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Edgar Allen Poe Collection

A Collection Of Short Stories By Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe is probably best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre but he's also one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story. This collection includes nine of his best stories, which should be perfect for a dark, stormy evening before Halloween:

• A Descent Into The Maelstrom
• The Black Cat
• The Fall Of The House Of Usher
• The Masque Of The Red Death
• The Pit And The Pendulum
• The Tell Tale Heart
• The Murders In The Rue Morgue
• The Balloon
• Three Sundays In A Week

Halloween Potent Potables

Author: Scott Slaughter

Halloween is approaching and that means plans need to be made for Halloween parties. Halloween can be fun as well as scary, which is why we’re including several Halloween drink recipes.

Here's a list of the recipes:

• Alchemist Punch
• Bitches Brew
• Black Cat
• Black Magic
• Black Widow
• Blood and Sand #1
• Blood And Sand #2
• Blue Lime Ghost
• Brain Hemorrhage
• Broken Leg
• Candy Apple
• Corpse Reviver
• Devil Cocktail
• Devil’s Punch
• Dracula’s Kiss
• El Diablo
• Ghost Buster
• Halloween Grog
• Sewer Water
• Vampire Kiss

Ghost Stories

A Collection Of Classic Ghost Stories
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A collection of stories from some of the best authors in the genre, including:

• Algernon Blackwood
• Ambrose Bierce
• Arthur Machen
• Guy De Maupassant
• Richard Le Galliene
• Edgar Allen Poe

Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus

By Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelly's classic Frankenstein, which is also known as The Modern Prometheus, is an 1818 novel written by Mary Shelley. Its the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who follows an unusual scientific experiment to create a sapient being. Shelley was only 18 years old when she started writing the story. It was published two years later.

The War Of The Worlds

By H. G. Wells
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MH. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of the first stories to detail contact, in this case a violent conflict, between humans and an extraterrestrial race.

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

By Washington Irving
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his classic American short story by Washington Irving was first published in 1820. The story takes place in the Dutch settlement of Sleepy Hollow, New York, and centers around the superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane who competes with local hero Brom Bones for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. Crane is terrorized by the legendary Headless Horseman, who is a ghost of a Hessian soldier searching for his lost head.

Irving combines comedy, horror, and folklore in The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, culminating in Ichabod's mysterious disappearance after a particularly frightening encounter with the spectral rider.

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