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The Mortician and Other Short Stories

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Author : Charles E. Lake
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452034508
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Mortician and Other Short Stories written by Charles E. Lake and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are 14 interesting and enjoyable fictional stories in this anthology. The stories are short and independent of each other, which make for easy stop-and-go reading. You will enjoy a wide variety of stories: mystery, murder, suspense, romance, feel-good, and humorous. (Betcha can't read just one!) The Accident: A man decides he must murder to avenge his sister's death. The Bequest: An aunt's untimely death results in regrettable consequences. The Broach: Hostile twin sisters vie for their mother's broach. The Cabin: An unfaithful wife and her lover take steps to murder her husband. The Counselor: An alienated husband gets advice from a stranger. The Diary: A family learns the contents of Grandfather's diaries. The Encounter: An attractive young woman is not afraid to jog by herself. The Letters: Community newcomers are threatened for unknown reasons. The Loan: A young child loans her parents some money. The Mortician: A man must return a favor ... or else. The Pact: A secret platonic relationship spawns a crisis. The Playmate: A mother has aversion to her four-year-old daughter's friend. The Sale: A homeowner lives through a garage sale. The Ticket: A chance meeting is really not a chance meeting. Do you like surprises? You'll find one or two in each story!

The Mortician and Other Stories

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Author : Jonathan Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Mortician and Other Stories written by Jonathan Rice and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mortician and Other Love Stories

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Author : D. L LaRoche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Mortician and Other Love Stories written by D. L LaRoche and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four short stories dealing with men's affection for women and some of the consequences therefrom.

The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

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Author : Shaun David Hutchinson
Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 1481498584
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried written by Shaun David Hutchinson and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fearless and brutal look at friendships...you will laugh, rage, and mourn its loss when it’s over.” —Justina Ireland, New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation “Simultaneously hilarious and moving, weird and wonderful.” —Jeff Zentner, Morris Award–winning author of The Serpent King Six Feet Under meets Pushing Daisies in this quirky, heartfelt story about two teens who are granted extra time to resolve what was left unfinished after one of them suddenly dies. A good friend will bury your body, a best friend will dig you back up. Dino doesn’t mind spending time with the dead. His parents own a funeral home, and death is literally the family business. He’s just not used to them talking back. Until Dino’s ex-best friend July dies suddenly—and then comes back to life. Except not exactly. Somehow July is not quite alive, and not quite dead. As Dino and July attempt to figure out what’s happening, they must also confront why and how their friendship ended so badly, and what they have left to understand about themselves, each other, and all those grand mysteries of life. Critically acclaimed author Shaun Hutchinson delivers another wholly unique novel blending the real and surreal while reminding all of us what it is to love someone through and around our faults.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

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Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245950
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory written by Caitlin Doughty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).

The Visibly Invisible Man and Other Short Stories

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Author : M D Noel B Searle
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612047874
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Visibly Invisible Man and Other Short Stories written by M D Noel B Searle and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 14 imaginative and fast-paced short stories presents plots that are believable, and also have endings with unusual twists.----The Visibly Invisible Man and Collected Short Stories begins with a stranger moving to a small town in Kentucky. He is heavily covered from head to toe in clothing, allegedly to cover burn scars from the war in Vietnam. He is accepted into the community and circulates freely around town. But months later, the man robs the local bank of $200,000 and then disappears without a trace. The solution to the crime - and its twist - makes the story unforgettable.----The book's other short stories include "The Old Man on the Tee," about the death of a golfer. There's also the tale of an exciting encounter with a UFO, and a tiny man who becomes a shot putter on the American Olympic Track and Field Team. This unusual batch of stories takes readers on a fun ride.

Mortuary Confidential

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Author : Kenneth McKenzie
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 0806531797
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Mortuary Confidential written by Kenneth McKenzie and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.

Mortician Diaries

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Author : June Knights Nadle
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577318579
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Mortician Diaries written by June Knights Nadle and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 50 years in the funeral business, 80-year-old grandmother-undertaker June Knights Nadle has seen it all — at least all of what goes on before, during, and after life’s ultimate challenge. In Mortician Diaries, she combines equal doses of charm, humanity, humor, and reality to tell it like it is on this taboo subject. A kind of Prairie Home Companion set in a mortuary, the book features memorable stories of regret — “I wish I had kissed him on the morning he had the accident” — and renewal, as the lesson of facing life’s last great event is learned, or not. Some of the accounts here are funny, some sad. Some are haunting in their strangeness as they reveal the many ways in which people cope. Along the way, the reader is drawn into Nadle’s own life story as an unconventional woman who devoted herself to the dead and to those they left behind.

The Mortician's Daughter & Other Short Stories

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Author : James R. Dubbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781535544511
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The Mortician's Daughter & Other Short Stories written by James R. Dubbs and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mortician's Daughter & other short stories"is the first collection of short fiction by "Life inthe Lion's Mouth" novelist James R. Dubbs.From the author's telling of love found at theexact wrong moment in The Mortician'sDaughter, to the Kafkaesque tale of a man'sattempt to purchase a movie ticket in Chimera,to the comedic turn of hard-boiled PrivateInvestigator Buzz Schlomer in Penguins Can'tFly, this eclectic collection of stories exploresthe human condition with pathos, imagination,and a sly, whispered satire.

American Gothic Short Stories

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Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1787557464
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book American Gothic Short Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this next anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series. As with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Brockden Brown, George Washington Cable, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Ralph Adams Cram, Stephen Crane, Emma Dawson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ellen Glasgow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville, W.C. Morrow, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Clark Ashton Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Madeline Yale Wynne.

Crossroad

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Author : W. H. Cameron
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643852817
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Crossroad written by W. H. Cameron and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a desolate road in the Oregon high desert, an apprentice mortician stumbles upon a horrific car crash--and into a vortex of treachery, long-buried secrets, and growing menace. Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a small community in the Oregon high desert. But just as she's beginning to think of Barlow County as home, her life takes an ominous turn when she comes upon a grisly multiple car wreck and three shattered bodies on an isolated road outside of town. Near the scene, Melisende trips over a fourth body, that of a newborn girl lying a physics-defying distance from the wreckage. There is no one to claim the infant, nor a clear indication she was even part of the accident. The crash offers plenty of opportunities for an apprentice mortician--but when the victims' bodies are stolen from her family's mortuary, Melisende is branded suspect number one. Then, Portland lawyer Kendrick Pride arrives on the scene on behalf of one of the victim's families--or so he says--and Melisende begins to see that there's much more to this enigmatic figure than meets the eye. As the shadows gather and the mystery deepens, Melisende must race to find the truth--or be swallowed by the darkness.

Nine Years Under

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Author : Sheri Booker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592407625
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Nine Years Under written by Sheri Booker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming of age in a black funeral home in Baltimore Sheri Booker was only fifteen when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea her summer job would become nine years of immersion into a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, Sheri found comfort in the funeral home and soon had the run of the place. With AIDS and gang violence threatening to wipe out a generation of black men, Wylie was never short on business. As families came together to bury one of their own, Booker was privy to their most intimate moments of grief and despair. But along with the sadness, Booker encountered moments of dark humor: brawls between mistresses and widows, and car crashes at McDonald’s with dead bodies in tow. While she never got over her terror of the embalming room, Booker learned to expect the unexpected and to never, ever cry. Nine Years Under offers readers an unbelievable glimpse into an industry in the backdrop of all our lives.

The Body in the Hole

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Author : Jonathan B. Zeitlin
Publisher : Overkill Press
ISBN 13 : 0983467277
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Body in the Hole written by Jonathan B. Zeitlin and published by Overkill Press. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone dumped a body in an open grave at the cemetery, and the undertaker isn't happy about it. But he isn't happy about the police trying to solve it, either. In fact, the undertaker tries to solve it himself. The undertaker’s name is Yvgeny, and Yvgeny is an unlikeable and morally ambiguous Sherlock Holmes aficionado who lives with his mother in a mortuary in middle-Georgia. He wears Victorian era dress and speaks with a Polish accent. Don’t let Yvgeny’s career choice scare you away from the story- while some of Yvgeny’s antics will make you cringe, there is nothing gory or violent. The story begins with Yvgeny preparing for a funeral. He gets annoyed when he discovers someone dumped a body into a grave he had dug for someone else. Always looking for a way to make an extra buck, he hauls the body back to his office to inspect. After filching a nice watch, he calls the police. Of course, Yvgeny doesn’t like the police, and he eventually decides to solve the crime himself. With his love for Sherlock Holmes and inflated ego, he estimates his chances of solving the crime are far higher than those of the detectives. Yvgeny teams up with a motley assortment of not always like-minded characters in this small Georgia town, trying to stay one step ahead as the detectives close in. The local talent includes the mentally deficient one-eyed owner of the army-navy surplus store and the local doctor/deputy coroner who is a recovering hippie with a Tom Selleck fetish. In the middle of everything, Yvgeny falls for the crude and vulgar granddaughter of an old man buried in his cemetery. She is turned off by his bizarre fashion and strange interests, but Yvgeny is persistent. Will he solve the crime? Will he get the girl? Read and find out!

The Mortician

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Author : A L Mengel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996326988
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Mortician written by A L Mengel and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do You Want To Live Forever? Ever since Jacob Benjamin touched his dead Grandmother's cheek while she lay in her coffin, he has had a fascination with death. The mystery of the grave and what lies beyond it became a lifetime quest for the young man. His Master's Degree thesis project explores the decades abandoned Waxley Mortuary, sitting in ruins. His research partners join him on a journey through life and legacy - but Jacob discovers there is still activity inside the dilapidated walls of Waxley. From the appearance of an old photo the story begins; and as the mirror of one's life reveals actions and regrets, Jacob realizes that there is one figure standing between him and his legacy, salvation, and redemption: The Mortician. A.L. Mengel goes back to his storytelling roots with a novel about the pursuit of legacy amidst the solitude of darkness. Can one shed their transgressions to accept their shortcomings?

The President's Mortician

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Author : Tim Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988829077
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The President's Mortician written by Tim Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely unknown to history, John Liggett was one of the most macabre and gruesome figures of the 20th century. A skilled undertaker and body reconstructionist, he was also a contract killer with furtive intelligence connections. Liggett's actions on November 22, 1963, speak to the sinister role he may have played in helping plotters cover up the true nature of President John F. Kennedy's murder. But Liggett's secret work is not done. One summer night young Conrad "Con" Reese, Jr., while peeping in his neighbor's window, witnesses the horrifying murder of Nancy Weirshellen. Nancy's husband, Ed, is wrongly convicted of the murder, and, though Con knows Ed is not the murderer, ashamed of his actions on that night, he does not come forward to tell his story to authorities. As he grows older, Con feels deep remorse for allowing an innocent man to be convicted of murder, and he retains a clear image of the real murderer in his memory. With the help of a journalist friend, Durrell "Abbie" Monroe, Con learns that Liggett has suspicious connections to the JFK assassination and was also Nancy Weirshellen's murderer. Ed escapes custody, aided by Con and Abbie. The friends reveal the identity of Nancy's murderer to Ed, thus sending him on a deadly search for Liggett. Interwoven with riveting facts and enthralling historical fiction, The President's Mortician reveals the true nature of the plot to kill our nation's 35th president, and how that deed was covered up in the most diabolical and clever way imaginable.

Thin Places

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Author : Kay Chronister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781005418366
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Thin Places written by Kay Chronister and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grim but effervescent." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYKay Chronister's remarkable debut collection of modern horror tales, Thin Places, echoes with the ghosts of Shirley Jackson and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, while forging its own unique gothic sensibility. Here there be monsters! And witches! These are tales of monstrous mothers and dark desires. Love, grief, death; and the exquisite pain and joy of life. With transcendent prose, Chronister chronicles the lives of powerful women and children; wicked witches and demons. These are the traumatic ghosts we all carry, and Chronister knows what it means to be human and humane. Powerful and hypnotic, these are tales you won't forget, from a vibrant new voice.Chronister's eerie debut collection toggles between reality and mythical, chilling otherworlds. Multifaceted female characters, from the nefarious to the desperate, make up the dark subjects of these horror stories. Themes of infertility, grief, and motherhood pervade "The Fifth Gable," in which a household of witches craft babies out of inhuman materials only for the children to die at birth. "White Throat Holler" features a precocious and fearless preacher's daughter who hunts demons to stop them from claiming her town's mothers and children. In "Russula's Wake" (not for those who are disturbed by the suggestion of animal cruelty), a young widow tries to save her youngest daughter from sharing the curse of her older children, who must feast on animal flesh in order to continue appearing as normal children. Grim but effervescent, Chronister's economical prose packs a powerful punch ("'Are you dead?' Martha laughed, spat out of a bloodied mouth: 'I wish. I wish I was.'"). These modern gothics are as enticing as they are frightening.Kay Chronister is a writer living in Tucson, Arizona. She was the winner of the 2015 Dell Magazine Award, and her fiction has since appeared in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Black Static, The Dark and elsewhere. Her first collection of short stories, Thin Places, is out now from Undertow Publications.In her non-spare time, Kay is currently a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on romance, the Gothic, folklore, and women's writing.

Do Me a Favor and Other Short Stories

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Author : Anne Paolucci
Publisher : Griffon House Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Do Me a Favor and Other Short Stories written by Anne Paolucci and published by Griffon House Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: