Stories From The Shadows – The 1910’s

Embrace the darkness

Read by Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe(Unabridged: 13hrs 09mins)

Featuring stories by Franz Kafka, Aleister Crowley, Edith Wharton, Achmed Abdullah, W F Harvey, Saki, Richard Le Gallienne, William Hope Hodgson & 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 1910's - An Introduction

2 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

3 - The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Part 1 by Aleister Crowley

4 - The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Part 2 by Aleister Crowley

5 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton

6 - Light by Achmed Abdullah

7 - August Heat by W F Harvey

8 - The Open Window by Saki

9 - The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne

10 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson

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

12 - The Sumach by Ulric Daubeny