Embrace the darkness

Read by Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker(Unabridged: 11hrs 31mins)

Featuring stories by Hesba Stretton, Ernest R Stuffing, E G Swain, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain & 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 - Volume 10 - An Introduction

02 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton

03 - The Strange Discovery of Doctor Nosidy by Ernest R Stuffing

04 - The Man With The Roller by E G Swain

05 - The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray

06 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy

07 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain

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

09 - The Moaning Lily by Emma Vane

10 - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House by Clara Venn

11 - The Death Room by Edgar Wallace

12 - Tarnhelm or The Death of My Uncle Robert by Hugh Walpole

13 - The Name Tree by Mary Webb

12 - Fear by Catherine Wells

15 - The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H G Wells

16 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton

17 - Cheese - Bait For The Beast by Ethel Lina White

18 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde

19 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde

20 - When Time Stood Still by W J Wintle

21 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood

22 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf

23 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill