Embrace the darkness

Read by Robert Maskell, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Richard Mitchley(Unabridged: 17hrs 06mins)

Featuring stories by Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, H G Wells, John Buchan, George Eliot, George Eliot, Daniel Defoe & 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.

 

001 - Stories From the Shadows - The Brittish - An Introduction

002 - A Madman's Manuscript by Charles Dickens

003 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf

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

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

006 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells

007 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells

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

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

010 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle

011 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot

012 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot

013 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe

014 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling

015 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

016 - Phantom by Arnold Bennett

017 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley

018 - Only A Dream by H Rider Haggard

019 - Lucifera by Anthony Hope

020 - Man Size In Marble by Edith Nesbit

021 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy

022 - The Moving Finger by Rose Champion de Crespigny

023 - The Dead Hand by Wilkie Collins

024 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs

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

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

027 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

028 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott

029 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant

030 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant

031 - The Open Window by Saki

032 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster

033 - The Closed Window by A C Benson

034 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith

035 - The Death Room by Edgar Wallace

036 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton

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

038- The Spectre of Tappington - Part 1 by Richard Harris Barham

039 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 2 by Richard Harris Barham

040 - Villa Lucienne by Ella D'Arcy

041 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 1 by Edward Bulwer Lytton

042 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 2 by Edward Bulwer Lytton

043 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

044 - The Horror of Abbot's Grange by Frederick Cowles

045- The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik

046 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker

047 - The Thing in the Forest by Bernard Capes

048 - The Sumach by Ulric Daubeny

049 - The Thing That Smelt by Christopher Blayre

050 - The Lizard by C J Cutcliffe Hyne

051 - Snap-Dragon by James Hain Friswell

052 - The Blood Eagle by R H Benson

053 - The Death Hound by Violet Mary Firth writng as Dion Fortune

054 - Lord of the Jackals by Sax Rohmer

055 - Dog or Demon by Dorothy Havers

056 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 1 by John Willaim Polidori

057 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 2 by John Willaim Polidori

058 - The Last of the Vampires by Phil Robinson

059 - The Vampire of Croglin Grange by Augustus Hare

060 - The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin

061 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen

062 - The Demon Pope by Richard Garnett

063 - The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray

064 - Perez by W L George

065 - Hodge by Evelyn May Clowes writing as Elinor Mordaunt

066 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood

067 - N by Arthur Machen

068 - The Man With The Roller by E G Swain

069 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins

070 - The Coffin Merchant by Richard Middleton

071 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford

072 - The Devil Stone by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell

073 - The Miniature by J Y Ackerman

074 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood

075 - The Operation by Violet Hunt

076 - A Psychological Experiment by Richard Marsh

077 - The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood

078 - The Crimson Weaver by R Murray Gilchrist

079 - Scarlet Runners by James S Pyke-Nott

080 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay

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

082 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy

083 - With & Without Buttons by Mary Butts

084- The Waxworks by A M Burrage

085 - Mrs Raeburn's Waxwork by Lady Eleanor Smith

086 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall

087 - Tarnhelm or The Death of My Uncle Robert by Hugh Walpole

088 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy

089 - In the Mist by Mary E Penn

090 - No Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington

091 - The Wonderful Tune by Jessie Douglas Kerruish

092 - Allelulia by T F Powys

093 - Christmas Formula by Stella Benson

094 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson

095 - A Collector's Company by R H Malden

096 - Fear by Catherine Wells

097 - Shut Out by F Anstey

098 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill

099 - Passed by Charlotte Mew

100 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey

101 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey

102 -When Time Stood Still by W J Wintle

103 - The First Evening by Catherine Crowe

104 - The 9.30 Up-Train by Sabine Baring-Gould

105 - The Story of the Rippling Train by Mary Louisa Molesworth

106 - The Murder in an Omnibus by Harold Begbie

107 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmonderly

108 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

109 - The Three Kisses by Violet Quirk

110 - An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr

111 - The Name Tree by Mary Webb

112 - Lost Hearts by M R James

113 - Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched by May Sinclair

114 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

115 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee