Embrace the darkness

Read by Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick(Unabridged: 11hrs 06mins)

Featuring stories by William Hope Hodgson, E T A Hoffman, Tom Hood, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Anthony Hope & 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 6 - An Introduction

02 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson

03 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman

04 - The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood

05 - Carnivorine by Lucy Hamilton Hooper

06 - Lucifera by Anthony Hope

07 - The Coach by Violet Hunt

08 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt

05 - The Lizard by C J Cutcliffe Hyne

10 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving

12 - Behind the Wall by Violet Jacob

13 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs

14 - Lost Hearts by M R James

15 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson

16 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

17 - A Smiling Ghost by W G Kelly

18 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy

19 - The Wonderful Tune by Jessie Douglas Kerruish

20 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling

21 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

22 - Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu