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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  H P Lovecraft, Arthur Conan...

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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 Horror and its evil intents try to burrow into our heads and cavort around as only demons, monsters, phantoms and ghosts can do.  They probably have other partners and friends too.  And you, sitting there all alone, and listening….. oh dear. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - 20th Century - Horror - An Introduction 
  2 - The Call of Cthulhu - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft 
  3 - The Call of Cthulhu - Part 2 by H P Lovecraft 
  4 - The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  5 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  6 - The Music on the Hill by Saki 
  7 - The Waxworks by A M Burrage 
  8 - Caterpillars by E F Benson 
  9 - The Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen 
  10 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson 
  11 - August Heat by W F Harvey 
  12 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford

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  Universal Harvester - A Novel

  John Darnielle

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  Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's a small town in the center of the state—the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the late 1990s, and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It's good enough for Jeremy: it's a job, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a car wreck. 
  But when a local school teacher comes in to return her copy of Targets—an old movie, starring Boris Karloff, one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store—she has an odd complaint: "There's something on it," she says, but doesn't elaborate. Two days later, a different customer returns a different tape, a new release, and says it's not defective, exactly, but altered: "There's another movie on this tape." 
  Jeremy doesn't want to be curious, but he brings the movies home to take a look. And, indeed, in the middle of each movie, the screen blinks dark for a moment and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged, poorly lit home video. The scenes are odd and sometimes violent, dark, and deeply disquieting. There are no identifiable faces, no dialogue or explanation—the first video has just the faint sound of someone breathing—but there are some recognizable landmarks. These have been shot just outside of town. 
  So begins John Darnielle's haunting and masterfully unsettling Universal Harvester: the once placid Iowa fields and farmhouses now sinister and imbued with loss and instability and profound foreboding. The audiobook will take Jeremy and those around him deeper into this landscape than they have ever expected to go. They will become part of a story that unfolds years into the past and years into the future, part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything to regain. 
  This program is read by the author and includes original music. A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Suspense: A Week Ago Wednesday -...

  John Dixon Carr

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  Maude Haskin was living in fear that her husband was going to kill her, but in the papers the headlines stated it was her husband, Harry Haskins who had been murdered a week ago last Wednesday with an ice pick

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  Short Ghost and Horror...

  Various Various

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  A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night.  Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

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  Presentiments

  P. C. Wren

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  Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer of adventure fiction mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. 
  "Presentiments" is the story of a legionnaire who knows he will be killed the following day but does not want to die without telling somebody about a set of terrible events which occurred in his childhood and which have overshadowed his life.

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  The Whistler

  Various Contributors

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  This show, centered on a character called The Whistler, was an American radio drama that ran from 1942 until 1955. The Whistler was a mysterious narrator who told of various murder stories. When you hear the footsteps and the whistle, be prepared for a haunting story.

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