Embrace the darkness

Read by Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker(Unabridged: 10hrs 56mins)

Featuring stories by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bram Stoker, Walter Scott, Perceval Landon, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell, D K Broster & 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 - Lovers and Loved Ones Return As Ghosts - An Introduction

02 - The Vision of the Dead Creole by Lafcadio Hearn

03 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

04 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt

05 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce

06 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood

07 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

01 - Stories From the Shadows - Haunted House - An Introduction

02 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 1 by Edward Bulwer Lytton

03 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 2 by Edward Bulwer Lytton

04 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker

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

06 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott

07 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

08 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant

09 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant

10 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell

11 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster

12 - The Ghost at the Wrath by Rosa Mulholland

13 - The Closed Window by A C Benson

14 - To Let by B M Croker

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

16 - The Spectral Hand by Jean Lorrain

17 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward

18 - The Man With The Roller by E G Swain