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  The Electric Executioner

  Adolphe de Castro, H. P. Lovecraft

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A certain man embarks on a business trip to Mexico. In the train, he finds himself alone in a compartment with someone who turns out to be a dangerous maniac. 
   
  Another story being revised for Adolphe de Castro (the previous one being The Last Test). Lovecraft agreed to take it on solely because Castro paid upfront for the revisions. The writer struggled with this text, which held no promise, so for entertainment, he decided to mix horror and a bit of humor for the initiated (something he usually avoided and believed should not be done). Even the grotesque behavior of the madman on the train is spiced up with quotes from a certain German Lovecraft once traveled with to Washington.

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  The insurance agent

  BARAKATH

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  Suspense thriller. Why is the insurance agent asking the client too many questions? What will he do to the lady client? Why is the lady client speaking too much over the phone?

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  The Beast with Five Fingers -...

  W F Harvey

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  William Fryer Harvey AM was born on 14th April 1885 into a wealthy Quaker family in Leeds, West Yorkshire. 
   
  He was educated at the Quaker Bootham School in Yorkshire and Leighton Park School in Reading before university at Balliol College, Oxford.  
   
  His health was fragile and he poured his energies into writing short stories and in 1910 published his first collection ‘Midnight House’. 
   
  In the Great War he was with the Friends' Ambulance Unit and then served as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Navy.  There he received the Albert Medal for Lifesaving but lung damage received at that time troubled him for the rest of his life. 
   
  He continued to write short stories, and even a memoir, but by 1925 ill health had forced his retirement to any outside work.  Three years later he published his second collection which contained his macabre classic ‘The Beast with Five fingers’, only one more collection would come from his pen in his lifetime. 
   
  For many years of his life he now lived in Switzerland with his wife but a yearning to be home saw them come back to England in 1935. 
   
  W F Harvey died in Letchworth on the 4th June 1937. He was 52.

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  Dire Contact

  JC Spark

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  “What do you do when a stranger disintegrates right in front of you?” wondered 11-year-old Steve, to whom this had just happened. 
  Two decades later, Steve is a physicist, but he still struggles with the consequences of this mysterious experience. 
  When everything is at stake, he must use all his expertise to find the truth – not just to save the world, but to save the one he loves. But the deeper he digs, the more he risks – not just his sanity, but his life. 
  Life takes a dramatic turn for Steve, his friends and enemies as they delve deeper into a secret that could change everything. 
  The more they uncover the truth, the more old secrets, unsolved mysteries and shocking revelations come to light. And as their own hidden motives are revealed, the question remains: Who can they still trust before it's too late?

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  The 415 Express - Murder mystery...

  Amelia Edwards

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  Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards was born on 7th June 1831 in Islington, London.  She was educated at home by her mother and showed early promise as a writer, publishing her first poem at the age of 7 and her first story at 12.  Thereafter several popular periodicals published her poetry, stories and articles. 
   
  In addition she also illustrated some of her own writings and painted scenes from books she had read.  This talent was not supported by her parents, who saw an artist’s life as scandalous.  Undeterred Amelia took up composing and performing music until a bout of typhus caused throat damage.  Other interests soon followed until, early in the 1850s, Amelia focused exclusively on writing.  Her early novels were well received, and with ‘Barbara's History’ in 1864, a work revolving around bigamy, her reputation was established.  
   
  Amelia’s pen was also the purveyor of ghost stories for magazines and are still anthologized as classic tales to this day. 
   
  In January 1851, Amelia became engaged, apparently to please her parents, but she quickly broke it off.  In reality her emotional attachments were almost exclusively with women.  From the early 1860s she lived with Ellen Drew Braysher, a widow 27 years her senior, until both women died in early 1892.  During this relationship other women also entered and left her life.  Her frequent travelling companion, Lucy Renshaw, accompanied her to Egypt in the winter of 1873 and there she found a life-changing interest in Egyptology.  Aware of increasing threats from tourism and modern development she became an advocate for their research and preservation.  
   
  To advance the work Amelia largely abandoned much of her writing in favour of Egyptology and even took on strenuous lecture tours to raise funds. 
   
  After catching influenza, Amelia Edwards, ‘the Godmother of Egyptology’ died on 15th April 1892 at Weston-super-Mare.  She was 60.

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  The Cask of Amontillado - A...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  For a thousand injuries, there must be patience, but for a singular insult, there must be absolute, inescapable retribution. 
  During the intoxicating madness of the carnival season, a deadly plot is quietly unfolding above the streets of Italy. Montresor, nursing a profound but unspoken grievance against the arrogant wine connoisseur Fortunato, hatches a scheme of perfect revenge. Luring his intoxicated "friend" into the suffocating, damp catacombs beneath his palazzo with the promise of a rare vintage of Amontillado, Montresor orchestrates a chilling descent into madness and terror. As the two men journey deeper into the bone-lined crypts, the festive sounds of the surface world are replaced by the sinister dripping of nitre—and the horrifying realization of an ancient trap finally snapping shut. 
  Why you will love this: This unforgettable audiobook is a brilliant cornerstone of Gothic Fiction, utilizing classic unreliable narrators, claustrophobic atmospheres, and macabre themes to grip you from the very first word. If you crave dark psychological thrillers, 19th-century suspense, and terrifying tales of murder and deceit, this masterpiece will leave you checking the walls of your own home. It is an essential, heart-pounding listen for fans of suspense and dark romanticism. 
  Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer, poet, and critic renowned for his dark, romantic, and macabre tales. Often credited as the architect of the modern detective story and a central figure of the American Romantic movement, Poe’s legacy continues to shape the landscapes of horror, suspense, and literary mystery worldwide.

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