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Title: Double Demon

Author: W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 19 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres. Born into a wealthy Quaker family in Yorkshire, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, and took a degree in medicine at Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted much of his recuperation to writing short stories. Double Demon is the tale of a young man who is planning a murder. He tells two women of his plans: his sister, Isobel; and her nurse and companion, the beautiful Judith. But he tells Isobel that he is planning to murder Judith and tells Judith that it is Isobel he will kill. But what are his real plans? How will the two women respond? What will be the outcome of his elaborate preparations? Sheer suspense!

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Title: The Blue Sequin

Author: R. Austin Freeman

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 38 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Richard Austin Freeman (1862 - 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, many featuring the investigator Dr. Thorndyke who uses a mixture of medical and forensic techniques to solve the most baffling crimes. In "The Blue Sequin" a beautiful young woman as been found alone, dead in a railway carriage, with a peculiar combination of head injuries inflicted with great force by a sharp round implement. Suspicion immediately falls on her former lover, an artist, with whom she had quarrelled earlier, and who is in posession of her locket and a stout umbrella with a pointed end. But Dr. Thordyke is not convinced of the artist's guilt and sets out to investigate....

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Title: The Cactus

Author: O. Henry

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 8 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

O. Henry's poignant tale of a failed courtship. On the day his beloved marries another man, Trysdale reflects on his own courtship and how it came to a peculiar end. He had asked the girl to marry him and the next day she had sent him a cactus in a pot. No note, no message. But from that moment the relationship fell apart. But why? Who was to blame? What was the meaning of the cactus? O. Henry at his most ingenious... and with a wonderful twist in the tale.

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Title: The Clock

Author: W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 11 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres. Born into a wealthy Quaker family in Yorkshire, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, and took a degree in medicine at Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted much of his recuperation to writing short stories. "The Clock" is an atmospheric tale of the supernatural where a young woman finds herself alone in an empty house, searching for a missing clock. When she finds it she realises that something is wrong.... terribly wrong... and that there must be someone or something else in the house... but what?

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Title: The Heart of the Fire

Author: W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 25 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres. Born into a wealthy Quaker family in Yorkshire, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, and took a degree in medicine at Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted much of his recuperation to writing short stories. "The Heart of the Fire" is a queer tale. On the fireplace in the old coaching inn, The Moorcock, there is carved an old mysterious prophecy which casts an odd burden on the family... in that they dare not ever let the fire go out. One night a stranger appears at the door. He does not stay long and appears afraid of staying in the house after he has sat by the fire for a while. He mentions that he always sees his future in the embers. He sets off into the night, but after a few hours returns, injured, having been thrown from his horse. As the landlord sits with him by the fire, the stranger nods off to sleep. The landlord seems to hear a strange voice calling him from the flames and urging him to commit a terrible...awful... unconscionable crime. His action determines the events of the next seventy years.

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Title: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

Author: Robert E. Howard

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Robert Ervin Howard (1906 - 1936) was an American author who was best known for his macabre horror stories and weird tales. This collection brings together a highly representative selection of his creepy stories, written very much after the Lovecraftian style. - Rattle of Bones - Sea Curse - Pigeons from Hell - In the Forest of Villefore - The Dream Snake - The Fearsome Touch of Death - The Right Hand of Doom - The Thing on the Roof

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Title: The Horror Stories of W. F. Harvey

Author: W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

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. This collection includes his two most famous works, "August Heat" and "The Beast with Five Fingers" as well as others which are true undiscovered gems. - Unwinding - August Heat - The Man who hated Aspidistras - The Clock - Double Demon - Dead of Night - The Beast with Five Fingers - The Dabblers - The Heart of the Fire

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Title: The Last Leaf

Author: O. Henry

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 15 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862 - 1910), an American writer of outstanding short stories, known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings. "The Last Leaf" is the story of two female artists living together in Greenwich village. When one of them, Johnsy, becomes gravely ill with pneumonia, she becomes obsessed with counting the leaves on the ivy outside the window. As the weather gets colder and windier, the leaves fall one by one. Johnsy believes that when the last leaf falls, she will die. Her friend Sue and old Mr. Behrman, the artist who lives downstairs, try to talk her out of this dangerous notion....

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Title: The Man who Hated Aspidistras

Author: W. F. Harvey

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 9 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres. "Tha Man who hated Aspidistras" is an eerie tale of a man whose life, from boyhood onward, as been blighted by the sinister houseplants favoured by Victorian ladies. His dislike turns almost to a mania... and then things take on a very peculiar turn...

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Title: The Mystery of the Steel Room

Author: Thomas W. Hanshew

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 47 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Thomas W. Hanshew (1857 - 1914) was an American writer from New York. His best-loved creation was the private detective Hamilton Cleek, known as "the man of the forty faces" for his incredible skill at disguise. Cleek is based in Clarges Street, London, where he is constantly consulted by Inspector Narkom of Scotland Yard. In "The Mystery of the Steel Room" Cleek is called upon to solve a very strange case. A famous racehorse is under threat from saboteurs ahead of the Derby. On the two previous nights, the groom guarding her has been attacked. The first was left paralyzed, the second was murdered. But nobody can work out how the saboteurs got into the locked stable, where the horse is guarded in an impenetrable steel cage. Cleek travels down to Suffolk to investigate and discovers that the whole situation is very sinister indeed...