Embrace the darkness

Read by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Eve Karpf, Richard Mitchley(Unabridged: 12hrs 44mins)

Featuring stories by Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, John Chilton, Mary Cholmonderly, Wilkie Collins & 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 3 - An Introduction

02 - The Force of Blood by Miguel de Cervantes

03 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov

04 - The Tattooed Leg by John Chilton

05 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmonderly

06 - Hodge by Evelyn May Clowes writing as Elinor Mordaunt

07 - The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins

08 - The Horror of Abbot's Grange by Frederick Cowles

09 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik

10 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

11 - The Screaming Skull by F Marion Crawford

12 - The Moving Finger by Rose Champion de Crespigny

13 - To Let by B M Croker

14 - The First Evening by Catherine Crowe

15 - The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Part 1 by Aleister Crowley

16 - The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Part 2 by Aleister Crowley

17 - Villa Lucienne by Ella D'Arcy

18 - The Sumach by Ulric Daubeny

19 - The Shipwrecked Crew by Rebecca Harding Davies

20 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe

21 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens

22 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey

23 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey