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Title: My Adventure in Norfolk

Author: A. J. Alan

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A. J. Alan's delicious narrative of a strange adventure on a cold winter night in Norfolk. The narrator is spending a night in an unfamiliar bungalow on the Norfolk Broads. He hears the sound of a car outside, and on investigation finds a young woman whose vehicle has broken down. Attempts to fix the car fail, but they flag down a milk lorry which offers the lady a lift to Norwich, while the broken car is wheeled into the narrator's garage for the night.

After the two have set off in the milk lorry, the narrator checks over the car again, only to discover the dead body of a man on the rear seat. This is bad enough...but events only get weirder from here....

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Title: Lot No. 249

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-13

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When Ambercrombie Smith, a young medical student at Oxford, is summoned to the room of fellow student Bellingham - a fanatical Egyptologist, who appears to have fainted owing to a severe shock - he uses his medical skills to revive him. But this is by no means the last odd incident involving Bellingham, who appears to be increasingly obsessed with researches around a strange and uncanny Mummy which he keeps in his room.

A series of unexplained and dangerous attacks on students against whom Bellingham has a grudge make Abercrombie Smith suspect that something unearthly is going on. He sets out to get to the bottom of the mystery...

Members Reviews:

Missing lots of text; not recommended to buy. Returned.

I was really looking forward to reading Lot 249. The text is really messed up, though. Most of it is missing. Someone needs to go in and correct it.

If you look up this story on Wikipedia, you can find a link to read it online. I am a fan of the author though and wanted to have a copy.

Excellent ghost story

I read Lot No. 249 many years ago in a collection of ghost stories and I am happy to have a copy of this great story on my Kindle.

This story may have been a basis for the original movie with B. Karloff. Anyone who enjoys ghost stories and mysteries with be happy to have this story in their collection.

Not really worth it

My review has nothing to do with the story presented here. Lot No. 249 is wonderful. However it isn't worth the price here, low though it is, since this story can be had for free on this very site. Just search for the author in the kindle store, and this book is included in one of the collections there, which is free.

terrific story

This one is celebrated as one of Doyle's best, and I agree: it's well-written with good characters and a suspenseful pace. It's about some Oxford students and an Egyptian mummy. I will say no more.

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Title: Out of the Storm

Author: William Hope Hodgson

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-13

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William Hope Hodgson began his working career as a seaman, where he learned to fear and hate the sea. This short story takes place in the laboratory of a scientist who is in contact by one-way wireless telegraph with an unnamed friend who is on a ship trapped in a terrible storm. The sea becomes an evil thing, and the entity is determined to destroy the living, and the ship they came on. But before death comes to those aboard the doomed vessel, it brings out the very worst in the passengers.

Members Reviews:

Great imaginative stories from a pioneer

Here is a group of imaginative fiction stories from the early 1900s, a very different era in the fiction world.

There are a pair of stories about large sailing ships being attacked by huge, hideous sea creatures. On a ship where the crew is starting to talk back to the drunken captain, the second mate is murdered from behind, but there is no one nearby. The crew, all of which are accounted for, can't help but think that there is a supernatural explanation.

There is a daring mid-ocean rescue of a young woman who is the only person still alive on a derelict ship. The complication is that the ship is also home to thousands of very hungry rats, who are not particular about what, or who, they eat. There is also a mystery story about a pair of dead bodies that are found at the top of a rural water tower.

Hodgson was one of the pioneers of the entire imaginative literature field. He did it all; he wrote mysteries, horror, fantasy and adventure tales. This book is a really good example. If a copy can be found, it will certainly keep the reader entertained.

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Title: The Idiots

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-13

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Conrad's truly first short story, written during his honeymoon (1896), published in The Savoy periodical, 1896, and collected in Tales of Unrest, 1898.

A Breton farmer, returning from national service, takes over the family farm and marries a local girl, hoping to have sons who will inherit the family farm and carry on his own traditions.

All appears to be going to plan, when the first pregnancy produces twin boy. But the children turn out to be mentally disabled. When the next child arrives, also a boy, he too turns out to have the same condition. The farmer turns to religion and takes up going to mass.

The next child is a girl... and she also shares the same medical condition as her brothers. The farmer cannot accept this terrible blow of fate and becomes increasinly drunk and irrational - but it is his long-suffering wife who cracks first - and when she does, the results are both dramatic and tragic.

Members Reviews:

George

I will read this book again

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Title: Timeless Short Stories

Subtitle: From the Great Storytellers of the World

Author: Guy de Maupassant, Stacy Aumonier, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, W. W. Jacobs, Oscar Wilde, Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-13

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A timeless collection of classic short stories by some of the master storytellers of the world.

Members Reviews:

An entertaining group of short story

An entertaining group of audio short story. Enjoy listening

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Title: Lot No. 249

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Carl Rigg

Format: Abridged

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-13

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This is a story from the Four Short Stories collection.

In these stories, Conan Doyle draws the listener in to experience drama, suspense and, ultimately, the shock of surprise. Here is a unique combination of a famous analytical intellect telling spine-tingling tales against a background of turn-of-the-century England. Nothing is quite as it seems. What is the secret of "Lot No. 249"? What lies in wait for an aviator in the stratosphere? And what lies inside "The Sealed Room"?

Editorial Reviews:

In this collection of four stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, narrator Carl Rigg uses his full-bodied voice to great effect, shading in the sinister tones of these chilling tales. In "Lot No. 249", an ancient Egyptian mummy comes to murderous life, while in "The Horror of the Heights", a notebook reveals the reason for the deaths of aviators attempting to break a height record. In "The Terror of Blue John Gap" and "The Sealed Room", our protagonists are drawn into mysterious events and forced to deal with their shocking consequences. Rigg builds up the horror with a subtle touch; listeners will not find any cheap shocks in his careful performance.

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Title: The Terror of Blue John Gap

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Carl Rigg

Format: Abridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-13

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This is a story from the Four Short Stories collection.

In these stories, Conan Doyle draws the listener in to experience drama, suspense and, ultimately, the shock of surprise. Here is a unique combination of a famous analytical intellect telling spine-tingling tales against a background of turn-of-the-century England. Nothing is quite as it seems. What is the secret of "Lot No. 249"? What lies in wait for an aviator in the stratosphere? And what lies inside "The Sealed Room"?

Editorial Reviews:

Sherlock Holmes is nowhere to be found in The Terror of Blue John Gap, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles departure from detective fiction into spine-tingling horror, which focuses on recovering tuberculosis patient Dr. James Hardcastle and his encounters with the nefarious "terror" lurking in the caves and mineral mines of the seemingly idyllic hills of Derbyshire.

Carl Riggs atmospheric, entrancing delivery exudes a sense of the uncanny, and the delicate violin score peppered throughout the audiobook is the perfect accompaniment for Doyles bold venture into the macabre.

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Title: The Devil's Spectacles

Author: Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-13

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Devil's Spectacles is perhaps Wilkie Collins' most unusual and bizarre tale. It tells the story of Alfred, a young landed gentleman who is given by Septimus Notman, a sailor on his deathbed, a pair of unusual spectacles. These, Septimus had received from the Devil in person, under most unusual circumstances.

The spectacles have strange supernatural powers, enabling the wearer to see the thoughts and emotions of others around him. Septimus advises Alfred to deploy the Devil's spectacles to unravel a complex love situation in which he currently finds himself. The results are not in the least what Alfred expects....

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Title: England, My England

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-13

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

D.H. Lawrence's famous short story, set against the background of the First World War, and examining the quintessence of Englishness, relationships and paternity in an idyllic rural setting.

Egbert and Winifred are deeply in love when they first marry and settle in the picturesque thatched cottage which Winifred's father has given her on his estate. But as their relationships develops and alters, and as they have children and become increasingly dependent financially on Winifred's father, the cracks in their relationship become ever deeper.

An accident involving their eldest daughter compounds the problem...and then when war breaks out and Egbert becomes a soldier, things change for ever.

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Title: The Dead Hand

Author: Wilkie Collins

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-13

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When Arthur Holliday arrives at Doncaster during race week, he is unable to find a hotel room free. His search for a bed for the night leads him to a dubious hostelry, The Two Robins, where he is offered a bed in a shared room at a handsome price of five shillings.

The landlord assures Arthur that his room-mate is sleeping soundly and will in no way disturb him. A quick examination of the sleeping man confirms that he is indeed very quiet. Too quiet! Arthur realises quickly that the man is not asleep, but dead! And his night sharing a room with a corpse turns out to be a most eventful one....