Embrace the darkness

Read by Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland, Michael Lyons(Unabridged: 16hrs 54mins)

Featuring stories by Jack London, Edgar Alan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Fredric Brown, Mark Twain, Washington Irving & 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 Americans - An Introduction

2 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London

3 - The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether by Edgar Alan Poe

4 - The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne

5 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

6 - Nightmare in Yellow by Fredric Brown

7 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain

8 - Lost in a Pyramid (or the Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard

9 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

10 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

11 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton

12 - The Crystal Man by Edward Page Mitchell

13 - The Tomb by H P Lovecraft

14 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie

15 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather

16 - Tony's Wife by Alice Dunbar Nelson

17 - Carnivorine by Lucy Hamilton Hooper

18 - Joseph by Katherine Rickford

19 - Spurs by Tod Robbins

20 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson

21 - The Tattooed Leg by John Chilton

22 - Devereux's Last Smoke by Izola Forrester

23 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

24 - Guests Unexpected. A Thanksgiving Story by Maude K Griffin

25 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens

26 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

27 - Into the Sun by Robert Duncan Milne

28 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin

29 - The Moonstone Mass by Harriet Prescott Spofford

30 - The Shipwrecked Crew by Rebecca Harding Davies

31 - The Upper Berth by F Marion Crawford

32 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

33 - The Moaning Lily by Emma Vane

34 - When the Devil Was Well by Gertrude Atherton