Embrace the darkness

Read by David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick(Unabridged: 04hrs 55mins)

Featuring stories by Leonid Andreyev, Marjorie Bowen, Richard Garnett, Anatole France, Franz Kafka & 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 - Gods, Religion & Churches - An Introduction

02 - Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev

03 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen

04 - The Demon Pope by Richard Garnett

05 - Lucifer by Anatole France

06 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

07 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain

08 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker

09 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle