Anatole France to C J Cutcliffe Hyne

Read by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Mark Rice-Oxley(Unabridged: 12:39mins)

Featuring stories by Anatole France, James Hain Friswell, Richard Le Gallienne, Richard Garnett, Vsevolod Garshin & many more

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy, warm and comfortable becomes cold, painful, even horrific.

The talents of their pens now fall unsettlingly on your ears as one by one stories unfold, characters take hold and you, dear listener, are merely dragged along for a very malevolent ride.

01 - The Dark Masters - Volume 3 - An Introduction

02 - The Daughter of Lilith by Anatole France

03 - Snap-Dragon by James Hain Friswell

04 - The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne

05 - Madam Lucifer by Richard Garnett

06 - A Red Flower by Vsevolod Garshin

07 - Strychnine for Village Dogs by Arthur Gask

08 - The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier

09 - Perez by W L George

10 - The Crimson Weaver by R Murray Gilchrist

11 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol

12 - The Necromancer by Arthur Gray

13 - The Juniper Tree by The Brothers Grimm

14 - Only A Dream by H Rider Haggard

15 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy

16 - The Vampire of Croglin Grange by Augustus Hare

17 - August Heat by W F Harvey

18 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff

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

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

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

22 - An Unexpected Reunion by Johann Hebel

23 - Of A Promise Broken by Lafcadio Hearn

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

25 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman

26 - The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood

27 - Lucifera by Anthony Hope

28 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt

29 - The Lizard by C J Cutcliffe Hyne