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Six of the Best by Frederick Cowles

by Frederick Cowles ...

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their ... Read more

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Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their
... Read more
The Night Winds Howl

by Frederick Cowles ...

I have, as you well know, always had a sincere admiration for your work and consider you to be a great literary craftsman. These facts alone would make your name at the head of this dedicatory letter appropriate. But it is as a token of our friendship I ask you to accept this book which, with all its failings, may amuse you.The late Dr Montague Rhodes James once told me that his ghost stories—in ... Read more

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I have, as you well know, always had a sincere admiration for your work and consider you to be a great literary craftsman. These facts alone would make your name at the head of this dedicatory letter appropriate. But it is as a token of our friendship I ask you to accept this book which, with all its failings, may amuse you.The late Dr Montague Rhodes James once told me that his ghost stories—in
... Read more
The Neglected Authors - The Men: Volume 1 (of 4) - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa to Frederick Cowles

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Bernard Capes, Frederick Cowles ...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
3 Stories About Ghosts Solving Their Own Murders

by Lettice Galbraith, Frederick Cowles, Arabella Kenealy ...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Frederick Cowles - A Short Story Collection

This sadly almost forgotten gem of an author brings us tales of supernatural tension.

by Frederick Cowles ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

1 hour 52 min

Frederick Ignatius Cowles was born in 1900 in Cambridge, England.This unfamiliar name is one of the gems of English supernatural fiction as well as several other works of travelogues, history, folklore, and children's books.When his supernatural short stories, and some are very short indeed, were first published they were compared to the works of M R James and EF Benson, yet unlike those two ... Read more

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Frederick Ignatius Cowles was born in 1900 in Cambridge, England.This unfamiliar name is one of the gems of English supernatural fiction as well as several other works of travelogues, history, folklore, and children's books.When his supernatural short stories, and some are very short indeed, were first published they were compared to the works of M R James and EF Benson, yet unlike those two
... Read more
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Church, The - A Short Story Collection

From devout priests to sacreligious necromancers and everything in between

by Henry James, D H Lawrence, Vladimir Korolenko, Mary Cholmondeley.wav, Frederick Cowles, Anatole France, Alexander Kuprin, Leonid Andreyev, Alicia Ramsay, Mary Butts, Vernon Lee, W F Harvey, F G Loring, Honore de Balzac, R H Malden ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

9 hours 19 min

Faith is a wonderful thing. Whether its faith in each other or to a God, Gods, or whatever entity you believe in, it brings a familiar comfort and sustenance to heart, soul and mental well-being.Whilst faith can be practiced anywhere religious faith is usually at a church or temple. The stories in this volume are centered both in houses of worship and with those with a strong association to its ... Read more

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Faith is a wonderful thing. Whether its faith in each other or to a God, Gods, or whatever entity you believe in, it brings a familiar comfort and sustenance to heart, soul and mental well-being.Whilst faith can be practiced anywhere religious faith is usually at a church or temple. The stories in this volume are centered both in houses of worship and with those with a strong association to its
... Read more
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Frederick Cowles - Six of the Best

Their legacy in 6 classic stories

by Frederick Cowles ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

1 hour 42 min

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their
... Read more
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Foundations of Fiction, The - Vampires

Hear the stories that gave birth to the modern genre craze

by Robert Louis Stevenson, M R James, E F Benson, E T A Hoffman, F Marion Crawford, Frederick Cowles, Hume Nisbet, Jan Neruda, John William Polidori, Uriah Derick D'Arcy ...

Narrated by Robbie McNab ...

Unabridged

11 hours 55 min

Indisputably the most famous Vampire story is Dracula. But how did we get to that point?In this volume we present a roll-call of classic authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, M R James, E F Benson, John William Polidori, Uriah Derrick D’Arcy and many others who short story by short story establish the building blocks of this horrific yet thrilling genre. Here all manner of characters and ... Read more

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Indisputably the most famous Vampire story is Dracula. But how did we get to that point?In this volume we present a roll-call of classic authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, M R James, E F Benson, John William Polidori, Uriah Derrick D’Arcy and many others who short story by short story establish the building blocks of this horrific yet thrilling genre. Here all manner of characters and
... Read more
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Room For One

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Frederick Cowles ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

11 min

Frederick Ignatius Cowles was born in 1900 in Cambridge, England.This unfamiliar name is one of the gems of English supernatural fiction as well as several other works of travelogues, history, folklore, and children's books.When his supernatural short stories, and some are very short indeed, were first published they were compared to the works of M R James and EF Benson, yet unlike those two ... Read more

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Frederick Ignatius Cowles was born in 1900 in Cambridge, England.This unfamiliar name is one of the gems of English supernatural fiction as well as several other works of travelogues, history, folklore, and children's books.When his supernatural short stories, and some are very short indeed, were first published they were compared to the works of M R James and EF Benson, yet unlike those two
... Read more
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Haunted Church, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Frederick Cowles ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

15 min

Frederick Ignatius Cowles was born in 1900 in Cambridge, England.This unfamiliar name is one of the gems of English supernatural fiction as well as several other works of travelogues, history, folklore, and children's books.When his supernatural short stories, and some are very short indeed, were first published they were compared to the works of M R James and EF Benson, yet unlike those two ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Frederick Ignatius Cowles was born in 1900 in Cambridge, England.This unfamiliar name is one of the gems of English supernatural fiction as well as several other works of travelogues, history, folklore, and children's books.When his supernatural short stories, and some are very short indeed, were first published they were compared to the works of M R James and EF Benson, yet unlike those two
... Read more
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Horror of Abbots Grange, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Frederick Cowles ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

39 min

Frederick Ignatius Cowles was born in 1900 in Cambridge, England.This unfamiliar name is one of the gems of English supernatural fiction as well as several other works of travelogues, history, folklore, and children's books.When his supernatural short stories, and some are very short indeed, were first published they were compared to the works of M R James and EF Benson, yet unlike those two ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Frederick Ignatius Cowles was born in 1900 in Cambridge, England.This unfamiliar name is one of the gems of English supernatural fiction as well as several other works of travelogues, history, folklore, and children's books.When his supernatural short stories, and some are very short indeed, were first published they were compared to the works of M R James and EF Benson, yet unlike those two
... Read more
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Neglected Authors, The - Men - Volume 1

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Grant Allen, Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Stacy Aumonier, William Austin, Richard Harris Barham, Robert Barr, Charles Baudelaire, John Davys Beresford, Ernest Bramah, Valery Bryusov, Thomas Burke, William E Burton, Bernard Capes, Charles W Chesnutt, Frederick Cowles ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Darrell Joe ...

Unabridged

10 hours 57 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more

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Frederick Cowles - A Short Story Collection

Church, The - A Short Story Collection

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