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  The Secret of the Growing Gold -...

  Bram Stoker

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  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.

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  Weird Circle The: The Executioner

  Honoré de Balzac

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  The French conquerors impose a strange doom on a noble Spanish family.

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  The Recycling of Nathan...

  John Cooper

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  London, 1950s. A beloved quiz show celebrity and his aging wife abandon their familiar life to seek out a boy they’ve never met: Nathan Scrzimshaw — a quiet, awkward teenager whose world revolves around school, football, and church. Or so it seems.But Nathan’s girlfriends whisper otherwise. And his younger brother Clement is documenting every twist — especially the ones Nathan cannot remember. Plagued by a mysterious 'glow' known as the Draco Syndrome, Nathan becomes the object of obsession for girls, women, and rivals alike.The first part of a two-volume literary thriller exploring fractured memory, spiritual disturbance, and the paranormal invasion of normal life.

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  Horror Stories At Sea - Scary...

  Joseph Conrad, Guy de...

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  Being on a ship is usually very safe.  The days of sinking after hitting an iceberg are almost unthinkable.  A ship goes from one port to another, seemingly without a care in the world.  Advanced technology has kept this means of transport as no more uncomfortable as maybe a bit of queasiness after going up and down in a storm.  But worse?  No, not really possible, is it? 
   
  In this volume our authors beg to differ.  They would like to bring us stories where being on a ship is simply the worse place to be.  Horror and terror, and worse, infest their narratives and threaten all and everything aboard.  
   
  1 - Horror Stories at Sea - An Introduction 
  2 - The Brute by Joseph Conrad 
  3 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant  
  4 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo 
  5 - The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder by William Hope Hodgson 
  6 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  7 - The Upper Berth by F Marion Crawford 
  8 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

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  The Haar - A Horror Novel

  David Sodergren

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  "I don't fear death . . . but they do." 
   
   
   
  Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her life. She was born there, and she intends to die there. 
   
   
   
  But when an overseas property developer threatens to evict the residents from their homes and raze Witchaven to the ground in the name of progress, all seems lost . . . until the day a mysterious fog bank creeps inland. 
   
   
   
  THE HAAR 
   
   
   
  To some it brings redemption . . . to others, it brings only madness and death. What macabre secrets lie within . . . 
   
   
   
  THE HAAR 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Vampire Hunter D - Mysterious...

  Hideyuki Kikuchi

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  The picturesque coastal town of Florence was known for millennia as a pleasure resort for the Nobility. As retribution for their decadence, the cruel and beautiful vampire inhabitants were "punished," driven out more than a thousand years ago by a solitary traveler in black. Only one—Baron Meinster—refused to leave, only to be thrown to the waves by the mysterious assassin. 
   
   
   
  Summoned to contemporary Florence by Su-in, sister of a murdered village girl, the enigmatic Vampire Hunter D discovers a vampire curse ravaging the town's human inhabitants. The plague apparently originating, impossibly, from the unforgiving sea—could it be Meinster's Revenge?

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