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  Told After Supper

  Jerome K.

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  There's a long tradition of English Christmas stories, sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, often revolving around ghosts and apparitions. Dickens drew on it in a serious vein in A Christmas Carol; here Jerome K. Jerome tells hilarious stories from around an English Christmas fireside. A few selected Christmas poems and stories rounds out the program, including the classic story of the Nativity from the Bible.Told After Supper, by Jerome K. JeromeFirst of all, there's a hilarious 19th-century piece you've probably never heard of, called Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome. It's a wonderful spoof of the grand old English tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas--a tradition Charles Dickens made fine use of in A Christmas Carol and other stories. Only in Jerome's work, everything goes hilariously wrong, and the narrator of the story even winds up wandering around on the streets drunk as a lord, somewhat incompletely dressed!"Christmas Trees", by Robert Frost. In this early poem, we hear Frost's dry, matter-of-fact New England voice making "a simple calculation" about "Christmas trees I didn't know I had.""Mistletoe", by Walter de la Mare. A dreamlike experience of a gentle touch from a special person late in the night on Christmas is as fine a piece of dreamland as one could wish."Ring Out!", by Alfred Lord Tennyson. A passionate appeal that the new year may be better than the old."The Three Kings", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The majesty and indeed the worldly wisdom of the three who came to give great gifts to the infant in the manger has never been better expressed.Luke 2:1-20 (King James version)In the beautiful language of the King James Bible--the only successful contribution to literature ever made by a committee--we hear not only how a babe was born, but how his mother came to believe great things of him.

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  Nathaniel

  John Saul

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  From the blood of the past, evil rises to seek undying vengeance... Prairie Bend. 
   
  Brilliant summers amid golden fields. Killing winters of razorlike cold. A peaceful, neighborly village, darkened by legends of death? Who is Nathaniel? For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered the name in wonder and fear. Some say he is simply a folk tale - a legend created to frighten children on cold winter nights. Some swear he is a terrifying spirit returned to avenge the past. And soon...very soon...some will come to believe that Nathaniel lives still - darkly, horrifyingly real. Nathaniel. 
   
  For young Michael Hall, newly arrived in isolated Prairie Bend after having lost his father to a sudden tragic accident, Nathaniel is the voice that calls him across the prairie night...the voice that draws him into the shadowy depths of the old, crumbling barn where he has been forbidden to go...the voice - chanting, compelling - he will follow faithfully beyond the edge of terror...Nathaniel.

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  The Long Walk Home

  A. M. Keen

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  In one single day the entire UK changed, and could never revert back to normality. Bombs detonated in every major city across England, releasing the little known ‘Non Compos Mentis Virus,’ and with it destroying seventy-five percent of the population. However, the virus didn’t kill those who contracted it, but instead infected their minds and senses, turning them in to violent psychopaths that can feel no pain and also gave them a new goal in life; to destroy anyone who does not carry the same virus. Bucky Jackson awakes from a minibus crash that killed most of his school cricket team. Rescued by his friend Johnny, the remaining kids and teachers seek sanctuary inside a hardware shop in a small, Northamptonshire town.As the days pass, they decide to try for a safe zone at a football stadium a few towns away. With every step danger lurks, not only from the zombies that swarm the area in their thousands, but more so from the handful of people who survived the virus outbreak. As their journey continues, Bucky is looked to as a leader to help them reach their destination. They encounter killer clowns, hordes of the undead and an organised crime outfit as well as dealing with treachery within their own group. Bucky must learn to unite his team and teach them to rely on each other, as their journey may be longer than anticipated….

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  Stories To Give You Nightmares

  M. R. James, Bram Stoker, Edith...

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  A petrifying collection of classic tales of the paranormal, spooky happenings, gruesome deeds and uncanny apparitions. Guaranteed to disturb your dreams and keep you awake all night. Includes:    * "The Rose Garden" - M.R. James    * "The Five Senses" - Edith Nesbit    * "The Yellow Wallpaper" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman    * "The Voice Of Death" - Traditional    * "The Body Snatcher" - Robert Louis Stevenson    * "The Judge's House" - Bram Stoker    * "The Old Nurse's Story" - Elizabeth Gaskell

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  Stranger by Night - Tales of...

  Michael Garrett, Jeff Gelb

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  Beguiling and bewitching stories from Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, Graham Masterton, and others will give you goosebumps—in more ways than one . . .   Sex and horror, intertwined since the beginning of the human race, take on all new twists, turns, and contortions in Stranger by Night, sixth in the Hot Blood erotic horror anthology series—with one of its most illustrious lists of contributors. Two of the United Kingdom’s greatest horror writers, Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley, both appear. Actress and scream queen Brinke Stevens contributes original fiction. Comics illustrator and TV writer Bruce Jones features in the Hot Blood series for the first time, while Graham Masterton returns with another classic. Lucy Taylor and Brian Hodge are among the other brilliant horror writers, eighteen stories in all, that probe every dark desire. The Heliocentric Net said, “whatever your tastes, be prepared to be titillated and terrorized,” and according to Deathrealm, “Stranger by Night demonstrates that the Hot Blood books haven’t lost their steam in any sense of the phrase.”  Praise for the Hot Blood series “Read Hot Blood late at night when the wind is blowing hard and the moon is full.” —Playboy   “Outstanding . . . A daring combination of sex and terror.” —Cemetery Dance   “Will appeal to your every kink.” —Locus   “Seek out this one (or its predecessors) for some naughty fun.” —Booklovers

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  The Demoiselle D'Ys

  Robert W. Chambers

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  A stranger, lost while hunting in the moors of Brittany, meets the mysterious Demoiselle D'Ys. She invites him back to her castle, and the two grow closer. After a while, however, the stranger begins to suspect that the other inhabitants of the castle are not from the world as he knows it. “Demoiselle D'Ys” is a quintessential romantic horror story from Robert Chambers’ collection, The King in Yellow.

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