Helena Blavatsky, one of the most fascinating women in history, founder of the Theosophical Society, is most well known for her promulgation of a theosophical system of thought, often referred to under various names, including: The Occult Science, The Esoteric Tradition, The Wisdom of the Ages, etc., or simply as Occultism or Theosophy. She wrote several books in the subject. But she also wrote short stories with supernatural content, and this is a collection of these stories. Be prepared for nightmares!

Recently divorced and staring down the barrel of moving back in with her parents, Carrot really needs a break. And a place to live. So when her Uncle Earl, owner of the eclectic Wonder Museum, asks her to stay with him in exchange for cataloguing the exhibits, of course she says yes. The Wonder Museum is packed with taxidermy, shrunken heads, and an assortment of Mystery Junk. For Carrot, it's not creepy at all: she grew up with it. What's creepy is the hole that's been knocked in one of the museum walls, and the corridor behind it. There's just no space for a corridor in the museum's thin walls - or the concrete bunker at the end of it, or the strange islands beyond the bunker's doors, or the whispering, unseen things lurking in the willow trees. Carrot has stumbled into a strange and horrifying world, and They are watching her. Strewn among the islands are the remains of Their meals - and Their experiments. And even if she manages to make it back home again, she can't stop calling Them after her...

"An attention grabbing and keeping book. This is the first book that I have read from Aimee." Pat From the author of Best-selling Kindles, "Angelica, You Have Chosen Well," "My Name Is Not Saul" & "The Satan Seduction. "A PARANORMAL MONSTER APPEARS THROUGH A PORTAL SNATCHING AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY, FLEEING THROUGH A PORTAL. IN ONE SPLIT SECOND, THE CHILD IS GONE. THINGS HEAT UP WHEN ONE WEEK LATER, IT RETURNS FOR A SECOND KID. NO ONE BELIEVES THIS SINGLE MOTHER'S ACCOUNT, SAVE AN INFAMOUS CRIME JOURNALIST SUFFERING FROM BOREDOM, AIDEN JENSON. AND THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS. After digging into this case, and remaining at single mother Grace's house, the kidnappings occur every Thursday. One by one, her children are taken while they sleep in the night. Aiden soon discovers the mysterious pattern and seeks the help of a well-renown doctor. Aiden realizes the only way to find the missing children is to enter the gateway. (Thank you! DISCLAIMER 11-17 should have parental consent. Blessings readers!)

The Wolf Leader by Alexandre Dumas The Wolf Leader is set around 1780 in Dumas' native town of Villers-Cotterets, and is supposedly based on a local folk-tale Dumas heard as a child. The story concerns Thibault, a shoe-maker, who is beaten by the gamekeeper of the Lord of Vez for interfering with the lord's hunting. Afterwards he encounters a huge wolf, walking on its hind legs like a man, who offers him vengeance; Thibault may wish harm on any person in return for one of his own hairs for each wish. To seal the agreement, the two exchange rings. As a result of this bargain he also finds himself able to command the local wolves, and hence gradually gains the reputation of being a werewolf. Thibault's first two wishes kill the gamekeeper and injure the Lord of Vez. The wishes turn two hairs on his head long and red, as do his subsequent ones, which, though equally successful, also backfire against him in unexpected ways, leaving him scorned and hated by others in his community.

This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. It offers an alternative to predominantly novel-centric and Anglo-centric perspectives on literary pre-modernism by investigating a transnational and multilingual connection between genre, theme and theory, i.e., between the modern short story, the supernatural and the problem of knowledge. Incorporating a close analysis of the literary texts into a discussion of their historical context, the book argues that Machado, James and Maupassant explore and reinvent the supernatural short story as a metafictional genre. This modernized and innovative form allows them to challenge the dichotomies and conventions of realist and supernatural fiction, inviting their past and present readers to question common assumptions on reality and literary representation.