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  The Wolf Book

  Henry Chapman Mercer

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  Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) was an American archeologist, artifact collector, tile maker and writer of extraordinary supernatural stories.The Wolf Book is the story of a professor who spends the summer travelling in Hungary and Romania in search of rare manuscripts. At the monastery at Jollok, he learns that the library was plundered a hundred years earlier by a sinister nobleman who was rumoured to be a werewolf. This man had been seeking a valuable manuscript which had mysteriously vanished.The professor leaves the monastery, taking with him as a souvenir one of the old scrolled farm ledgers. When he comes to examine the ledger, he finds that it contains a hidden compartment in which is hidden a very strange manuscript covered in gold and jewels...but some very disturbing images and texts.Having made this discovery, the professor finds himself hotly pursued by some very sinister individuals, all determined to steal his manuscript. In particular, there is a sinister gypsy woman dressed in red who seems to appear wherever he goes.

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  The Short Stories of Stacy Aumonier

  Stacy Aumonier

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  Stacy Aumonier was a British writer, best known for his outstanding short stories. Nobel prize winner, John Galsworthy described Aumonier as "one of the best short-story writers of all time" and predicted that he would "outlive all the writers of his day".Aumonier wrote over 85 short stories in his lifetime. He has been described as the "British Maupassant" owing to his captivating plots and his ability to create complex characters with just a few lines of carefully selected prose.His intensely visual prose meant his works were readily adaptable to the cinema screen, and several of his short stories were adapted by Alfred Hitchcock.•	Miss Bracegirdle does her Duty•	Old Iron•	Where was Wych Street?•	Old Fags•	A Source of Irritation•	The Brothers•	Juxtapositions

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  A Story of Romance of Love

  Leroy Vincent

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  She promised she'd stay with him forever. They were going to get married, to have a life and love that nothing could compare to. 
  Then, she left. His life was torn apart. He couldn't take it, and he did the unthinkable. Now, she's back. With anger and a love that will never—can never—fade, he waits for her to explain why she left. 
  But maybe there's no explanation at all.

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  Forty Winks Before Dawn

  Kimberly Lium

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  Three friends board an overnight sleeper bus in Japan, little knowing the sinister bus journey they will ensure should they stay awake throughout. Chills and thrills in this short story from the Storytel Epigram Horror Competition.

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  Existential Stories - Tales of...

  Franz Kafka

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  Everything we know must end.  In the fundamentals of our lives its usually our own deaths which bring that to an end.  But what if we widen that premise.  What if we are caught in its quixotic jaws. Held fast with escape merely a fleeting thought. 
  In this volume authors of real note bring their narratives of existential crisis and threat directly to our senses.  That conflict can yield terrible results. 
  And for that place the blame on Franz Kafka, Boleslaw Prus, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde and many others. 
   
  1 - Existential Stories - An Introduction 
  2 - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  3 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville 
  4 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville 
  5 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus 
  6 - An Egyptian Cigarette by Kate Chopin 
  7 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 
  8 - Mold of the Earth by Boleslaw Prus 
  9 - Solid Objects by Virginia Woolf 
  10 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyveskey 
  11 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  12 - Shades by Boleslaw Prus 
  13 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce 
  14 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  15 - The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde 
  16 - Youth - Part 1 by Joseph Conrad 
  17 - Youth - Part 2 by Joseph Conrad

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  The Bride of Corinth

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is widely recognized as Germany's greatest poet and writer. His early works are rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which was also the early phase of German Romanticism.'The Bride of Corinth' was written as part of a ballad-writing competition which Goethe was engaged in with Friedrich von Schiller. It tells the grisly tale of star-crossed lovers who were betrothed as children. The bride's family has converted from the old magical gods to the newfangled Christianity and no longer wish their daughter to marry a pagan.When the bridegroom, having grown to manhood, arrives to claim his bride, he is welcomed by the mother, who shows him a room where he can sleep and recover from his journey. While he sleeps, his betrothed slips into his room and wakes him. While they consummate their marriage, the bridegroom makes a horrifying and macabre discovery....

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