
  5 - August Heat by W F Harvey 
  6 - The Gift Of The Magi by O Henry 
  7 - The Dead by James Joyce 
  8 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 
  9 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence 
  10 - To Build a Fire by Jack London 
  11 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft

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  The Great Mystery of Eternity

  Jamie McNabb

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  Eternity is unimaginably other. It is so other that we can't even begin to wrap our minds around it, let alone understand it. It remains the ultimate mystery, the intractable unknown and unknowable. 
  However, now and then, we are able to catch glimpses, or the hints of glimpses, of it. Often these epiphanies go unrecognized. Sometimes they are only suspected to have taken place. Now and then, they are recognized for what they are, if only intuitively. 
  The Great Mystery of Eternity collects ten short stories that sketch such moments. They are times of great intensity, events of that lead to a revelation. 
  These tales range from myth to science fiction, from action adventure to stories of faith, from sea adventures to the saga of one very important cup of English tea. The action is both subtle and violent, the characters are complex and layered, and the stakes couldn't be higher. 
  The window is open and ready. Are you equally prepared to look through it and to catch these ten glimpses of the other?

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  The Bookman's Tale

  Berry Fleming

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  Waiting at the airport of a Caribbean island for his homeward bound plane, Edward Ray—the bookman of the title—reflects on this week, which has changed his life. First, there was the cargo ship voyage to San Juan de Pinos, a journey shared by an odd assortment of fellow passengers whose lives impinge on his own, and who entertain one another—in the manner of the travellers in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales with stories of their own unusual experiences. Then there are his hopes for meeting Claudia—unseen for three decades—and for reviving the love they shared 30 years ago. Lastly there is Janet Tyner, a young woman who offers him a ride on the island and then gives him much more than he ever bargained for. The Bookman’s Tale is a lush and exotic novel, compact with the sights and smells of the Caribbean, of desire and passion, and with the mysterious ways of fate. It is a novel marked, as well, by the sensitive reflections of the Bookman himself, who, after his trip, has, perhaps, the most unusual tale of all those who made the journey.

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  Queer Life Queer Love

  Matt Bates, Golnoosh Nour

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  The anthology comprises 43 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Queer writing today. This is writing that explores characters, stories and experiences beyond the mainstream. Celebrating the fascinating, the forbidden, the subversive, and even the mundane, but in essence, the view from outside.  The book will be dedicated to the memory of Lucy Reynolds, the trans daughter of Sarah Beal, Publisher at Muswell Press, and niece of co-Publisher Kate Beal. A student, musician and strong advocate of LGBTQI rights, she died in March 2020 at the age of 20.

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