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Introducing classic stories from the original masters of horror, this ebook includes all of the stories from Volume One of the Spinechillers audiobook series as well as Doug Bradley's special introduction, available for the first time in ebook format. These stories include: The Signalman (1866) - Charles Dickens August Heat (1910) - William Harvey The Tell Tale Heart (1843) - Edgar Allan Poe The Outsider (1926) - H.P. Lovecraft The Open Window (1914)...
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Introducing classic stories from the original masters of horror . . .
An eBook accompaniment to our audiobook CDs of Classic Horror short stories, written by legends in the field and read by Doug Bradley. This eBook includes all of the stories from Volume 4 of Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, as well as Doug Bradley's special introduction:
Lost Hearts (1904) – M.R. James
The Damned Thing (1898) – Ambrose Bierce
The Trial for Murder (1865) – Charles...
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Introducing classic stories from the original masters of horror...
An eBook accompaniment to our audiobook CDs of Classic Horror short stories, written by legends in the field and read by Doug Bradley. This eBook includes all of the stories from Volume 3 of Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, as well as Doug Bradley's special introduction:
Casting the Runes (1900) - M.R. James
The Monkey's Paw (1902) - W.W. Jacobs
Hop Frog (1849) - Edgar Allan Poe
The...
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Introducing classic stories from the original masters of horror...
An eBook accompaniment to our audiobook CDs of Classic Horror short stories, written by legends in the field and read by Doug Bradley. This eBook includes all of the stories from Volume 2 of Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, as well as Doug Bradley's special introduction:
The Dream Woman (1855) - Wilkie Collins
The Oval Portrait (1850) - Edgar Allan Poe
The Ring of Thoth (1890) - Arthur...
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Introducing classic stories from the original masters of horror...
An eBook accompaniment to our audiobook CDs of Classic Horror short stories, written by legends in the field and read by Doug Bradley. This eBook includes all of the stories from Volume 5 of Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, as well as Doug Bradley's special introduction:
The Death of Halpin Frayser (1893) - Ambrose Bierce
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) - Edgar Allan Poe
How it...
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For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's ""These Boots Are Made for Walkin'."" For a ""tunnel rat"" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's ""Purple Haze."" For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin's ""Chain of Fools."" And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was ""I Feel Like...
9) 10 dead men
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"You can't outrun your past. That is the extremely painful lesson that Ryan is learning right now, as specters of his past life of crime have returned to haunt him, destroying the only person he holds dear and nearly killing him in the process. But nearly isnt enough. Ryan though he had left his dark twisted past behind him but a blood-debt owed to an old friend means he unwittingly crosses the ruthless, all-knowing crime boss, Hart, the one man he...
10) The Damned Thing
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This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable – and untameable – essence of nature and the natural world. Told from several different perspectives, the story focuses on a freak fatal accident that is written off as a wild animal attack. But does that description get at the truth of the matter? At least one witness is convinced otherwise. A story of the paranormal that was once loosely adapted for an episode of the...
11) Mister B. Gone
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A medieval devil speaks directly to the reader, his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next, in a memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power.
12) Pickman's Model
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From "the original master of horror," a 1927 short story about an artist banished for his ghoulish paintings and the supernatural secret behind his art (Publishers Weekly).
In this classic short story from H. P. Lovecraft, enter the gothic world of Pickman, a painter notoriously banned from the Boston Art Club for his grotesque images. But once inside the artist's studio in the slums of the North End, the mystery behind Pickman's artistic choices...
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The Strange High House in the Mist is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 1926, it was first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales. An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia suggests that the story may have been inspired by Lord Dunsany's Chronicles of Rodriguez, in which strange sights can be seen from a wizard's house on a crag. One model for the setting was Mother Ann, a headland near Gloucester, Massachusetts.
16) The Tomb
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The Tomb tells of Jervas Dudley, a self-confessed day-dreamer. While still a child, he discovers the entrance to a mausoleum, belonging to the family Hyde, whose nearby family mansion had burnt down many years previously. The entrance to the mausoleum is padlocked and slightly ajar. Jervas attempts to break the padlock, but is unable. Dispirited, he takes to sleeping beside the tomb. Eventually, inspired by reading Plutarch's Lives, Dudley decides...
17) In the Vault
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An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injured when he escapes.
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The Music of Erich Zann is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922. A university student is forced, by his lack of funds, to take the only lodging he can afford. In a strange part of the city he had never seen before, on a street named "Rue d'Auseil", he finds an apartment in an almost empty building. One of the few other tenants is an old German man named Erich...
19) Tobermory
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Saki weaves mystery around a strange and malicious talking cat.
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First published in a 1839 edition of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, The Fall of the House of Usher is the story of the declining physical and psychological health of the residents of the House of Usher-and the way in which the house itself reflects that. Gothic in theme and style, the story is an exemplar of Poe's philosophy of composition, which dictates that literary works should be short, methodological, and have a unity of effect wherein all the...