Stories From The Shadows – The 1890’s

Embrace the darkness

Read by Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley(Unabridged: 15hrs 33mins)

Featuring stories by Ambrose Bierce, John Buchan, Mary Cholmonderly, B M Croker, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Conan Doyle & 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.

1 - Stories from the Shadows - The 1890's - An Introduction

2 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

3 - No Man's Land - Part 1 by John Buchan

4 - No Man's Land - Part 2 by John Buchan

5 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmonderly

6 - To Let by B M Croker

7 - Villa Lucienne by Ella D'Arcy

8 - The Corpse Light by J E Preston Muddock writing as Dick Donovan

9 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle

10 - Tony's Wife by Alice Dunbar Nelson

11 - Lucifer by Anatole France

12 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith