Embrace the darkness

Read by Christopher Ragland, Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick(Unabridged: 09hrs 25mins)

Featuring stories by Ernst Raupach, George Eliot, Hugh Walpole, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rhoda Broughton, E T A Hoffman & 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 - Gothic - An Introduction

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

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

04 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot

05 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot

06 - Tarnhelm or The Death of My Uncle Robert by Hugh Walpole

07 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

08 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

09 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

10 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman

11 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott

12 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

13 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen

14 - The Ghost at the Wrath by Rosa Mulholland

15 - The Moonstone Mass by Harriet Prescott Spofford