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  King Pest

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Title: King Pest 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1835 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series: Timeless Terrors 
  Number: 108 
  Description: 
  King Pest is a grotesque and darkly comic tale set in plague-ravaged London during the time of a devastating epidemic. Amid the fear and desolation, two drunken sailors, Leggs and Hugh Tarpaulin, wander away from their ship and into a forbidden quarter of the city abandoned to death and decay. Drawn by curiosity and bravado, they stumble into a nightmarish banquet held in a charnel-house, where a bizarre court presides over a feast among coffins and bones. 
  At the center of this macabre assembly sits the self-proclaimed King Pest, a grotesque monarch ruling over a mock kingdom of pestilence. Surrounded by equally ghastly courtiers — each bearing names and appearances befitting their morbid titles — King Pest delivers bombastic proclamations while reveling in the trappings of death. The sailors soon find themselves unwilling guests in this grotesque parody of royalty, where horror and absurdity mingle beneath the shadow of the plague. 
  In this strange and atmospheric story, Edgar Allan Poe blends satire, gothic horror, and dark humor to create a vivid tableau of decay and delirium. The claustrophobic setting, the grotesque imagery, and the exaggerated pageantry of the plague court showcase Poe’s flair for the macabre as well as his biting wit. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance brings Poe’s eerie humor and grim spectacle vividly to life. King Pest remains a striking example of Poe’s early tales — a bizarre and unforgettable descent into a kingdom where death reigns supreme.

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  Paths Intertwined

  Parvati Anil

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  Paths Intertwined is a heartwarming and delicate collection of short stories that explore the many facets of human connections — friendships, family ties, fleeting encounters, and unexpected relationships. Told through the innocent yet perceptive eyes of a thirteen-year-old, these stories reveal how closeness, rivalries, relationships, and chance meetings leave lasting marks on our hearts and shape who we are. 
  Some friendships are filled with imagination and wonder, offering refuge in a world that can often feel unfair. Others are strained by jealousy, class differences, and rivalry, sometimes leading to moments of cruelty or revenge, but always teaching lessons about understanding and forgiveness. 
  Through diverse characters and situations, this collection of short stories shows how our lives, though seemingly separate, are intricately connected in subtle and powerful ways. With moments of joy, sorrow, conflict, and reconciliation, these stories invite readers to reflect on the invisible threads that shape who we are and how we navigate life’s journey together. This collection is a celebration of connections, reminding us that no matter where life leads, we are never truly alone.

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  A Daemon in Jade - A Short...

  Michael van der Voort

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  What is evil? Is it simply a concept, a description applied to the actions of men or to incidents that impact them or is it something more? An external force eternal and ever present that can weave itself in slithering pathways into our thoughts and deeds? Is it possible for instance, for an object to be evil? For it to reek, on a level detectable beyond our normal senses of corruption, or wickedness and of rot? could it leave upon the skin and the mind like a residue a clinging film of something that is not only older than man but hateful of him? 
  These are the questions that circulate around the Daemon in Jade, the massive sculpture that the ancients chose to bury head down and disregard. Not simply forgetting, but deliberately, purposely shunning the hideous thing as wretched and unclean.

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  Forgotten Authors The - Women -...

  Gertrude Minnie Robins, George...

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  Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. 
  In literature the ambition is much narrower.  In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published.  And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.  Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. 
  In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution.  Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it.  Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.  
  All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at.  In reality that was more usually by those who’s own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows.   
  But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory.  And literature was one such territory.  Remarkably resilient as well as talented these women strove to be published, to show themselves as equals.  The results more often than not proved that they were.   
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.    
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents whose time has now come again.

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  Little Chills

  NPR

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  Veteran radio repertory company ZPPR Productions is guaranteed to give you goose bumps! Ranging from comic to horrific, these bite-sized thrillers include suspenseful contemporary dramas, satiric murder mysteries, and tongue-in-cheek parodies. This recording includes:
  
  
  • "Vigilante"— Is it a villain or a hero who turns in the subway mugger?
  
  
  • "An Open-and-Shut Case" — A shrewd, funny police lady solves what seemed like a straightforward murder case.
  
  
  • "Dé jà Vu" — The clock turns back, revealing a shocking truth to a dying man.
  
  
  • "A Hat Rack of Death" — In a delicious, murderous farce, the unlovely host of a bizarre cocktail party is found murdered.

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  Wise Words in Forgotten Times -...

  Daniel Sheehan

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  One of the ‘truths’ about writers is that after a successful first book the agonies of the second devour both time and talent.  For Daniel Sheehan that seems to have been turned on its head.  Rather than go forward it was easier to look back, to dredge rather than furrow, gathering words, lines and phrases from the past and re-fashioning, distilling and evolving stories of simplicity, complexity, light and dark. Sometimes very dark. 
  His work is often characterized by a modern, intimate, and somewhat mysterious style, focusing deeply on the emotional connection between lovers.

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