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The Grim Reaper's Bedside Story Book

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Sherwood Anderson, Alexander Pushkin, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Arnold Bennett, Egerton Castle
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Publisher's Summary

A highly unsettling collection of macabre stories in which death and the dead are key themes.

  • "Moon’s Gibbet", by Egerton Castle
  • "A Strange Goldfield", by Guy Boothby
  • "The Withered Arm", by Thomas Hardy
  • "The Pistol Shot", by Alexander Pushkin
  • "The Premature Burial", by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "The Dead Hand", by Wilkie Collins
  • "The Famous Race Between the Hearse and the Steamroller", by Sidney Keyes
  • "The Masque of the Red Death", by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "Nine O’Clock", by Wilkie Collins
  • "The Queen of Spades", by Alexander Pushkin
  • "The Other Side", by Count Eric Stenislaus Stenbock
  • "The King is Dead, Long Live the King", by Mary Coleridge
  • "The Restless Dead", by Lord Halifax
  • "The Dumb Man", by Sherwood Anderson
  • "The Idiot", by Arnold Bennett
  • "The Mortal Immortal", by Mary Shelley
  • "Lost in a Pyramid", by Louisa M. Alcott
  • "They", by Rudyard Kipling
  • "An Idyll of London", by Beatrice Harraden
  • "The Monkey’s Paw", by W. W. Jacobs
  • "Senility", by Sherwood Anderson
  • "The Black Ferry", by John Galt
  • "The Mines of Falun", by E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • "The Dead", by James Joyce
  • "The Cord", by Charles Baudelaire
  • "The Child with the Bread Shoes", by Théophile Gautier
  • "Jenny", by Victor Hugo
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks
Anthologies Classics
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