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Title: The Tales

Author: Various Authors

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Five brilliant classic short stories which feature tigers. These stories range from the creepy horror stories of Hugh Walpole and Eleanor Smith to the gentle humour of Saki and W. W. Jacobs and the deep complexity of Frank Stockton. "The Tiger" by Hugh Walpole "Mrs. Packletide's Tiger" by Saki "A Tiger's Skin" by W. W. Jacobs "Satan's Circus" by Eleanor Smith "The Lady or the Tiger" by Frank Stockton

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Title: The Operation

Author: Violet Hunt

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Isobel Violet Hunt (1862-1942) was a British author of short stories, novels, memoir and biography. She is most famous for her supernatural fiction. The Operation is a short novella which tells a very odd story. The second wife of the famous dwarf comedy actor, Joseph Mardell, learns that her cook has seen a funeral procession leaving a neighbouring house on Christmas day. Enquiries, however, reveal that nobody died at that house. The place is a private nursing home with one female patient, an actress, who is gravely ill and who recently had on operation which was unsuccessful and needs to be repeated. Mrs. Mardell gradually realises that the patient bears many similarities to Julia, her husband's first wife who gave him a divorce. Shortly afterwards, Julia had sent her a very peculiar letter...and suddenly the vision of the funeral takes on a very sinister aspect....

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Title: Satan\'s Circus

Author: Eleanor Smith

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 37 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English author, journalist and film critic. Many of her books, including her extensive oeuvre of ghost stories, involve a circus or gypsy setting, based on her own research and her (unsubstantiated) belief that she had a Romany great grandmother. Satan's Circus is a creepy tale of a circus run by a sinister and manipulative couple, Carl and Lya Brandt. When a new circus hand, Anatole, joins the troupe in North Africa, he is assigned to work with the menagerie. But as they travel through Spain towards France, Anatole becomes uneasy. Eventually, as they reach the Basque country, he tries to hand in his notice. But Lya Brandt has guessed his secret, and she uses blackmail to prevent his leaving...and then exacts her grisly revenge for his disloyalty.

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Title: Over an Absinthe Bottle

Author: W. C. Morrow

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 24 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American writer, famous for his short stories of horror and suspense. "Over an Absinthe Bottle" is a peculiar horror story about a young man down and out in San Francisco who is slowly starving to death. Then he happens to meet a peculiar pale stranger who invites him to share a bottle of absinthe with him and then engages him in a terrifying game of dice, where the stakes rise with every throw.... The tale takes a very strange turn at the end.

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Title: His Unconquerable Enemy

Author: W. C. Morrow

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 24 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American author, famed for his short stories of horror and suspense. "His Unconquerable Enemy" is the story for which Morrow is best known, and it tells the story of the determined revenge of a servant whose limbs have been amputated on the orders of a cruel rajah.

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Title: An Original Revenge

Author: W. C. Morrow

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 13 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American writer of horror and suspense stories. "An Original Revenge" is a peculiar and ghoulish tale of a young soldier who commits suicide in order to better avenge himself upon his commanding officer in the form of an avenging spirit.

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Title: The Tiger

Author: Hugh Walpole

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 43 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

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 Tiger" is the evocative tale of an Englishman who travels to New York and descends strangely into a terrible psychosis in which he seems to perceive wild animals roaming through the subway beneath the streets. One of them, a tiger, is particularly sinister because the man knows this is the beast which will eventually track him down and pounce....

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Title: The Rockery

Author: E. G. Swain

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 26 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author of ghost stories. He was a longtime friend of M. R. James, and his ghost stories show James' influence. In this story the vicar of Stoneground, Mr. Batchel, is having the rockery at his vicarage dug up. He and the gardener discover an old yew stake buried in the rockery on which is nailed a copper plaque bearing the inscription: 'Move Not This Stake, Nov. 1. 1702'. As Mr. Batchel is keen to use the stake to support the wobbly garden pump, they go ahead and dig up the stake, at the base of which they discover an old iron chain. In doing so, Mr. Batchel has unwittingly unleashed something very evil into the neighbourhood....

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Title: The Necromancer

Author: Arthur Gray

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 18 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Arthur Gray (1852-1940) wrote under the pseudonym Ingulphus for several years, and it was only in 1919, when his stories were collected as Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye under Gray's own name, that the identity of the author was discovered. The Necromancer is a strange tale set in Jesus College Cambridge in the time of Cromwell. A strange, reclusive fellow who specialises in mathematics and astronomy is suspected of necromancy and black magic. A series of deaths in the college from accidents and illnesses are feared to be a result of his conjuring. And then a strange cat is seen leaving his room at night and returning only hours later. What can the strange necromancer be up to?

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Title: The Man with the Roller

Author: E. G. Swain

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 22 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author. He was a longtime friend of M. R. James, and his ghost stories show James' influence. "The Man with the Roller" is a strange tale about a photograph in which a strange figure of a man with a roller appears and drags the roller from one part of the lawn to another. But how can this happen? Who is the man? Why is he constantly rolling the lawn?