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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert...

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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 volume Horror and its evil intents try to burrow into our heads and cavort around as only demons, monsters, phantoms and ghosts can do.  They probably have other partners and friends too.  And you, sitting there all alone, and listening….. oh dear. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - 19th Century Horror - An Introduction 
  2 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  3 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  4 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  5 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant (2022 vers) 
  6 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 
  7 - The Sand-Man - Part 1 by E T A Hoffman 
  8 - The Sand-Man - Part 2 by E T A Hoffman 
  9 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  10 - The Squaw by Bram Stoker 
  11 - The Cask of Amontillardo by Edgar Allan Poe 
  12 - What Was It by Fitz James O'Brien 
  13 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 1 by John William Polidori 
  14 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 2 by John William Polidori

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  Out There Screaming: Book...

  Alexander Pike

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  
   
  Out There Screaming unleashes a powerful collection of Black horror tales that transform fear into fuel for growth. Each story—set in haunted city streets, shadowy college halls, and ancestral landscapes—reveals how structured rituals, data-driven research, and collaborative ceremonies can turn terror into triumph. Listeners are guided to treat every chilling encounter as a case study: time-block your reflections, crowdsource insights, and iterate through ritualized debriefs to conquer doubt and sharpen resilience. This anthology isn’t just spine-tingling entertainment—it’s a motivational roadmap showing how to harness the power of the uncanny to boost creativity, fortify focus, and drive lasting personal transformation.

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  Creep in the Corn The: Book...

  Hazel Quinn

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  
   
  Step into the rustling stalks of The Creep in the Corn, an audiobook that lures you into an isolated farmstead haunted by something ancient and hungry. In this chilling audio experience, you’ll:
  
   
  Wander through endless fields of towering corn under a silvered moon, where every sway of stalks hides something watching.
  
   
  Uncover the dark folk tale whispered among locals—of a shape-shifting entity born from restless soil, its eyes gleaming between the rows.
  
   
  Feel the hairs on the back of your neck prick as distant rustles and soft crunches hint at a presence stalking your every step.
  
   
  Follow a desperate family’s fight for survival as they piece together cryptic symbols carved into fence posts and abandoned scarecrows come to life.
  
  
   
  Narrated with a taut, suspenseful cadence and woven with immersive sound design—from the whisper of wind through dead leaves to the hollow thud of footsteps on damp earth—The Creep in the Corn draws you into a world where no path is safe. Press play…and beware: once you enter the field, the rows may never let you leave.

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  The Gabia's Justice - A short...

  C.N. Rowan

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  A free short story from The imPerfect Cathar. 
  'There’s an irony about how often the elements are used to kill those supposedly capable of controlling them. Water. Fire. Air. Earth. 
    
  Drowning. Burning. Hanging. Burying them alive. 
    
  Those so keen to use such tools to instil terror and keep the population silent best hope they never capture a true Talented...' 
    
  This short story finds Paul Bonhomme, at the start of the 16th Century, discovering brutal goings-on in his home city of Toulouse after time away. When a local businessman is using the cruel threats of the inquisition to have his way with a hapless population, particularly its women-folk, the imPerfect Cathar himself is happy to teach him a lesson.

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  Black Frost

  Willow Rose

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  From multimillion-copy best-selling author Willow Rose comes the next chapter in the best-selling Emma Frost mystery series. Emma Frost is tied up in a murder mystery that seems out of this world. When a young girl disappears one night from the park, then turns up again the next morning in a different place on the island, people start to talk about her. Was she drunk and just unable to remember what happened? Did she go home with a guy and won't admit it? What happened to her, and why is she insisting that she doesn't know? Emma Frost is fighting for Victor's best friend, Skye. Emma is trying to get her back from the people who took her in the night, but having no luck, when a guy falls into her arms in the street and dies a few minutes later. The autopsy shows he has frozen to death, but it doesn't seem possible. When a young boy from Victor's school turns up frozen, as well, and things start to get cold around her own house, Emma begins to fear for her loved ones' lives. Once again, Willow Rose has written a story so compelling that it leaves the listener in almost unbearable suspense until the surprise ending is revealed.

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  Ligeia; Morella; The Oval Portrait

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Ligeia; Morella; The Oval Portrait are a short stories in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's short story 'Ligeia' offers the account of an opium-addled narrator who believes that he has seen the resurrection of his beloved first wife, Ligeia, after the death of his second wife, Rowena. "Morella" by Edgar Allan Poe is about a woman who seemingly dies and gives birth to a daughter who looks just like her. Her husband loves the daughter, but she dies when he names her the same as her mother, implying that mother and daughter were the same person. Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic horror story "The Oval Portrait" is among his shortest narratives. As it recounts the story of the death of a painter's young wife,"The Oval Portrait" is actually the 1845 revision of a longer story, "Life in Death," which Poe wrote in 1842, shortly after his beloved young wife, Virginia, first fell ill with the tuberculosis that would kill her five years later. Poe was terrified at the prospect of losing Virginia, and the death of beautiful young women was a frequent topic in his work at this time. In his 1846 essay "The Philosophy of Composition," he even called this the most poetic of all subjects.

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