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Title: Five Short Stories by M. R. James

Author: M. R. James

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who wrote as M. R. James, was an English author, medieval scholar, and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College.

He is best known for his outstanding ghost stories. James reinvented the ghost story for the modern audience by moving away from Gothic elements and using realistic contemporary settings. His protagonists and plots often reflected his own antiquarian interests.

Accordingly he is known as the originator of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. This collection features the following works:

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Title: Three Short Stories by E. G. Swain

Author: E. G. Swain

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author of ghost stories.

He was a longtime friend of M. R. James, and his ghost stories show James' influence.

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Title: Five Short Stories by Vincent O'Sullivan

Author: Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940), born in New York to an Irish American family, moved as a child to London. As a young man, he soon became well recognised as the master of decadent and macabre fiction.

This collection presents five of O'Sullivan's creepiest tales:

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Title: The Business of Madame Jahn

Author: Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940), born in New York to an Irish American family, moved as a child to London. As a young man, he soon became well recognised as the master of decadent and macabre fiction.

'The Business of Madame Jahn' is a macabre ghost story of a suicide, a terrible murder and an awful revenge.

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Title: Wailing Well

Author: M. R. James

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who wrote as M. R. James, was an English author, medieval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College.

'Wailing Well' is the story of a group of boy scouts camping somewhere on the downs in the south of England who are warned not to go into a particular field which contains a single clump of trees. A local shepherd relates a strange story about the place, which he refers to as Wailing Well. He claims to have seen four skeletal figures walking through the field, three women and one man, all walking towards the clump of trees where the well is. One of the young scouts determines to investigate for himself....

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Title: A Dead Finger

Author: Sabine Baring-Gould

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was a British writer, clergyman and member of the landed gentry, having inherited an estate of 3,000 acres. While a young curate, he met and fell in love with a beautiful 16-year-old mill worker. He paid for her education and married her, and they subsequently had 15 children. Their relationship formed the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, which was turned into the musical My Fair Lady.

Baring-Gould's strangest and most enduring works are those which are based on fantastical medieval myths and folklore. 'A Dead Finger' is a strange vampire story about a parasitic dead human finger which feeds off living humans in an attempt to draw the life force out of them and thus regrow its body.

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Title: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was the preeminent figure in late 19th-century detective fiction. A physician by profession, he soon found such popularity as a writer of detective stories that his writing was far more profitable than his medical practice.

'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire' is a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Holmes and Watson are contacted by a country gentleman whose Peruvian wife has been caught red-handed sucking the blood from her baby's neck. Can there be any explanation other than that the woman is a vampire?

Members Reviews:

Vampire Deducted

Not the most twisty of Holmes stories and predictably dismissive of the supernatural. ("Ghosts need not apply.") But a very interesting and surprisingly sympathetic view of the rights and role of the Victorian wife is worked into the mystery. I had never read this one before a friend suggested it, and I'm very glad she did.

An interesting very short story

While I and others were able to solve the case within the first two pages, it was still fascinating to read what happened because Conan Doyle is a very good writer. In this story, he is asked to solve the case of a woman, the wife of the person requesting Holmes' help, who was seen to be a vampire. Holmes is told that the man, his client, was married to a woman from South America and was seen to bend over their child and suck the blood from the child's neck. This same woman also acted strangely on another occasion. She beat her husband's son from his first wife. I am sure that others will enjoy this tale as I did. This edition also contains a bio of Conan Doyle.

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Title: The Sad Story of a Vampire

Author: Eric Stanislaus Stenbock

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Count Eric Stenislaus Stenbock (1860-1895) was an aristocrat of German-Estonian origin who lived in England. He wrote weird, macabre fantasy fiction and was a favorite of H. P. Lovecraft. He was well known for his eccentric lifestyle, keeping snakes, salamanders, and toads in his bedroom, and owned a bear, a reindeer, and a fox. He had a life-size doll with him at all times which he claimed was his son.

The Sad Story of a Vampire is a peculiar tale about a vampire who arrives, invited by the family father when he has been stranded at the nearest railway station owing to a missed connection...and who moves into the house and begins to sap the strength of the young son of the family.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

A+ story

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Title: The Old Portrait

Author: Hume Nisbet

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

James Hume Nisbet (1849-1923) was born in Scotland but moved to Australia as a young man and spent seven years travelling there before he returned to Scotland. He turned to literature in middle age and wrote a large number of mystery and adventure stories, which were published in England.

'The Old Portrait' is a supernatural mystery about an artist who acquires an old and very sinister painting.

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Title: Marsyas in Flanders

Author: Vernon Lee

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of Violet Paget (1856-1935), a British writer most famous for her supernatural short stories. She was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement.

'Marsyas in Flanders' is a strange tale of an ancient carving of the crucified Christ - minus its arms and cross - which washes up in the 12th century on a beach in Flanders. Once ownership of the relic is established, it is hung in the local church at Dunes...and before long strange miracles begin to take place, which rapidly turns the minor fishing village into a place of pilgrimage and worship. But the miracles become stranger and more threatening - demonic, even - in nature...and the church authorities are forced to step in and investigate. What they find causes them to take very drastic action.