What is the worst thing that can happen in a cemetery? 'The Dead and the Countess' gives one truly horrific description which will keep you at the edge of your seat until the very end. Now do you really want to know what happened in the Breton cemetery? Its inhabitants’ long sleep has been interrupted and they have become restless. What will follow is still unknown.
B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.
Gertrude Atherton was an American author who lived in the period 1857-1948. She wrote novels, short stories, essays and articles, and her work often dealt with feminism and politics. Her personal life inspired her to write about women and their rights as she felt genuine disappointment in her own marriage, because her husband was not willing to let her be a writer. After his death, Atherton opened up to the world and started developing her career as a novelist. She is best known for the novel 'Black Oxen' which was published in 1923. The work was so well accepted by the public, that it was made into a silent film the same year. In 1946 she published the autobiography 'My San Francisco: A Wayward Biography'.
Ralph Orth is an American novelist who decides to move to the English countryside. There he buys a marvellous estate called Chillingsworth. Inside Chillingsworth’s gallery, Orth finds an old portrait of a young girl who takes Orth’s breath away. He is fascinated and is determined to find out who this girl was. His obsession with little lady Blanche gets so strong that one day he sees her walking around in the neighborhood. Is Ralph Orth going crazy? How can he be seeing a girl who died many years ago? Will his questions be answered and will his dream of having lady Blanche as his own daughter come true? Find out in 'The Bell and the Fog'.
B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.
Gertrude Atherton was an American author who lived in the period 1857-1948. She wrote novels, short stories, essays and articles, and her work often dealt with feminism and politics. Her personal life inspired her to write about women and their rights as she felt genuine disappointment in her own marriage, because her husband was not willing to let her be a writer. After his death, Atherton opened up to the world and started developing her career as a novelist. She is best known for the novel 'Black Oxen' which was published in 1923. The work was so well accepted by the public, that it was made into a silent film the same year. In 1946 she published the autobiography 'My San Francisco: A Wayward Biography'.
In Gertrude Atherton's The Striding Place, the concept of identity and a lonely death are addressed. Weigall remembers talking with Wyatt about the soul and afterlife. Wyatt states, "If I had my way, I should stay inside my bones until the coffin had gone into its niche, that I might obviate for my poor old comrade the tragic impersonality of death." The characters wonder about death and the destination of the human soul when it occurs. Weigall does not believe that the marshy bog, The Strid, has taken his friend, but when he sees a hand raised above the surface of the water, he knows it must be him and he desperately and quickly saves him. When he tries to resuscitate Wyatt, he sees that there is no face on the body. This is an extreme metaphor for the loneliness and/or mystery of death.
CONTENTS:
01. A Suspicious Gift [Algernon Blackwood]
02. Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp [Algernon Blackwood]
03. The Wood of the Dead [Algernon Blackwood]
04. A Baby Tramp [Ambrose Bierce]
05. The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce]
06. Dagon [H.P Lovecraft]
07. The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle]
08. The_Descendant [H.P Lovecraft]
09. The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft]
10. The Evil Clergyman [H.P Lovecraft]
11. He [H.P Lovecraft]
12.The Book [H.P Lovecraft]
13. In the Vault [H.P Lovecraft]
14. Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft]
15. Death and the Woman [Gertrude Atherton]
16. The Striding Place [Gertrude Atherton]
17. Hop-Frog [Edgar Allan Poe]
18. The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
19. The Tell-Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe]
20. Shadow [Edgar Allan Poe]
21. The Beast in the Cave [H.P Lovecraft]
22. The Doom That Came to Sarnath [Lovecraft]
23. The Vampire Maid [Hume Nisbet]
24. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Poe]
25. The Demon Spell [Hume Nisbet]
26. Out of the Earth [Arthur Machen]
27. The Signal-Man [Charles Dickens]
28. The Colloquy of Monos and Una [Poe]
29. Demons of the Sea [William Hope Hodgson]
30. Glámir [Sabine Baring-Gould]
31. Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story [Sabine Baring-Gould]
32. Tales of Secret Egypt [Sax Rohmer]
33. Some Words with a Mummy [Poe]
34. In the Dark [Edith Nesbit]
35. The Sea Raiders [H. G. Wells]
36. The Baron of Beauguard [Gilbert Parke]
37. The Vampire [Jan Neruda]
38 .A Journey of Little Profit [John Buchan]
39. The Keeper of Cademuir [John Buchan]
40. Dickon the Devil [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]
41. The Child That Went With The Fairies [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]
42. Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling [Le Fanu]
43. Two Doctors Montague [Rhodes James]
44. A School Story Montague [Rhodes James]
45. The Diary of Mr. Poynter Montague[ Rhodes James]
46. In the Forest of Villefére by [Robert E. Howard]
47. The Dream Snake [Robert E. Howard]
48. The Thing On the Roof [Robert E. Howard]
49. The Imp of the Perverse [Poe]
50. The Devil in the Belfry [Poe]
51. The Crawling Chaos [Lovecraft]
52. Aunt Joanna [Sabine Baring-Gould]
53. The Outsider [Lovecraft]
54. The Hound [Lovecraft]
55. The Disinterment [Lovecraft]
56. The Horror At Martin's Beach [Lovecraft]
57. The Tree On The Hill [Lovecraft]
58. The Outgoing of The Tide [John Buchan]
59. The Curse of Yig [Lovecraft]
60. The Haunter Of The Dark [Lovecraft]
61. Berenice [Poe]
62. The Angel Of The Odd [Poe]
63. Black Ram [Baring-Gould]
64. The Cask Of Amontillado [Poe]
65. Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker]
66. The Mother Of Pansies [Baring-Gould]
67. On The Leads [Baring-Gould]
68. McAlister [Baring-Gould]
69. Mustapha [Baring-Gould]
70. The Ghost and the Bone-setter [Le Fanu]
71. The Drunkard's Dream [Le Fanu]
72. The Novel of the White Powder [Arthur Machen]
73. The Merewigs [Baring-Gould]
74. Xélucha [Matthew Phipps Shiel]
75. Solange [ Alexandre Dumas]
76. The Fall of The House of Usher [Poe]
77. The Assignation [Poe]
78. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade [Poe]
79. Laura Silver Bell [Le Fanu]
80. Descent Into The Maelstrom [Poe]
81. The Power of Darkness [ Edith Nesbit]
82. An Authentic Narrative of A Haunted House [Le Fanu]
83. The Night Wire [H. F. Arnold]
84. The Dualists [Bram Stoker]
85. Stories of Lough Guir [Le Fanu]
86. The Vision of Tom Chuff [Le Fanu]
87. The Three Strangers [Thomas Hardy]
88. Crooken Sands [Bram Stoker]
89.The Cairn of the Headland [Robert E. Howard]
90. The Shining Pyramid [Arthur Machen]
91. Schalken The Painter [Le Fanu]
92. Hellhound Of The Cosmos [Clifford Donald Simak]
93. Ibid [Lovecraft]
94. The Grove Of Ashtaroth [John Buchan]
95. The Moon Bog [Lovecraft]
96. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances [Le Fanu]
97. Ultor De Lacy A Legend of Cappercullen [Le Fanu]
98. The Red Hand [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 98
99. The Inmost Light [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 100
We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, including the lovely Nina Randolph. Is this the start of something special? Dudley thinks so, but what about Nina? Why won't she open herself up to love? She is obviously attracted to Dudley. What is the dark secret she is hiding? Will it make a difference to Dudley's feelings? Who will be there for her in her time of need? Dudley or her odious cousin, Richard Clough? And what will San Francisco society make of it all?
Enid Balfame: 42 years old, 22 of them as a married woman; eminently respectable; founder of The Friday Club; small town dignitary; a paragon of virtue. But does she have what it takes to commit murder? And will the young and handsome Dwight Rush benefit if she does?
Roldan Castanada does not want to be conscripted into the army. Although no coward, the idea of a regimented army life does not suit his ideals, so he decides to run away from home with his friend Adan Pardo, and the pair disappear into the California wilderness. Savage bears, a river rescue, capture by Indians, escape on wild mustangs and a revolutionary battle await the boys in this suspenseful adventure novel.
Price Ruyler has been sent to San Francisco from New York to salvage the family business after the 1906 earthquake. His success makes him one of the city's most eligible bachelors but he resists the machinations of the local girls (and their mothers). Then he meets the beautiful and captivating Helene. He proposes within a week. Into the fourth year of their marriage, he realizes something has changed. He still loves his wife and he believes she loves him but he begins to wonder about her mysterious past and questions whether family secrets were buried in the rubble left by the earthquake.
Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet. Unknown to the young lover, the object of his devotion is defying age with artifice in this controversial pseudo-science fiction romance.
Isabel Otis, a young American heiress of a modest fortune has been enjoying a tour of Europe and at last decides to pay a visit to her English relative, Lady Victoria Gwynne. Politics; dinners at castles; handsome dukes; an engagement; murder; suicide - Isabel had not realized life in England could be so exciting! Eventually, this independent young woman must return to her anything but mundane life but romance follows her; but we see the old social and political world of San Francisco collapse in the devastating 1906 earthquake, with the promise of something newer and better under the guidance of such men as Philip Hofer, Mayor Phelan and Elton Gwynne.
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857-1946) was a prominent and prolific American author of novels, short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics and war.
'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number' (1905) tells the story of a doctor wrestling with the dilemma of allowing the drug-addicted wife of a close friend to die under his care, knowing that her passing would vastly improve the lives of his friend, their children, and the woman the husband would marry if his wife were gone.
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857-1946) was a prominent and prolific American author of novels, short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers. Her horror stories are particularly popular.
'The Striding Place' (1895) tells the story of a man who is searching for his best friend, who's gone missing. The search takes him to a dangerous waterfall in the forest called The Strid, from which many have fallen and drowned. There he discovers something most terrifying and surreal.
