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  A Story of a Weir-Wolf - From...

  Catherine Crowe

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  Catherine Ann Stevens was born on 20th September 1803 in Borough Green, Kent.  
  She was mainly home-schooled.  Her marriage to Major John Crowe seemed to be an unhappy one, although she had a son in 1823.   
  By 1838 she was separated and living in Edinburgh where she was friends with several writers including de Quincey and Thackeray.  By this time too her writing had given her both an audience and an income. 
  In 1841 ‘The Adventures of Susan Hopley’ was the first of her books to establish her as a novelist and was followed by several others.  She also wrote two plays, both with historical themes. A verse tragedy ‘Aristodemus’ (1838) and the melodramatic ‘The Cruel Kindness’ (1853) brought further but limited success.  ‘The Adventures of Susan Hopley’ was reprinted several times as well as turned into a play and a penny serial.  
  Her stories were also in demand from periodicals such as the weekly Chambers' Edinburgh Journal and Dickens's Household Words. 
  Her own writing interests, inspired by German writers, turned to supernatural subjects.  The collection ‘The Night-side of Nature’ (1848) became her most popular work.  
  However, a bizarre episode happened in Edinburgh in February 1854, when she was discovered naked one night, convinced that spirits had rendered her invisible. After treatment she is said to have made a complete recovery. 
  In her later literary career Crowe also wrote a number of children’s books.  She now lived mainly in London though at times she settled abroad.   
  In 1861 her finances tightened, and she sold her copyrights.  In 1871 she moved to Folkstone 
  Catherine Crowe died in Folkstone on 14th June 1876.

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  Love of Life and Other Stories

  Jack London

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  John Griffith “Jack” London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories “To Build a Fire,” “An Odyssey of the North,” and “Love of Life.” He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as “The Pearls of Parlay” and “The Heathen,” and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel. 
  This collection includes “Love of Life,” “A Day’s Lodging,” “The White Man’s Way,” “The Story of Keesh,” “The Unexpected,” “Brown Wolf,” “The Sun-Dog Trail,” and “Negore, the Coward.”

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  Villages and Illnesses - A...

  Tao Wong

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  Expectation conceals the truth.  
  Noblewoman and cultivator Li Yao is called to a small village to investigate a mysterious illness that has drained residents of their chi. Accompanying her are her suitors Xiang An and Shen Wei, both more trouble than they're worth in Li Yao's eyes.  
  Perhaps not all is as it seems. In the village and her suitors.  
  This is a short story set in the A Thousand Li universe. Does not need to be read to follow the main series.

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  The Facts in the Case of...

  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.

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  Pickman's Model

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching "Jonathan Dunne Horror" on YouTube. 
  Number: 120 
  Title: Pickman’s Model 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 120 
  Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1927 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Description: 
  Pickman’s Model is a chilling descent into artistic obsession and unspeakable revelation set in the shadowed streets and ancient alleyways of Boston. 
  The story follows Thurber, a reserved and cultivated gentleman, who recounts his unsettling acquaintance with Richard Upton Pickman — a painter of notorious reputation. Unlike other artists who dabble in the grotesque, Pickman’s work possesses a horrifying vitality. His canvases do not merely suggest monstrosity; they convince. Critics recoil, galleries refuse him, yet his paintings evoke a dreadful question: how does he render such nightmarish beings with such anatomical precision and terrible authenticity? 
  Compelled by fascination and unease, Thurber accepts an invitation to visit Pickman’s secret studio hidden within the decaying North End. There, amid crumbling brick corridors and subterranean vaults older than the city itself, art and reality begin to blur. As Pickman unveils his most disturbing works, Thurber confronts the possibility that the painter’s models are not products of imagination at all — but studies from life. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s mounting tension, refined unease, and final shattering disclosure — bringing Lovecraft’s grim vision vividly and hauntingly to life.

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  Stranger

  Scott Beggs, Phil Cummins,...

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  Between doppelgängers and shape-shifters, magical healers and clever tricksters, you should trust no one – including yourself! 
  In this collection, 15 writers try to find answers to how we can truly know each other; on the way, they find psychedelic worms, supernatural roommates, new dimensions and the deeply rooted question of how to know even ourselves.

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