Michael Van Der Voort
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Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Dear Mother,
I should begin by saying that I'm sorry.
I know that Marie's death hit you hard in the days after the funeral. All you needed in the world was the shoulder of your son to cry upon. I know I wasn't there. I know that I should have been, and for that I am truly sorry.
Moreso, however, I am sorry for the circumstances that led to my absence, the reason I couldn't be there and the reason I can never let you weep for your child...
I should begin by saying that I'm sorry.
I know that Marie's death hit you hard in the days after the funeral. All you needed in the world was the shoulder of your son to cry upon. I know I wasn't there. I know that I should have been, and for that I am truly sorry.
Moreso, however, I am sorry for the circumstances that led to my absence, the reason I couldn't be there and the reason I can never let you weep for your child...
2) Nightmares
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Language
English
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Story 1: Feeding Time
Story 2: Of Shadows and Saints
Story 3: Death and Sareen
Story 4: Dracula's Servant
Story 5: Shades of Autumn
Story 6: Tapping On Glass
Story 7: The Birthday Girl
Story 8: The Bogey Hole
3) Dark Horrors
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English
Description
Dark Horrors: 8 Short Horror Stories
Story 1: Alone With The Devil
Story 2: Preston's Attic
Story 3: The Taking Of Teeth
Story 4: Blood In The Milk
Story 5: Arnold´s Letter
Story 6: Grandma El
Story 7: Relics
Story 8: Erasmus Crane and The Cthulhu Murders
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4) Relics
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English
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Sometimes even love stories, have dark undercurrents. Sometimes it is the humans and their hideous wishes that are the real monsters. But that doesn't mean that the other monsters aren't watching.
Relics is a modern fairy tale that mixes the struggle of PTSD, obsessive compulsion and body horror with the grimmer corners of European folklore, to make a potent mix that will leave your skin crawling.
5) Feeding Time
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English
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Despite being 'only a cleaner' at the public Zoo, Slick Bill knows more about the animals than most of the doctors and zoologists that work there. As a night worker, he definitely knows more about their nocturnal habits and particularly their appetites. So, when the new arrival, a quiet and reflective Tibetan worker by the name of Pema, makes an odd and deeply gruesome request of Bill, he is just the right man for the job.
The zoo, after dark, it...
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English
Description
Sometimes, when you hear that a place has been "abandoned," it is important to ask, "abandoned by whom?" Of course, "abandoned" is already a very loaded word to use. It suggests a place that isn't just empty, desolate or lonely, but a place that for some reason has deliberately been made that way. A place intentionally cut off, knowingly and purposely shunned in an attempt to erase that place from memory.
It is important then, to ask not only 'who'...
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English
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Forced by accusations of fould play to exhume the body of a recently deceased man, a young detective finds something far worse than he expected. A collapsed jaw, tattered lips and leaking gums, an empty black cavern where once once the mouth had been, evidence that someone had attacked the body with pliers and stolen all of the teeth.
In the Taking of Teeth Occult detective Erasmus Crane faces another terrifying case. and a race against time to prevent...
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English
Description
When Erasmus Crane, the famous occult detective is called to investigate the murder and mutilation of a young woman he is instantly both repulsed and terrified. Not only by the gruesome nature of the killing and the strange squid like formations the murderer has made of the entrails but also by what those strange symbols mean. Erasmus, has seen them before.
The Cthulhu Murders drag Erasmus and his faithful companion into a dark and secretive world...
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English
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It is late in the Nineteenth Century and monsters stalk the narrow cobbled backstreets of a gaslit Victorian London.
On the heath strange stories about the Bloofer Lady, whom Stoker's novel would reveal as Lucy Westenra, tempts the children with sweet delights, behind which lie the sharper points of fangs.
Blood in the Milk is a gothic tale that explores the relationship between mothers and monsters, vampires and those other creatures who feed on...
11) Too Long Awake
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English
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It took me less than ten minutes to see that something was wrong. Honestly, I think if it hadn't been for all the tears and the emotion of the occasion I probably would have figured it out quicker. It had always been like that with me and Donny. We used to joke about it sometimes. I'd ask if he was okay and he'd say he was 'fine,' to which I'd always respond, "Well you should probably tell your frown." Donny could never keep a secret. Even from his...
12) Preston's Attic
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English
Description
¨He was a Cambridge man and, having no other living relatives and few friends outside of those whom he could also count as colleagues, he spent much of the ink from his pen not expended upon notes and essays, corresponding with his ever loving and miraculously ever patient sibling.
A sibling, who, for her part, had become somewhat accustomed to her brother's habit of sharing his thoughts and musings in these interminable scrawlings. She, to her...
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English
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Despite being so called 'Holy ground' churches retain a deeply gothic element. Especially in lent, when the singing stops, the flowers are removed and the statues stand covered from head to toe in a long purple robe of mourning. Then, during the quiet of a winter's eve, the flickering shadows show more than they should and sometimes sounds far darker than prayers float up from between the pews...
14) Grandma El
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English
Description
Sometimes monsters do not live in the dark places, like under the bed or at the edge of the forest. Sometimes they live in normal houses and look just like us. Sometimes those monsters act like us too. Until someone chooses to cross them.
Grandma El is a story of witchcraft, loyalty, and urban folklore that will make the reader wonder just how close to home the dark things really are.
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¨As a linguist and historian, I've always been fascinated by words and phrases. I am particularly interested in how certain idioms and expressions come to be picked up, where they originated and what, if any, history lies behind their origins. It was this interest that led me in 2018 to consider writing a paper on the dialect, idioms, and aphorisms used by people in my hometown. It was also what led the kid known as Skit to spend a night 'Alone with...
17) Wisey's Game
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English
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"It is important that when you call, you are first completely sure to whom it is you are calling."
I think I can honestly say that, up until the point that it closed temporarily during the global pandemic, I'd had visited The Anchor pub for at least a single pint, virtually every night for the past 45 years.
There were, of course, exceptions. In 1992, I had a smash in my car and had to spend a night in the hospital, and midway through 1986 I got...
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