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Title: The Black Cat

Author: William James Wintle

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William James Wintle (1861-1920) was a Welsh writer who established himself as an author before becoming an Oblate for the Abbey of Caldey Island in Wales. It was there that he wrote a series of horror stories for the enjoyment of eight boys who attended the abbey.

Wintle noted that the stories were originally told on Sunday nights while "crouching over a wood fire on a wind-swept island off the Western shore".

'The Black Cat' tells the story of a man who hates cats and finds himself haunted by a mysterious spectral black cat which gradually becomes more powerful and threatening. Before long he realizes that the cat aims to kill him and in an exceptionally horrific fashion....

Members Reviews:

Makes me think of Romans 7:21

Short engaging horror story.

Can be read in one sitting, in about a half-an-hour.

Favorite quotes include:

"But my disease grew upon me - for what disease is like Alcohol!" (7)

"But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul." (2)

"The guilt of my dark deed disturbed me but little. ... I determined to wall it up ... I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!" (27, 24)

"Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? This spirit of perverseness ... Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not?" (10)

This last passage, and indeed the theme of the story, makes me think of some famous Scriptures:

"I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. ... What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!" -Romans 7:21,24,25 (New International Version)

Despite being a tortured soul, as another reviewer points out, Poe is said to have found comfort towards the end of his life by a more forceful embrace of Catholicism.

The Combination Of The Most Perverse Conduct Described By Great Writing

Edgar Allen Poe is a great talent. According to my studies, he may have been a tortured sole. This personal anguish, combined with great talent as a writer produced some of the greatest and most shocking writing of Mr. Poe's time. There may be no better example of this than this short story. I am not sure I would have had the courage to put this story into words if I had been the author.

As a student, not a scholar, of literature, I had always tried to figure out why I like Edgar Allen Poe so much. His style had always seemed unique to me. Then I read "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley". This work precedes that of Poe and really reminds me of Poe so much, that I cannot help but wonder if Edgar Allan Poe may have been inspired in part by Mary Shelley. No one has ever suggested that to me and I have never read that. It is just a feeling that I have.

As far as this audiobook is concerned, the narration is faithful to the short story. The narrator is female. She is excellent. I also have a narration that is done by a male, Bob Thomley. I did find that narration more chilling. Thank You...

What can I say, I love this story

Anyone who reads knows the superb works of this author, Edgar Allen Poe.

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Title: The Spectre Spiders

Author: William James Wintle

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William James Wintle (1861-1920) was a Welsh writer who distinguished himself as a versatile writer before becoming an Oblate for the Abbey of Caldey Island in Pembrokeshire, Wales. There he wrote a collection of supernatural horror stories specifically for the enjoyment of eight boys who attended there. Wintle wrote that the stories were originally told on Sunday nights while "crouching over a wood fire on a wind-swept island off the Western shore".

'The Spectre Spiders' is the story of a disreputable loan shark who starts to imagine strange, spiderlike creatures scurrying around his house. He consults an eye doctor, who finds nothing wrong with his vision and prescribes rest and relaxation.

But the spiders become more concrete and larger...and then something terrible happens to his dog. He is discovered dead one morning...an empty skin full of bones...sucked completely dry. From this point things go from bad to worse....

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Title: The Ghost at the Blue Dragon

Author: William James Wintle

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William James Wintle (1861-1920) was a Welsh writer who later became Oblate for the Abbey of Caldey Island in Wales. It was there that he wrote a series of ghost tales for the entertainment of eight boys who attended there. Wintle wrote that the stories were originally told on Sunday nights while "crouching over a wood fire on a wind-swept island off the Western shore".

'The Ghost at the Blue Dragon' tells the story of Professor Latham, an academic who spends the summer at The Blue Dragon - an old inn in Saltminster with a reputation for being haunted. Early on in his stay he realizes that he has a doppelganger in the hotel. To begin with, the mysterious double seems bent on damaging the professor's reputation...but as the story progresses, it emerges that the intent is far more sinister....

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Title: The Grey Cat

Author: Barry Pain

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his outstanding ghost and horror stories.

'The Grey Cat' is a supernatural story about a very peculiar and sinister cat which follows an explorer home from Central Africa to London. It bears an uncanny resemblance to an old carved jade statuette of a cat which the man purchased before his departure...the one which the antiquarian dealer had tried to buy back from him hours later for double the price paid...and which is eagerly sought by a wealthy African gentleman in a grey suit.

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Title: The White Cat

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the '20s and '30s and remains popular to this day.

"The White Cat" is the story of a young American man in Hollywood who, being at the end of his financial possibilities, conceives a plan to marry a wealthy English widow. The only difficulty is that the lady's cat does not appear to approve of the match...and it is a very peculiar and oddly sinister feline....

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Title: The Ghost in the Cupboard Room

Author: Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories and was a great friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens.

'The Ghost in the Cupboard Room' is a strange tale of a sailor who is captured by a vindictive enemy on the Spanish Main, who ties and gags him on the floor of the hold, which contains barrels of gunpowder...leaving a candle burning, to which, some way down, is attached a fuse leading to the explosives.

The sailor must watch helplessly as the candle burns its way slowly towards the fuse....

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Title: Let Loose

Author: Mary Cholmondeley

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) was an English novelist and short story writer. 'Let Loose' is a supernatural ghost story where a young architect wishes to research a unique fresco in the crypt of a remote and ancient parish church in Yorkshire.

The parish clergyman is remarkably reluctant to hand over the keys to the crypt and sets some odd conditions to their use. On the subsequent days after the young architect has opened the crypt, terrible and mysterious deaths begin to plague the village. Something has been let loose...something horrible and sinister....

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Title: The Ticking of the Clock

Author: Louisa Baldwin

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925) was a British author of popular Victorian ghost stories. She spent much of her adult life as a bedridden invalid. Her hatred of idleness, combined with her imagination, led her to write. Her son was Stanley Baldwin, who became the British prime minister.

'The Ticking of the Clock' is a touching tale of a grandfather and his little grandson, Peter, on whom he dotes. Peter wants to know why his grandfather is so old and infirm. His grandfather's attempts to explain about aging are hard for the boy to understand, but at last he grasps that it is to do with the ticking of the clock. So Peter sets out to stop the clock and help his grandfather to regain his youth and vitality....

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Title: The Gull

Author: F. Anstey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934) was an English novelist and journalist who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey.

"The Gull" is a strange tale about a man whose sweetheart, on setting sail for Guernsey one evening, romantically promises him that if she should die, she will return to him as a white dove.

Next morning he awakes to find a large grey gull has flown into his bedroom overnight. When news comes in that his darling's ship has struck rocks and sunk, he suddenly realises that the gull must be the spirit of his drowned lover. He takes the gull with him to London and dotes on her, as her status deserves.

But things become complicated when he meets another young lady...and the relationship with the gull seems less fulfilling than he had hoped....

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Title: The Missing Model

Author: Lettice Galbraith

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Lettice Galbraith is as mysterious as the stories she wrote. She appeared on the literary scene in 1893 with a rash of short stories and one novel, published another story four years later, and then disappeared without trace. Yet despite the brevity of her presence on the literary stage, her supernatural stories have remained popular to this day.

"The Missing Model" is a strange tale - a cross between a ghost story and a crime mystery. Maine, an up-and-coming artist, finds himself suddenly in need of a new model. When the perfect model mysteriously turns up at his door, he assumes she was sent by his friend, Faucit. But the model turns out to be much more mysterious than Maine could imagine...and when she disappears, he and Faucit set out to find her.