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  Ezra’s Ghosts

  Darcy Tamayose

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  Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra’s Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us. Within these pages a scholar writes home from the Ryukyu islands, not knowing that his hometown will soon face a deadly calamity of its own. Another seeker of truth is trapped in Ezra after her violent death, and must watch how her family—and her killer—alter in her absence. The oldest man in town, an immigrant who came to Canada to escape imperial hardships, sprouts wings, and a wounded journalist bears witness to his transformation. Finally, past and present collide as a researcher reflects on the recent skinwars that have completely altered the world’s topography. Binding the stories together is an intersect of arrival and departure—in a quiet prairie town called Ezra.

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  Night Moves - Stories

  Richard Van Camp

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  As a window into the magic and potential of the Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp's fourth short story collection is hilarious and heartbreaking. A teenaged boy confesses to a vicious assault on a cross-dressing classmate; Lance tells the sensual story of becoming much closer to his wife's dear friend Juanita; while a reluctant giant catches up with gangsters Torchy and Sfen in a story with shades of supernatural and earthly menace.  Night Moves  continues to explore the incredible lives of Indigenous characters introduced in  The Lesser Blessed ,  Angel Wing Splash Pattern ,  The Moon Of Letting Go, and  Godless but Loyal to Heaven . If this is your first time to Fort Simmer and Fort Smith, welcome. If it's another visit, come on in: we've left the lights on for you.

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  Sherwood Anderson - A Short...

  Sherwood Anderson

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  Sherwood Anderson was born on 13th September 1876 in Camden, Ohio. 
   
  When his father’s business failed the family was forced to move on a regular basis before finally settling in Clyde, Ohio.   
   
  Anderson, one of 7 children, left school at 14 to take a number of jobs to help with the family finances. These were difficult years. 
   
  He moved to Chicago in search of opportunities before joining the Army for the US-Spanish War of 1898.  He then entered Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio to complete his education before moving back to Chicago to take up a writing job. 
   
  In 1904 he married Cornelia Lane, her family had resources and Anderson was keen, with this family backing, to run a business. 
   
  The early years of their marriage produced 3 children but a nervous breakdown in 1907 and another in 1912, despite his success as a business entrepreneur, resulted in him abandoning his family and deciding that a literary career would be best for him.   
   
  A move back to Chicago resulted in a job in advertising, a divorce from Cornelia and marriage to Tennessee Mitchell.  
   
  That same year his first book ‘Windy McPherson’s Son’ was released and in 1919, his most famous book, ‘Winesburg, Ohio’, a collection of short stories about life in an Ohio town was released. 
   
  Anderson continued to write short stories, novels and non-fiction but his only true bestseller came with ‘Dark Laughter’.  His influence on writers that followed, from Faulkner to Hemingway, was immense. He also married a further two times.   
   
  Sherwood Anderson died in in Colón, Panama, on the 8th March, 1941. He was 64. An autopsy revealed that a swallowed toothpick had resulted in peritonitis. 
   
  His headstone epitaph reads ‘Life, Not Death is the Great Adventure.’ 
  1 - Sherwood Anderson - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction - Volume 2 
  2 - Seeds by Sherwood Anderson 
  3 - Senility by Sherwood Anderson 
  4 - Adventure by Sherwood Anderson 
  5 - War by Sherwood Anderson 
  6 - The Strength of God by Sherwood Anderson 
  7 - Death by Sherwood Anderson

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  Vampyre The - A Tale

  John William Polidori

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  John William Polidori was born on 7th September 1795 in London to Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, an English governess. He was the eldest of 8 children. 
   
  From 1804 Polidori was a pupil at the recently formed Ampleforth College. In 1810 he proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking and received his degree as a doctor of medicine on 1st August 1815. He was 19. 
   
  In 1816, Dr. Polidori was given the job of Byron’s personal physician and accompanied him on a trip through Europe. The publisher John Murray offered Polidori £500 to keep a diary of their travels. At the Villa Diodati, Byron’s rented villa at Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the pair met with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont. 
   
  One night in June, after the company had read aloud from a French collection of German horror tales, Byron suggested they each write a ghost story. There were to be two outstanding works from that evening; ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley and Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre’ which would be the first published modern vampire story in English. 
   
  Dismissed by Byron, Polidori traveled in Italy and then returned to England. His story, ‘The Vampyre’, was published in the April 1819 issue of New Monthly Magazine without his permission. Much to the annoyance of both Polidori and Byron it was the latter who was credited as author.   
   
  Polidori also had published ‘Ximenes, The Wreath & Other Poems’ in 1819 and his long theological and sacred poem ‘The Fall of the Angels’ in 1821 as well as two plays, essays and his diary.  
   
  Despite his youth Polidori was increasingly worn down by gambling debts and depression.   
   
  John William Polidori died on 24th August 1821 at the age of only 25 in London.  Although his death was recorded as death by natural causes, strong evidence asserts that it was suicide by means of cyanide.

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  Zombie Santa Claus: Axe Murderer...

  Astrid Addams

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  Zombie Santa Claus: Axe Murderer Edition 
  It was Christmas Eve and the twins wanted to go and see Santa Claus. Mother wasn’t sure, but they’d been so good lately hadn’t they? After all, what was the worst that could happen? 
  Have you been naughty or nice? 
  Be warned because the naughty will be punished and only the weak scream. 
  Have you said something you shouldn’t have? 
  Be warned because Snitches get Gifted! 
  All author proceeds are being donated to Bacchus Residents Rescue.

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  Spanish Folk Legends

  S. G. C. Middlemore

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  A collection of fascinating legends from Spain, including ghost stories, forgotton crimes, unexplained mysteries, magic, and witchcraft.    "The Fire Spirit"    "The Fisherman"    "The Masked Ball"    "The Petrified Man"    "The Smuggler’s Daughter"    "The Serpent Woman"    "The Walled Nun of Avila"    "The Were-Wolf"    "The Castle of Jativa"

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