Embrace the darkness

Read by Eric Meyers, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Richard Mitchley(Unabridged: 04hrs 05mins)

Featuring stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, Valery Bryusov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alice Dunbar Nelson & 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 - Sickness & Disease - An Introduction

02 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov

03 - The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov

04 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle

05 - Tony's Wife by Alice Dunbar Nelson

06 - Lost in a Pyramid (or the Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard

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