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  Behind the Curtain - From their...

  Francis Stevens

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Gertrude Barrows Bennett who was also known as Francis Stevens.

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  The Garden Lodge

  Willa Cather

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  "The Garden Lodge" is a short story by Willa Cather, first published in 1905. It tells the story of a woman asked by her husband if she would agree to tear down their garden lodge and build a new summer house there instead. She grows nostalgic as she remembers spending fond times there with tenor Raymond d'Esquerre when he was visiting. Although a moderate and no-nonsense woman, the singer rekindled her passion for music during his stay. She had to let go of it after her lazy brother killed himself and her father was crippled with debts. She then proceeds to go to the garden lodge and plays a piece of opera that she played with the tenor the previous summer. However, after a night's sleep she comes around and tells her husband she agrees the lodge should go.

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  Terminal Zones

  Gareth E. Rees

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  'Fresh and disturbing stories mapping out the pressure points in the psychedelic everyday - Rees consistently reaches the places others do not.'
  – Will Wiles, author of Plume
  'Gareth E Rees propels us into a vast and uncanny future; showing us brief snatches of a world to come. A poignant message delivered with guile, wit and beauty.'
  – Matt Wesolowski, author of Demon
  'Strange, compelling and brilliantly funny.'
  – Matt Wesolowski, author of Demon
  Ten tragicomic tales of environmental and personal disaster from the margins of town and country.
  
  A troubled hipster is seduced by an electricity pylon.
  
  Sinister omens manifest in a supermarket car park.
  
  A motorway bridge becomes a father.
  
  Malevolent bacteria plague a polar icebreaker.
  
  A bioengineered abomination lurks in a Gloucestershire railway terminus.
  
  The weekly bin collection pushes a man over the edge.
  
  A former squatter clings to her home on a crumbling cliff.
  
  Joyriders are foiled by Anglo Saxon floodwaters.
  
  Vampiric entities stalk B&Q.
  
  And fiery catastrophe comes to the zoo.
  
  Gareth E. Rees's first collection of short fiction explores lives on the verge of breakdown, where ordinary people are driven to extremes by the effects of late capitalism and ecological collapse.

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  The Lurking Fear

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  In H. P. Lovecraft’s chilling tale, The Lurking Fear, a mysterious terror grips the secluded Catskill Mountains. Driven by curiosity, an investigator ventures into the heart of this eerie landscape, where a monstrous presence is rumored to haunt the region. As he uncovers a dark legacy entwined with the locals, he confronts unimaginable horrors lurking in the shadows. 
  Phil Thames’s narration brings Lovecraft’s atmospheric story to life, capturing the suspense and creeping dread with each word. Listeners will feel drawn into the heart of the tale, as the narrator's tone heightens the story’s intensity, echoing the isolation and terror woven into the text. 
  Ideal for fans of classic horror and supernatural tales, The Lurking Fear offers a haunting journey into Lovecraftian suspense and dread, where fear is a constant presence, and the unknown hides in every shadow.

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  The Beetle Hunter

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories, a suppressed uneasiness gradually builds up and evolves into sheer terror; in others, the story line unexpectedly changes and comes to an unexpected conclusion. In "The Beetle-Hunter," a beginning doctor is employed on a strange errand to a coleopterist.

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  A Scene from the Ghetto of...

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.   
  Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered first Prague and then Munich and finally Berlin university to study art history, philosophy and literature. 
  His initial forays into literature was in poetry.  His intense, mystical and lyrical style was much admired and over time inspired many in succeeding generations.    
  His short prose collection ‘Stories of God’, written in an impassioned burst over several nights was published in 1900 and offers a beguiling view of much of Rilke’s influences and outlook.  
  The following year he married the pioneering sculptor and artist Clara Westhoff.  The union produced one child, a daughter Ruth.   
  He lived in Paris for most of the Century’s first decade where he mixed with many great minds of the time.  Although he continued to write he also worked as a secretary to the sculptor, Rodin.   
  It was only after they settled in Switzerland in 1919 that his writing output was in full flow.  Here he wrote profusely in both German and French, which included much on his previous travels, his left-wing sympathies, his religious and existential thoughts, all part of a unique and consummate style. 
  From 1923 on, Rilke increasingly struggled with his health which was now in constant decline and often spent time rehabilitating at a sanatorium.   
  Rainer Maria Rilke died of leukaemia on the 29th December 1926 in Montreux, Switzerland.  He was 51.

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