Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

Read by Darrell Joe, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker(Unabridged: 11:18mins)

Featuring stories by Uriah Derick D'Arcy, Ulric Daubeny, Alphonse Daudet, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Rudolph Fisher, John Galsworthy & many more

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. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number.

In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution. Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it. Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.

Whilst male authors were the overwhelming majority of beneficiaries in having their work printed time was their constant enemy. Your work could be immensely talented but if it was not to lure money into the coffers by gaining an audience of readers then your career would be one of pleasing yourself and was soon forgotten.

But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age.

In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents whose time has now come again.

01 - The Neglected Authors - The Men - Volume 2 - An Introduction

02 - The Black Vampyre by Uriah Derick D'Arcy

03 - The Sumach by Ulric Daubeny

04 - The Siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet

05 - The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers

06 - The City of Refuge by Rudolph Fisher

07 - The Silence by John Galsworthy

08 - The Metropolitian Emigrant by John Galt

09 - Madam Lucifer by Richard Garnett

10 - Coward by Vsevolod Garshin

11 - Perez by W L George

12 - Glahn's Death by Knut Hamsun

13 - A Responsibility by Henry Harland

14 - August Heat by W F Harvey

15 - The Chamomile Drops by Jaroslav Hasek

16 - Of A Promise Broken by Lafcadio Hearn

17 - An Unexpected Reunion by Johann Hebel

18 - Gods in Exile by Heinrich Heine

19 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

20 - Nine Points of the Law by E W Hornung

21 - Skulls in the Stars by Robert E Howard

22 - Rabies by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez