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Tales of Life and Death

By: H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Richard Middleton, Amyas Northcote, M. R. James, Robert E. Howard, Vincent O'Sullivan
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Never more so than in this collection of 30 weird and macabre tales.

  • 'The Stolen Body' by H. G. Wells
  • 'The Young Lady in Black' by Amyas Northcote
  • 'On the Brighton Road' by Richard Middleton
  • 'When I Was Dead' by Vincent O'Sullivan
  • 'A Vision of Judgement' by H. G. Wells
  • 'This Is All' by Barry Pain
  • 'A Dead Finger' by Sabine Baring-Gould
  • 'Under the Knife' by H. G. Wells
  • 'Rattle of Bones' by Robert E. Howard
  • 'Kerfol' by Edith Wharton
  • 'The Downs' by Amyas Northcote
  • 'Story of an Obstinate Corpse' by Elia. W. Peattie
  • 'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton
  • 'The Cold Embrace' by M. E. Braddon
  • 'The Death of Halpin Frayser' by Ambrose Bierce
  • 'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray
  • 'The Ghost Club' by John Kendrick Bangs
  • 'Wailing Well' by M. R. James
  • 'Will' by Vincent O'Sullivan
  • 'The Striding Place' by Gertrude Atherton
  • 'The Vampire' by Jan Neruda
  • 'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith
  • 'Miss Mary Pask' by Edith Wharton
  • 'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie
  • 'Sea Curse' by Robert E. Howard
  • 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'Number Ninety' by B. M. Croker
  • 'From the Loom of the Dead' by Elia W. Peattie
  • 'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number' by Gertrude Atherton
  • 'Never Bet the Devil Your Head' by Edgar Allan Poe

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