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A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple. The knight, for such he appears to be, rushes to their aid. Soon after, the strange and prophetic Sir Cesar appears on the scene and foretells of danger ahead. We follow this knight as he encounters an evil landowner; the good and faithful Longpole, son of the elderly couple; the beneficent Duke of Buckingham - or is he a traitor? - and the coquettish Lady Katrine.

Eerie old houses, wretched smiles, mausoleums, and banshees. Stories from masters of the horror genre, M.R. James, F. Marion Craword, Edgar Allan Poe, W.W. Jacobs, Amelia Edwards, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and H.P. Loveraft, stories to make your body tingle and your mind play tricks.

As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wall. They rescue her and alert her father, stationed on the cliff-top, apparently watching for something or someone, before continuing their journey to the home of Sir Arthur Adelon. What was the girl doing out alone at night? What was her father's business on the cliff? Who is the sinister-looking stranger that young Edgar Adelon spots at the home of his beloved? And does Dudley have a chance with the beautiful heiress Eda, or have her affections been won by his wealthy patron?

The author of the first short story - "The Haunted Dolls' House" - is Montague Rhodes James, "master of terror and monstrous visions". "Cool Air" and "Azathoth" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft complete the collection. The atmosphere of horror and mystery is underlined by excellent performances by all actors and music.

Lately, I just can't seem to sit still. I squirm constantly in my seat as I wait at the doctor's office, unable to clear my head and feeling constantly as though I'm under scrutiny from those around me. For instance, there is this woman sitting across from me with her girlfriend, staring at me, and instantly my mind begins to reel, fantasizing about the three of us making love, even despite the fact that I've always considered myself as straight as a damn arrow.

When Visual Arts major Bethany Mills snags a summer job as the receptionist for high-end sky diving company FlyJump, she feels like she's stepped into a different universe. But her first day is going relatively smoothly - until she finds herself face to face with billionaire architect and thrill seeker Quinn Huntley. He's tall, dark - and instantly unable to tear his eyes away from FlyJump's new receptionist. Soon, inexperienced Bethany is finding it very hard to ignore their wild chemistry.

When I went to work that day, I was not surprised when I was sent on a coffee run. I was absolutely shocked, however, to meet an incredible looking man at the coffee shop. I felt an instant connection to him, and I was overjoyed when I discovered that he was headed in my direction. I was even more surprised to discover that this man's father was married to my mother. I was crushed. I was certain that this connection could last forever, but now my hopes were shattered.

I couldn't believe that I had lost my poor little lamb in this raging storm. As I wandered out into the driving rain and violent wind, the only thing on my mind was the recovery of my lost sheep so that we could both go home and get dry and warm. I never imagined that I would be accused of stealing, by two attractive, burly shepherds. And I never imagined what the two of them could do to my poor, innocent body....

When I first arrived at my mother's reception, I never imagined that I would meet the most attractive man I had ever seen - dark hair, piercing eyes, and a lazy, confident smile.... There was no way I could resist him. I certainly never imagined that I would be having mind blowing sex with him in the art gallery upstairs. I never, ever imagined that my mother would make an announcement on that very same night that she had gotten married to his father. Of course, I was devastated. I could certainly never be sexually involved with my stepbrother....

For years, old man Garrows vowed he would never bend the knee to the MacIvers clan. But now old man Garrows is dead - and his daughter Kenna is alone and unmarried. She knows it's only a matter of time before the MacIvers brothers come after the farm - and her. And sure enough, when Brannan and Connell show up, they're ready to claim all they believe to be their due. Faced with the impossibly handsome warrior brothers, Kenna has to make a decision.

Reading can give you a pretty dirty imagination if you're not careful.... Lindsay's always been something of a shy girl. She's 18 and a virgin, and not at all ready for her induction into the hyper-sexual world of college life. For whatever reason, she's always found the idea of sex with men intimidating. And although she finds women attractive, and is a lot more at ease in the presence of a female, she's never really come to consider herself a lesbian, either. Her introduction to her own sexuality, then, comes when she happens to discover a book series of erotic literature and finds herself fascinated by it.

A large part of why I work so much is because I want the best life possible for the two of us, and as I'm leaving the office late one evening, I try not to let myself feel too bad about it. That is, until suddenly I'm kidnapped and thrown into a van from right off of the street, and taken to an unknown facility scared out of my wits. When I next see light, I'm in a vacant brick room with a dirty concrete floor. And it just so happens that my kidnapper has some very sadistic things in mind for me....

Get ready for the billionare/stepbrother thrill of a lifetime!

I sneak out of the tent during the first night of my camping trip to get away from my boyfriend, when suddenly I find myself cornered by four snarling, raging grizzly bears....

Up to this point in my life, I've always considered myself as straight as a damn arrow. I've always been a popular girl, and I'm currently dating a well-endowed stud who regularly plows me in his bedroom whenever I feel like it. But lately, my interest in sex has been changing slightly. I don't know if it's the stress of getting ready to start my first semester of college or what, but I'm finding my erotic thoughts have been gravitating toward females more often than not, and I'm not sure what exactly I should do about the fact.

I never really knew just how life-saving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation could be. By all means, I shouldn't be feeling nearly as pissy over the course of this vacation as I am. The atmosphere is sublime, the circumstances are almost surreally beautiful in some ways, and I'm about as spoiled and as pampered as I could possibly hope to be. But, in many other ways, I feel as though I'm being seriously left in the lurch. My husband, Darren, has spent the entirety of this week-long getaway talking business on his cell phone.

I had grown tired of a busy life in the city, and traded it in for a quiet cabin in the mountains. Everything seemed like it was finally going right for me. I was a waitress at a local bar, staring at these cute brothers, who came into the bar day after day. I would ask them out tomorrow.... Then, the following day, everything changes when I am asked out by a strange man with black hair and gleaming golden eyes....

I'd spent all my life hoping to be an astronaut, and now that I actually was one, I was feeling alone, disillusioned, and sexually unfulfilled. And that's when I was abducted by an alien spacecraft....

Duncan MacDougal is on his way to marry the woman he has chosen to spend his life with. With the nagging of his mother and other family members, he knows that it is time to give the clan an heir. But first he must find a wife. Sheena was a beautiful woman when he last saw her, years before. She was gentle, serene, and quiet, and exactly what he needed for his clan. However, he is wed to another - her younger sister. To complicate things, he must share with her a secret that could devastate her.

A collection of strange and often grisly tales by some of the world's greatest writers, ranging from mildly unsettling to hair-raising.