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  Leaves Brown

  Ian Rogers

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  Picture of Dorian Gray The: The...

  Oscar Wilde

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine issue. The novel-length version was published in April 1891. 
  The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton and is soon enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian desires to sell his soul to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. 
  The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the while, his portrait ages and visually records every one of Dorian's sins.

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  Butcher’s Hollow - A Short...

  Michael van der Voort

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  When it comes to horror stories there are certain settings that people would probably say were typical. The kinds of setting folks have come to expect. A silent old graveyard full of ornate statues, moss covered slabs and a high pale moon. Or perhaps an abandoned lunatic asylum where the screams of past inmates still seem to ring through the corridors. A creepy old fairground ride, with peeling paint and a wild-eyed clown smiling down at the viewer. Or that hoary old chestnut that’s in all the old horror movies, ‘a massive but suspiciously cheap house that just happens to have been built on an Indigenous burial ground.’ Those are typical.What’s not typical, is a place that you...

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  Dead America - The Portland...

  Derek Slaton

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  With the situation in Redmond quickly deteriorating, Corporal Jinx, Zion and Calvin must take desperate measures. 
  Dead America - The Second Month series follows survivors from coast to coast as they deal with the threats posed by both the living and the undead.

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  Ghost Stories of an Antiquary -...

  M. R. James

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  Both series of the ghost stories a Cambridge provost wrote to read aloud to friends at Christmas: the scrapbook that should not have been bought, the whistle blown on a lonely beach, the ash tree outside the window. James was a medievalist by trade and put the horror in the margins of manuscripts and cathedral records, where he worked. Fifty-eight plates by painters including Munch and Goya turn on the same haunted architecture the tales do: cathedrals, winter streets, and the shadowed places where scholars meet what they should not.

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  Robert Louis Stevenson: The...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  This story deals with the obvious fact that we humans are split, dual. We have urges to do the 'right' thing, to be honorable and wise, but we also frequently fail to follow these better instincts and follow instead urges to do dishonorable, evil things. We seem to battle within ourselves. Are we really composed of two different personalities housed within the same brain, within the same person? Dr Jeckyll in this story is so convinced and manages by scientific means to actually split himself into his ordinary composite self, and his evil self whom he calls Mr. Hyde. The horror of this unnatural split is well documented here and shows what might happen were this possible. 

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