Tod Robbins to Israel Zangwill

Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick(Unabridged: 12:02mins)

Featuring stories by Tod Robbins, Phil Robinson, Sax Rohmer, Saki, Marcel Schwob, Walter Scott, M P Shiel, Robert Louis Stevenson & 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 6 - An Introduction

02 - Spurs by Tod Robbins

03 - The Last of the Vampires by Phil Robinson

04 - Lord of the Jackals by Sax Rohmer

05 - The Open Window by Saki

06 - The Mouthless by Marcel Schwob

07 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott

08 - The Bride by M P Shiel

09 - The Body Snatcher - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

10 - The Body Snatcher - Part 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson

11 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker

12 - The Strange Discovery of Doctor Nosidy by Ernest R Stuffing

13 - The Man With The Roller by E G Swain

14 - The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray

15 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy

16 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain

17 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward

18 - The Death Room by Edgar Wallace

19 - Tarnhelm or The Death of My Uncle Robert by Hugh Walpole

20 - The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H G Wells

21 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde

22 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde

23 - When Time Stood Still by W J Wintle

24 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill