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Title: Where their Fire is not Quenched

Author: May Sinclair

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

May Sinclair was the nom de plume of Mary Amelia St. Clair (1863-1946), a British writer of novels, short stories and poetry and an active suffragette and spiritualist.

'Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched' is a highly unsettling and creepy story about an adulterous couple who are damned to continue their loathsome, loveless relationship for all eternity.

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Title: The Head

Author: E. Nesbit

Narrator: Roy Macready

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-16

Publisher: Spiders' House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

E. Nesbit is best known for her children's books such as The Railway Children, the Psammead series, and the stories of the Bastable family. She was also a poet and wrote many works for adults including short stories in the genre of the supernatural and the macabre. "The Head" is one of her most strange and disturbing.

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Title: Tales of Life and Death

Author: H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Richard Middleton, Amyas Northcote, M. R. James, Robert E. Howard, Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Never more so than in this collection of 30 weird and macabre tales.

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Title: The Beard

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 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 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.

'The Beard' is the touching and insightful tale of a narcissistic and pompous father who is struggling to raise his pubescent son, who is enraged at and embarrassed by his father, yet the codependency between the two still exercises a magnetic pull. The story explores the development of their relationship and how both of them are forced to grow up.

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Title: Strange Tales from the Doctor's Casebook

Author: H. G. Wells, Violet Hunt, Edith Wharton, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, H. P. Lovecraft, W. F. Harvey, O. Henry

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Twenty classic tales featuring doctors, patients, feverish imaginations, sick minds and unwell bodies.

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Title: Man-Size in Marble

Author: E. Nesbit

Narrator: Roy Macready

Format: Unabridged

Length: 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-16

Publisher: Spiders' House Audio

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

E. Nesbit is best known for her children's books such as The Railway Children, the Psammead series, and the stories of the Bastable family. She was also a poet and wrote many works for adults including short stories in the genre of the supernatural and the macabre. "Man-Size in Marble" is one of her strangest and most unsettling.

Members Reviews:

Buy this story in a collection, instead of by itself

Edith Nesbit (15 August 1858 â 4 May 1924) is primarily remembered as a children's author (J.K. Rowling is one of Nesbit's many admirers), but her ghost stories also had great staying power and can be found in many modern anthologies, most usually the eerie "Man-Size in Marble" and the classic tale of doomed newly-weds: "John Charrington's Wedding." Nesbit did not fit anyone's notion of a stereotypical female Victorian author. She was seven months pregnant when she finally married, and her writing supported not only her husband and children, but also her husband's mistress and the children from that relationship. This author was politically active, and a cofounder of the Fabian Society. Although her supernatural literature doesnât reflect her political affiliations, Nesbit does have quite a bit to say about love and marriage, very little of which could be classified as mawkish Victorian sentimentality.

"Man-Size in Marble" is one of my top 50 ghost stories, in spite of the typically Victorian heroine. Newly-weds find the perfect, secluded cottage where they can paint and write in peace. However local legend has it that no one ever stays in the cottage on All Saints' Eve. The blissful husband decides to ignore the local superstition, even though his wife is unusually nervous.

The reason I give this stand-alone story three stars is that you can buy it collected with other great supernatural stories inThe 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost StoriesorThe Power of Darknesswhich is a complete collection of Nesbit's supernatural stories.

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Title: A Vision of Judgment

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

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

'A Vision of Judgment' tells the story of a man who is awakened from his grave by a trumpet sounding for the last judgment. As the first souls are called before God, he realises that things are not quite as he had expected....

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Title: Mr. Brisher's Treasure

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

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

'Mr. Brisher's Treasure' is a humorous tale about a man who finds a chest of buried treasure while making a rockery for his future father-in-law, but circumstances repeatedly and hilariously conspire against him as he tries in vain secretly to retrieve it.

Members Reviews:

Droll

Amusing, a "punch line" kind of story - rather vapid until the last paragraph turns everything on its head.

Our speaker would have been a serious con man, except that A) he's not smart enough, and B) a real scam involves real work, rendering it wholly inaccessible to our [dialect] speaker. He finds a great treasure, loses the great treasure, and gains thereby in the end. (It's a short story. Surely you can read the few pages and find out what that means.)

-- wiredweird, reviewing a print version from a public domain web site.

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Title: A Dream of Armageddon

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-16

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.

'A Dream of Armageddon' is a strange tale of a man who is haunted by a prophetic dream of life in the future in a time when the world is rushing towards a catastrophic and apocalyptic war...and only he has the power to stop the calamity. But stopping Armageddon would mean abandoning the woman he loves....

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Excellent

Dystopic prophecy

Wells's books, like this short story, often dwelt on the topic of future warfare:The War in the Air, for example orThe World Set Free. And, like his books, this tells that future story in the first person.

Here, though, a man of the current day narrates the story, revealed to him in a series of dreams. In those dreams, he becomes some famous politician of that future time, now retred from politics to enjoy his life and his love. His place has been taken by some hawkish saber-rattler, who goes so far as to resurrect long-unused weapons of war in a show of power. Leaders beg the retired pacificist to return to the stage, and to help return the rhetoric to sanity, but he insists that giving up his life for politics is over.

In the end, this takes on a moralizing tone. It seems to say that the retired pol, with his gifts of insight, trust, and persuasion, had a duty to use them for his country and his world. When he fails in that duty, disaster ensues nationaally, internationally, and personally. Wells seems to say that those with great abilities lie under obligation to use them. In failing to use them, one will suffer. In failing to apply the greatest of abilities, the greatest suffering will follow. At core, this fable seems to embody Wells's socialism, with its motto of "From each according to their ability," with the moral sharply driven home.

-- wiredweird

A book of short stories

Some of the stories were OK. The last two were the best but I didn't feel the very last story, the name sake, had a true ending. I felt something was missing.

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Title: The Sea Raiders

Author: H. G. Wells

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

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 Sea Raiders is a gruesome tale of a rapacious shoal of cephalopods which attack the coast of Southern England.