Embrace the darkness

Read by Eric Meyers, Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker(Unabridged: 04hrs 23mins)

Featuring stories by Ernst Raupach, Wilhelm Hauff, William Makepeace Thackeray, Gertrude Atherton, Niccolo Machiavelli, Charles Baudelaire & many more

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.

But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?

Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twisted revelation that may thrill, may disturb, but will always engage and help us explore the edge of darkness where some of the very best literature patiently lurks …. waiting …. for the likes of me and you.

01 - Stories From the Shadows - The Devil - An Introduction

02 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach

03 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach

04 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff

05 - The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray

06 - When the Devil Was Well by Gertrude Atherton

07 - Belphagor by Niccolo Machiavelli

08 - The Generous Gambler by Charles Baudelaire

09 - The Devil's Mother-in-Law by Fernan Caballeron

10 - The Demon Pope by Richard Garnett

11 - The Devil's Horse by Ion Luca Caragiale