Embrace the darkness

Read by Julie Peasgood, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe(Unabridged: 10hrs 54mins)

Featuring stories by Theophile Gautier, W L George, R Murray Gilchrist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nikolai Gogol & 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 5 - An Introduction

02 - The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier

03 - Perez by W L George

04 - The Crimson Weaver by R Murray Gilchrist

05 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

06 - The Return by Gladys Gordon writing as Marjory E Lambe

07 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol

08 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves

09 - The Necromancer by Arthur Gray

10 - Guests Unexpected. A Thanksgiving Story by Maude K Griffin

11 - The Juniper Tree by The Brothers Grimm

12 - Only A Dream by H Rider Haggard

13 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall

14 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy

15 - The Vampire of Croglin Grange by Augustus Hare

16 - The Dead Man of Varley Grange by Elizabeth Anna Hart

17 - August Heat by W F Harvey

18 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff

19 - Dog or Demon by Dorothy Havers

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

21 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

22 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

23 - Of A Promise Broken by Lafcadio Hearn

24 - An Unexpected Reunion by Johann Hebel

25 - The Devil Stone by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell