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  Basho The Chief Poet of Japan...

  Matsuo Basho

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  During his lifetime, Basho was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku (then called hokku). He is quoted as saying, “Many of my followers can write hokku as well as I can. Where I show who I really am is in linking haikai verses.” This short anthology of haiku by Basho and his pupils features poetry in their original Japanese, with translations and commentary in English by Basil Hall Chamberlain, a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University. - Summary by Wikipedia and Rob Board

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  Tales from the Folly - A Rivers...

  Ben Aaronovitch, Charlaine Harris

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  Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time.Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the listener a deeper exploration into this absorbing fictional world. This is a must-listen for any Rivers of London fan.Join Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Agent Reynolds, and Tobias Winter for a series of perfectly portioned tales. Discover what's haunting a lonely motorway service station, who still wanders the shelves of a popular London bookshop, and what exactly happened to the River Lugg . . .With an introduction from internationally bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris.

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  The Butcher - A Cockney Killer...

  Will Patching

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  A dark and disturbingly twisted 'short shot':  
  Meet Antony Harding, psychopath. He'll make your skin crawl...  
  In this short story of some 46 minutes, the listener is taken deep into the mind of an unreformed and unrepentant serial killer—Antony Harding, aka 'The Butcher'. 
  This unique mini-thriller, written from a vicious murderer's perspective, is a first-person narration, performed by award-winning voice artist, Gary Furlong. 
  Strap yourself in for a ride on the dark side! But be warned—this author's warped fictional works are not for the faint-hearted. 
  'The Butcher' also plays a significant role as a devious villain in Mutilated, the second British crime thriller in The Remorseless Trilogy. This gritty full-length novel is performed by the same talented narrator, so if you feel the urge to hear more about sly reprobate Harding, you may do so... 
  Please note: The Butcher short story also appears in Will Patching's Short Shots: Blood on their Hands.

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  Wireless

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.'Wireless' is a multilayered story set in a chemist's shop, where the nephew of the business' owner occupies a back room where he is experimenting with Marconi's new radio technology.The chemist's assistant, lovesick and also sick with tuberculosis, is staying in the shop overnight. The narrator is visiting, officially to observe the radio experiments...but he discovers that another set of signals are being received in the chemist's shop that night.The consumptive assistant, having had a tot of an alcoholic tonic, appears to be receiving extraordinary inspiration for poetry and is writing rhymes by Keats. The radio too is receiving some peculiar crossed signals. What can it all mean?

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  The Body Snatcher and Other Stories

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  A dark night, a graveyard and the suspicion of murder... The Body Snatcher is one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most chilling tales. After many years, a chance encounter between two former medical students forces them to recall their sinister past and foul play that was better left buried. Perfect for long winter nights, these stories have been specially selected to create an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty. Read by Roy McMillan, with Naxos AudioBooks’s trademark of carefully chosen music.

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  The Camel's Back

  F Scott itzgerald

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  This short story is included in Tales of the Jazz Age, a collection written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald goes on to summarize the story below. I suppose that of all the stories I have ever written this one cost me the least travail and perhaps gave me the most amusement. As to the labor involved, it was written during one day in the city of New Orleans, with the express purpose of buying a platinum and diamond wrist watch which cost six hundred dollars. I began it at seven in the morning and finished it at two o'clock the same night. It was published in the "Saturday Evening Post" in 1920 and later included in the O. Henry Memorial Collection for the same year. I like it least of all the stories in this volume. My amusement was derived from the fact that the camel part of the story is literally true; in fact, I have a standing engagement with the gentleman involved to attend the next fancy-dress party to which we are mutually invited, attired as the latter part of the camel—this as a sort of atonement for being his historian.

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