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  Stand and Deliver - A Tale of...

  Rachel Lawson

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  Mary Gregory and Sir Justin Beaufort hate each other because they are victims of shotgun marriage and as Road agents, Gentleman John and Silver Buckles love each other truly in spite of their engagement to another who happens to be the other one although they don't know Mary thinks he's stark raving mad. Jack thinks she is not the woman he loves he knows she hates him too. Their love will be their deaths. It is a tale of love on the highways of old. 
  with Shadows in the Moonlight, The Ride of the Highwaymen and Shadows 
  rework of series in one book

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  Susie's Letter from Santa

  Mark Twain

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  When Mark Twain's daughter Susie wrote a letter to Santa Claus, her father wrote back, signing Santa's name. Charming and heartwarming, this version of the short letter was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Edgar...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The top 10 short stories of all time written by Edgar Allan Poe. 
   
  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. 
   
  Among those we call the dark masters, one name glimmers with a more ready menace: Edgar Allan Poe who can, in an instant, unleash and surround our fears with unspeakable torment. His words also bring careful consideration as his detective stories reveal the hidden clues.  Whatever the genre Poe is almost unrivalled in both story and solution. 
  1 - The Top 10 - Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction 
  2 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 
  3 - The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 
  4 - The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe 
  5 - By the Facts in the Case of Monsieur Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe 
  6 - Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe 
  8 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 
  9 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe 
  10 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  11 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

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  Old Time Radio's Greatest Stars:...

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  Orson Welles was an actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theatre, radio, TV and film. His film Citizen Kane (1941) is ranked as one of the greatest movies ever made.In 1937, Orson Welles and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented a series of productions (including Julius Caesar) on Broadway through 1941. To help earn money to stage his productions, Welles moonlighted as a radio actor. In 1937, at age 22, he clouded men's minds as radio's first Lamont Cranston, alias The Shadow. In his own radio series, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Welles dramatized the H.G. Wells science-fiction classic The War of the Worlds and caused widespread panic when listeners thought that Earth was being invaded by Martians.This broadcast earned Orson Welles great notoriety and a film contract with RKO. He followed up Citizen Kane with 12 other feature films, the most acclaimed being The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Touch of Evil (1958) and Chimes of Midnight (1966). Even though Welles stayed quite busy acting and producing films, he found time to appear in many radio shows during the 1940s and 1950s. We've carefully selected 12 of his finest radio performances for this collection and we hope that you will enjoy them! The Cavalcade of America—"Admiral of the Ocean Sea"The Jack Benny Program—w/ guest Orson WellesSuspense—"The Most Dangerous Game"Suspense—"Lazarus Walks"Suspense—"The Dark Tower"The Mercury Summer Theatre—"Golden Honeymoon" & "Romeo and Juliet"The Mercury Summer Theatre—"Hell on Ice"The Lives of Harry Lime—"The Painted Smile"The Lives of Harry Lime—"The Elusive Vermeer"The Black Museum—"A Lady's Shoe"The Black Museum—"The Sash Cord"The Adv. of Sherlock Holmes—"The Final Problem"

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  From a Funeral to a Wedding

  Martin Lundqvist

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  A flash fiction story about a man who fakes his own death to make his wedding day appear to be his funeral. He does this to circumvent the rules that are in place because of the hyped flu.

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  Murder in the Age of...

  Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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  'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' Haruki Murakami
  'The quintessential writer of his era' David Peace
  These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shot through with a fantastical sensibility, they offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder and obsession.
  A talented and spiteful painter is given over to depravity in pursuit of artistic brilliance. In the depths of hell, a robber spies a single spider's thread being lowered towards him. When a body is found in an isolated bamboo grove, a kaleidoscopic account of violence and desire begins to unfold.
  Vividly translated by Bryan Karetnyk, this mesmerising collection brings together a series of essential works from the master of the Japanese short story.
  Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.
  Translated by Bryan Karetyn
  Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's leading literary figures in the Taisho period. Regarded as the father of the Japanese short story, he produced over 150 in his short lifetime. Haunted by the fear that he would inherit his mother's madness, Akutagawa suffered from worsening mental health problems towards the end of his life and committed suicide aged 35 by taking an overdose of barbiturates.

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