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This edition contains nine stories (seven short stories, a novella, and one full length novel) of the supernatural.
Included in this collection:
Story One: Benjamin Franklin, Monster Wrangler: The Crawling Horror on Pike’s Peak
Benjamin Franklin’s adventures in the Old West! In 1900, a man claiming to be Benjamin Franklin (yes that Ben Franklin!), tells his associate a very unusual story. This is the first story in the ‘Benjamin Franklin, Monster Wrangler’ series by T. S. Greer.
Story Two: Good Rhubarb Pie
A short story by T. S. Greer. Old Lady Lonergan really makes a mean rhubarb pie!
Story Three: For the Blood is the Life
The classic gothic horror story by F. Marion Crawford (first published in Collier’s Magazine in 1905 and in Wandering Ghosts in 1911). A moonlit grave and it’s mysterious history.
Story Four: Chickens
A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length. This drabble by T. S. Greer illustrates why it’s always a good idea to mind your own business.
Story Five: The Beast in the Cave
The classic story by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in 1918. A man becomes lost, completely, hopelessly lost in the vastness of Mammoth Cave. What ancient horrors lay in wait for him?
Story Six: The Horror in Room 401
A short story by T. S. Greer. In the gloomy depths of the old warehouse David saw a thing that drew a scream of horror to his dry lips. The mold of decay on its long-dead features—and yet it was alive!
Story Seven: The Chronic Argonauts
"The Chronic Argonauts" is a story written by H. G. Wells. First published by the Royal College of Science in 1888, this time-travel story predates his famous novel, “The Time Machine.” This rare story is also the first well-developed use of a time machine in science fiction. Many experts of the genre believe this to be the better story, but because of it's darker tone, it never matched The Time Machine’s popularity.
It begins with an account of the arrival of a mysterious inventor to the peaceful Welsh town of Llyddwdd. He takes up residence in a house sorely neglected after the deaths of its former inhabitants. The simple rural folk believe the mysterious stranger to be ‘devilish.’
Story Eight: Spalatro - From the Notes of Fra Giacomo
A classic tale written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The story has a Gothic Italian setting, featuring a criminal, Spalatro, confessing his sins to a monk. His story is quite unsettling and speaks of demons walking among us...
Story Nine: The Beetle – A Mystery
A full-length supernatural novel written by acclaimed author, Richard Marsh. Originally published in 1897, the same year as Bram Stoker's ‘Dracula', this highly original novel at one point actually outsold Stoker's famous vampire primer. The Beetle is a story of a horrible creature with supernatural powers, “born of neither god nor man.” A masterpiece of horror and occult fiction.
A must-have for fans of the weird, strange, and supernatural journeys of life!
