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The Skipper's Wooing

Read by Alan Lord


W. W. Jacobs


The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

Lord Brougham

In The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain

Read by Alan Mapstone


John Henry Ingram


Possibly no part in the world is more connected in our minds to hauntings, ghost sightings and gruesome legends than Great Britain with its …

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Gordon, Lord Byron


English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was first published anonymously in 1809 with Byron only identified as the author in the 2nd edition. Byro…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto III

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Gordon, Lord Byron


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describ…

21 - Lord Beltham's Murderer

In Fantômas

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain


Fantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The title character is a ruthless t…

Chillon by Lord Byron

In Sonnets of This Century

Read by Alan Mapstone


Various


This comprehensive anthology of English sonnets of the Nineteenth Century, edited and arranged by William Sharp, was published in 1887. It…

Poems Concerning the Slave Trade

Read by Alan Mapstone


Robert Southey


Robert Southey, a future Poet Laureate, was born in Bristol, one of the principal ports in England for the slave trade. He wrote these poems…

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In Say and Seal, Volume 2

Read by Alan Lord


Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

Bastin Attempts the Martyr’s Crown

In When the World Shook

Read by Alan Lord


H. Rider Haggard


A fictional memoir of Humphrey Arbuthnot of Devonshire, we are taken on a voyage to the island of Orofena, in the South Seas, together with…

A Victim of Higher Space

In Three More John Silence Stories

Read by Alan Lord


Algernon Blackwood


A trio of supernatural stories by famed author Algernon Blackwood. - Summary by eduardol

The Snowball That Didn’t Melt

In The Pearl Story Book: Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's …

Read by Alan Lord


Ada M. Skinner


A collection of Christmas, Winter, and New Year tales and poems compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner (Summary by RomaSingh)

The Brown Man's Servant, Part 1

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 054

Read by Alan Lord


W. W. Jacobs


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…