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  Campfire Stories to Tell in the...

  Jay Nero

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  What brought you here? A spark of curiosity? A whisper? Or something you can’t quite name? 
  And what if it wasn’t by chance—that detail that made you stop? 
  Some stories aren’t meant to be stumbled upon. They find you. They wait for you. 
  They take you where you didn’t want to go… but where you needed to be. 
  Campfire Stories to Tell in the Dark is a whispered invitation to step into the cracks, where appearances crumble, and normality quietly breaks, making room for the unexpected. 
  It’s a slow, silent descent into the shadowy corners of psychological horror, where fear doesn’t scream, but slips in. 
  Where every story starts with something familiar… then twists, silently shedding its skin before your eyes. 
  And just when you think you’ve figured it out… 
  The ending will take you by surprise. 
  What you’ll find inside: 
  🕯️ 7 original tales filled with unease, mystery, and mounting tension 
  🕯️ Final twists that turn everything you thought you knew upside down 
  🕯️ Short but intense stories, crafted to be read in low light 
  🕯️ A perfect balance of atmosphere and shock 
  🕯️ Subtle storytelling, where the real threat often hides in plain sight 
  🕯️ Themes like trauma, isolation, guilt, the inescapable—and unspeakable secrets 
  Turn off the noise. Keep just a little light with you. 
  The stories you’re about to listen demand it. 
  Let Stories to Tell in the Dark call you in. Let the journey begin. 
  But don’t look back… if you hear something moving behind you.

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  Time and the Gods

  Lord Dunsany

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  Lord Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957) was a London-born Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy. He was influenced by Algernon Swinburne, who wrote the line "Time and the Gods are at strife" in his 1866 poem "Hymn to Proserpine", as well as by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. In turn, Dunsany's influence was felt by H. P. Lovecraft and Ursula K. Le Guin. Arthur C. Clarke corresponded with Dunsany between 1944 and 1956. Those letters are collected in the book Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence. Time and the Gods, a series of short stories written in a myth-like style, was first published in 1906. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  The Black Cat - From their pens...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan.   
  He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although he now referred to himself as Edgar Allan Poe.  His father alternatively spoiled or chastised him and tension was frequent over gambling debts and monies for his education.  His university years to study ancient and modern languages was cut short by lack of money and he enlisted as a private in the army claiming he was 22, it is more probable he was 18. After 2 years he obtained a discharge in order to take up an appointment at the military academy, West Point, where he failed to become an officer. 
  Poe had released his 1st poetry volume in 1827 and after his 3rd turned to prose and placing short stories in several magazines and journals.  At age 26 he obtained a licence to marry his cousin.  She was a mere 13 but they stayed together until her death from tuberculosis 11 years after. 
  In January 1845 ‘The Raven’ was published and became an instant classic.  Thereafter followed the prose works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and the macabre. 
  Edgar Allan Poe died at the tragically early age of 40 on 7th October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as ‘congestion of the brain’ or ‘cerebral inflammation’, common euphemisms for death from disreputable causes such as alcoholism but the actual cause of death remains a mystery. 
  Poe is also one of a number of authors credited with inventing the detective genre with his Parisian sleuth C. Auguste Dupin.  He featured in three stories including the legendary ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’ and by sheer deduction, logic and a touch of Gallic arrogance revealed what was hidden to the rest of us.

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  The Tall Grass and Other Stories

  Joe R. Lansdale

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  The Tall Grass and Other Stories is a collection of my shorter fiction, many of them flash fiction. It borrows from The King and Other Stories, Unchained and Unhinged, and some never before collected.

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  Night of the Living Rez...

  Morgan Talty

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  Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize • National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize • American Academy of Arts & Letters Sue Kaufman Prize • The New England Book Award • National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree 
    
  Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Chautauqua Prize 2023, and Barnes & Noble Discover Book Prize 
    
  Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, NPR, Esquire, Oprah Daily, and more 
    
  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. 
    
  In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight—breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unraveling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer’s projects the past onto her grandson; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs.  
    
  A collection that examines the consequences and merits of inheritance, Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of an Indigenous community and marks the arrival of a standout talent in contemporary fiction.

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  A Haunted Villa - From their...

  Ömer Seyfettin

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  The bookshelves of World literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From their countries and continents their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Ömer Seyfettin.

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