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Stories to Read by Candlelight

Translated by Patricia Worth ...

by Jean Lorrain ...

Stories to Read by Candlelight contains eight stories first published in the 1890s by the French author, Jean Lorrain, translated here into English by Patricia Worth. Jean draws the reader back in time to his provincial childhood when his grandmother’s seamstress would tell him stories that gave him goose bumps and made him jump under the covers. Here he recounts these same stories, or invents new ... Read more

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Stories to Read by Candlelight contains eight stories first published in the 1890s by the French author, Jean Lorrain, translated here into English by Patricia Worth. Jean draws the reader back in time to his provincial childhood when his grandmother’s seamstress would tell him stories that gave him goose bumps and made him jump under the covers. Here he recounts these same stories, or invents new
... Read more
Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker

by Jean Lorrain ...

Translated by Brian Stableford ...

None of Jean Lorrain’s biographers has contrived to discover exactly when or why he began taking ether, or how much of it he took before realising (too late) that it was an extremely bad idea. The drug certainly helped provide the feverish, nightmarish atmosphere of these wonderfully decadent and sophisticated tales, and many of the apparitions with which they are populated.Brian Stableford’s ... Read more

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None of Jean Lorrain’s biographers has contrived to discover exactly when or why he began taking ether, or how much of it he took before realising (too late) that it was an extremely bad idea. The drug certainly helped provide the feverish, nightmarish atmosphere of these wonderfully decadent and sophisticated tales, and many of the apparitions with which they are populated.Brian Stableford’s
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Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker

by Jean Lorrain ...

Translated by Brian Stableford ...

None of Jean Lorrain’s biographers has contrived to discover exactly when or why he began taking ether, or how much of it he took before realising (too late) that it was an extremely bad idea. The drug certainly helped provide the feverish, nightmarish atmosphere of these wonderfully decadent and sophisticated tales, and many of the apparitions with which they are populated.Brian Stableford’s ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

None of Jean Lorrain’s biographers has contrived to discover exactly when or why he began taking ether, or how much of it he took before realising (too late) that it was an extremely bad idea. The drug certainly helped provide the feverish, nightmarish atmosphere of these wonderfully decadent and sophisticated tales, and many of the apparitions with which they are populated.Brian Stableford’s
... Read more
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Supernatural Murder Mysteries

Classic tales from an iconic thrilling genre

by Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, Jean Lorrain, Algernon Blackwood, F Marion Crawford, J Y Ackerman, Hugh Walpole, Ambrose Bierce, W F Harvey, Edith Stewart Drewery, Mary Cholmondeley.wav, Amelia Edwards ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

8 hours 5 min

In this volume we give the murder mystery a dastardly twist with an element of the Supernatural. With this simple addition stories become flights of evil fancy and thoughts from the dark recesses of our author’s minds. ... Read more

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In this volume we give the murder mystery a dastardly twist with an element of the Supernatural. With this simple addition stories become flights of evil fancy and thoughts from the dark recesses of our author’s minds.
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Monsieur de Phocas

by Jean Lorrain ...

'M. Phocas reveals, indeed revels, in this literary incest as the 'diabolical Englishman', Claudius Ethal, a snobbish painter, seeks to corrupt the narrator - by sending him Goya prints. A Curiosity.' The Observer Monsieur de Phocas ranks with A Rebours as the summation of the French Decadent Movement. Monsieur de Phocas will appeal strongly to readers of Oscar Wilde and fin-de-siecle fiction. ... Read more

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'M. Phocas reveals, indeed revels, in this literary incest as the 'diabolical Englishman', Claudius Ethal, a snobbish painter, seeks to corrupt the narrator - by sending him Goya prints. A Curiosity.' The Observer Monsieur de Phocas ranks with A Rebours as the summation of the French Decadent Movement. Monsieur de Phocas will appeal strongly to readers of Oscar Wilde and fin-de-siecle fiction.
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Stories From the Shadows - Ghosts & Love

by Lafcadio Hearn, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Jean Lorrain ...

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 suggestio ... Read more

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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 suggestio
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Spectral Hand, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Jean Lorrain ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

17 min

The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the French writer Jean Lorrain. ... Read more

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The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the French writer Jean Lorrain.
... 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
... 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 From The Shadows – Ghosts & Love

Embrace the darkness

by Mrs Craik, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, William Hunt, Mrs Ellen Wood, Clotilde Graves, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Jean Lorrain, Richard Le Gallienne ...

Narrated by Lisa Bowerman, Mark Rice-Oxley, Eve Karpf ...

Unabridged

3 hours 11 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 - Volume 7

Embrace the darkness

by Amy Levy, Alfred Lichtenstein, Jack London, F G Loring, Jean Lorrain, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Lynch, Arthur Machen, Niccolo Machiavelli, R H Malden, Mary E Mann, Richard Marsh, Guy De Maupassant, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Prosper Merimee, Charlotte Mew, Gustav Meyrink, Richard Middleton, Thomas Street Millington, Robert Duncan Milne, Edward Page Mitchell, Mary Louisa Molesworth ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

11 hours 45 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

$41.99 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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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 4

W G Kelly to William Mudford

by Vladimir Korolenko, Charles Lamb, Stephen Leacock, Mikhail Lermontov, Alfred Lichtenstein, F G Loring, Jean Lorrain, Arthur Lynch, Leonard Merrick, Richard Middleton, Kalman Mikszath, Robert Duncan Milne, Arthur Moore, Arthur Morrison, William Mudford ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Robert Maskell, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

15 hours 10 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more

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