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  The Picture of Death

  Rachel Lawson

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  Aureus Argent aka Gabriel Drac, (the former Masked Chicken) a Magician paints a picture of Blake as a human magician he is the emperor of the magicians, and as a birthday present for Blake, it ends up in his afterlife office, where he is to have a reporter doing an article on him by order of Fate, his boss. How bad can this go? Really bad! But how bad?

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  Rise of the Mystics (Beyond the...

  Ted Dekker

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  Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams. They are all wrong.  
   
  Rachelle Matthews, who grew up in the small town of Eden, Utah, discovered just how wrong when she dreamed and awoke in another world. There she learned that she was the 49th Mystic, the prophesied one, tasked with finding five ancient seals before powerful enemies destroy her. If Rachelle succeeds in her quest, peace will reign. If she fails, the world will forever be locked in darkness. 
   
  In The 49th Mystic, Rachelle found the first three of those five seals through great peril and mind-altering adventure. But two seals remain hidden and the fate of both worlds hangs in their balance. 
   
  As Rachelle Matthews sits deep in a dungeon, Vlad Smith is just getting started. Thomas Hunter's world is about to be turned inside out. The mystics say that there is no defense against the Fifth Seal--but finding it will cost Rachelle everything. 
   
  So begins the final volume of high stakes in one girl's quest to find an ancient path that will save humanity. The clock is ticking; the end rushes forward. 
   
  Ready? Set? 
   
  Dream.

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  Wonder Of Women - Victorian...

  Edith Nesbit, Mary Elizabeth...

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  Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law.  However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.  
   
  In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status.  Women were chattel and property.  There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told.  Many did. 
   
  But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms.  However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender. 
   
  Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need.  Narratives had new ideas.  Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility. 
   
  The women included here are talents that dazzle.  Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top.  Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed.   
   
  1 - Women of Wonder - Victorian Ghost Stories - An Introduction 
  2 - John Charrington's Wedding by Edith Nesbit 
  3 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 
  4 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards 
  5 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  6 - The Runaway by Marion Hepworth-Dixon 
  7 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 
  8 - The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne 
  9 - To Let by B M Croker 
  10 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant 
  11 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant

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  The Transition of Juan Romero

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Transition of Juan Romero" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 16, 1919, and first published in the 1944 Arkham House volume Marginalia.
  Plot: The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss the narrator and one of the mine's workers, a Mexican called Juan Romero, venture inside the mine, drawn against their will by a mysterious rhythmical throbbing in the ground. Romero reaches the abyss first and is swallowed by it. The narrator peers over the edge, sees something - "but God, I dare not tell you what I saw!" and loses consciousness. That morning he and Romero are both found in their bunks, Romero dead. Other miners swear that neither of them left their cabin that night. The chasm has vanished as well.

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  Hauntings and Horrors From Times...

  Joseph Kalin

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  You are about to meet ten writers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Five American. Five British. They all shared one talent in common: they composed short horror-fiction stories. 
  In Part One, American writers you’ll meet are Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, Vincent O’Sullivan 1868-1940, H.P. Lovecraft 1890-1937, Fitz-James O’Brien 1826-1862, and Washington Irving 1783-1859.  
  In Part Two, British writers include Edith Nesbit 1858-1916, M.R. James 1862-1936, Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930, Saki (H.H. Monro) 1870-1916, and Herman F. Wright a 19th-century writer of unknown origins.

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  The Haunting of Styre House -...

  Amy Cross

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  AN ABANDONED ENGLISH COTTAGE... A BLACK CAT GLIMPSED IN SCORES OF OLD PHOTOS... A TERRIBLE MURDER, COVERED UP MANY YEARS AGO. 
   
  When Parker and her mother move into Styre House, they immediately notice that something's not quite right. They have no key for the garage, and any time they try to get inside they end up distracted. A mysterious black cat patrols the property, seemingly waiting for something or someone. And strange noises at night hint at a hidden presence that lurks in the shadows. 
   
  Soon, Parker discovers that Styre House has many mysteries. As she gets to know a local historian from the nearby village, she starts to uncover a horrifying web of lies, secrets and deaths, all connected to someone who lived in the house more than a century earlier. But is the past willing to stay buried, or is there some truth to the rumors of ghostly encounters and witchcraft? 
   
  The Haunting of Styre House is the first audiobook in a trilogy about a remote, abandoned English cottage that still bears the scars of its terrifying past. Who is Smythe, where does he come from, and how far is he willing to go in order to protect the legacy of his mistress? This book ends on a cliffhanger.

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