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  Yellow Wallpaper The - and other...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert...

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  Introducing a collection of three captivating short stories, now available as digital audiobooks. Immerse yourself in the vivid and chilling world of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Man Who Disappeared" co-authored by Robert Eustace, and "The Glasgow Mystery" by Baroness Emma Orczy. 
   
  First, experience the haunting and atmospheric tale of "The Yellow Wallpaper," where a young woman is confined to a room by her doctor husband and begins to spiral into madness. Hear her innermost thoughts and fears come to life as she becomes obsessed with the patterns and designs of the yellow wallpaper that lines the room. 
   
  Next, delve into the intriguing mystery of "The Man Who Disappeared," where a man goes missing after making a shocking discovery that threatens to expose a sinister conspiracy. Follow the twists and turns of the investigation as the main character races against time to uncover the truth behind his friend's disappearance. 
   
  Finally, unravel the web of deceit and murder in "The Glasgow Mystery," where a wealthy businessman is found murdered in his home and a group of suspects are brought in for questioning. Listen as each character's story unfolds, revealing dark secrets and hidden motives that could lead to the killer's identity.

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  The People that Time Forgot

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  The People That Time Forgot is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and continues the lost world saga begun in the earlier story. After discovering Bowen Tyler's manuscript in a thermos flask off the coast of Greenland, his family immediately fund and mount a rescue operation to succour the lost hero. However; Whilst in the process of scouting the island by aeroplane, Tom Billings, Bowen's best friend, is beset by Pterodactyls and crashes. Finding himself lost in this land that time forgot, Tom rescues a lost primitive girl and together the two travel north, in search of her village, all the while under attack from deadly creatures, and the cruel peoples of the island.  
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  Adventure of the Three Students...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Three Students", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in a university town when a tutor and lecturer of St Luke's College, Mr. Hilton Soames, brings him an interesting problem. Soames had been reviewing the galley proofs of an exam he was going to give when he left his office for an hour. When he returned, he found that his servant, Bannister, had entered the room but accidentally left his key in the lock when he left, and someone had disturbed the exam papers on his desk and left traces that show it had been partially copied. Bannister is devastated and collapses on a chair, but swears that he did not touch the papers. Soames found other clues in his office: pencil shavings, a broken pencil lead, a fresh cut in his desk surface, and a small blob of black clay speckled with sawdust.

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  The Land that Time Forgot

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  The year is 1916, Europe is ablaze with war, and Bowen Tyler is crossing the Atlantic to join the Lafayette Escadrille when the course of his life is forever altered by a torpedo, shot from a German U-Boat. What follows is a course of events that leads him into a land unknown to man, filled with creatures from a primeval past, a land of savage cave men, a land of strange secrets. A Land that Time Forgot. 
  Published in 1918 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan and the so called Barsoom Saga, this fiction classic is narrated by Michael Ward.

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  A Catastrophe

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. "A Catastrophe" is a poignant tale of a shopkeeper whose business is on the verge of bankruptcy, when a dreadful catastrophe strikes the family, just in time to save him from total ruin.

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  Bains Turcs

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.  
  'Bains Turcs' is one of Mansfield's classic travel anecdotes. She is visiting a Turkish bath in France and describes the eccentric behaviour of the various other women there.

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