Embrace the darkness

Read by Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker(Unabridged: 03hrs 42mins)

Featuring stories by Mary E Mann, Arabella Kenealy, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Anton Chekhov & 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 - Involving Children - An Introduction

02 - Little Brother by Mary E Mann

03 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy

04 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson

05 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov

06 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

07 - The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin

08 - The Dead Hand by L T Meade and Robert Eustace

09 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy