This edition is a very special monster issue in celebration of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In Nigel Jarrett's Spectres of Innocence a son and daughter help their grieving father start afresh after the death of their mother. He moves into an old rectory with a troubled history. Unsettling events begin to unravel: who is the woman keeping their father company? And what might be pushing the empty swing on a still summer's day? Ever walked into a building and felt the hairs on the back of your neck prick up? Two travellers rent an old apartment but one becomes convinced it harbours something - a grudge, a dislike, perhaps it wants her out? Or is it just the intense heat closing in around her in Mark Blayney's peculiar tale Straits Eclectic. Catrin Kean spins a yarn of an old woman who lives alone on the old family farm by the sea. She is visited by a couple who want to buy her home. She agrees, but a secret is buried that threatens to rise and spill out if she leaves in Birdcage. Jess Thomas's Don't Stop Playing tells a story of monsters guarding treasure in a cave and a girl whose flute playing seduces them to sleep. Think of the old saying, 'Finders keepers' - but will what you find keep you...' Charlotte Symons, mesmerising tale, The Man Who Gathered Sorrow, the seemingly good deed of a man becomes monstrous - he has no choice but to destroy the thing before it destroys him... In Ewan Hannah's story, The Creature, a notorious and fiendish whisky hunter returns from his journey to Antarctica with bounty - Magnus MacSorley's lost ninth bottle. But beware on opening, this contains more than the warming amber liquid... Kevin O'Connor's Inis Suil a party of teenagers head to an island in what is supposed to be a night of camping, catching up and having fun. But something lurks in the darkness... A grave is dug up and the body of a young girl is exhumed because a farm settlement in America is disturbed by a revenant - a restless corpse. Measures must be taken to rest her soul in Mat Troy's The Connecticut Tradition Tina Rath's The Banks of the Roses tells the story of two young lovers who meet at a quarry on a hot summer's day. There is a rumour a murder happened there and something called Jenny Greenteeth will pull you in and drown you if you get too near to the pool. Heed the warning, it is not always hearsay... In Chip Limeburner's story Along the Road set in the time of the Crusades a lone highwayman ambushes a team of horses and their cavalcade. He finds a casket of pristine bones but this is far from treasure - a very sinister loot...

The Ghastling: Book Seven

Literature & Fiction

Blayney, Mark

Literary

Ghastling

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Job Hunting & Careers

The Work Press

Each year in the UK approximately half a million young people enter the world of work for the first time and begin to compete in their careers. And how well you cope with the pressures and demands of your first year of work can help determine how successful a career you will go on to have, and how far you will reach. But with Your First Job, you can get an unfair advantage over your contemporaries by quickly learning the real life techniques of how to manage people and work, things they may end up learning the hard way. So ensure you have the skills, for example, of how to say No, how to manage your time to be productive and efficient, and how to avoid the dangers of being overwhelmed and stressed out by the levels of work that can head your way if you don't know how to manage the demands of people around you at work. Get your copy of Your First Job today and use the tools and techniques it will teach you to make a success of starting work and help you launch your successful career.

Your First Job: How to make a success of starting work and ensure your first year is the launch of a successful career

Mark Blayney

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