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Author: Jess Kidd
Author Jess Kidd
Narrator Aiden Kelly
Duration 9h 45m
1950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives.1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said, had abandoned him on the steps of a Dublin orphanage.With the help of its oldest and most eccentric inhabitant, he wil...
View BookAuthor: Daphne Du Maurier
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: M.R. James
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: Valentine Dyall
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: Mary Shelley
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: Bram Stoker
Author Bram Stoker
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 45m
This is, arguably, Stoker's best traditional ghost story. Prominently featuring rats as a central theme, this terrifying and chilling tale is sure to strike fear into the heart of any listener. Take with you on an isolated retreat to a draughty old house to fully enjoy the full effects of this dark and delightfully disturbing yarn.
View BookAuthor: Edgar Allan Poe
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: Henry James
Author Henry James
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 23m
More than just a simple tale of the supernatural, James poses questions about childhood innocence, corruption and hysteria. The story focuses on a na‹ve governess who takes charge of two children at the lonely house of Bly. When she begins to see ghosts, she believes that the children do too, with devastating consequences.
View BookAuthor: M.R. James
Author M.R. James
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 26m
When the orphaned Stephen moves to with his wealthy Uncle Abney, he finds himself haunted by a pair of ghostly children. It seems that the ghosts, a gypsy boy and an orphaned girl, had been staying at Abney's house when they met their untimely ends. Is Abney responsible, and if so what could it have to do with his obsession with immortality?
View BookAuthor: M.R. James
Author M.R. James
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 43m
Martin's Close is a classic ghost story by M R James, about a young woman infatuated, who seems to reappear when all believe she has been brutally murdered.
View BookAuthor: M.R. James
Author M.R. James
Narrator Robin Bailey
Duration 23m
A classic ghost tale by M R James. A ghoulish revenge is enacted within a work of art, before the helpless eyes of a museum curator in Oxford.
View BookAuthor: A.S. Byatt
Author A.S. Byatt
Narrator Rosalind Ayres
Duration 11m
"Baglady" is a surprising, and brilliant short story. Here, Byatt presents a horror story in which a woman gets trapped in a mall. Although the messages may not be original, Byatt's short but effective look at narcissism and capitalism is wittily told.
View BookAuthor: Bram Stoker
Author Bram Stoker
Narrator Anthony Valentine
Duration 2h 22m
Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious `Count' who has instructed him to purchase a property in England on his behalf. Thus begins a series of awful events, where Harker finds himself in the midst of a nightmare, in a deadly game of cat and mouse where he himself is hunted as prey. With a host of maste...
View BookAuthor: Various
Author Various
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 3h
A collection of eight classic horror stories: 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W Jacobs; 'Timber' by John Galsworthy; 'The Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'The Squaw' by Bram Stoker; 'Martin's Close' by M.R James; 'The Man in the Bell' by W.E Aytoun; ' Caterpillars' by E. F Benson and 'A Tale of Terror' by Thomas Hood.
View BookAuthor: Various
Author Various
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 3h
The following spooky vampire stories are given a spine-tingling read by Richard Pasco: 'The Mark of the Beast' by Rudyard Kipling; 'Aurelia' by E.T.A Hoffman; 'Ligeia' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'Mrs Amsworth' by E. F Benson and 'Dracula's Guest' by Bram Stoker.
View BookClassic Tales of the Paranormal
Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Robin Bailey
Duration 3h
A collection of the following mysterious and chilling stories: 'The Man of the Night' by Edgar Wallace; 'No 1 Branch Line: 'A Terribly Strange Bed' by Wilkie Collins; 'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki; 'The Werewolf' by Frederick Marryat; 'The Mezzotint' by M.R. James and 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe. This audiobook also includes 'The Signalman' by Ch...
View BookAuthor: Various
Author Various
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 6h
A spine-tingling collection of the following 14 tales:' The Judge's House' by Bram Stoker; 'The Upper Berth' by F. Marion Crawford; 'Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand'; 'To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt' by Charles Dickens; 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'Gabriel-Ernest ' by Saki; 'The Furnished Room' by O. Henry, 'My Own True Ghost Story...
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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: Mary Shelley
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: Bram Stoker
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 BookThe Lawnmower Man and Other Stories From Night Shift
Author: Stephen King
Author Stephen King
Narrator John Glover
Duration 3h 53m
Playing upon our most primal fears, Stephen King draws us into his sinister world - a place where sane men and women see their lives shattered, their realities distorted and destroyed. Now, listeners can probe even deeper into the mind of the master storyteller of the macabre, with this third unabridged production of 5 classic short stories, from K...
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