Embrace the darkness

Read by Ian Holm, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley(Unabridged: 04hrs 39mins)

Featuring stories by Leo Tolstoy, Guy De Maupassant, Vsevolod Garshin, Lettice Galbraith & 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 - Mental Illness - An Introduction

02 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy

03 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant

04 - A Red Flower by Vsevolod Garshin

05 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith

06 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell

07 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

08 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather