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Through an act of heroism, a woman saves her lover, who was destined to be executed in the Tower of London at the ringing of the curfew.

Unknowingly, a man lives two separate lives simultaneously on two different ships parted by a vast ocean until a storm at sea brings a forced unification.

Having tasted human flesh while far out at sea, a shoal of giant killer squids ravage the waters and shore of an oceanic town feasting on the delicacy.

In Welcome To Hexville, the first book of the Hexville series, a documentary crew meeting with the peacekeeper sheriff of Hexville discovers that with the exception of him and his deputies, the citizens of Hexville are far, far, far from what they expected when they left the "calm" of LA for this assignment. Everyone in the town possesses mystical abilities, and it's the job of the peacekeeper and his deputies, all unbiased and unaligned, to maintain order between the funny and at times contentious townspeople.

A man convicted of being a saboteur for the Confederacy during the American Civil War stands on Owl Creek Bridge with a noose around his neck. As the procedures for his hanging are carried out, he seizes an opportunity to escape.

The Last Leaf is an endearing story about many forms of love and our interdependency upon one another and most importantly ourselves. In it a young woman dying from pneumonia despite the best efforts of her loving roommate, a doctor, and a mature resident in the building who has appointed himself guardian to the young lady and her housemate, soon learns that she is the key to her own life or death and in that discovery she helps a friend rise to their true greatness.

In a story that heralded in a genre, a world-famous big-game hunter learns firsthand how it feels to be hunted when a deranged Russian millionaire hunts him on his secluded tropical island as The Most Dangerous Game.

The arc of a love affair is told in the ringing of four distinct bells.

A 77-year-old woman reflects back on her life and thinks that it’s time she shares the greatest thing she has learned. She does. And it’s..."there was nothing more fun than a man".

Denys Barry, a very wealthy American, who has moved to his ancestral home of Ireland, discovers to his horror that his plans to drain a bog conflict with the desires of the wraiths protecting it.

A parody on "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight". Instead of taking place in the majestic and historic Tower of London, the story takes place on a farm in Kansas and the threat to love is the dreaded dog Towser.

Prince Prospero and a thousand of his followers lock themselves away to avoid the plague that ravages the common poor. Secure inside the abbey walls, the prince hosts lavish celebrations. But Prospero is not as safe as he had hoped, and death comes looking for him.

"The Charge of The Light Brigade" - written in 1854 by one of the great representative figures of the Victorian age, Lord Alfred Tennyson - celebrates the heroism of a British cavalry unit mistakenly ordered to attack a vastly superior Russian stronghold amidst the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (1853-1856), a military conflict between Russia and a coalition of Great Britain, France, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire.

A baby gives us a tour of the things it owns, including, "the couple of old persons around 20 who refer to themselves as 'father' and 'mother'.

A romance ends in tragedy when a man, failing to realize that his lover's birthday request for the green eye of the little yellow god was a jest, sets out for it.

After a sudden storm at sea, a man finds the entire crew of his ship dead. He and one other passenger the sole survivors of an out of control ship destined to collide with a gigantic vessel from mythology, where he will seek to learn the secrets of its ancient crew and their unimaginable destination.

As they say their last goodbyes to their dear friend, mourners are horrified to find unearthly visitors have joined them. As their hysterical singing and nervous laughter fade, a "vague, and formless, and indefinite" shadow appears which leaves the mourners paralyzed with fear. The shadow speaks in the voice of "familiar accents of many thousand departed friends."

One of the greatest love stories ever! A couple struggling to make ends meet finds themselves with nothing with which to buy the other a Christmas gift. Through extreme personal sacrifice, they manage to give one another the best gift they - or anyone - could ever receive.

A man, tiring of an astronomy lecture, takes a walk in the mystical night air to renew his sense of purpose.

A doctor desires to attempt something that has never been done before, to hypnotize someone as they die. He does. And, frightful consequences ensue.