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  Under The Sunset Short Story...

  Anônimo

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  "Under the Sunset" was Bram Stoker's first short story collection written in 1881. These short stories were intended for children and includes the following stories: "Under The Sunset", "The Rose Prince", "The Invisible Giant", and much more.

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  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  This short story by Francis Scott Fitzgerald depicts the strange and curious life of Benjamin Button, born an old man and aging backwards. 
  Narrated by Michael Ward

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  Marcel Schwob - A Short Story...

  Marcel Schwob

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  Mayer André Marcel Schwob was born in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 23rd August 1867 into a cultivated Jewish family.  
   
  As a child he devoured the works of Poe and Stevenson in French and then again in English.  His attachment to the bizarre and dark was already forming. 
   
  His education at the Lycée of Nantes earned him the 1st Prize for Excellence.  In 1881, he was in Paris with his maternal uncle to study at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.  Schwob quickly developed his multilingual abilities and then studied philology and Sanscrit at the École pratique des hautes études before completing his military service in Vannes with the artillery. 
   
  After completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1888 he became a professional journalist and worked for the Phare de la Loire, the Événement and L'Écho de Paris. 
   
  The 1890’s marked his establishment as a brilliant writer with the publication of six short story collections.   
   
  He fell ill in 1896 with a chronic, incurable intestinal disorder.  He also suffered recurring bouts of influenza and pneumonia.  Intestinal surgery was given several times, at first with success but, by 1900, after two more surgeries, he was told that nothing more could be done for him.  Schwob now existed on kefir and fermented milk. 
   
  By the turn of the century, despite failing health, and often too ill to write, he embarked on several long travels, including to Vailima in the South Pacific where his literary hero Stevenson had died.  
   
  Schwob was regarded as a symbolist writer and a ‘precursor of Surrealism’.  He wrote over a hundred short stories, journalistic articles, essays, biographies, literary reviews and analysis, translations and plays.  
   
  Marcel Schwob died on 26th February 1905 of Pneumonia.  He was 37. 
   
  01 - Marcel Schwob - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - Arachne by Marcel Schwob 
  03 - Spiritualism by Marcel Schwob 
  04 - The Mouthless by Marcel Schwob 
  05 - The Opium Gates by Marcel Schwob 
  06 - The Strong by Marcel Schwob

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  Loss of the Royal George The...

  W. H. G. Kingston

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  William Henry Giles Kingston writer of tales for boys, William Henry Giles Kingston was born in London, but spent much of his youth in Oporto, where his father was a merchant.
  His first book, The Circassian Chief, appeared in 1844. His first book for boys, Peter the Whaler, was published in 1851, and had such success that he retired from business and devoted himself entirely to the production of this kind of literature, in which his popularity was deservedly great; and during 30 years he wrote upwards of 130 tales.
  THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE: I am not likely to forget that next morning, the 28th of August, (17). It was a fine summer's morning, and there was just a little sea on, with a strongish breeze blowing from the eastward, but not enough to prevent boats coming off from Portsmouth. I counted forty sail-of-the-line, a dozen frigates and smaller ships of war, and well-nigh three hundred merchant vessels, riding, as of course we were, to the flood with our heads towards Cowes.

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  The Aloe

  Katherine Mansfield

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  'It was not sadness exactly, but a kind of aching sweetness.'
  
  One of Katherine Mansfield's forgotten gems, and a precursor to what would become her acclaimed Prelude, The Aloe is a tender, impressionistic portrait of family life that transforms the mundane into the extraordinary.
  
  First written in 1915, The Aloe is a deeply personal novella that captures Mansfield's childhood in New Zealand. Through a series of finely observed domestic vignettes, the narrative follows the Burnell family, as they move to a new house on the outskirts of Wellington. Mansfield expertly conveys the subtleties of family dynamics: the exhausted yet appreciative father, the imaginative yet quickly maturing children, the inner emotional life of the mother. Through these characters, Mansfield asserts her ability to turn everyday moments into opportunities for exploring memory, belonging and identity.
  Katherine Mansfield (1888 – 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic. She was an important figurehead of the modernist movement, befriending the likes of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence amongst others. Her works regularly explored themes such as sexuality, religion and existentialism, and have been translated into twenty-five different languages across the world.

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  Horror at Sea - 15 Nautical...

  William Hope Hodgson, H. P....

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  HorrorBabble's complete "Horror at Sea" collection. 15 nautical nightmares: from the discovery and subsequent investigation of a mysterious vessel in The Derelict; to the terrifying ordeal of a lighthouse keeper stationed at the remote, Three Skeleton Key. 
  "There’ll be restless nights for thee, upon these seven seas…" 
  Contents: 
  The Derelict by W. H. Hodgson (Red Magazine, Dec 1912) 
  The Ocean Ogre by D. Carroll (Weird Tales, July 1937) -- A stranded ship. 
  Ghouls of the Sea by J. B. S. Fullilove (WT, March 1934) -- Death aboard the "Kay Marie". 
  The Voice in the Night by W. H. Hodgson (Blue Book Magazine, Nov 1907) -- A schooner, approached in the night. 
  The Black, Dead Thing by F. B. Long (WT, Oct 1933) -- A dreadful thing came aboard the ship. 
  The Temple by H. P. Lovecraft (WT, Sep 1925) -- A submarine on a strange descent. 
  The Lure of Atlantis by J. M. Nichols, Jr. (WT, April 1925) -- An expedition into a lost city. 
  The Uncharted Isle by C. A. Smith (WT, Nov 1930) -- A sailor lost at sea. 
  The Night Ocean by H. P. Lovecraft (Californian, Winter 1936) -- An artist, unsettled by the ocean. 
  Fire in the Galley Stove by W. Outerson (Atlantic, May 1937) -- An attack on the "Unicorn". 
  The Black Kiss by R. Bloch (WT, June 1937) -- The thing that swam in black waters. 
  Lost by A. M. Schnirring (WT, July 1943) -- A tale of the marshes. 
  The Thing in the Weeds by W. H. Hodgson (Story-teller, Jan 1913) -- A Sargasso Sea story. 
  The Brain-Eaters by F. B. Long (WT, June 1932) -- A horror from four-dimensional space. 
  Three Skeleton Key by G. G. Toudouze (Esquire, Jan 1937)

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