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  Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens...

  Charles Dickens

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  "The Ghost Chamber" is the story of a wife's destruction and the love of a young man for an imprisoned girl.
  "Mr. Testator's Visitation" portrays an eerie character who visits an impoverished, unhappy lawyer.
  "A Child's Dream of a Star" is the sad story of a little girl who becomes an angel and waits for her brother to join her.
  "The Signal-Man" tells of an apparition seen at a tunnel where fatal accidents occur.
  "To Be Read at Dusk" is the story of a lovely young bride who is tormented by a sinister face that appears in her dreams.
  "The Trial for Murder" is the eerie tale of a juror who is haunted by the apparition of a murdered man who insists on justice.

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  The Mappined Life

  Saki Saki

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  In Saki's short story "The Mappined Life," the narrative unfolds through a conversation between Mrs. James Gurtleberry and her niece, who reflect on the nature of existence and the illusion of freedom within societal constraints. The story is set against the backdrop of the Mappin Terraces at the Zoological Gardens, which symbolize a façade of natural living for both animals and humans.

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  Sheridan Le Fanu - Six of the...

  Sheridan Le Fanu

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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.

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  The Open Boat

  Stephen Crane

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  The Open Boat is a short story by Stephen Crane, inspired by his own harrowing experience as a shipwreck survivor. The narrative follows four men—a captain, an oiler named Billie, a cook, and a correspondent—stranded in a small lifeboat after their ship, the Commodore, sinks off the coast of Florida.As they navigate the turbulent sea, the captain, despite being injured, directs the others while the cook bails water and the correspondent and oiler take turns rowing. They spot a lighthouse in the distance, igniting hope for rescue. However, as they approach, they realize no help is forthcoming. 

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  Suite as Sugar and Other Stories

  Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

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  Suite as Sugar is a testimony to the unseen forces, always vigilant, ever ready, imbuing the characters in this collection with both resilience and trauma. From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, reflecting legacies of abandonment and loss. The veil between the living and the dead is obscured, chaos becomes panacea, and characters take drastic measures into their own hands. Survivors of all kinds seek strategy and solace: a group of homeless people organize an occupation of vacant condos, a new resident to a disturbing neighbourhood tries to make sense of madness, a dog investigates the sudden disappearance of his owner. The five intertwined vignettes in the title story are set in a Caribbean country where the spectre of the sugar plantation haunts everyone. Tying this collection together is the casual brutality of our everyday lives, whether seen through the eyes of animal, spirit, or human being.

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  The Pleasure in Pain - A Queer...

  Written by A Full Anthology of...

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  UNBURY YOUR GAYS 
  For centuries our stories of romance and love were hidden, coded within for future readers to decipher. There is none of that here. 
  Here's a shovel. 
  Twenty-five stories and poems explore the spectrum of queerness through love and lust, and a little blood. Twisted fairytales, possessed jewelry, a house that offers your desires but you can never leave, a god's bathroom glory hole, an asexual cult, and more show you THE PLEASURE IN PAIN.

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