In search of a better world, power can corrupt even the smartest of us

Read by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland & Garrick Hagon (Unabridged: 11hrs 4mins)

Featuring stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, H P Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, Emma Vane & more.

Science has brought us many benefits for our health, our understanding, and our quality of life in all sorts of positive ways.  We are all the better for it.  But there is also a darker side when science reaches into the shadows.  It claims that a fuller knowledge would benefit everyone, it must investigate.  But, let’s be honest, some in science have lost their true calling and their ideas and notions come from these darker impulses.  Their thoughts become muddled, their path more for themselves than for us. 

In this compilation - 

01 - Short Stories About Mad Scientists - An Introduction

02 - Herbert West - Re-Animator - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft

03 - Herbert West - Re-Animator - Part 2 by H P Lovecraft

04 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London

05 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

06 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Part 2  by Robert Louis Stevenson

07 - The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

08 - The Facts In The Case of Monsieur Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe

09 - Carnivorine by Lucy Hamilton Hooper

10 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley

11 - Doctor Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne

12 - A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce

13 - The Moaning Lily by Emma Vane

14 - The Blue Laboratory by L T Meade

15 - Cool Air by H P Lovecraft

16 - Lost Hearts by M R James

17 - The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell

18 - The Love Germ by Constance Cotterell

19 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

20 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne