Grim Tales by E. Nesbit audiobook.

Genre: horror

Grim Tales by E. Nesbit is a collection of short Victorian-era stories that take the familiar comforts of drawing rooms, seaside holidays, and country houses and tilt them into the uncanny. Instead of a single hero, Nesbit presents a parade of ordinary people - curious visitors, complacent householders, and practical-minded skeptics - who find that a casual choice, a private wish, or a small act of selfishness can open the door to something coldly inexplicable. Each tale builds with Nesbit's trademark clarity and wit, balancing eerie atmosphere with a sharp eye for human weakness: vanity, greed, jealousy, and the desire to control what should not be controlled. Shadows lengthen in corridors, objects refuse to stay harmless, and the past proves far less settled than anyone would like to believe. Written with brisk pacing and a storyteller's relish for tension, these stories explore the price of temptation and the thin line between the everyday and the supernatural - leaving listeners to wonder what might be waiting just beyond the lamplight.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:29:23) Chapter 2

(00:46:52) Chapter 3

(00:55:22) Chapter 4

(01:03:55) Chapter 5

(01:20:26) Chapter 6

(01:29:23) Chapter 7

(01:38:00) Chapter 8

(02:12:15) Chapter 9

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