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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Charles Dickens

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this small corner of England, just across from Europe, some of England’s finest literary talent was born, raised and created short stories that still thrill the soul and ravish the brain with a verve and talent that is second to none.  In their words true genius is often found. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - English Authors of the South-East - An Introduction 
  2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  3 - The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H G Wells 
  4 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 
  5 - The Death Room by Edgar Wallace 
  6 - The Unfortunate Bride or The Blind Lady a Beauty by Aphra Behn 
  7 - Pink Flannel by Ford Maddox Ford 
  8 - Sophy Mason Comes Back by E M Delafield 
  9 - Mrs Amworth by E F Benson 
  10 - Freckles by William Pett Ridge 
  11 - Frida, or The Lover's Leap, A Legend of the West Country by R D Blackmore

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  Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness...

  Kenzaburo Oé

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  The Nobel Prize–winning “master of the bizarre plunges the reader into a world of tortured imagination” in this four-novella collection (Library Journal).   In this startling quartet of his most provocative stories, the multiple prize-winning author of A Personal Matter reaffirms his reputation as “a supremely gifted writer” (The Washington Post).   In The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, a self-absorbed narrator on his deathbed drifts off to the comforting strains of a cantata as he recalls a blistering childhood of militarism, sacrifice, humiliation, and revenge—a tale that is questioned by everyone who knew him. In Prize Stock, winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a black American pilot is downed in a Japanese village during World War II, where the local children see him as some rare find—exotic and forbidden. In Aghwee The Sky Monster, the floating ghost of a baby inexplicably haunts a young man on the first day of his first job. And in the title story, a devoted father believes he is the only link between his mentally challenged son and reality.   “[A] remarkable book.” —The Washington Post   “Ōe is definitely one of the Modern Masters.” —Seattlepi.com

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  Bodies in Motion - Stories

  Mary Anne Mohanraj

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  Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living on the cusp of disparate worlds, America and Sri Lanka -- their lives and ties shaped, strengthened, devastated, and altered by the emigrant-immigrant ebb and flow. Through stunning, effervescent prose, intimate moments are beautifully distilled, revealing the tug-of-war between generations and gender in stories sensual and honest, chronicling love, ambition, and the spiritual and sexual quests of mothers and daughters, fathers and sons.

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  Mateo Jovan - The Adventures of...

  Garcia Mann

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  Written in the vein of the book of Revelations, this spiritual thriller will excite old and young alike. Taking us through the modern dilemmas of today's world, we experience first hand the birth of a Modern Day Prophet. Mateo Jovan recites his visions of Heaven and his visions of modern circumstances on earth, accompanied by the Angel of God and the Little Child. You will find each section of this adventure to be a fresh and new look at spirituality in the modern world.

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  Meat Cute - The Hedgehog Incident

  Gail Carriger

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  From the comedic mind of New York Times bestseller Gail Carriger comes the much requested prequel short story to Soulless. Narrated by the wonderful Emma Newman!   
  Alexia Tarabotti attends what appears to be a very dull London party, until the new werewolf Alpha turns up, is unconscionably rude to her, and sits on a hedgehog. 
  Don't miss this charming novelette featuring the very first encounter between the Parasolverse's most popular power couple, preternatural Alexia and supernatural Lord Conall Maccon. 
  Look out for cheeky appearances from other much beloved characters, not to mention the strategic application of a certain wicker chicken. 
  "This intoxicatingly witty parody will appeal to a wide cross-section of romance, fantasy and steampunk fans." ~ Publishers Weekly, starred review (Soulless) 
  Alexia has been described as Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jane Austen! 
  A Note On Chronology  
  Set in the spring of 1872 this story occurs just prior to events chronicled in The Parasol Protectorate series (featuring Alexia and Conall) and after those in Defy or Defend. 
  This is a quick listen at 9000 words (about 15 printed pages) available in print only as part of Fan Service (collected Supernatural Society omnibus). It is best enjoyed if you are already familiar with Gail Carriger's gaslight universe and comedy of manners style, as it was written specifically with her fans in mind. 
  Also by Gail Carriger set in the Parasolverse 
  The Finishing School series 
  The Delightfully Deadly novellas 
  The Parasol Protectorate series 
  The Supernatural Society novellas 
  The Custard Protocol series 
  The Claw & Courtship novellas

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  The Call of Cthulhu

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in "Weird Tales", February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

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