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Title: The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt

Author: Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1866-1944) was a British writer of popular adventure fiction and fantastic literature.

"The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt" is a strange supernatural tale of Gargrave, a young egyptologist at Cambridge University who manages to reanimate the 3,000-year-old mummy of Menen-Ra via the man he has identified as a direct descendent of the ancient egyptian.

The descendent is the young gad-about-town Thompson-Pratt. It would appear that Thompson-Pratt has inherited more than merely the peculiar marks on his torso from his old ancestor.

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Title: Room Number Ten

Author: Bessie Kyffin-Taylor

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor was an English writer famous for her outstanding supernatural stories which were published in a single volume in 1920, just two years before her death.

Room Number Ten tells the story of Peter Maxton, a literary gentleman invited to join a house party at a remote house in Scotland. The driver taking him to the house from the station comments that the house is full, and they may have to use room number 10, and he pities whoever has to sleep there. But he refuses to be drawn further on the subject.

On arrival, Maxton finds he has been assigned to room number 10. It also appears that the rest of the party all know more about the room than they care to let on...and are singularly unwilling to set foot in it. On the first night, Maxton already has a foretaste of the strangeness of room number 10...and the second and third nights are more terrifying still....

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Title: The Fire

Author: Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1866-1944) was a British writer of popular adventure fiction and fantastic literature.

"The Fire", published in 1904, tells the story of Great Britain caught in the grip of a terrible freezing hurricane which has frozen everything solid. During this dire, cold weather, a huge fire breaks out in West London.

Fanned by the high winds and unimpeded by the fire services, whose water supplies are solid ice, the fire spreads rapidly across the city as the population attempts in vain to flee in terror.

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Title: Seashore Macabre

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

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 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.

"Seashore Macabre" tells the story of a curious boy who inexplicably follows a sinister-looking man at a seaside resort. The old man goes to a remote cottage on the edge of the sand dunes. The boy follows and enters the cottage, where he sees something so terrifying that the memory stays with him for the rest of his life.

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Title: A Study in Murder

Author: Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-15

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.

"A Study in Murder" is the story of a man committing the perfect murder, told from the perspective of the warped murderer.

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Title: When I Was Dead

Author: Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was born in New York, son of an Irish-American family, and moved to London as a child. As a young man, he quickly established a reputation as a master of horror and decadent macabre stories. He was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and other leaders of the aesthetic movement.

"When I Was Dead" is the macabre story of a man who gradually realises he has died unexpectedly...and resists vigorously this awful turn of events.

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Title: The Return

Author: R. Murray Gilchrist

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867-1917) was an English novelist and author of short stories often set in the Peak District. He is best known today for his Gothic short horror stories, which earn him a deserved position alongside the likes of Stevenson, Stoker, Wilde, and Stenbock.

"The Return" is an eerie ghost story about a man who returns to his home village after 20 years in the diamond fields of South Africa to see whether his sweetheart has waited for him.... When he returns, he finds that much has changed during his absence. But where is his beloved Rose Pascal?

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Title: The Fiddler of the Reels

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose work is best known for combining the traditions of Romanticism with a realistic portayal of a declining rural society in Victorian England.

"The Fiddler of the Reels" tells the story of a love triangle. The enigmatic, brilliant and rakish violin player, Wat Ollamore, who arrives in the small South Wessex village of Mellstock, exercises a diabolical fascination with the young, impressionable Car'line Aspent. Car'line's beau, Ned Hipcroft, is unable to compete with Ollamore's sinister hold on her...but when four years later Car'line suddenly writes to Ned out of the blue and offers to marry him, things turn out to be very different than he could have ever imagined.

Members Reviews:

Three Tales: The Three Strangers, The Distracted Preacher, and The Fiddler of the Reels

Today Thomas Hardy is known almost exclusively for his outstanding novels and his poetry, and yet he authored some of the finest short stories in the English language. Nearly all of his fifty-three short stories were written between 1880 and 1900, and were popular with many Victorian readers. His stories typically have a narrative structure, often with some historical basis. Many are presented as reminiscences.

The three stories in this little Dover reprint edition (0-486-29960-0) are The Three Strangers (1883), The Distracted Preacher (1879), and The Fiddler of the Reels (1893).

The Three Strangers is a humorous, and yet suspenseful tale. Nineteen guests are gathered together on a dark rainy night in the isolated, rustic home of Shepherd and Shepherdess Fennel to celebrate the christening of their second daughter. Within an hour or so three strangers individually arrive, seeking temporary shelter from the storm. Hardy gradually reveals an unexpected connection between these three strangers.

The Distracted Preacher is an adventuresome tale, apparently with an authentic historical basis. Mr. Stockdale, a young, inexperienced Wesleyan preacher, is assigned temporarily to the small village of Nether-Moynton. He quickly becomes enamored with his young, vibrant landlady, only to subsequently discover that she and her neighbors are engaged in smuggling liquor from France. Mr. Stockdale faces a moral dilemma. The ending is a bit too moralistic, and years later Thomas Hardy revealed that his publisher had forced him to change his original ending. Hardy's preferred ending is included for comparison.

The Fiddler of the Reels is a tale of a fiddler with a fantastical, magical capability to overpower children and occasionally young women with his music. Apparently, this tale is among the best-known short stories of Thomas Hardy and can be found in many anthologies.

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Title: Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork

Author: Eleanor Smith

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English writer, famous for her supernatural stories.

'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' is an eerie tale about Patrick Lamb, who takes a job as custodian of Mugivan's waxwork exhibition. In the part of the exhibition where all the murderers and freaks are displayed, there is one figure which fascinates him. It is the figure of Mrs. Raeburn, the poisoner.

Every evening as it gets dark, the figure seems to be alive - its expressions change subtly, its eyes seem to follow him.... Gradually he realises that he is bewitched by this beautiful poisoner. And then one afternoon Patrick meets a strange visitor to the exhibition: an elderly woman who introduces herself to him as Mrs. Raeburn....

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Title: The Tiger

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

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 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.

'The Tiger' is the evocative tale of an Englishman who travels to New York and descends strangely into a terrible psychosis in which he seems to perceive wild animals roaming through the subway beneath the streets. One of them, a tiger, is particularly sinister because the man knows this is the beast which will eventually track him down and pounce....