Stories From The Shadows - Volume 4

Embrace the darkness

Read by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Mark Rice-Oxley(Unabridged: 12hrs 19mins)

Featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Dorothy Easton, Amelia Edwards, 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.

01 - Stories From the Shadows - Volume 4 - An Introduction

02 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle

03 - Tony's Wife by Alice Dunbar Nelson

04 - The Reaper by Dorothy Easton

05 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

06 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot

07 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot

08 - The Death Mask by H D Everett writing as Theo Parker

09 - The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers

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

11 - The Tyburn Ghost by Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster

12 - The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave Flaubert