AuthorSusan Hill
NarratorChristopher Kay
Duration6h
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Horror
Key StageKS4
PublisherIsis
VersionUnabridged
Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes. Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor summoned to a funeral, has no inkling of its tragic secret or of the mysterious black-robed woman who haunts its shuttered rooms. 'The Woman in Black' is a spine-tingling classic of its genre.
Author: Josh Malerman
Author Josh Malerman
Narrator Katherine Mangold
Duration 8h
Most people ignored the outrageous reports on the news. But they became too frequent, they became too real. And soon, they began happening down the street. Then the Internet died. The television and radio went silent. The phones stopped ringing. And we couldn't look outside anymore. Malorie raises the children the only way she can; indoors. The hou...
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Author: William Peter Blatty
Author William Peter Blatty
Narrator Robert Glenister
Duration 1h 54m
Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty's classic horror novel. 'When a radio play is this good, the devil really is in the details' Radio Times Summoned to a case of apparent possession, Father Karras is at first sceptical, then horrified. The victim -a 12-year-old girl named Regan -...
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The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper To Read
Author: Susan Hill
Author Susan Hill
Narrator
Duration 4h
A young prep school boy, visiting his aunt's country house, finds company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to read; a young country girl fights against becoming a down-trodden domestic skivvy like her dead mother, while another girl reaches a delicate understanding with an elderly blind man as they walk along the...
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Author: Alison Littlewood
Author Alison Littlewood
Narrator Penelope Rawlins
Duration 11h
Mire House is dreary, dark, cold and infested with midges. But when Emma Dean inherits it from a distant relation, she immediately feels a sense of belonging. It isn't long before Charlie Mitchell, grandson of the original owner, appears claiming that he wants to seek out his family. But Emma suspects he's more interested in the house than his long...
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Author: Susan Hill
Author Susan Hill
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 11h 23m
A kidnapper is at large, a schoolboy has disappeared - there are no leads, no closure. The police have failed, and morale at Lafferton station has collapsed. Then DCI Simon Serralier receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire. Has the abductor struck again?
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Author: Stephen King
Author Stephen King
Narrator Sissy Spacek
Duration 7h 22m
Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gi...
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Author: Paul Finch
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 7h 30m
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 blo...
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Author: Susan Hill
Author Susan Hill
Narrator Catriona Jarvis
Duration 4h
'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian house for good. To Hooper, Kingshaw is an intruder, a boy to be subtly persecuted, and Kingshaw finds tha...
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Author: Susan Hill
Author Susan Hill
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 10h 4m
Gunmen are terrorising young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What - if anything - links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler falls back on well tried police methods such as questioning neighbours and house-to-house searches...
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Author: Susan Hill
Author Susan Hill
Narrator Matt Green
Duration 6h 37m
'He was afraid to go to sleep. For three weeks, he had been afraid of going to sleep . . .' Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces, the stiff and reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton, an open and cheerful new...
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