The Top 10 Short Stories - European Horror (Audiobook)

Read by Ian Holm, Robert Maskell, Mark Rice-Oxley(Unabridged: 08:38mins)

Featuring stories by Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka, Alexander Pushkin, Sheridan Le Fanu, E T A Hoffman, Rhoda Broughton, Anatole France, Stefan Grabiński, Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe, Karl Hans Ströbl & many more

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

In this volume horror not only comes in all shapes and sizes but also from every part of Europe with twisted narratives and characters that are very eager to journey to your ears.

1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - European Horror - An Introduction

2 - Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant

3 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

4 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin

5 - Green Tea - Part 1 by Sheridan Le Fanu

6 - Green Tea - Part 2 by Sheridan Le Fanu

7 - The Mass of Shadows by Anatol France

8 - The Triumph of Mechanics by Karl Hans Ströbl

9 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

10 - Ultima Thule by Stefan Stefan Grabiński

11 - The Sand-Man - Part 1 by E T A Hoffman

12 - The Sand-Man - Part 2 by E T A Hoffman

13 - The Amputated Arms by Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe