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  Lifted Veil The (Unabridged)

  George Eliot

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  The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the future and the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can't help trying to subvert his vividly glimpsed destiny, it is easy to read The Lifted Veil as being autobiographically revealing of Eliot's sensitivity to public opinion and her awareness that her days concealed behind a pseudonym were doomed to a tragic unveiling (as indeed came to pass soon after this novella's publication). But it is easier still to read the story as the exciting and genuine precursor of a moody new form, as well as an absorbing early masterpiece of suspense.

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  Contrairy Mary - From their pens...

  Edwin Pugh

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Edwin Pugh.

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  Edgar Allan Poe - Six of the...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
   1 - Six of the Best - Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction 
  2 - Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction 
  3 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  4 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  5 - The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 
  6 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe 
  8 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 
  9 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  10 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

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  HorrorBabble's Subterranean...

  Robert Bloch, Edmond Hamilton,...

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  A collection of horror stories set in shadowy caverns, crypts, and other undesirable hollows. 
  Contents: 
  Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson (Weird Tales, June-July 1939) 
  The story of dreadful creatures burrowing up into the New York subway. 
  The Creeper in the Crypt by Robert Bloch (Weird Tales, July 1937) 
  An unusual case of kidnapping in witch-haunted Arkham. 
  The Secret in the Tomb by Robert Bloch (Weird Tales, May 1935) 
  A man answers an inexplicable summons from beyond the grave. 
  Murder in the Grave by Edmond Hamilton (Weird Tales, February 1935) 
  A night of terror ten feet below the surface of the ground. 
  The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller (Weird Tales, March 1932) 
  The tale of a terrified little boy, and his fear of what might be lurking in the basement. 
  It Walks by Night by Henry Kuttner (Weird Tales, December 1936) 
  A ghastly horror that stalked through the crypts beneath an old graveyard. 
  The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner (Weird Tales, March 1936) 
  A cemetery caretaker must exterminate a colony of monstrous rats. 
  The People of the Pit by Abraham Merritt (All-Story Weekly, January 1918) 
  An individual descended much too deeply into the heart of the Earth. 
  The Epiphany of Death by Clark Ashton Smith (The Fantasy Fan, July 1934) 
  A shocking revelation in the catacombs of Ptolemides. 
  The Seed from the Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales, October 1933) 
  In the Venezuelan jungle, a diabolical plant lived on human life.

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  The Field Bazaar

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Field Bazaar is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on November 20, 1896 in a special "Bazaar Number" of The Student, a publication of the students' representative council at Edinburgh University. It is a Sherlock Holmes story, published under Conan Doyle's byline and featuring both Holmes and his partner, Dr. John Watson. It is, however, treated by most experts as a parody or pastiche not suitable for inclusion in the traditional 60-story canon of Sherlock Holmes, though there are dissenters.Watson narrates "The Field Bazaar"—which mirrors the reality of Conan Doyle's gift of the story to The Student—from a first-person perspective.The story opens with Holmes and Watson at breakfast in the sitting-room of their residence at 221B Baker Street. Holmes infers from a handful of clues that an envelope Watson is holding contains an invitation to "help in the Edinburgh University Bazaar." He then concludes, to Watson's astonishment, "that the particular help which you have been asked to give was that you should write in their album, and that you have already made up your mind that the present incident will be the subject of your article." Holmes then returns to reading his morning newspaper.

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  Uncle Wiggily’s Christmas

  Howard R. Garis

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  Uncle Wiggily's Christmas is a story about helping the less fortunate. Uncle Wiggily overhears a couple of children talking about how they won't get any Christmas presents this year and he feels bad. So with the help from his friends he makes them woodland presents. The moral of the story is: Help the less fortunate if you can. Recommended for age 3+.

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