Embrace the darkness

Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick(Unabridged: 04hrs 46mins)

Featuring stories by Vsevolod Garshin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Gogol, Leonid Andreyev, Leo Tolstoy & 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.

01 - Stories From the Shadows - The Russians - An Introduction

02 - A Red Flower by Vsevolod Garshin

03 - The Murderer by Mikhail Bulgakov

04 - Gentle Breathing by Ivan Bunin

05 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol

06 - Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev

07 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy

08 - The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov