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Classic Tales of Werewolves
- By: George MacDonald, Hugh Walpole, Bernard Capes, and others
- Narrated by: David Thorpe, Nigel Lambert, Liza Ross, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A wolf howls through the forests of Transylvania, the murky graveyards of H.P. Lovecraft, the mythic marshes of Count Stenbock and the ghostly vaults of English cathedrals in these timeless stories read by award-winning actors from The Story Circle company.
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Great for dark nights and dark dreams!
- By A Prince Tavira on 01-09-14
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Classic Tales of Werewolves
- Narrated by: David Thorpe, Nigel Lambert, Liza Ross, Sean Barrett, Garrick Hagon, Anne Rosenfeld, Hayward Morse
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 04-08-11
- Language: English
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Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre
- By: Hugh Walpole
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Dive into the unsettling world of a father whose sanity teeters on the edge of sadism, a man trapped within a dark spirit of malevolence. This compelling 1925 novel by a keen observer intricately navigates the complexities of human nature and morality. – Summary by David Wales
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The Perfect Close
- By: Hugh Walpole
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. 'The Perfect Close' is the story of a 79-year-old man who realises one day that he is about to die. Seeing that he has only an hour or so left to live, he must decide how to spend his final moments. We accompany him on the last minutes of his life as he achieves his last couple of surprising but highly satisfying victories.
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The Perfect Close
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 19-03-19
- Language: English
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Batchelors
- By: Hugh Walpole
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. "Batchelors" is a charming tale of two brothers, Robin and Harry, who live in a mutually codependent relationship. Robin is timid and subservient while Harry is brash and hearty.
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Batchelors
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 29 mins
- Release date: 02-03-15
- Language: English
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Old Ladies
- By: Hugh Walpole
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Step back in time to Polchesters Pontippy Square, where an old, weather-beaten house perched on a rock above Seatown was home to three old ladies. This creaking, rain-soaked dwelling, shrouded in the mystery of years gone by, is the backdrop for a tale of fear, manipulation, and cruelty. Penned by Walpole in the 1920s, The Old Ladies is a chilling exploration of the darker side of human nature, centered around the tragic tale of a timid spinster exploited and ultimately terrorized to death by a ruthless widow.
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Fifty Phenomenal Stories
- By: Katherine Mansfield, J. S. Fletcher, Arthur Machen, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A wonderful collection of 50 phenomenal stories by the world’s great short story writers.
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worst reader ever
- By Anonymous on 15-10-21
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Fifty Phenomenal Stories
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-09-18
- Language: English
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Fifty Fantastic Tales
- By: H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Hugh Walpole, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 27 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A superb collection of classic short stories showcasing the variety, depth and imagination of great Victorian writers.
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Terrible narration - zero stars
- By Mr. W. A. KELLY on 30-12-19
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Fifty Fantastic Tales
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 27 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-12-16
- Language: English
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Favourite Short Stories
- 50 Classic Tales
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, O. Henry, Anthony Trollope, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 24 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A thoroughly engaging collection of classic short stories from some of the greatest writers who lived.
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Terrible narrator
- By Ionaeds on 26-08-15
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Favourite Short Stories
- 50 Classic Tales
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 24 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 26-05-15
- Language: English
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The Tarn and Other Macabre Stories
- By: Hugh Walpole
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Hugh Walpole is best known for his Herries Chronicle, a saga of four books relating the history of the Herries family and set in the Lake District in the north of England, where Walpole settled in his later life. The Chronicle was extremely popular, as was another series of books for children, the Jeremy trilogy. Many of his novels were in the psychological horror genre. He also wrote many short stories that were published in several collections.
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The Tarn and Other Macabre Stories
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-01-16
- Language: English
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The Beard
- By: Hugh Walpole
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. 'The Beard' is the touching and insightful tale of a narcissistic and pompous father who is struggling to raise his pubescent son, who is enraged at and embarrassed by his father, yet the codependency between the two still exercises a magnetic pull.
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The Beard
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 21-10-16
- Language: English
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Stories for Winter Evenings
- By: Hugh Walpole, W. F. Harvey, Mary E. Braddon, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A haunting collection of strange and macabre short stories, ideal for listening to around the fire on a cold winter evening.... 'The Last Leaf' by O. Henry, 'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie, 'The Fire' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne, 'The Tiger' by Hugh Walpole, 'Cool Air' by H. P. Lovecraft, 'The Missing Model' by Lettice Galbraith, 'The Cold Embrace' by Mary E. Braddon, 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole, 'Over an Absinthe Bottle' by W. C. Morrow, 'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton.
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Stories for Winter Evenings
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-11-15
- Language: English
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Very Strange Stories
- Fifty Astoundingly Queer Tales
- By: W. F. Harvey, Jerome K. Jerome, H. P. Lovecraft, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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There are certain stories which stand out from the crowd owing to the unique creativity of the plot and the skill with which the author unfolds his tale. This selection contains 50 of the most ingenious short stories ever written. Includes: 'The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand' by J. S. Fletcher; 'The Umbrella' by Arnold Bennett; 'The Lovely Lady' by D. H. Lawrence; 'The Lake' by W. F. Harvey; 'A Tiger’s Skin' by W. W. Jacobs; and 'The Strange Case of Mr. Todmorden' by F. Britten Austin.
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Very Strange Stories
- Fifty Astoundingly Queer Tales
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-09-15
- Language: English
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The Creepiest Stories Ever Written
- By: W. F. Harvey, H. P. Lovecraft, Hugh Walpole, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 24 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of 50 of the world's great creepy stories. "Creepy" does not necessarily mean ghost or horror stories but rather stories that literally make our flesh creep by shaking our false sense of security and comprehension of the world.
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Appallingly bad narrator
- By Connor on 13-08-15
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The Creepiest Stories Ever Written
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 24 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-08-15
- Language: English
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The Short Stories of Hugh Walpole
- By: Hugh Walpole
- Narrated by: Jake Urry
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE, was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on March 13, 1884. His father was an Anglican clergyman which involved postings abroad. Walpole’s early education was by a Governess until, in 1893, his parents decided he needed a better education and the young boy was sent to England. He first attended a preparatory school in Truro followed by Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow in 1895, where he was bullied, frightened and miserable.
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The Short Stories of Hugh Walpole
- Narrated by: Jake Urry
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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Major Wilbraham
- By: Hugh Walpole
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 38 mins
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'Major Wilbraham' is the extraordinary tale of a respectable ex-army officer whose mysterious death is shrouded in the greatest mystery of all. What could have led to Major Wilbraham to behave like that? Causing a scene on Piccadilly, staying out all night in Green Park with a street fighter and a prostitute, causing a fight at Covent Garden Market in which he was fatally injured....
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Major Wilbraham
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 38 mins
- Release date: 17-01-18
- Language: English
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The Last Trump
- By: Hugh Walpole
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 38 mins
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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. 'The Last Trump' is an engaging and tense story about a man who believes he has calculated the exact date and time of the end of the world. It will occur at 11:45 p.m. on January 20, 1929.
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The Last Trump
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 38 mins
- Release date: 02-03-16
- Language: English
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Ingenious Tales by Artful Writers
- By: Hugh Walpole, Anton Chekhov, Barry Pain, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
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bibliophile's collection of wide ranging and masterful short stories, embracing both the subtle and the macabre, the whimsical and the downright frightful. Fifty captivating short stories which will keep listeners glued to their headsets.
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Ingenious Tales by Artful Writers
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-08-15
- Language: English
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Thirteen Travelers
- By: Hugh Walpole
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Step back into 1919, a time when the world is slowly emerging from the shadows of World War I, and the promise of peace hangs in the air. At Hortons, an elegant building of luxury flats nestled off Piccadilly in London, the fabric of society is unraveling. Expectations clash with a new reality, leaving residents grappling with confusion and uncertainty. Each story unfolds the life of a unique individual connected to Hortons, revealing their struggles and resilience as they navigate the profound changes of the post-war era. Immerse yourself in twelve captivating tales from the acclaimed early ...
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Harmer John; An Unworldly Story
- By: Hugh Walpole
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In Hjalmar Johansons captivating 1926 novel, we meet Harmer John, a young, idealistic Swedish bodybuilder drawn to the enchanting cathedral town of Polchester. Simplified by the locals, his name becomes a symbol of hope and transformation. Envisioning a healthier, more beautiful community, Harmer John opens a gym to inspire the townsfolk to embrace fitness and well-being. However, his ambitious dreams clash with the interests of greedy slumlords who profit from the impoverished residents. As he faces xenophobia, jealousy, and hostility, Harmer John emerges as a modern-day Francis of Assisi—a...
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Jeremy at Crale A School Story of Friendship and Rivalry
- By: Hugh Walpole
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Dive into Hugh Walpoles captivating 1927 novel, the final installment in the Jeremy series, following the adventures of young Jeremy as he navigates life at a boarding school. Set in the fictional English cathedral town of Polchester, this story explores the complexities of adolescence—the blend of mischief and heroism that defines boyhood. Walpole himself acknowledged the challenges of writing a school story, emphasizing the unique sentiments that only those who experience this tumultuous time can truly express. Join Jeremy as he faces the trials of growing up, friendships, and his one ...
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