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  Batchelors

  Hugh Walpole

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  Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.Batchelors is a charming tale of two brothers, Robin and Harry, who live in a mutually codependent relationship. Robin is timid and subservient while Harry is brash and hearty. But then one day, Harry announces that he is engaged to be married...an announcement which throws Robin into internal turmoil as he struggles to cope with the new situation.

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  Stranger by Night - Tales of...

  Michael Garrett, Jeff Gelb

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  Beguiling and bewitching stories from Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, Graham Masterton, and others will give you goosebumps—in more ways than one . . .   Sex and horror, intertwined since the beginning of the human race, take on all new twists, turns, and contortions in Stranger by Night, sixth in the Hot Blood erotic horror anthology series—with one of its most illustrious lists of contributors. Two of the United Kingdom’s greatest horror writers, Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley, both appear. Actress and scream queen Brinke Stevens contributes original fiction. Comics illustrator and TV writer Bruce Jones features in the Hot Blood series for the first time, while Graham Masterton returns with another classic. Lucy Taylor and Brian Hodge are among the other brilliant horror writers, eighteen stories in all, that probe every dark desire. The Heliocentric Net said, “whatever your tastes, be prepared to be titillated and terrorized,” and according to Deathrealm, “Stranger by Night demonstrates that the Hot Blood books haven’t lost their steam in any sense of the phrase.”  Praise for the Hot Blood series “Read Hot Blood late at night when the wind is blowing hard and the moon is full.” —Playboy   “Outstanding . . . A daring combination of sex and terror.” —Cemetery Dance   “Will appeal to your every kink.” —Locus   “Seek out this one (or its predecessors) for some naughty fun.” —Booklovers

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Charles Dickens, 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. 
   
  This is the century where publishing became truly a mass-market phenomenon as a multitude of magazines, journals and periodicals flooded the streets, each eager to persuade an audience that their literary offering was the one to purchase.  Every author, known and unknown, wanted their words set in their inky type.  These writers abound in literary talent and an ability to tell captivating stories.  Genius has many names. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The British 19th Century - An Introduction 
  17 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie 
  03 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins 
  01 - Youth by Joseph Conrad 
  05 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  06 - B24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  07 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  08 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy 
  09 - The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling 
  16 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  11 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker

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  Imprisoned With The Pharoahs &...

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Imprisoned With the Pharaohs & Other Stories. HP Lovecraft is a modern master of horror. This collection is mainly centered on Imprisoned With The Pharaohs. It’s a very detailed work taking place in Egypt.  Rightly acknowledged as a classic it combines all the best elements of Lovecraft, Religion, Gods, Visions and other worldly experience. Never having visited Egypt Lovecraft certainly invents one we recognise though seen through his eyes one we are glad only takes place on the page.

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  The Dinner

  Dave Warner

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  A short story with a dash of humour, contemporary, set in inner-Sydney. It’s raining cats and dogs and Rick is being jabbed by the hot needle of panic.  He’s running late now after dashing out to get last minute dessert for the crucial dinner party tonight where Rick and wife Vanessa are entertaining Vanessa’s boss and his wife.  Rick carefully wheels his pride-and-joy, his almost-new Audi, around the block looking for a parking space. He’d had everything set, the Audi tucked away in a nearby street so that Vanessa’s boss and wife could park in Rick’s little private space at the back of the house. Friday night and in this fashionable inner-city suburb it’s easier for a straight white male to win a Premier’s arts prize than it is to find a free space. But it’s okay, as a last resort Rick can park across his own driveway blocking in the boss’ car.  Except that he can’t, can he?  Some selfish bastard has already parked there. Enraged, Rick mangles the windscreen wipers of the offending car, only to learn when he joins the dinner party, that the boss and his wife brought two vehicles.  Can Rick make good before the stroke of doom?

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  The Time Machine

  H. G. Wells

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  H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as "The Time Traveller" tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human civilization as we know it, as well as the beginning of the end of the world. This original time-travel story has been copied many times, but never improved upon.

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