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  The Temple

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  A Lovecraftian tall of terror in the deepest depths of the ocean.

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  Pop Art

  Joe Hill

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. 
  Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . 
  Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . 
  Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . 
  John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . 
   

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  The Pit and the Pendulum

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Terror. Torture. Time running out. 
  Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum plunges listeners into the claustrophobic mind of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, who awakens in utter darkness to face a series of psychological and physical torments. Chained beneath a slowly descending pendulum blade, surrounded by monstrous iron walls and the yawning mouth of a deadly pit, he must summon every ounce of courage, reason, and instinct to survive. 
  Nathan Edwards delivers a gripping narration of Poe’s masterwork of suspense, where every detail intensifies the dread and every moment ticks closer to the edge of madness. A landmark in Gothic literature and psychological horror, this story explores fear not through monsters, but through isolation, anticipation, and the diabolical ingenuity of man. 
  Perfect for fans of horror, dark suspense, classic literature, and the art of pure storytelling.

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  The Messenger

  Robert W. Chambers

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  On the wind-scoured cliffs of coastal Brittany, a forgotten crime lies buried beneath gravel, sea mist, and superstition. When ancient bones are disturbed, an old curse stirs—and something returns to watch, to warn, and to wait. 
  The Messenger is a chilling gothic tale by Robert W. Chambers, where reason and folklore collide in the shadow of history. As a rational American observer investigates a mysterious burial site, he uncovers the story of a long-executed traitor known as the Black Priest—a man branded in death, cursed in blood, and sworn to return if his remains are ever disturbed. 
  What follows is a slow descent into unease: a skull that will not stay buried, a death’s-head moth appearing at windows and hearths, masked figures glimpsed in stormlight, and blood trails that defy explanation. Set against moonlit seas, ruined forts, and candlelit rooms, the story builds its terror through implication rather than spectacle, leaving the listener to question whether the horror is supernatural—or the product of guilt, history, and fear. 
  Narrated by Michael Lyons, The Messenger is a masterwork of fin-de-siècle weird fiction: elegant, ominous, and quietly devastating. It is a tale of omens and inheritance, of old sins reaching forward in time, and of the moment when disbelief can no longer protect the living from the dead.

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  The House of Footsteps

  Matthew West

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  If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook… 
  It’s 1923 and at Thistlecrook House, a forbidding home on the Scottish border, the roaring twenties seem not to have arrived. But Simon Christie has – a young man who can’t believe his luck when he gets a job cataloguing the infamous art collection of the Mordrake family. Yet from the moment he gets off the train at the deserted village station he can’t shift a headache and a sense that there’s more to the House and its gruesome selection of pictures. 
  Simon’s host is glad of his company, but he gets the feeling the house is not so welcoming. As his questions about the Mordrakes grow, he finds answers in surprising places. But someone is not pleased that old secrets are stirring. 
  As night falls each evening, and a growing sense of unease roils in the shifting shadows around him, Simon must decide what he can trust and ask if he can believe what he sees in the dusk or if his mind is poisoned by what has happened before in this place between lands, between light and dark. 
  In the historical and gothic setting of Thistlecrook House, Simon Christie finds himself entangled in a web of supernatural occurrences that challenge his sanity. The best of horror and thrillers, Mathew West's THE HOUSE OF FOOTSTEPS is a chilling exploration of the unseen and the unimaginable. 
  For fans of George Bellairs (Surfeit of Suspects), Dana Cameron (Pack of Strays), Margery Allingham (The Crime at Black Dudley), Jess Kidd (The Night Ship), and Elizabeth Macneal (The Burial Plot). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  Bladys of the Stewponey

  Sabine Baring-Gould

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  The story, whether you call it a romance, a historical novel or a horror story - comprising as it does a young woman being offered as a prize in a bowling match, a wife-burning, highwaymen and buried treasure - is of course wholly fiction.

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