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Critically acclaimed audiobook reader Barnaby Edwards (Doctor Who, The Voyage of the Beagle, Space Danger) performs 11 tales of ghostly gothic spookiness. From tales of vampyres and spirits to devil’s deals and ethereal coachmen. Short but oh so sweet, these 11 stories from some of the most lauded authors of the Gothic period prove that you need only a few pages to tell a truly terrifying tale.

Here are 10 stories from the May and June 2003 issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, including a tribute to SF great Barry M. Malzberg.

A train seems a very reliable mode to bring out the best in authors and sometimes the worst in their fictional characters. In this volume our narratives are usually set inside the carriage compartment where they are really up close and personal with each other. All our authors need to do is to light the touchpaper and stand well back.

October Diplomat is a tale of forbidden love wrapped in international intrigue. In the course of 12 days in October, an American intelligence agent falls in love with a Vietnamese spy who helps him untangle a Chinese general’s plot to seize Vietnam's offshore oil and assassinate China’s president.

Im Wilden Westen gibt es kein Bier mehr! Durch den Streik der Brauereiarbeiter in der Großstadt Milwaukee sitzen die Gäste in den Saloons der Prärie auf dem Trocknen. So auch in Neumünchen, wo die verzweifelten Bewohner den durchreisenden Lucky Luke um Hilfe bitten! Er soll nach Milwaukee reiten und den Streik beenden! Luke nimmt die Herausforderung an und lernt Brauereibesitzer Martz kennen, der unter keinen Umständen auf die Forderungen seiner Arbeiter nach mehr Lohn eingehen will.

Veteran ultrarunners Lewis "Japanese Flag" Clarke, 70+ age bracket veteran John "father of 12" Kennedy, International Running Coach Barry Tavener and Runnersknees, voted one of the 70 most influential people in running in Runners World UK 2017, chat all things running in a no nonsense manner. Ordinarily whilst drinkng. It is going to get messy.

It’s the 1970s, and the “houseboat wars” erupt in Sausalito on the site of Marinship, the abandoned World War II shipyard. Hippies and squatters are living free and easy on houseboats in a ramshackle shantytown, and greedy developers are determined to evict them and build new docks to attract affluent residents.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.