Embrace the darkness

Read by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker(Unabridged: 03hrs 33mins)

Featuring stories by Alfred Lichtenstein, E T A Hoffman, Wilhelm Hauff, Ernst Raupach, Johann Hebel & 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 Germans - An Introduction

2 - Siegmund Simon by Alfred Lichtenstein

3 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman

4 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff

5 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach

6 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach

7 - An Unexpected Reunion by Johann Hebel

8 - The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers

9 - The Juniper Tree by The Brothers Grimm