Classic stories, think Voldemort more than Harry Potter

Read by Richard Mitchley, Geoff McGivern, Mark Rice-Oxley(Unabridged: 10hrs 25mins)

Featuring stories by A M Burrage , Anatole France, Arthur Machen, D K Broster, Edith Nesbit & many more

A magic trick is always fun tinged with a sense of wonder even when we know how they did it the question is asked again ‘Really, how did they do it?’ But magic in literature has two sides both good and bad, light and dark and in this volume our pen laden authors bring forth tales that disturb and menace as only the creations of Nikolai Gogol, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Arthur Machen, Edith Nesbit and many others possibly can.

1 - Stories of Dark Magic - An Introduction

2 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol

3 - Blood - Part 1 by Hanns Heinz Ewers

4 - Blood - Part 2 by Hanns Heinz Ewers

5 - The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit

6 - The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling

7 - The Screaming Skull by F Marion Crawford

8 - A Witch's Den by Helena Blavatsky

9 - Witchcraft by Arthur Machen

10 - The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France

11 - Casting the Runes by M R James

12 - Beyond the Pale by H D Everett

13 - Warning Whispers by A M Burrage

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

15 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster

16 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 1 by Edward Bulwer Lytton

17 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 2 by Edward Bulwer Lytton