Embrace the darkness

Read by David Shaw-Parker, Janet Fullerlove, Richard Mitchley(Unabridged: 06hrs 52mins)

Featuring stories by Oscar Wilde, Sheridan Le Fanu, Allen Upward, B M Croker, Dora Sigerson Shorter & 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 Irish - An Introduction

2 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde

3 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde

4 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu

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

6 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward

7 - To Let by B M Croker

8 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter

9 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell

10 - The Dead Hand by L T Meade and Robert Eustace

11 - The Ghost at the Wrath by Rosa Mulholland

12 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker