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Midnight Shadows features two classics of horror and the supernatural. "Young Goodman Brown" is the chilling story of a young Puritan man who finds himself drawn into a world of witchcraft and unspeakable black magic. "The Ash Tree" is the tale of Sir Richard, who encounters an ancient tree that harbors a dark and grotesque secret.

A spine-tingling collection of classic ghost stories – a perfect way to pass those long winter nights! This set contains "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, "Sredni Vashtar" by Saki, "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling, "Lost Hearts" by M.R. James and "The Furnished Room" by O. Henry.

This audiobook contains a collection of ghostly tales to send a shiver up your spine!

A collection of 11 classic short stories by authors including Kate Chopin, Saki, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and Thomas Hardy.

A collection of spine chilling short stories by M. R. James, Saki, Lord Byron, and Ambrose Bierce.

Genuinely chilling narratives of paranormal phenomena, the returning dead, uncanny apparitions, sinister happenings and inexplicable events which make your blood run cold. Listen in the dark... if you dare!

Ghost stories continue to be a popular audiobook genre, and this group of four stories brings together some of the best. Reader Stephen Critchelow has spent a lifetime collecting and reading works like these and, with carefully chosen music, brings a strong sense of atmosphere to the recordings.

M R James is widely regarded as THE master of the ghost story. His stories abound with spectres skulking in the shrubbery, in shadowy corners and dark recesses. 'The Mezzotint' is a whimsical and apparently supernatural tale of art on the move; a dying man devises a gruesome plan for testing his heirs in 'The Tractate Middoth', and something is lurking under the bedclothes in 'Rats'.

The clergyman named John Haynes becomes an archdeacon after his predecessor dies a seemingly natural death. One day, he touches a carved wooden figure in Barchester Cathedral. Then an ancient spell goes into effect....

Prepare to be spooked by one of England's classic scary stories. Stephen Elliot, a young orphan boy nearly 12, is called to live with a mysterious cousin in the country. Little does Elliot know that Abney has his own alchemical secrets and obsessions that will affect the young boy in ways he cannot imagine.

Eerie old houses, wretched smiles, mausoleums, and banshees. Stories from masters of the horror genre, M.R. James, F. Marion Craword, Edgar Allan Poe, W.W. Jacobs, Amelia Edwards, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and H.P. Loveraft, stories to make your body tingle and your mind play tricks.

Ghost stories by M. R. James are pretty varied, and based on the genre of Gothic novels. The plot of "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" is unveiled when Professor Parkins finds a whistle engraved with a Latin inscription... and blows it. "The School Story", builds a mystic and fearsome atmosphere around a mysterious Byzantine coin. Once again, well-chosen voices, superb music, and original cover-graphics serve to enhance the feel of the stories.

The author of the first short story - "The Haunted Dolls' House" - is Montague Rhodes James, "master of terror and monstrous visions". "Cool Air" and "Azathoth" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft complete the collection. The atmosphere of horror and mystery is underlined by excellent performances by all actors and music.

England 1895: Unheimliche Dinge ereignen sich in einer der berühmtesten Bibliothek des Landes. Der junge Mr. Garrett versucht, Licht in die mysteriösen Vorkommnisse zu bringen...

Als Mr. Dillet, ein Sammler von Antiquitäten, im Gebraucht-Waren-Laden des Ehepaars Chittenden ein viktorianisches Puppenhaus entdeckt, ist er sich sicher, dass er es haben muss.

Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 27 beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Mitternachtsweg", "Das Traktat Middoth", "Der weiße Wolf von Kostopchin", "Der Kapitän der Polestar".

London 1899: Edward Dunning hat über ein Vortrags-Exposé zum Thema Die vielen Gesichter der Alchemie aus der Feder eines gewissen Mr. Karswell, der dem Vernehmen nach selbst Alchemie und okkulte Künste praktiziert, eine ungünstige Einschätzung verfasst.

Aswarby Hall, 1811/12: Der Waisenjunge Stephen wird zu einem weit älteren, entfernten Verwandten auf ein Herrenhaus auf dem Land geschickt, um fortan dort zu leben. Es dauert nicht lange, da hat der Junge unheimliche Begegnungen in dem alten Haus, die ihm Rätsel aufgeben...

An einem Sommertag des Jahres 1929 erzählt Victor Anderson seinem Cousin von einem unheimlichen Erlebnis, welches er in der dänischen Stadt Viborg im historischen Hotel Goldener Löwe während eines Forschungsaufenthaltes in der Stadt hatte...

Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 18 beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Stimme in der Nacht" von William Hope Hodgson, "Schwarze Krallen" von Robert E. Howard, "Der Eschenbaum" von M.R. James und "Markheim" von Robert Louis Stevenson.