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Dark Tales

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Maxim Gorky, M. R. James, Guy de Maupassant, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, H. P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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A collection of strange and often grisly tales by some of the world's greatest writers, ranging from mildly unsettling to hair-raising.

  • 1."The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 2. "The Severed Hand", by Wilhelm Hauff
  • 3. "The Black Ferry", by John Galt
  • 4. "The Tête Noire", by Charles Allston Collins
  • 5. "The Bundle of Letters", by Maurus Jokai
  • 6. "The Judgement of Paris", by Leonard Merrick
  • 7. "A Witch in the Peak" ,by R. Murray Gilchrist
  • 8."The Door of the Trap", by Sherwood Anderson
  • 9. "The Drover’s Wife", by Henry Lawson
  • 10. "The Encased Man", by Anton Chekhov
  • 11. "The Pistol-Shot", by Alexander Pushkin
  • 12. "A Pastoral Horror", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 13. "The Other Side", by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
  • 14. "The Inn of the Two Witches", by Joseph Conrad
  • 15. "The Hair", by A. J. Alan
  • 16. "A Child’s Revenge", by Paul Bourget
  • 17. "Gabriel-Ernest", by Saki
  • 18. "The Haunted Doll’s House", by M. R. James
  • 19. "An Egyptian Cigarette", by Kate Chopin
  • 20. "Nyarlathotep", by H. P. Lovecraft
  • 21. "Old Fags", by Stacy Aumonier
  • 22. "The Idiot", by Arnold Bennett
  • 23. "Mademoiselle Fifi", by Guy de Maupassant
  • 24. "Odour of Chrysanthemums", by D. H. Lawrence
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