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Stories From the Shadows - Vampires

Embrace the darkness

by John Willaim Polidori, E T A Hoffman, Jan Neruda, Phil Robinson, Hume Nisbet, E F Benson, F G Loring, Ernst Raupach ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 40 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

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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 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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Foundations of Fiction, The - Gothic Horror

Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres

by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexander Pushkin, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, George Eliot, M R James, E T A Hoffman0, E T A Hoffman1, Gertrude Atherton2, Perceval Landon3, Robert W Chambers4, W W Jacobs5, Ambrose Bierce6, Ernst Raupach7 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley8, Eric Meyers9, Mark Rice-Oxley0 ...

Unabridged

16 hours 31 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
... Read more
3 Horror Stories - About Necromancy

by H P Lovecraft, Wilkie Collins, Ernst Raupach ...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo
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Wake Not the Dead

One of the earliest ever vampire stories, this tale full of suspense and intrigue has been hugely influential

by Ernst Raupach ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

1 hour 20 min

Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach was born on 21st May 1784 at Straupitz in Silesia, a son of the village pastor.After attending the gymnasium at Liegnitz, he studied theology at the university of Halle. This led to a tutorship in St Petersburg in 1804 and occasionally some preaching in the German Lutheran church. He was also hard at work writing his first dramatic tragedies and in 1817 he gained a ... Read more

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Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach was born on 21st May 1784 at Straupitz in Silesia, a son of the village pastor.After attending the gymnasium at Liegnitz, he studied theology at the university of Halle. This led to a tutorship in St Petersburg in 1804 and occasionally some preaching in the German Lutheran church. He was also hard at work writing his first dramatic tragedies and in 1817 he gained a
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Stories From The Shadows – Devil

Embrace the darkness

by Ernst Raupach, Wilhelm Hauff, William Makepeace Thackeray, Gertrude Atherton, Niccolo Machiavelli, Charles Baudelaire, Fernan Caballeron, Richard Garnett, Ion Luca Caragiale ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

4 hours 22 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

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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 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 – Gothic

Embrace the darkness

by Ernst Raupach, George Eliot, Hugh Walpole, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rhoda Broughton, E T A Hoffman, Walter Scott, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Marjorie Bowen, Rosa Mulholland, Harriet Prescott Spofford ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 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

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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 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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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

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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
Stories From the Shadows - Vampires

by John William Braddon, E F Benson, Ernst Raupach ...

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
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows - Volume 9

Embrace the darkness

by James S Pyke-Nott, Violet Quirk, Alicia Ramsay, Ernst Raupach, Katherine Rickford, Charlotte Riddell, Tod Robbins, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Phil Robinson, Sax Rohmer, Saki, Marcel Schwob, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, M P Shiel, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Janet Fullerlove ...

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12 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

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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 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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Neglected Authors, The - Men - Volume 4

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by I N Potapenko, Boleslaw Prus, Edwin Pugh, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Ernst Raupach, Ernst Raupach, William Pett Ridge, Tod Robbins, Nikolai Schedrin, Friedrich Schiller, Marcel Schwob0, S T Semyonov1, M P Shiel2, Fyodor Sologub3, Frank R Stockton4, Booth Tarkington5, Wallace Thurman6, Giovanni Verga7, Israel Zangwill8, Stefan Zweig9 ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick0, David Shaw-Parker1, Richard Mitchley2 ...

Unabridged

10 hours 14 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

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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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Stories From The Shadows – The Germans

Embrace the darkness

by Alfred Lichtenstein, E T A Hoffman, Wilhelm Hauff, Ernst Raupach, Johann Hebel, Hanns Heinz Ewers, The Brothers Grimm ...

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

Unabridged

3 hours 32 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

$19.99 USD 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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Neglected Authors, The - Men Born in the 18th Century

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by William Austin, Richard Harris Barham, John Galt, Johann Hebel, Heinrich Heine, Herbert von Kleist, John Willaim Polidori, Ernst Raupach, Friedrich Schiller ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker, Tom McLean ...

Unabridged

8 hours 40 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

$24.99 USD 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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