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Dracula's
Guest Bram
Stoker (audiobook) Dracula's Guest was first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death, and is generally believed to be an early chapter of Dracula that was cut from the book to reduce its length. The central character in the story is never named, but if the story really was intended to as an early chapter of Dracula then it is fair to assume ... (read more?)
Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson (audiobook) The story begins with a lawyer named Utterson who is enjoying a Sunday morning stroll with his friend Mr. Enfield. While walking through one of Edinburgh's rougher streets Enfield points out a door to Utterson and then relates a story about an unsavoury character named Hyde who... (read more?)
Fishes
Dream of Lonely Things Weston Oches (audiobook) Fishes
Dream of Lonely Things
first saw print in the year 2000,
in an anthology called Scary
Rednecks and Other Inbred Horrors.
The book
L.T.'s Theory of Pets Stephen King (audiobook) In August 1998 Stephen
King did a reading at
London's Royal Festival
Rats M.R.
James (audiobook) Rats begins with the tail end of another story: "And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged, mouldy bedclothes a-heaving and a-heaving like seas.' 'And a-heaving and a-heaving with what? Why, with the rats under 'em." The narrator has obviously been listening... (read more?)
Spine Chillers (audiobook)
Spine Chillers consists of five short ghost stories that were dramatized in 2007 for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour series and broadcast as M R James at Christmas. Each episode ran for around thirteen minutes ... (read more?) Tender Hearts Taste Better in Butter Weston Ochse The main character in this story is a hit man and he has always hated kids. Now his employer, Chadwick, has told him to kidnap some. Their father owes Chadwick some money, but won't pay up. He has even hired a golem bodyguard... (read more?)
The Bodysnatcher Robert Louis Stevenson (audiobook)
The Bodysnatcher first saw print in an 1884 edition of the The Pall Mall Gazette Extra. Inspired by the events surrounding the infamous Burke and Hare and the surgeon Robert Knox who paid them to do what they did, Stevenson's story is about two young medical students who also worked for Knox (referred to as 'K' in the story), and how... (read more?)
The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligary
Yuri Rasovsky (audiobook) The Blackstone Audiobooks presentation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a recording of an audio drama produced in 1998 by The Hollywood Theatre of the Ear. The presentation has a runtime of one hour and nine minutes and is an audio dramatization of the classic silent film, made in Germany in 1920... (read more?)
The Caretaker's Story Edith Olivier (audiobook)
The Caretaker's Story was first published in 1934 and is one of Edith Olivier's most famous short stories. The story is written in the first person and is an enjoyably gruesome tale. The narrator of the story, a man named Maurice, owns a seaside cottage and, because he keeps it for occasional use only, he feels it prudent to employ a caretaker... (read more?)
The
Hand Guy
de Maupassant (audiobook) The Hand was written in the 1880s by the French author Guy de Maupassant, who is considered by many to be the greatest French short story writer... (read more?)
The
Horla Guy
de Maupassant (audiobook) The Horla was first published in 1887 and the story is written in journal style. The journal entries begin on May 8th and to begin with they are quite normal. The narrator states what a lovely day it is and how much he likes living where... (read more?)
The Mark of the Beast Rudyard Kipling The central characters in The Mark of the Beast are three Englishmen who are living in India. One New Years Eve the men have been out celebrating and one of them, Fleete, who is particularly drunk, wanders into a temple of Hanuman, the Monkey-god, and... (read more?)
The Monkey's Paw W.W. Jacobs (audiobook) W.W. Jacob's short story The
Monkey's Paw
was first published in
The
Moonlit Road - and
other stories
(audiobook) All of the stories included in The Moonlit Road collection are classic ghost stories from the mid to late nineteenth century. The stories are read by Jonathan Keeble, Clare Anderson , Garrick Hagon and Kate Harper and are recorded onto two CDs with a total runtime of... (read more?)
The Red
Room H.G.
Wells (audiobook) H G. Wells wrote The Red Room in 1894. It is a ghost story, written in the first person and set in an old castle that boasts a haunted red room. The protagonist of the story is never named, but he has arrived at the... (read more?)
The Stationary Bike Stephen King (audiobook)
The Stationary Bike has never been released as an actual book. It is only available as an audiobook. The story is split between two CDs and has a total runtime of about an hour and a half. The story is read by Law and Order's Ron McLarty and he tells the tale so well that it is a joy to listen to it... (read more?)
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe (audiobook)
The Tell-Tale Heart was first published in 1843; it is one of Poe's most famous short stories and even to this day it is regularly anthologized. The story is told in the first person and although right from the beginning the narrator tries to defend his sanity it is blatantly obvious that he is more than a little... (read more?)
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