Embrace the darkness

Read by Robert Maskell, Richard Mitchley, Janet Fullerlove(Unabridged: 13hrs 13mins)

Featuring stories by Margaret Oliphant, Ethel Lina White, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Barr & 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 - Scotland, Wales & Ireland - An Introduction

02 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant

03 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant

04 - Cheese - Bait For The Beast by Ethel Lina White

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

06 - The Body Snatcher - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

07 - The Body Snatcher - Part 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson

08 - An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr

09 - N by Arthur Machen

10 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott

11 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker

12 - To Let by B M Croker

13 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter

14 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde

15 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde

16 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet

17 - The Ghost at the Wrath by Rosa Mulholland

18 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell

19 - Behind the Wall by Violet Jacob

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

21 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward

22 - In The Fourth Dimension by Clotilde Graves writing as Richard Dehan

23 - Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu

24 - Of A Promise Broken by Lafcadio Hearn