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  When I Was Dead - From their...

  Vincent O'Sullivan

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  Vincent O'Sullivan was born on the 28th November 1868 in New York City.  He was initially educated through the New York public school system before finishing his studies in England.  As a young man he remained in London and travelled often to Paris.  
  O’Sullivan lived a very comfortable life with income from the family coffee business.  He had no real need to work but decided that a literary lifestyle was for him.   
  In 1896 he released his first volume of supernatural fiction ‘A Book of Bargains’.  Within its pages were classic stories that involved pacts with the Devil, reanimated corpses and psychic vampires. 
  Over the course of his career, he wrote a mere 10 volumes of short stories, novels, poetry together with some occasional criticism. 
  In 1909 his brother, who ran the company, entered its resources into some terribly mis-timed trades in coffee futures and ruin for both the company and the family quickly followed. 
  From now until his death O’Sullivan was destitute, life was exceedingly difficult. 
  Vincent O’Sullivan died on the 18th July 1940 in Paris.  He was 71.  He was buried in a paupers grave along with the remains of others.

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  The Pale Man

  Julius Long

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  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching 'Jonathan Dunne Horror' on YouTube.  
  Title: The Pale Man 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 131 
  Author: Julius Long 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1934 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  YouTube Channel: Jonathan Dunne Horror Stories & Audiobooks (search on YouTube) 
  Description: 
  The Pale Man by Julius Long is a haunting tale of quiet dread and creeping inevitability. Known for his ability to blend psychological tension with subtle supernatural menace, Long crafts a story that lingers long after its final line. 
  The narrative centers on an encounter with a strange, cadaverous figure—a man unnaturally pale, watchful, and unsettlingly persistent. What begins as a fleeting glimpse soon becomes a recurring presence, appearing in places where he should not be and at times that defy coincidence. His expression is unreadable, his movements deliberate, and his silence more oppressive than any spoken threat. 
  As the appearances multiply, the protagonist is forced to confront an unbearable question: is the Pale Man a living stalker of flesh and blood, a hallucination born of fraying nerves, or something far older and more inhuman? Julius Long masterfully sustains ambiguity, allowing dread to grow not through violence, but through anticipation and the slow erosion of certainty. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the oppressive atmosphere, mounting paranoia, and shadowed inevitability that define The Pale Man—a tale where fear does not shout, but watches… and waits.

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  Hearts Entwined - A Historical...

  Melissa Jagears, Karen...

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  Four top historical romance novelists team up in this new collection to offer stories of love and romance with a twist of humor. In Karen Witemeyer's "The Love Knot," Claire Nevin gets the surprise of her life awaiting her sister's arrival by train. Mary Connealy's "The Tangled Ties That Bind" offers the story of two former best friends who are reunited while escaping a stampede. Regina Jennings offers "Bound and Determined," where a most unusual trip across barren Oklahoma plains is filled with adventure, romance, and . . . camels? And Melissa Jagears' "Tied and True" entertains with a tale of two hearts from different social classes who become entwined at a cotton thread factory.  
   
  Each tale is a fun blend of history and romance that will delight readers.

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  At the Bottom of the River

  Jamaica Kincaid

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  Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River . . . inspired, lyrical short stories 
   
   
   
  Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean—family, manners, and landscape—as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision. 
   
   
   
  Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things—a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings—shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place—these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.

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  Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

  Aldous Huxley

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  Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is his third compilation of poetry. The volume begins with "The Defeat of Youth", a sequence of twenty-two sonnets that explores irreconcilability of the ideal and the disappointing reality. Jerome Meckier called it “the century’s most successful sonnet sequence, better than Auden’s or Edna St. Vincent Millay’s.” In the rest of the volume, Huxley continues to explore themes started in The Burning Wheel, his first volume of poetry, including vision, blindness, and other contrasts. The volume concludes with two English translations by Huxley of two French poems: Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem “L’Après-midi d’un faune" and Arthur Rimbaud’s (1871) poem “Les Chercheuses de poux,” translated as “The Louse Hunters.”  Summary by Mary Kay.

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  Heartwarming Stories Almost...

  Harsh Munjal

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  What happens when fiction borrows the warmth of reality? In this debut collection, Harsh Munjal brings together stories that celebrate life's tender moments. Each tale, inspired by real people and events, carries the authenticity of truth and the comfort of well-crafted fiction. Perfect for readers who believe in the magic of everyday life—and an ideal companion for your next flight, road trip, beach day, or as a delightful breather between bigger books. 
  While some of these stories might feel familiar to my newsletter readers, there's something special about holding them together in a book—a completely different experience from reading them piece by piece in your inbox. And by choosing this collection, you're not just getting stories; you're directly supporting an independent author's journey to bring more such tales to life.

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