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Author: James Herbert
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Author James Herbert
Narrator Gareth Armstrong
Duration 8h
The mutant white rat has grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominate the others, the dark-furred ones, who forage for food and bring it back to the lair. Now the dark rats are restless, and the white slug-like thing that rules them remembers the taste of human flesh.
View BookAuthor: M.R. James
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Author M.R. James
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 1h 6m
A compilation of five chilling stories from M. R. James, including four previously unreleased stories and originally recorded for the Radio 4 'Woman's Hour' in Christmas 2007. M. R. James is an important part of the nation's celebration of Christmas. In the oral tradition, many of his thirty or so tales were penned as Christmas Eve entertainments a...
View BookAuthor: Peter James
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Author Peter James
Narrator Nicholas Boulton
Duration 9h 30m
Moving from the heart of Brighton and Hove to the Sussex countryside is a big undertaking for Ollie and Caro Harcourt and their twelve-year-old daughter Jade. But when they view Cold Hill House - a huge, dilapidated Georgian mansion - Ollie is filled with excitement. Despite the financial strain of the move, he has dreamed of living in the country...
View BookAuthor: Mary Shelley
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Author Mary Shelley
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 1h 53m
Frankenstein is a dark and brooding dramatisation of Mary Shelley's famous novel, and stars Michael Maloney as the scientist who makes a creature in his own name. Denied a female counterpart, the creature turns on his creator, then murders Frankenstein's brother. In an attempt to destroy his creation, the scientist tracks him to the Arctic...
View BookAuthor: Richard Matheson
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Author Richard Matheson
Narrator Ray Porter
Duration 9h 11m
For over twenty years, Belasco House has stood empty. Regarded as the Mt. Everest of haunted houses, its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide, or insanity. But now, a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to Belasc...
View BookAuthor: Mary Shelley
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Author Mary Shelley
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
Duration 8h 30m
Obsessed by creating life itself, Doctor Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life using electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker...
View BookAuthor: Helen Dunmore
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Author Helen Dunmore
Narrator Gabrielle Glaister
Duration 5h 6m
In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely. Woken by intense cold one night, she discovers an old RAF greatcoat in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under it for warmth, she starts to dream. And not long afterwards, she is sta...
View BookAuthor: Edgar Allan Poe
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Author Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 47m
This dark, gothic tale is a twisted love-story of sorts which explores the theme of love truly knowing no bounds...even in death! A man's beautiful and erudite wife dies, then he remarries and his second wife tragically dies, also. However, all is not as it seems, and this surprising and perturbing supernatural story will have a listener both on th...
View BookAuthor: Paul Finch
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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...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 25m
Here are 19 classic tales from masters of the genre. The collection comprises: 'Schalken the Painter' by J. S. Lefanu; 'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki (H. H. Munro); 'The Room in the Tower' by E. F. Benson; 'Charles Ashmore's Trail' by Ambrose Bierce; 'The Mark of the Beast' by Rudyard Kipling; 'The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross' by J. Wadham; 'The Bead Neckl...
View BookAuthor: Henry James
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Author Henry James
Narrator Penelope Rawlins
Duration 4h 51m
Perhaps the most brilliantly successful ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly believable impression of innocent children so corrupted by evil that they remain deceptive pictures of innocent beauty. Their governess must struggle alone to confront and exorcise the demons which she believes possess their souls...
View BookAuthor: Valentine Dyall
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Author Valentine Dyall
Narrator Various, Full Cast
Duration 1h 57m
Four chilling episodes from the famous 1940s BBC radio series, introduced by Valentine Dyall, aka "The Man in Black". These are the four sole surviving episodes from the BBC archive: The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (18/9/1943); The Speaking Clock by John Dickson Carr (13/4/1944); The Clock Strikes Eight by John Dickson Carr(18/5/1944);...
View BookAuthor: Stephen King
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Author Stephen King
Narrator Lindsay Crouse
Duration 12h 11m
Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn't the hospital. Annie Wilkes had pulled him from t...
View BookAuthor: Stephen King
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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...
View BookAuthor: Susan Hill
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Author Susan Hill
Narrator Christopher Kay
Duration 6h
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.
View BookAuthor: Bram Stoker
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Author Bram Stoker
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 19m
Frederick Jaeger stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged of the legend that has haunted the imagination of millions for over a hundred years! Summoned to the forbidden heart of the Carpathian mountains, in the depths of Transylvania, Jonathan Harker journeys to Castle Dracula. There he becomes the unwitting prisoner of the mysterious nobleman w...
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
Duration 2h 20m
The well-intentioned, wealthy physician Dr Jekyll is fascinated by the duality of human nature. He discovers a drug which can separate the good and evil sides of his character. But can he stop his dark side, the hideous Mr Hyde, from taking control?
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 3h
A collection of nine apparently true tales, including strange spirit stones that haunt an Australian farmstead, a young girl who avenges her own murder, and a restless mummy who walks abroad on Halloween.
View BookAuthor: James Herbert
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Author James Herbert
Narrator Gareth Armstrong
Duration 13h 15m
The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets - if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of their irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that Man...
View BookAuthor: Daphne Du Maurier
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Author Daphne Du Maurier
Narrator Various
Duration 56m
Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of horror. The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to Menabilly Barton farm from the house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field whilst above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds becoming...
View BookAuthor: Stephen King
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Author Stephen King
Narrator Josh Hamilton
Duration 1h 36m
From international bestseller Stephen King the first ebook ever published-a novella about a young man who hitches a ride with a driver from the other side.
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