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  Dracula's Guest - Experience the...

  Bram Stoker

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  "The dead travel fast." 
  Originally excised from the manuscript of his immortal vampire masterpiece, Bram Stoker's title story plunges an unwitting English traveler into the freezing, snow-swept wilderness of Bavaria on Walpurgis Night. Ignoring the desperate warnings of his terrified coachman, the arrogant wanderer finds himself trapped inside an abandoned, desecrated graveyard. As a fierce blizzard descends, he must survive the unholy horrors that stir within a shattered marble tomb—and the massive, glowing-eyed guardian lurking in the shadows. 
  But the terror does not end there. This essential volume features a curated selection of Stoker’s most brilliant supernatural short fiction. Journey to the accursed, rat-infested isolation of The Judge's House, witness the excruciating horrors of a medieval torture chamber in The Squaw, and unravel the eerie vengeance woven into The Secret of the Growing Gold. Each story masterfully escalates the dread, proving Stoker's unparalleled command of the macabre. 
  Why you will love this audiobook: If you crave classic Gothic Horror laced with atmospheric dread, haunted houses, sinister curses, and masterful tension, this collection will freeze your blood. Perfectly tailored for fans of vintage supernatural thrillers, ghostly literature, and vampire folklore, this immersive auditory experience delivers spine-tingling suspense from the very first minute. 
  About the Author: Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish author best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel, Dracula. His brilliant ability to blend dark folklore, psychological tension, and macabre romance forever reshaped the horror genre, cementing him as one of literature's most influential architects of terror.

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  Manon Lescaut

  Abbé Prévost

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  ‘The sweetness of her glance – or rather, my evil star already in its
  ascendant and drawing me to my ruin – did not allow me to hesitate
  for a moment...’ So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of
  passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves
  from early 18th-century Paris – with its theatres, assemblies, and
  gaming-houses – via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement
  in the treeless wastes of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories,
  and also one of the most enigmatic: how reliable a witness is Des
  Grieux, Manon’s lover, whose tale he narrates? Is Manon a thief and
  a whore, the image of love itself, or a thoroughly modern woman?
  Prévost is careful to leave the ambiguities unresolved, and to lay bare
  the disorders of passion.

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  Life as it Happens

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian playwright, writer, and doctor. Known best for his plays, he had also written a great multitude of short stories for and about people of all ages and all walks of life. Life as it happens is a selection of just such stories and novellas. From sad to ridiculous, to dramatic, to funny, by way of tragic or bitter-sweet - there is something here for everyone. 
    
  This collection includes the following works:The Order of AnnaFeminine HappinessThe Lady with the Little DogChameleonBirthdayTwo ScandalsSweetheartThe DuelLiving MerchandizePrincessBeautiesMaria IvanovnaThe BetThe KissThe StudentForgot!The MaskProposalA JokeA Man in a CaseBoys

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  The Age of Innocence

  Edith Wharton

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  "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton masterfully captures the intricate social tapestry of 1870s New York, where rigid societal norms dictate the lives of its elite. Centered on the conflicted Newland Archer, who is betrothed to the lovely but conventional May Welland, the novel deepens as he falls for the free-spirited Countess Ellen Olenska. Through lush prose and keen social critique, Wharton explores themes of duty, desire, and the suffocating constraints of tradition.

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  The Wonderful Tune - A weird...

  Jessie Douglas Kerruish

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  Jessie Douglas Kerruish was born in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, County Durham in 1884. 
   
  Little is known about the author’s life and to a large extent her work remains either neglected or out of favour. 
   
  Her literary career got off to a very bright start in 1917 when she won the Hodder & Stoughton First Novel Prize for ‘Miss Haroun Al-Raschid’.  Five years later came her seminal work ‘The Undying Monster’, which today is still regarded as a macabre werewolf classic. 
   
  Throughout her career she contributed short stories to such popular periodicals as Novel, Lady's and Weekly Tale-Teller.  One of the best was ‘The Wonderful Tune’ and whilst the title sounds light and airy her dark imagination riddles the narrative.  Many of her works were set in exotic locations from North Africa to the Middle East. 
   
  Her output was small, limited to two collections of short stories and several novels. 
   
  During the 1930’s severe and debilitating migraines prevented her from working for any length of time and all she could muster was contributions to anthologies. 
   
  Jessie Douglas Kerruish died in Hove, Sussex in 1949, in obscurity.

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  The Daughter of Lilith - From...

  Anatole France

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  François-Anatole Thibault was born on the 16th April 1844 in Paris, France, the son of a bookseller and bibliophile. 
  He studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduating joined his father in the bookstore, which specialised in works on the French Revolution.  Several years later he secured a position as cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre before being appointed librarian for the French Senate in 1876. 
  His literary career had begun as a journalist and as a poet before publishing his novel ‘Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard’ in 1881.  Praised for its elegant prose, it won him a prestigious prize from the Académie Française, which later elected him to its storied ranks. 
  His works were profound and thoughtful and often couched in surreal and outlandish expressions; whether penguins baptized by a near-blind Abbott transformed themselves into humans or of a guardian angel who becomes an atheist, his stories turned established thought into startling literature. 
  His short stories run in the same vein.  The premise may seem plausible but his distinctive style turns them into an individual viewpoint which invokes both discussion and admiration. 
  In his private life his relationships with women were often turbulent.  A Socialist, he was a fervent supporter of the Russian Revolution and the early years of the French Communist party. 
  He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 but the following year his entire canon of works was placed on the prohibited list of the Catholic Church, which he thought of as a credit to his name. 
  Anatole France died on the 12th October 1924 in Tours.  He was 80.

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