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Title: The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance

Author: M. R. James

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-17

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.

The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance is a strange tale told in the form of four mysterious letters. The writer's uncle, the rector in a small market town, has mysteriously disappeared in the days before Christmas. The writer of the letters has been summoned to help the search for the missing man. He writes every day to his brother to update him on events...and describes a series of most bizarre and inexplicable happenings.

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Title: Powers of the Air

Author: J. D. Beresford

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

John Davys Beresford (1873-1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres. 'Powers of the Air' is a strange and evocative tale of superstition, supernatural forces and suspense. When the 'black time' comes, it is not safe to go out on the cliffs...but a young outsider from the town is determined to prove that the Powers do not exist.

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Title: The Overcrowded Iceberg

Author: Morley Roberts

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Morley Roberts (1857-1942) was an adventurer who worked on railways, cattle, and sheep ranches all over Africa and the Americas and still found time to write a large number of very varied novels and stories with a zest that only real-life experience can give.

The Overcrowded Iceberg is the story of the argumentative crew of a fog-bound ship in the northern Atlantic, which eventually strikes an iceberg and sinks. The crew are able to take refuge on part of the iceberg which sank their vessel. But as the berg drifts south to warmer waters, the iceberg begins to melt.

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Title: The House-Surgeon

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

The House-Surgeon is a strange tale about a haunted house. Not that there is an actual ghost in evidence. Indeed, nobody has ever died in the house since it was originally built. But a strange all-pervading depression haunts the place intermittently which overwhelms its occupants.

When the current owner of the house tells the strange tale of the house to a fellow passenger, Mr. Perseus, on a trans-Atlantic steamer, he invites him down to the house to experience the horrible phenomenon himself. Mr. Perseus sets out to discover what lies behind this strange ghostless haunting.

Members Reviews:

It's Kipling, but the narration is really poor!

You can't go wrong with Kipling. A lovely short story, but the narration is very sing-song and poorly metered. It comes in inexplicable pulses. Very distracting but doable because it's short.

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Title: The Tool

Author: W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres, in which many of his works are recognized as masterpieces of the genre.

The Tool is a creepy tale about a young curate on a walking holiday who discovers the body of a murdered sailor on the moors above a remote village. He walks on to the village with the intention of reporting his grisly discovery, but as the constable is away for the night he checks into the local inn until he can report the murder. But while he waits, the realisation dawns on him who the murderer really is.

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Title: Reparation

Author: J. D. Beresford

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

John Davys Beresford (1873 - 1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres.

Reparation is a strange short story. Angus, a young engineer returning to England from Cape Town, is offered a first class passage by an ailing acquaintance on the pretext that he needs a secretary during the voyage. Once they set sail it becomes clear that there is in fact no secretarial work to be done and he is puzzled as to why he has been taken on. One evening he is called to his employer's cabin. The old man is dying.

On his deathbed, he entrusts Angus with a bag of uncut diamonds and instructions to give them to a young woman, Sarah Browning, who had once been his mistress, and with who he suspects he may have had a child. The old man dies. Angus does his best to find Sarah Browning, but finds that she has already left the address he had been given. But every time he attempts to abandon the quest, strange - and sometimes sinister - events occur which set him back on the track of the elusive woman.

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Title: The Child in the Garden

Author: Leonard Merrick

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Leonard Merrick (1864 - 1939) was a well-known English novelist, who was popular with the likes of such as H. G. Wells, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton and William Dean Howells. Many of his stories have, over the years, been adapted to the screen. J. M. Barrie called Merrick the 'novelist's novelist'.

The Child in the Garden is the story of an independent young woman with a passion for archeology who enjoys travelling to sites of antiquity in pusuit of her research. Meanwhile her fiancé, a highly traditional curate, is unhappy at her level of freedom and independence. When he finally travels out to Greece and catches up with her in a remote village, she breaks off their engagement. Soon after this she experiences a terrifying, but at the same time thrilling adventure. She is abducted by a gang of brigands with a most attractive and seductive captain. She suddenly realises that she is in a terrible dilemma.

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Title: The Paradise Coal-Boat

Author: Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

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 Paradise Coal-Boat" is the story of Ezra Pollard, skipper of a coal boat working between Tyneside and the South Coast. The cost-conscious shipowner, Gedge, makes it very clear to Ezra that he is to sail his route at top speed and in the event of any collision to bring home no survivors from other ships who could make claims for damages against the firm. But Ezra is haunted for years by an incident where he accidentally mows down a fishing smack and drowns its crew. And then one foggy night, the 'Paradise' collides with a passenger liner carrying 300 souls.

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Title: Neap-Tide Madness

Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866 - 1946) was a popular and successful English writer of genre fiction, especially thrillers.

"Neap-Tide Madness" is the strange story of Sir Jaspar Slane's visits to the Dormy House in Norfolk. One foggy evening, returning late from the golf course, Slane glimpses the figure of a man emerge from the mist carrying a hunting rifle. The figure raises his gun and shoots at Slane from close quarters, narrowly misses him and vanishes again into the mist.

When he makes it back to the Dormy House, Slane learns that the loose madman is the mysterious Mark Rennett - a fishman and hunter who lives in a ramshackle cottage on the marshes with his extraordinarily beautiful wife. Slane decides to confront Rennett about the incident, but the encounter does not go at all how he hoped. On his next visit to the Dormy House though, a peculiar murder takes place and Slane discovers the key to it.

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Title: The Desert Islander

Author: Stella Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and short story and travel writer.

The Desert Islander is the story of a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who seeks help from an Englishman living in a remote part of southern China during the Chinese war. Two facts quickly become apparent about our legionnaire. First, that he has a narcissistic personality disorder which leaves him devoid of empathy and in desperate need to attention and adulation. Second that he is suffering from a gangrenous leg.

The imperturbable Englishman, who is totally disinclined to pander to his visitor's over-bloated sense of self-importance, insists on setting off next morning through the fighting zone to try to bring his guest to a hospital.