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Lettice Galbraith - A Short Story Collection

A gifted supernatural author whose identity remained a mystery for almost 100 years

by Lettice Galbraith ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

3 hours 46 min

Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to ... Read more

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Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to
... Read more
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Missing Model, The

The ghost of a model returns to unmask her murderer

by Lettice Galbraith ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

37 min

Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to ... Read more

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Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to
... Read more
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Stories About Curses

The immortal Monkeys Paw story, along with other equally amazing tales

by Thomas Hardy, W F Harvey, Rudyard Kipling, W W Jacobs, Joseph Conrad, Louisa May Alcott, M R James, M R James, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, William Hunt, Edith Nesbit0, Louisa Baldwin1 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley2, Robbie McNab3, Robert Maskell4 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 6 min

All words have a value, they have a truth. Even misinforming us is part of their job. But they are only words, sticks and stones etc etc.But in this volume our authors explore the use of curses. These strings of words might seem harmless enough if you don’t believe they can have any ill effect. Little by little, though, sometimes they do. Our brains connect curse with that action, that happening ... Read more

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All words have a value, they have a truth. Even misinforming us is part of their job. But they are only words, sticks and stones etc etc.But in this volume our authors explore the use of curses. These strings of words might seem harmless enough if you don’t believe they can have any ill effect. Little by little, though, sometimes they do. Our brains connect curse with that action, that happening
... Read more
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3 Christmas Stories - Sad Russian

A trio of Xmas themed stories for the holiday season

by Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Tom Mclean, Tom Mclean ...

Unabridged

32 min

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 more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... 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 more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Media, The - A Short Story Collection

Classic stories before the age of social media

by Henry James, E M Delafield, E M Delafield, Frank R Stockton, H D Everett, W F Arnold, Barry Pain, Dorothy Edwards, Robert Duncan Milne, Owen Oliver, Winifred Holtby0, Charlotte Perkins Gilman1, C E Montague2 ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley3, Robert Maskell4, Eric Roberts5 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s ... Read more

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The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s
... Read more
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Stratagem, The

A man brags about his escape from an inescapable prison

by Aleister Crowley ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

31 min

Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire.He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes.Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject ... Read more

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Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire.He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes.Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject
... Read more
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Shadow of a Shade, The

A man explores the Arctic, but his friend takes advantage of this

by Tom Hood ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

36 min

Tom Hood was born on the 19th January 1835 at Lake House, Leytonstone just outside of London, the son of the famed poet Thomas Hood.Hood was educated at University College School and Louth Grammar School before attending Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1853 to study for a career in the Church. Despite passing all of his exams he never graduated.Hood began writing at Oxford and first published soon ... Read more

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Tom Hood was born on the 19th January 1835 at Lake House, Leytonstone just outside of London, the son of the famed poet Thomas Hood.Hood was educated at University College School and Louth Grammar School before attending Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1853 to study for a career in the Church. Despite passing all of his exams he never graduated.Hood began writing at Oxford and first published soon
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Stories From The Shadows – The 1880’s

Embrace the darkness

by Louisa Baldwin, Anton Chekhov, Vsevolod Garshin, Thomas Hardy, Dorothy Havers, Lafcadio Hearn, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Rudyard Kipling, Amy Levy, Guy de Maupassant, Edward Page Mitchell0, Mary Louisa Molesworth1, Edith Nesbit2, Margaret Oliphant3, Margaret Oliphant4, Mary E Penn5, Charlotte Riddell6, Robert Louis Stevenson7, Leo Tolstoy8, Oscar Wilde9 ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell0, Richard Mitchley1, Christopher Ragland2 ...

Unabridged

12 hours 59 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

$29.99 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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Amputated Arms, The

A Danish classic of academic pursuit gone wrong

by Jørgen Vilhelm Bergsøe ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

40 min

The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the Danish writer Jørgen Vilhelm Bergsøe. ... Read more

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The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the Danish writer Jørgen Vilhelm Bergsøe.
... Read more
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Writing Teams - A Short Story Collection

Two is better than one

by H P Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, Hesketh Pritchard, Kate Pritchard, Claude Askew, Alice Askew, Alexandre Chatrian, Emile Erckmann, L T Meade, Robert Eustace ...

Narrated by Michael Lyons, Stephen Hogan, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

4 hours 43 min

Writing can be a lonely art. Distractions and writers block are just two of the many impediments to a burnished stream of prose. But sometimes two heads really can be better than one. When one author decides to team up with another, either occasionally or full time, their new creations seem to amplify and encourage the words and ideas of each writer, helping to create narratives that are both new, ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Writing can be a lonely art. Distractions and writers block are just two of the many impediments to a burnished stream of prose. But sometimes two heads really can be better than one. When one author decides to team up with another, either occasionally or full time, their new creations seem to amplify and encourage the words and ideas of each writer, helping to create narratives that are both new,
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 6

Morgan Robertson to Francis Brett Young

by Morgan Robertson, Sax Rohmer, Benjamin Rosenblatt, Ömer Seyfettin, Oswald Sickert, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Hristo Smirenski, Karl Hans Ströbl, E G Swain, Martin Swayne, Allen Upward, Michael Vincent, Edward Lucas White ...

Narrated by Michael Lyons, Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

14 hours 29 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

$19.99 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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Forgotten Authors, The - The Europeans

Don't let great literature die

by Giovanni Boccaccio, Carlo Gozzi, Fernan Caballeron, Wilhelm Hauff, George Sand, Théophile Gautier, Mikhail Lermontov, Mór Jókai, Helena Blavatsky, Camillo Boito, Anatole France, Eca de Queiros, Vladimir Korolenko, Jean Lorrain, Nikolai Teleshov, Thomas Mann ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Mark Rice-Oxley, Janet Fullerlove ...

Unabridged

23 hours 9 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

$29.99 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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