Audiotorium!

Written by Amy Lowell and read by Heather Mathew

In this chilling poem, picture a crossroads, a stake and roadside burial. There will be no peace or rest for the living or dead while the stake is there. 

Written by Edgar Allan Poe and read by Harry Medawar

After committing unprovoked violence, the narrator is tormented by the sound of his victim’s beating heart. What will it do to his conscience and where will it lead him next?

Expect insanity, paranoia and psychological contradictions in this classic horror story.

Written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and read by Zoe Harvey-Lee

A miller's daughter is betrothed to a suitor chosen by her father. The daughter has a bad feeling about this man and when she is finally forced to visit him at home, she learns the terrible truth about her future husband!

Written by William Fryer Harvey and read by Luke Daxon

Two men, unknown to each other, whose glimpses of the other's possible future suggest that one of them will be murdered and the other will be the murderer.

This ghostly tale has an atmosphere of danger, of an accident waiting to happen – it could leave you with many unanswered questions…

The Interval written Vincent O’Sullivan and read by Cath Messum

Mrs Wilton has been making the rounds of psychics trying to contact her deceased husband. It is 1919 in England and like a lot of women, she is newly widowed from the Great War. This is a sad tale of grief and loss and more subtly, about the human cost of war.

Written by H.H Munro and read by Sian Walters

A young man, suffering from a nervous condition, introduces himself at a neighbour’s country house. He is welcomed with a story of family horror that chills his soul.

Written by Edgar Allan Poe and read by Nigel Cole.

Animal lovers beware, this is by no means a fluffy tale and comes with a 'Drinkaware' warning! 

Pluto, the black cat, was the narrator’s best friend and they did everything together – until alcohol addiction puts a wrench in their friendship. 

Listen in horror as the narrator declines from good to evil – urbane to insane.

A Thousand and One Nights by Caroline Ross - read by the author.

A Sultan is spellbound by the voice of a young girl and so he takes her as his bride.  At his palace she sings for him every night and Princes come from far and wide to hear her nightingale-like voice. 

At first the girl amuses the Sultan, but as the days pass he demands more and more, but she has nothing left to give him - for this she is cruelly punished.

Written by Edgar Allan Poe and read by Dave Brickwood

An unnamed narrator is brought to trial before sinister judges of the Spanish Inquisition. In front of him are seven tall white candles on a table, and, as they burn down, his hopes of survival also diminish.  

Poe’s classic tale, journeys deep into unbearable horror and mental torture.

Written Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and read by Lara Parker 

A miller makes a deal with a stranger to gain great wealth. Poor fool. What he doesn’t realise, is that he’s unwittingly sold his daughter to the Devil.