Embrace the darkness

Read by Robert Maskell, Ghizela Rowe, Elliot Fitzpatrick(Unabridged: 10hrs 31mins)

Featuring stories by Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson, H G Wells, John Buchan, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot & 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 English - An Introduction

002 - A Madman's Manuscript by Charles Dickens

003 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf

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

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

006 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot

007 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot

008 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe

009 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling

010 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

011 - Phantom by Arnold Bennett

012 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley

013 - Only A Dream by H Rider Haggard

014 - Lucifera by Anthony Hope

015 - Man Size In Marble by Edith Nesbit

016 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy

017 - The Moving Finger by Rose Champion de Crespigny

018 - The Dead Hand by Wilkie Collins

019 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs

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

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

022 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

023 - The Open Window by Saki

024 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster

025 - The Closed Window by A C Benson

026 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith

027 - The Death Room by Edgar Wallace

028 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton

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

030 - The Spectre of Tappington by Richard Harris Barham

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

032 - Villa Lucienne by Ella D'Arcy

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

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

035 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

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

037- The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik

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

039 - The Thing in the Forest by Bernard Capes

040 - The Sumach by Ulric Daubeny

041 - The Thing That Smelt by Christopher Blayre

042 - The Lizard by C J Cutcliffe Hyne

043 - Snap-Dragon by James Hain Friswell

044 - The Blood Eagle by R H Benson

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

046 - Lord of the Jackals by Sax Rohmer

047 - Dog or Demon by Dorothy Havers

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

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

050 - The Last of the Vampires by Phil Robinson

051 - The Vampire of Croglin Grange by Augustus Hare

052 - The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin

053 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen

054 - The Demon Pope by Richard Garnett

055 - The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray

056 - Perez by W L George

057 - Hodge by Evelyn May Clowes writing as Elinor Mordaunt

058 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood

059 - The Man With The Roller by E G Swain

060 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins

061 - The Coffin Merchant by Richard Middleton

062 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford

063 - The Devil Stone by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell

064 - The Miniature by J Y Ackerman

065 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood

066 - The Operation by Violet Hunt

067 - A Psychological Experiment by Richard Marsh

068 - The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood

069 - The Crimson Weaver by R Murray Gilchrist

070 - Scarlet Runners by James S Pyke-Nott

071 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay

072 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy

073 - With & Without Buttons by Mary Butts

074 - The Waxworks by A M Burrage

075 - Mrs Raeburn's Waxwork by Lady Eleanor Smith

076 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall

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

078 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy

079 - In the Mist by Mary E Penn

080 - No Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington

081 - The Wonderful Tune by Jessie Douglas Kerruish

082 - Christmas Formula by Stella Benson

083 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson

084 - A Collector's Company by R H Malden

085 - Fear by Catherine Wells

086 - Shut Out by F Anstey

087 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill

088 - Passed by Charlotte Mew

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

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

091 - When Time Stood Still by W J Wintle

092 - The First Evening by Catherine Crowe

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

094 - The Story of the RipplingTrain by Mary Louisa Molesworth

095 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain

096 - The Murder in an Omnibus by Harold Begbie

097 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmonderly

098 - Mrs Amworth by E F Benson

099 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

100 - The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne

101 - The Three Kisses by Violet Quirk

102 - The Name Tree by Mary Webb

103 - Lost Hearts by M R James

104 - Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched by May Sinclair

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

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