Editorial: Sovereign
A selection of horror stories for adults from the master of mystery and fantasy storytelling Edith Nesbit. This selection includes: The Ebony Frame, John Charrington's Wedding, Uncle Abraham's Romance, The Mystery of the Semi-detached, From the Dead, Man-size in Marble, The Mass for the Dead.
Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on the 8th of November 1847, the third of seven children. His early years were plagued with such ill-health that he was unable to start school until the age of seven. He turned the long periods of recovery into an opportunity for thinking and said “I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years”. Strikingly at Trinity College, Dublin his health had returned with such vigour that he was named their University Athlete whilst also achieving a BA in Mathematics with honours. At this time his interest in theatre became a job offer to be the Dublin Evening Mail’s theatre critic, co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu. He now began to also write short stories and in 1872 ‘The Crystal Cup’ was published. An interest in art developed and he co-founded the Dublin Sketching Club. In 1878 came marriage to Florence Balcombe. She had formerly been courted by Stoker’s acquaintance, Oscar Wilde. The marriage produced one child. Stoker had some years before reviewed Henry Irving’s Hamlet and had dined with him. That friendship now resulted in a proposal from Irving to move to London and to manage his Lyceum Theatre. His numerous commercial innovations ensured both he and the theatre thrived. Irving would also often take Stoker with him when he toured abroad. Despite this busy life Stoker continued to write and these works paved the way for his most famous creation, published in 1897, ‘Dracula’. It is rightly recognised as one of the greatest horror novels of all time and although not the first with a theme of Vampires, it is undoubtedly the most well-known. Stoker also wrote poetry and many excellent short stories and continued to write novels and other works throughout his career. Politically Stoker supported Home Rule, though only by peaceful means. He was also keen on following scientific trends particularly in medicine. In 1902 his tenure at the Lyceum Theatre ended and although he continued to write his health was deteriorating, mainly due to a series of debilitating strokes. Bram Stoker died on the 20th April 1912, in Pimlico, London. He was 64. 1 - Bram Stoker - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker 3 - The Squaw by Bram Stoker 4 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker 5 - The Secret of the Growing Gold by Bram Stoker 6 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram StokerVer libro
From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .Ver libro
In Edgar Allan Poe’s haunting masterpiece, The Raven, a grieving man finds himself visited by a mysterious bird in the dead of night. As the raven perches above his chamber door, it speaks only one word: "Nevermore." What begins as a curious encounter soon spirals into a chilling descent into madness, as the man confronts his own sorrows, memories, and fears. Full of dark atmosphere, poetic beauty, and relentless despair, this timeless poem explores the depths of human grief and the haunting presence of loss. Narrated with gripping intensity, The Raven takes listeners on a journey into the heart of melancholy and the struggle for understanding.Ver libro
In this post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror series opener, zombies and humans alike threaten the future for a tough young woman. After an epidemic swept across America like a biblical plague, the government leapt into the fray with the release of a new vaccine—but what was meant to bring salvation to the survivors instead brought damnation. Mutations began within days of the drug’s release, and the Withered Ones were born—those neither alive nor dead. They walked the streets, unblinking and unaware. And they were starting to evolve. Growing up on the streets taught Avery Whitlock how to care for herself, but nothing could have prepared her for the outbreak of deadly gangs, a corrupt government bent on using her blood for experiments and the depths to which desperate people would go to survive. She soon discovered that it was not the Withered Ones that she needed to fear, but those still human. The ones who knew how to put a gun to her head when they wanted something from her. Avery was forced to decide how far would she be willing to go to survive just one more day . . .Ver libro
We are captivated by colour. It seeps into our emotions, our vistas. It’s part of every day life. Sometimes its part of something much darker. Our eminent authors in this volume bring you colours of every shade. From the terror of HP Lovecraft and the shadowed world of Edith Nesbit to the wordplay of Virginia Woolf as well as many others. Color in all its light and shades, hues and tints is brought to the fore by these exceptional writers. 01 - The Color Out of Space - A Short Story Volume 02 - The Color Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft 03 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 04 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 05 - Blue & Green by Virginia Woolf 06 - The Power of Darkness by Edith NesbitVer libro
George Morey would do anything to save his wife from certain death and has tried every treatment known, from chemical to homeopathic to prayer-all to no avail.So when the local witch requests unique ingredients from the town's gravedigger, George complies without question-willing to sacrifice his own past to secure a future with the woman he loves... more than life itself.Ver libro
