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  The Murdered Ships

  James Francis Dwyer

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  A short story from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection From the Depths. A response to all ships sunk in action during the war, James Francis Dwyer uses the supernatural to achieve his end in this short story, as an Australian sailor recalls his journey on a pearl schooner and his experience of a ghost ship.

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  Cinderwich

  Cherie Priest

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  “Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?”  
  Decades after trespassing children spotted the desiccated corpse wedged in the treetop, no one knows the answer.  
  Kate Thrush and her former college professor, Dr. Judith Kane, travel to Cinderwich, Tennessee, in hopes that maybe it was their Ellen: Katie’s lost aunt, Judith’s long-gone lover. But they’re not the only ones to have come here looking for closure. The people of Cinderwich, a town hardly more than a skeleton itself, are staunchly resistant to the outsiders’ questions about Ellen and her killer. And the deeper the two women dig—the more rot they unearth—the closer they come to exhuming the evil that lies, hungering, at the roots of Cinderwich.

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  The Striding Place - A Victorian...

  Gertrude Atherton

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  In Gertrude Atherton’s The Striding Place, the concept of identity and a lonely death are addressed. Weigall remembers talking with Wyatt about the soul and afterlife. Wyatt states, “If I had my way, I should stay inside my bones until the coffin had gone into its niche, that I might obviate for my poor old comrade the tragic impersonality of death.” The characters wonder about death and the destination of the human soul when it occurs. Weigall does not believe that the marshy bog, The Strid, has taken his friend, but when he sees a hand raised above the surface of the water, he knows it must be him and he desperately and quickly saves him. When he tries to resuscitate Wyatt, he sees that there is no face on the body. This is an extreme metaphor for the loneliness and/or mystery of death.

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  Ghost Virus - Patel and Pardoe...

  Graham Masterton

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  The girl had been staring into her mirror all morning before she picked up the small bottle of sulphuric acid and poured it over her forehead. Samira was a young woman with her whole life ahead of her. What could have brought her to this?DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of Tooting Police suspect it's suicide. But then a meek husband kills his wife, and the headteacher of the local school throws her pupils out of a window. It's no longer a random outbreak of horrific crimes. It's a deadly virus. And it's spreading. Somehow, ordinary Londoners are being infected with an insatiable lust to murder. All of the killers were wearing second hand clothes.Could these garments be possessed by some supernatural force?The death count is multiplying. Now Jerry and Jamila must defeat the ghost virus before they are all infected....

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  The Worthy - A Ghost's Story

  Will Clarke

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  Cult sensation Will Clarke delivers a darkly comic tale described as a cross between Animal House and The Lovely Bones.  
  Conrad Avery Sutton III is dead, but he's still around. And he's bent on revenge-frat boy style. Responsible for the hazing "accident" that killed him is supposed golden boy Ryan Hutchins.

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  Come Join Us By The Fire Season...

  Various Authors

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  Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of genre luminaries like Seanan McGuire, T. Kingfisher, and Caitlín R. Kiernan; it includes stories from Nightfire’s own Cassandra Khaw (Nothing But Blackened Teeth) and Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Certain Dark Things); and from rising stars like Nibedita Sen, Matthew Lyons, and Jessica Guess. Plus, it has Nick Antosca’s “The Quiet Boy,” soon to be a major motion picture, Antlers, starring Keri Russell.Contents:Cassandra Khaw - "Some Breakable Things"Sarah Langan - "The Changeling"Caitlín R. Kiernan - "Standing Water"Tade Thompson - "Bone"T. Kingfisher - "Origin Story"Silvia Moreno-Garcia - "The Sound of Footsteps"Damien Angelica Walters - "Tooth, Tongue, and Claw"Matthew Lyons - "Blood Daughter"Jessica Guess - "Mama Tulu"Daniel M. Lavery - "Prodigal Son"Seanan McGuire - "Emergency Landing"‘Pemi Aguda - "Things Boys Do"Kelly Link - "The Specialist's Hat"Clay McLeod Chapman - "The Fireplace"Nibedita Sen - "Pigeons"Catherynne M. Valente - "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles"Maria Dahvana Headley - "The Krakatoan"Nick Antosca - "The Quiet Boy"

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