Richard Middleton to Ernst Raupach

Read by Eric Meyers, Robert Maskell, Elliot Fitzpatrick(Unabridged: 10:29mins)

Featuring stories by Richard Middleton, Thomas Street Millington, Robert Duncan Milne, Edward Page Mitchell & many more

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy, warm and comfortable becomes cold, painful, even horrific.

The talents of their pens now fall unsettlingly on your ears as one by one stories unfold, characters take hold and you, dear listener, are merely dragged along for a very malevolent ride.

01 - The Dark Masters - Volume 5 - An Introduction

02 - The Coffin Merchant by Richard Middleton

03 - No Living Voice by Thomas Street Millington

04 - The Eidoloscope by Robert Duncan Milne

05 - The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell

06 - Second Thoughts by Arthur Moore

07 - The Corpse Light by J E Preston Muddock writing as Dick Donovan

08 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford

09 - The Vampire by Jan Neruda

10 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet

11 - The Late Mrs Fowke by Amyas Northcote

12 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain

13 - The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether by Edgar Alan Poe

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

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

16 - Allelulia by T F Powys

17 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard

18- The House of the Black Evil by Eric Purves

19 - Scarlet Runners by James S Pyke-Nott

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

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