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Audiobooks Narrated by Owen Joyce
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This Audiobook contains the following works :
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
The Damned (Là-bas) - Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
The Dunwich Horror - H.P Lovecraft
The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
the Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have died. That last subscriber then receives the whole of the proceeds). The story involves the last two such survivors and their relations, a train crash, missing uncles, surplus dead bodies and innocent bystanders. A farce really.
The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief by turning to the study of the Middle Ages and begins to research the life of the notorious 15th-century child-murderer Gilles de Rais. Through his contacts in Paris (notably Dr. Johannes, modeled after Joseph-Antoine Boullan), Durtal finds out that Satanism is not simply a thing of the past but alive in turn of the century France. He embarks on an investigation of the occult underworld with the help of his lover Madame Chantelouve. The novel culminates with a description of a black mass
