Embrace the darkness

Read by Mark Rice-Oxley, Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker(Unabridged: 13hrs 58mins)

Featuring stories by Arthur Moore, William Mudford, Rosa Mulholland, Jan Neruda, Edith Nesbit & 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 8 - An Introduction

02 - Second Thoughts by Arthur Moore

03 - The Corpse Light by J E Preston Muddock writing as Dick Donovan

04 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford

05 - The Ghost at the Wrath by Rosa Mulholland

06 - The Vampire by Jan Neruda

07 - Man Size In Marble by Edith Nesbit

08 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet

09 - The Mystery of the Gables by Elsie Norris

10 - The Late Mrs Fowke by Amyas Northcote

11 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant

12 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant

13 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

14 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain

15 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

16 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie

17 - In the Mist by Mary E Penn

18 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

19 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

20 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 1 by John Willaim Polidori

21 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 2 by John Willaim Polidori

22 - Allelulia by T F Powys

23 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard

24 - The House of the Black Evil by Eric Purves