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A warning to the curious
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. R. James
In A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (Version 2)
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…
Introduction
Read by Peter Yearsley
H. G. Wells
In The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
A collection of Wells' short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- "Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, man…
Preface; Chapter One - A General View
Read by Peter Yearsley
George Slythe Street and G. S. Street
In The Ghosts of Piccadilly
Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived…
Peter the Great
Read by NoelBadrian
Jefferys Taylor
In Æsop in Rhyme, with Some Originals
Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling …
Part One
Read by Peter Yearsley
Saki
In Reginald
A collection of humorous anecdotes centred on Reginald, a smug, self-centred and cynical young man, who never admits to being older than twe…
1 - I: The Discovery
Read by Peter Yearsley
M.R. James and M. R. James
In The Five Jars
The Five Jars is the only novel written by James, who is best known for his ghost stories. It is a peculiarly surreal fantasy apparently wri…
Going Home
Read by Peter Yearsley
Robert W. Service
In Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. Hi…
THE EASTER EGG
Read by Peter Yearsley
Saki
In The Chronicles of Clovis
This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…
From the Dead - part 2
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. Nesbit
In Grim Tales
A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…
39 - Chapter 39: Robertsbridge
Read by Peter Yearsley
E.V. Lucas and E. V. Lucas
In Highways and Byways in Sussex
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…
The old wife
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. Nesbit
In Man and Maid
A collection of the author's short stories for adults, with some supernatural ones. - Summary by Peter Yearsley
Snowy Peter
Read by Claire Schreuder
Susan Coolidge
In Just Sixteen
A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children - and enjo…
The Childhood and Youth of Peter
Read by Lizzie Driver
Jacob Abbott
In Peter the Great
There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russia…
Introduction
Read by Peter Yearsley
Bliss Carman
In Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)
Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…
Epilogue
Read by Peter Yearsley
Bliss Carman
In Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics
In one hundred lyrical poems Carman strives to recreate the Lost Songs of Sappho, a task he fulfills both with imaginative freedom and great…
Recuerdo
Read by Peter Yearsley
Edna St. Vincent Millay
In Poems
This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. I…
Recompence
Read by Simon Evers
Robert Keable
The book is a sequel to ‘Simon called Peter’ by the same author. It picks up the separate stories of Peter and Julie, at first in South Afri…
Pierre
Read by Peter Yearsley
Maurice Baring
In Poems, 1914-1919
This is a collection of Maurice Baring's poetry. This collection contains a number of Baring's earlier poetry, written before the war mostly…
Harry the First
Read by Peter Yearsley
Marietta Holley
In Poems
This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. - Summary by Carolin
Year's Ending
Read by Laurie Banza
Harold Vinal
In White April
In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…