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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - Horror

Author: E T A Hoffman, Fitz James O'brien, Guy De Maupassant, John William Polidori, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland, Ian Holm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Paranormal

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume Horror and its evil intents try to burrow into our heads and cavort around as only demons, monsters, phantoms and ghosts can do. They probably have other partners and friends too. And you, sitting there all alone, and listening..... oh dear. 1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - 19th Century Horror - An Introduction 2 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 5 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant (2022 vers) 6 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 7 - The Sand-Man - Part 1 by E T A Hoffman 8 - The Sand-Man - Part 2 by E T A Hoffman 9 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 10 - The Squaw by Bram Stoker 11 - The Cask of Amontillardo by Edgar Allan Poe 12 - What Was It by Fitz James O'Brien 13 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 1 by John William Polidori 14 - The Vampyre. A Tale - Part 2 by John William Polidori

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - The Ghost Story

Author: E T A Hoffman, Amelia B. Edwards, Alexander Pushkin, Sheridan Le Fanu, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Oscar Wilde, Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker, Eric Meyers, Ian Holm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Paranormal

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume close encounters of a spectral kind come to visit and offer us their stories through the pens of such literary masters as Alexander Pushkin, Oscar Wilde, Amelia Edwards, Washington Irving and many others can. The excellence of their story-telling craft makes each story a journey into certain and unsettling fear. 1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - 19th Century Ghost Stories - An Introduction 2 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 3 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 4 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 5 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 6 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott 7 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin 8 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 9 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 10 - The Deserted House by E T A Hoffman 11 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 12 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror - The Men

Author: E T A Hoffman, W W Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Robbie Mcnab, William Dufris, Ian Holm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Paranormal

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume stories from the Masters of Horror take centre stage. Within the words from the pens of Edgar Allan Poe, E T A Hoffman, H G Wells, Guy de Maupassant and others lurk dark intentions of evil. As each story draws you in, so it is that uneasy, unsettling feelings begin to creep into our heads. It's only a matter of time before things go decidedly from bad to much, much worse. 1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Horror - The Men - An Introduction 2 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 3 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 4 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells 5 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells 6 - Le Horla by Guy De Maupassant 7 - Olalla - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson 8 - Olalla - Part 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson 9 - The Call of Cthulhu - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft 10 - The Call of Cthulhu - Part 2 by H P Lovecraft 11 - The Sand-Man - Part 1 by E T A Hoffman 12 - The Sand-Man - Part 2 by E T A Hoffman 13 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 14 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford 15 - The Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen 16 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 1 by Robert W Chambers 17 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 2 by Robert W Chambers

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - European Gothic

Author: Moritz Jokai, Ernst Raupach, E T A Hoffman, Rosa Mulholland, Jean Lorrain, Rhoda Broughton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nikolai Gogol, Sheridan Le Fanu, Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens

Narrator: Robbie Mcnab, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ian Holm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Paranormal

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume our authors present tales of dark, macabre, and disturbing deeds. From the pens of Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Mor Jokai, E T A Hoffman and many others come carefully crafted literary journeys designed to disrupt reality, jangle nerves and feed upon our souls. 1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - European Gothic -An Introduction 2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 3 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol 4 - The Force of Blood by Miguel de Cervantes 5 - Olalla - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson 6 - Olalla - Part 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson 7 - The Ghost at the Wrath by Rosa Mulholland 8 - The Sand-Man - Part 1 by E T A Hoffman 9 - The Sand-Man - Part 2 by E T A Hoffman 10 - The Spectral Hand by Jean Lorrain 11 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 12 - Green Tea - Part 1 by Sheridan Le Fanu 13 - Green Tea - Part 2 by Sheridan Le Fanu 14 - The Bundle of Letters by Moritz Jokai 15 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach 16 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - English Gothic

Author: W W Jacobs, Perceval Landon, M R James, E F Benson, Marjorie Bowen, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Nesbit, Saki, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens

Narrator: Mark Rice-Oxley, Patrick Barlow, Ian Holm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Paranormal

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume our authors present tales of dark, macabre, and disturbing deeds. From the pens of Rudyard Kipling, M R James, Marjorie Bowen, Algernon Blackwood and others many others come carefully crafted literary journeys designed to disrupt reality, jangle nerves and feed upon our souls. 1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - English Gothic - An Introduction 2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 3 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 4 - The Music on the Hill by Saki 5 - In the Dark by Edith Nesbit 6 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 7 - The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood 8 - Count Magnus by M R James 9 - Mrs Amworth by E F Benson 10 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 11 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - Brtitish Gothic

Author: W W Jacobs, M R James, Margaret Oliphant, Rhoda Broughton, Hume Nisbet, Amelia B. Edwards, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Walter Scott

Narrator: Robbie Mcnab, Tom Mclean, David Shaw-Parker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Paranormal

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume our authors present tales of dark, macabre, and disturbing deeds. From the pens of Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Machen, Amelia Edwards, Rhoda Broughton and many others come carefully crafted literary journeys designed to disrupt reality, jangle nerves and feed upon our souls. 1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - British Gothic - An Introduction 2 - Olalla - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson 3 - Olalla - Part 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson 4 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott 5 - Count Magnus by M R James 6 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen 7 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet 8 - The Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen 9 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 10 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 11 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 12 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant 13 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant

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Title: The Operation

Author: Violet Hunt

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Lisa Bowerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Paranormal

Publisher's Summary:

Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists. As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her activities fighting for and promoting better rights for women. Although she remained unmarried she had lovers as notable as Somerset Maugham, H G Wells and Ford Maddox Ford, the latter whom she lived with for a number of years. Her collections of supernatural short stories contain much of her best work and despite her considerable talents and literary output her reputation rests both on the literary salons she held at her home in Campden Hill, where the very best of literary society attended, and for her founding of the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and her participation in the founding of International PEN in 1921. Violet Hunt died of pneumonia at her home in Campden Hill on 16th January 1942. She was 79 and is buried at Brookwood Cemetery.

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Title: The Memoir

Author: Violet Hunt

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Lisa Bowerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 42 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Paranormal

Publisher's Summary:

Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists. As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her activities fighting for and promoting better rights for women. Although she remained unmarried she had lovers as notable as Somerset Maugham, H G Wells and Ford Maddox Ford, the latter whom she lived with for a number of years. Her collections of supernatural short stories contain much of her best work and despite her considerable talents and literary output her reputation rests both on the literary salons she held at her home in Campden Hill, where the very best of literary society attended, and for her founding of the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and her participation in the founding of International PEN in 1921. Violet Hunt died of pneumonia at her home in Campden Hill on 16th January 1942. She was 79 and is buried at Brookwood Cemetery.

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Title: Lena Wrace

Author: May Sinclair

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 34 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Paranormal

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Amelia St. Clair was born on the 24th August 1863 in Rock Ferry, Cheshire. Her father was a Liverpool shipowner who, after being made bankrupt, became an alcoholic and died whilst May was still a child. The family then moved to Ilford, just outside London and, after a solitary year of education, May was required to stay home and help look after her older brothers, four of whom were suffering from fatal congenital heart disease. Despite this difficult start May was determined to pursue a literary career. From 1896 May wrote professionally to support herself and her mother. By the turn of the century she was producing not only poetry volumes but short stories, novels and some non-fiction. She was an active feminist and supporter of the Suffrage Movement, her literary talents help to shred ideas that the suffragists were driven by sexual frustration because of the shortage of men. Her 1913 novel 'The Combined Maze', the story of a London clerk and the two women he loves, was highly praised by many, including George Orwell, while Agatha Christie considered it one of the greatest English novels of its time. In 1914, she volunteered to join the Munro Ambulance Corps on the Western Front in Flanders. Although her time there was short-lived the experience was later reflected in both prose and poetry. She published several poetry volumes as well as writing early criticism on Imagism and several poets of the movement. Her novels were now also influenced by modernist techniques and her supernatural short stories are increasingly seen as valuable additions to the genre. From the late 1920s, she suffered from the onset of Parkinson's disease, and her writing career was effectively over. May Sinclair died on the 14th November 1946. She was 83 and buried at St John-at-Hampstead's churchyard, London.

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Title: The Lost Reflection

Author: E T A Hoffman

Narrator: Mark Rice-Oxley, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Paranormal

Publisher's Summary:

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave. His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by. At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to the art that now surrounded him. Two years later he was in Berlin attempting a career as a composer with an operetta called 'Die Maske'. His gift for drawing caricatures and sharing them often got him into trouble that was easier to avoid. The years of Napoleon ravaging Europe were bad for Hoffman; he moved often and took on works as varied as theatre management and music critic. In this his talents were now more evident. His works on Beethoven where highly regarded by the master himself. His literary breakthrough came in 1809, with 'Ritter Gluck', about a man who believes he has met the composer 20 years after his death. However the various jobs and the wars continued and plagued any career advancement despite his constant travel for opportunities, often through dangerous territories. In the wake of Napoleon's defeat in 1814, Hoffmann returned to Berlin where his opera 'Undine' was performed by the Berlin Theatre. Life was now more settled and many of his most famous works were written at his time. From 1819, Hoffmann was struggling with both legal disputes and ill health. Alcohol abuse and syphilis were physically weakening him and from 1822 paralysis set in. His last works were dictated to his wife or to a secretary as all around him society descended into an anti-liberal agenda, stifling dissent with threats of legal action and even treason. The ailing Hoffman was among them. E T A Hoffmann died on the 25th June 1822 in Berlin of syphilis. He was 46.