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A Myth of Cumbria

by Ian Holmes ...

The book is about a myth of Cumbria or CUMBERLAND as it was known as. You will first see the story that was told by CAPTIN EDWARD BROW FISHER to MR A J C HARE, who wrote the story in the story of my life. I have put in about the people who has to be connected to the story, I have also added a story about a bat that came from a church in a village not far from Croglin. It will be up to you to say ... Read more

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The book is about a myth of Cumbria or CUMBERLAND as it was known as. You will first see the story that was told by CAPTIN EDWARD BROW FISHER to MR A J C HARE, who wrote the story in the story of my life. I have put in about the people who has to be connected to the story, I have also added a story about a bat that came from a church in a village not far from Croglin. It will be up to you to say
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Stories With Nightmares

It's not safe, even when you're asleep

by H G Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander Pushkin, E F Benson, Guy De Maupassant, Edward Lucas White, Bram Stoker, W F Harvey, Violet Mary Firth writng as Dion Fortune, Ulric Daubeny, Hume Nisbet, Vernon Lee ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ian Holm, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

8 hours 6 min

1 - Stories with Nightmares - An Introduction2 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells3 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells4 - The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe5 - The Leather Funnel by Arthur Conan Doyle6 - Polaris by H P Lovecraft7 - The Coffin Maker by Alexander Pushkin8 - The Face by E F Benson9 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant10 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker11 - The House of ... Read more

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1 - Stories with Nightmares - An Introduction2 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells3 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells4 - The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe5 - The Leather Funnel by Arthur Conan Doyle6 - Polaris by H P Lovecraft7 - The Coffin Maker by Alexander Pushkin8 - The Face by E F Benson9 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant10 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker11 - The House of
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Wilkie Collins - A Short Story Collection

Array of tales from the famed author of The Moonstone and The Woman In White

by Wilkie Collins ...

Narrated by Ian Holm ...

Unabridged

3 hours 39 min

Wilkie Collins was born on 8th January 1824 in Marylebone, London.The family moved several times in his early years before, at 12, they travelled to France and Italy for 2 years where the sights and atmosphere made a deep and lasting impression on him.He resumed his education at Mr Cole’s private boarding school in Highbury, Islington. Here, he began his literary career under unusual circumstances ... Read more

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Wilkie Collins was born on 8th January 1824 in Marylebone, London.The family moved several times in his early years before, at 12, they travelled to France and Italy for 2 years where the sights and atmosphere made a deep and lasting impression on him.He resumed his education at Mr Cole’s private boarding school in Highbury, Islington. Here, he began his literary career under unusual circumstances
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Short Stories About Madness

Stories of madness, insanity and losing your grip on reality

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe, HP Lovecraft, Leo Tolstoy, Mary Shelley, Sherwood Anderson ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, William Dufris, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

16 hours 2 min

We are all driven by needs, desires, ambitions and many other forces. Life runs as normal with the obligatory ups and downs.However, sometimes the ‘off’ switch in our heads doesn’t quite work as intended. The world, ourselves, and others, are seen in fractured ways through this disjointed prism of life. Elements of this life can become distorted, leading to distrust, paranoia, meltdown or ... Read more

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We are all driven by needs, desires, ambitions and many other forces. Life runs as normal with the obligatory ups and downs.However, sometimes the ‘off’ switch in our heads doesn’t quite work as intended. The world, ourselves, and others, are seen in fractured ways through this disjointed prism of life. Elements of this life can become distorted, leading to distrust, paranoia, meltdown or
... Read more
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The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection

15 BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations

by Charles Dickens ...

Narrated by Alison Steadman, Andrew Scott, Robert Glenister, Tim McInnerny, Geraldine McEwan, Robert Lindsay, Kenneth Cranham, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Alex Jennings, Anna Massey, Phil Daniels, Julia McKenzie, Indira Varma, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

71 hours 42 min

Riveting radio dramatisations of Charles Dickens' fifteen full-length novels.Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes fifteen of his most popular novels.This collection includes the episodic adventure Nicholas Nickleby, comic tale The Pickwick Papers, poignant melodrama The Old Curiosity Shop, the much ... Read more

$55.99 CAD

Riveting radio dramatisations of Charles Dickens' fifteen full-length novels.Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes fifteen of his most popular novels.This collection includes the episodic adventure Nicholas Nickleby, comic tale The Pickwick Papers, poignant melodrama The Old Curiosity Shop, the much
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - European Gothic

The ten best gothic short stories of all time by European authors

by Charles Dickens, Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosa Mulholland, E T A Hoffman, Jean Lorrain, Rhoda Broughton, Sheridan Le Fanu, Moritz Jokai, Ernst Raupach ...

Narrated by Robbie McNab, Ian Holm, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

10 hours 46 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

$27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The Classic Novelists

The top ten short stories written by classic novelists.

by Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, F Scott Fitzgerald, Louisa May Alcott, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fyodor Dostovesky, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Jim Norton, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

7 hours 36 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

$27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The French

The top ten short stories of all time written by authors from France.

by Guy de Maupassant, Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Alphonse Daudet, Anatol France, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, Prosper Merimee ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

6 hours 45 min

The Top 10 – The French – An IntroductionAmong the glories of French culture are the abundance of its literary talents. Within its rich historical legacy are authors who take the landscape of life and create very telling stories. This conflict between history and life summons ideas of strength, beauty, brutality, elegance and all manner of feelings and emotions in these miniature gems.Short ... Read more

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The Top 10 – The French – An IntroductionAmong the glories of French culture are the abundance of its literary talents. Within its rich historical legacy are authors who take the landscape of life and create very telling stories. This conflict between history and life summons ideas of strength, beauty, brutality, elegance and all manner of feelings and emotions in these miniature gems.Short
... Read more
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Gothic Tales of Terror Volume 6

by Charles Dickens, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Jerome K. Jerome ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Hubert Gregg, Bill Wallis, Garrick Hagon ...

Series Audiobook 6 - Gothic Tales of Terror
Abridged

3 hours 19 min

Volume 6This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and Jerome K Jerome. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit back, and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own. Our stories are The ... Read more

$15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Volume 6This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and Jerome K Jerome. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit back, and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own. Our stories are The
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Stories From The Shadows – The 1860’s

Embrace the darkness

by Charles Baudelaire, Sabine Baring-Gould, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Charles Dickens, Amelia Edwards, William Hunt, Mrs Ellen Wood ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

4 hours 48 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows – The French

Embrace the darkness

by Marcel Schwob, Prosper Merimee, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Guy De Maupassant, Anatole France, Honoré de Balzac, Jean Lorrain ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

4 hours 4 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Stories About Imagination & Dreams

The world inside your mind where anything is possible

by Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, O Henry, Virginia Woolf, Wilkie Collins, Alexander Pushkin, Mary Shelley, Olive Schreiner, Mary Butts, Washington Irving, Voltaire, Saki, Fyodor Dostovesky, H P Lovecraft, Lafcadio Hearn, Hume Nisbet, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, H G Wells ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers ...

Unabridged

11 hours 46 min

It is a common quality amongst us that we all have imagination and dreams. These are positives with which to embrace life and move forward. Unfortunately, our classic literary scribes including Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf and a host of others also bring forth narratives which not only include a darker, more venal side but those of a lighter flavour.1 - Stories ... Read more

$41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

It is a common quality amongst us that we all have imagination and dreams. These are positives with which to embrace life and move forward. Unfortunately, our classic literary scribes including Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf and a host of others also bring forth narratives which not only include a darker, more venal side but those of a lighter flavour.1 - Stories
... Read more

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