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Title: Treasure Trove

Author: Neil Munro

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Neil Munro (1863-1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic - a serious writer but now known mainly for his humorous short stories.

'Treasure Trove' is an amusing tale of a time when a whale was beached on a Scottish island just off the coast by Tobermory. The crew of a passing ship, led by the enterprising Sunny Jim, came up with a cunning plan to charge visitors to see the whale. The plan worked brilliantly - until the whale began to decay....

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Title: The Young Lady in Black

Author: Amyas Northcote

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Amyas Northcote (1864-1923) was an English writer and a contemporary of M. R. James. He is best known for his ghost stories.

'The Young Lady in Black' is an eerie tale of a woman who died, leaving one crucial task in her life unfinished. The tale poses at the outset the question of whether the dead can return to earth to bring incomplete tasks to their conclusion...and the weird circumstances of this story appear to confirm the theory.

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Title: The Downs

Author: Amyas Northcote

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Amyas Northcote (1864-1923) was an English writer and contemporary of M. R. James who was best known for his ghost stories.

'The Downs' is a classic ghost story which demonstrates Northcote's understated genius. The story starts out as a regular tale, but with a few understated clues as to the nature of the horror that is to come - perfectly setting the atmosphere of creepy tension: 'I was perfectly confident in my ability to find my way back over the down to Branksome at night, as the path was very familiar to us, and I expected to be aided by the light of the moon, which would rise about 10 o'clock.'

Sure enough, the journey back over the downs reveals a terrifying horror...and our hero is lucky to escape with his life.

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Title: Sparkling Biacrene

Author: F. Anstey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-16

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 and humorous short stories under the pseudonym F. Anstey.

'Sparkling Biacrene' is a humorous story about a young chemist who invents a marvellous new type of nonalcoholic drink based on a marvellous Amazonian herb with astounding properties. He names his invention 'Sparkling Biacrene' and excitedly invites his uncle to dinner with his employer and a manufacturer of soda waters to discuss the commercial potential of the drink. But a set of amusingly contrived circumstances turn the encounter into a hilarious farce as the mysterious drink has most peculiar effects on the guests.

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Title: The Inexperienced Ghost

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Inexperienced Ghost' is a ghost story with a twist. Clayton, overnighting alone at a club, encounters a pathetic ghost who is struggling to remember how to get back to the spirit world. With Clayton's help he finally works out the precise method for crossing out of our world into the next. But now that Clayton knows the secret of moving between the two worlds, will he be able to resist the temptation to try it out?

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Title: The Plattner Story

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Plattner Story' is the strange tale of Gottfried Plattner, a modern languages teacher at a private school in England who, while conducting a chemistry experiment, accidently causes an explosion. The results of the explosion are mysterious. First, Plattner disappears completely. Not a trace of him remains, despite the damage to the school being fairly minimal.

For nine days nothing is seen or heard of him, although many people locally have strange and very similar dreams about him. Second, after nine days Plattner reappears in a very unusual and equally explosive manner. Third, when he reappears he has been oddly transformed. His internal organs are all reversed. He is now left- instead of right-handed and writes from right to left. Moreover, the tale of what happened to him during the nine days of his absence is quite extraordinary.

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Title: The Stolen Body

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Stolen Body' tells the story of two men who are experimenting with mind over matter. On prearranged evenings they sit in their own rooms, two miles apart, and each attempts to make himself apparate in the room of the other. One evening one of the men, Mr. Bessel, succeeds in making himself visible to his friend. The friend rushes across town to discuss the success of the experiment - but to his amazement Mr. Bessel's rooms are in disarray, and the man himself has disappeared.

Later that evening he finds Bessel on a London street attacking passersby, using his cane as a club. Mr. Bessel attacks and injures him before continuing his reign of terror along the streets of London. Yet within a short time, Mr. Bessel has disappeared completely, and the mystery is complete. But where is he? And what has brought about this terrible change in him?

Members Reviews:

Public domain, so NOT worth the cost for this 28-page story!

Eh. Not very interesting. A researcher of supernatural phenomena manages to astral project, but finds himself locked out of his body while a malicious spirit uses it to run wild in the streets.

Little else to say. We do get an explanation of the event from the researcher, but it's not terribly interesting. Mainly it just seems like Wells is patting himself on the back as he writes his own theories on the supernatural.

This story is in the public domain. I listened to the audio production from Librivox.

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Title: Under the Knife

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-23-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'Under the Knife' is an eerie firsthand account by a patient of a surgical operation he experiences, which he already knows he will not survive.

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Title: The Beautiful Suit

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Beautiful Suit' is a haunting allegorical tale of a man who has a beautiful suit of clothes which he is never allowed to wear. But one night he decides to put on the suit and wear it as it should be worn....

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Title: The Pearl of Love

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Pearl of Love' is a pecular allegorical tale taken from ancient persian literature, telling the story of a bereaved Indian prince whose beloved wife dies young. The prince devotes the rest of his life to creating the perfect memorial for his love - but there is a cruel twist at the end.