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  Tales From An Ironic Mind Four

  Paul A. Hernandez

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  These 19 tales take you from an assassination in a foreign country, to problems on a solar sailing ship having problems after taking a short cut, a solar flare that has seemed to have effected everyone in the city except two people, a man who miss-uses the city emergency drone equipment for private use. There's the ship crashing on a foreign world, a very odd painter, a fix it man who saves the day, some people who catch the lightning for good money, a strange blue table that may be cursed, a walking partner who may have a wicket temper, a side shoe museum with a very special amusement, and a man with a great fear of grocery stores. 
  These are the type of adventures you will find between the covers of Tales From An Ironic Mind Four and I hope you enjoy each and every one of them.  

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  I Am Alien to Life - Selected...

  Djuna Barnes, Merve Emre

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  Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwood, her breakthrough and final novel: a hallmark of modernist literature, championed by T. S. Eliot, and one of the first, strangest, and most brilliant novels of love between women to be published in the twentieth century. Barnes's career began long before Nightwood, however, with journalism, essays, drama, and satire of extraordinary wit and courage. Long into her later life, after World War II, when she published nothing more, it was her short fiction above all that she prized and would continue to revise. 
   
   
   
  Here are all the stories Barnes sought to preserve, in the versions she preferred, as well as a smattering of rarities as selected by critic and New Yorker contributor Merve Emre. These are tales of women "'tragique' and 'triste' and 'tremendous' all at once," of sons and daughters being initiated into the ugly comedy of life, monuments all to a worldview singular and scathing. As Emre writes in her foreword "[Barnes's] themes are love and death, especially in Paris and New York; the corruption of nature by culture; the tainted innocence of children; and the mute misery of beasts . . . her characters may be alien to life, but they are alive—spectacularly, grotesquely alive."

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  The Monkey's Paw

  W. W. Jacobs

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  The Monkey's Paw is a classic horror short story written by author W. W. Jacobs, published in England in 1902. In the story, the paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an enormous price.

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  The Gray Man - From their pens...

  Sarah Orne Jewett

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  Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was born on 3rd September 1849 in South Berwick, Maine, to a family that had resided in New England for several generations. 
  From early childhood Jewett suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and one remedy was frequent walks which contributed to her life-long love of nature. 
  She was primarily educated at Miss Olive Rayne's school and then the Berwick Academy from where she graduated in 1866.  But much of her time was also spent reading from the extensive collection of books in the family library. 
  In 1868 at age 19, she was published ‘Jenny Garrow's Lovers’ in the Atlantic Monthly, and from this grew a reputation that was lauded and admired by both her captivated audience and such other noted writers as William Dean Howells.   
  As well as novels and short stories she also wrote children’s books and poetry volumes.  Jewett was also admired for the strong female characters who were as intelligent and able as any man around them. 
  In her personal life Jewett was attracted and attached to several women.  Many of her poems reveal the intensity of her feelings towards them. Whether Jewett found physical love with them is open to debate but she often did find devoted and loving friendship, humor and literary encouragement.  From 1881, after the death of James Fields, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, she set up home with his widow, Annie, for the rest of her life in what was termed ‘a Boston Marriage’; the cohabitation of two wealthy women, independent of male financial support.   
  On her birthday in 1902, Jewett was involved in a carriage accident that effectively ended her literary career.   
  In March 1909 Sarah Orne Jewett was paralyzed by a stroke, and after another on 24th June she died in her South Berwick home.  She was 59.

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  Schalken the Painter

  Sheridan Le Fanu

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  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching "Jonathan Dunne Horror" on YouTube. 
  Title: Schalken the Painter 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 182 
  Author: Sheridan Le Fanu 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1851 
  Public Domain: YesDescription 
  First published in 1851, Schalken the Painter is one of Sheridan Le Fanu's most haunting works of Gothic supernatural fiction. 
  Set in the Netherlands during the Dutch Golden Age, the story follows a young woman whose future is changed by the arrival of a mysterious and wealthy stranger. What initially appears to be a matter of courtship and fortune gradually takes a darker and more unsettling turn. 
  With its candlelit interiors, shadowy streets, mysterious visitor, and mounting sense of dread, Schalken the Painter is a masterclass in Gothic atmosphere and supernatural suspense. Its bleak and unforgettable conclusion has helped secure its place among the enduring classics of the genre. 
  Narrated by horror author Jonathan Dunne. 
  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching "Jonathan Dunne Horror" on YouTube.

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  3 Stories with Murder as an Act...

  William Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow,...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

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