This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorPaul Finch
NarratorJonathan Keeble
Duration7h 30m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Horror, Short Stories
PublisherAvid
VersionUnabridged
A collection of short stories by an award-winning master of horror and suspense. In The Poppet a faceless wooden doll holds the secret to a chilling curse . In Hell in the Cathedral, a bunch of tourists are marooned at the mercy of a voracious sea-beast . In The Baleful Dead an ageing heavy metal band reunite at a lonely mansion, unaware of the bloodthirsty forces lingering in the nearby wood. Check out these and several other nerve-shredding tales... if you think you've got the guts!
Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Author Nnedi Okorafor
Narrator Yetide Badaki
Duration 10h 55m
Kabu kabu-unregistered illegal Nigerian taxis-generally get you where you need to go. Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu, however, takes the listener to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations you didn't know you needed. This debut short story collection by an award-winning author includes notable previously p...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Sally Scott
Duration 2h 30m
Brought to you by Penguin. How often do you think about your bedtime routine? Almost half of people in Britain say they're kept awake at night due to worry and stress - so making time to switch off in the hour before bed is more important than ever. Penguin Sleep Tales are ten specially designed descriptive audio tales to help you wind down and rel...
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Detective Mark Heckenburg Series Book 2: Sacrifice
Author: Paul Finch
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Paul Thornley
SeriesDetective Mark Heckenburg Series, Book 2
Duration 13h 15m
A vicious serial killer is holding the country to ransom, publicly - and gruesomely - murdering his victims. When a man is burnt alive on a bonfire, it seems like a tragic Guy Fawkes Night accident. But with the discovery of a young couple on Valentine's Day - each with an arrow through the heart - something more sinister becomes clear. A 'calendar...
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Father Brown Series 2 Episode 1: The Absence of Mr Glass
Author: G K Chesterton
Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 1
Duration 29m
Andrew Sachs stars as the famous clerical sleuth in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, h...
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Detective Mark Heckenburg Series Book 4: Dead Man Walking
Author: Paul Finch
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Paul Thornley
SeriesDetective Mark Heckenburg Series, Book 4
Duration 13h 16m
His worst nightmare is back.As a brutal winter takes hold of the Lake District, a prolific serial killer stalks the fells. 'The Stranger' has returned and for DS Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg, the signs are all too familiar. Last seen on Dartmoor ten years earlier, The Stranger murdered his victims in vicious, cold-blooded attacks - and when two young wom...
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Author: Zadie Smith
Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Zadie Smith
Duration 6h 5m
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else's story of hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart - and other parts of the human body - considering the ways in which desire is always an act...
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Author: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Murphy Cillian
Duration 55m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Katina by Roald Dahl, read by Cillian Murphy. In Katina, Roald Dahl tells of a young Greek girl fascinated by the British planes and airbase that have come to her village. Katina is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartim...
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Author: Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Various
Author Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Various
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 17m
This collection comprises the best of classic horror writing, with the atmospheric genius of Edgar Allen Poe, the invention and eeriness of Bram Stoker, and the suspense of Wilkie Collins amongst the terrifying gems contained. A veritable schooling in the origins of modern-day horror and fantasy, some of the best minds in the history of English lit...
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Detective Mark Heckenburg Series Book 5: Hunted
Author: Paul Finch
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Paul Thornley
SeriesDetective Mark Heckenburg Series, Book 5
Duration 12h 52m
Heck needs to watch his back. Because someone's watching him.Across the south of England, a series of bizarre but fatal accidents are taking place. So when a local businessman survives a near-drowning but is found burnt alive in his car just weeks later, DS Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg is brought in to investigate. Soon it appears that other recent death...
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Detective Mark Heckenburg Series Book 6: Ashes To Ashes
Author: Paul Finch
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Paul Thornley
SeriesDetective Mark Heckenburg Series, Book 6
Duration 14h 58m
John Sagan is a forgettable man. You could pass him in the street and not realise he's there. But then, that's why he's so dangerous. A torturer for hire, Sagan has terrorised - and mutilated - countless victims. And now he's on the move. DS Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg must chase the trail, even when it leads him to his hometown of Bradburn - a place he...
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