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  Where Their Fire is Not Quenched...

  May Sinclair

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  Mary Amelia St. Clair was born on the 24th August 1863 in Rock Ferry, Cheshire.  
   
  Her father was a Liverpool shipowner who, after being made bankrupt, became an alcoholic and died whilst May was still a child.  The family then moved to Ilford, just outside London and, after a solitary year of education, May was required to stay home and help look after her older brothers, four of whom were suffering from fatal congenital heart disease. 
   
  Despite this difficult start May was determined to pursue a literary career. From 1896 May wrote professionally to support herself and her mother.  By the turn of the century she was producing not only poetry volumes but short stories, novels and some non-fiction.  She was an active feminist and supporter of the Suffrage Movement, her literary talents help to shred ideas that the suffragists were driven by sexual frustration because of the shortage of men.  
   
  Her 1913 novel ‘The Combined Maze’, the story of a London clerk and the two women he loves, was highly praised by many, including George Orwell, while Agatha Christie considered it one of the greatest English novels of its time. 
   
  In 1914, she volunteered to join the Munro Ambulance Corps on the Western Front in Flanders.  Although her time there was short-lived the experience was later reflected in both prose and poetry. 
   
  She published several poetry volumes as well as writing early criticism on Imagism and several poets of the movement.  Her novels were now also influenced by modernist techniques and her supernatural short stories are increasingly seen as valuable additions to the genre.  
   
  From the late 1920s, she suffered from the onset of Parkinson's disease, and her writing career was effectively over. 
   
  May Sinclair died on the 14th November 1946.  She was 83 and buried at St John-at-Hampstead's churchyard, London.

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  Hidden Angel

  Bronwyn Aisling

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  All Reagan Whelan wants is to live a normal life, graduate highschool and go to college like most 18 year olds. But the sudden tragic death of both of her parents makes that hard to do.  
  Grieving for her parents and insecure about her future, she is moved across the world to a new country with part of her family that she has never met. But when she arrives she learns that everything she thought her life was before is a lie. She isn't just an 18 year old girl getting ready to start her adult life, she is an over 600 year old Nephilim whose memories were altered to create the illusion of being a typical American child after her parents left the family business for a new start. 
  Angry and feeling betrayed, with the help of her grandfather and his handsome, young chief of security Aiden Kennedy, Reagan begins to dig into her family history only to find out that she is not just any angelic descendant, she is the offspring of two angelic lines one good and one evil who are currently at war with each other for control over the fate of humanity. How does she decide which side to take? Who is telling her the truth? 
  Hidden Angel is an exhilarating beginning story of Reagan Whalen by Bronwyn Aisling. If you enjoy following the journey of a female heroine coming into her own, this is for you.

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  The Voice in the Night

  William Hope Hodgson

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  The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson is a chilling tale of survival and the unknown. A ship becalmed in the Pacific is approached by a mysterious voice in the darkness. A lone man in a rowboat, starving and desperate, begs for food but refuses to come aboard. As the sailors reluctantly help him, he reveals a horrifying tale of shipwreck, starvation, and a strange, fungal infection that has ravaged him and his fiancée. The story takes a nightmarish turn as the man's pleas for help become increasingly desperate and the sailors are forced to confront the terrifying reality of their encounter.

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  A Daemon in Jade - A Short...

  Michael van der Voort

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  What is evil? Is it simply a concept, a description applied to the actions of men or to incidents that impact them or is it something more? An external force eternal and ever present that can weave itself in slithering pathways into our thoughts and deeds? Is it possible for instance, for an object to be evil? For it to reek, on a level detectable beyond our normal senses of corruption, or wickedness and of rot? could it leave upon the skin and the mind like a residue a clinging film of something that is not only older than man but hateful of him? 
  These are the questions that circulate around the Daemon in Jade, the massive sculpture that the ancients chose to bury head down and disregard. Not simply forgetting, but deliberately, purposely shunning the hideous thing as wretched and unclean.

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  Gallows Hill

  Darcy Coates

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  It’s time to come home… 
  The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. Their wine wins awards. Their business prospers. Their family thrives. People whisper that the curse has awakened once more. 
  The sprawling old house has long been perched on top of a hill overlooking the nearby town, jealously guarding the estate's secrets. 
  It's been more than a decade since Margot Hull last saw her childhood home. She was young enough when she was sent away that she barely remembers its dark passageways and secret corners. But now she's returned to bury her parents and reconnect with the winery that is her family's legacy―and the bloody truth of exactly what lies buried beneath the crumbling estate. Alone in the sprawling, dilapidated building, Margot is forced to come face to face with the horrors of the past―and realize that she may be the next victim of a house that never rests...

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Edgar Allan Poe, WW Jacobs, E T...

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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. 
   
  In this volume stories from the Masters of Horror take centre stage.  Within the words from the pens of Edgar Allan Poe, E T A Hoffman, H G Wells, Guy de Maupassant and others lurk dark intentions of evil.   As each story draws you in, so it is that uneasy, unsettling feelings begin to creep into our heads.  It’s only a matter of time before things go decidedly from bad to much, much worse. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror - The Men  - An Introduction 
  2 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  3 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  4 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells 
  5 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells 
  6 - Le Horla by Guy De Maupassant  
  7 - Olalla - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  8 - Olalla - Part 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  9 - The Call of Cthulhu - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft 
  10 - The Call of Cthulhu - Part 2 by H P Lovecraft 
  11 - The Sand-Man - Part 1 by E T A Hoffman 
  12 - The Sand-Man - Part 2 by E T A Hoffman 
  13 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 
  14 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford 
  15 - The Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen 
  16 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 1 by Robert W Chambers 
  17 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 2 by Robert W Chambers

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