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  Green Tea - Amazing supernatural...

  Sheridan Le Fanu

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  Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family with Huguenot, Irish and English roots 
  The children were tutored but, according to his brother William, the tutor taught them little if anything. Le Fanu was eager to learn and used his father's library to educate himself about the world. He was a creative child and by fifteen had taken to writing poetry. 
   
  Accepted into Trinity College, Dublin to study law he also benefited from the system used in Ireland that he did not have to live in Dublin to attend lectures, but could study at home and take examinations at the university as and when necessary. 
   
  This enabled him to also write and by 1838 Le Fanu's first story The Ghost and the Bonesetter was published in the Dublin University Magazine. Many of the short stories he wrote at the time were to form the basis for his future novels. Indeed, throughout his career Le Fanu would constantly revise, cannabilise, embellish and re-publish his earlier works to use in his later efforts. 
   
  Between 1838 and 1840 Le Fanu had written and published twelve stories which purported to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell. Set mostly in Ireland they include classic stories of gothic horror, with grim, shadowed castles, as well as supernatural visitations from beyond the grave, together with madness and suicide. One of the themes running through them is a sad nostalgia for the dispossessed Catholic aristocracy of Ireland, whose ruined castles stand in mute salute and testament to this history. 
   
  On 18 December 1844 Le Fanu married Susanna Bennett, the daughter of a leading Dublin barrister. The union would produce four children. Le Fanu was now stretching his talents across the length of a novel and his first was The Cock and Anchor published in 1845. 
   
  A succession of works followed and his reputation grew as well as his income. Unfortunately, a decade after his marriage it became an increasing source of difficultly. Susanna was prone to suffer from a range of neurotic symptoms including great anxiety after the deaths of several close relatives, including her father two years before. 
   
  In April 1858 she suffered an "hysterical attack" and died in circumstances that are still unclear. The anguish, profound guilt as well as overwhelming loss were channeled into Le Fanu’s work. Working only by the light of two candles he would write through the night and burnish his reputation as a major figure of 19th Century supernaturalism. His work challenged the focus on the external source of horror and instead he wrote about it from the perspective of the inward psychological potential to strike fear in the hearts of men. 
   
  A series of books now came forth: Wylder's Hand (1864), Guy Deverell (1865), The Tenants of Malory (1867), The Green Tea (1869), The Haunted Baronet (1870), Mr. Justice Harbottle (1872), The Room in the Dragon Volant (1872) and In a Glass Darkly. (1872). 
   
  But his life was drawing to a close. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu died in Merrion Square in his native Dublin on February 7th, 1873, at the age of 58.

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  Stories From The Shadows – The...

  Gustave Flaubert, Jan Neruda,...

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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 sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twisted revelation that may thrill, may disturb, but will always engage and help us explore the edge of darkness where some of the very best literature patiently lurks …. waiting …. for the likes of me and you.

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  The Fall of the House of Usher

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe is a haunting masterpiece of Gothic fiction that delves into the fragile boundaries between reality and madness, life and death, and the physical world and the realm of the supernatural. Widely regarded as one of Poe's most atmospheric and psychologically complex tales, this chilling story immerses readers in a decaying world of dread, mystery, and inevitable doom.
  
  The narrative follows an unnamed narrator who arrives at the remote ancestral mansion of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher. Summoned by a desperate letter describing illness and mental distress, the narrator finds himself confronted with a bleak and crumbling estate surrounded by a dark, stagnant tarn. From the moment he beholds the mansion's fissured façade, an overwhelming sense of gloom and foreboding settles over the scene. The house itself seems alive—its decaying walls and oppressive atmosphere reflecting the fragile state of its inhabitants.
  
  Inside the mansion reside Roderick and his twin sister, Madeline, the last surviving members of the ancient Usher lineage. Roderick suffers from acute sensitivity and a mysterious nervous disorder, while Madeline is afflicted by a strange and debilitating illness. As the narrator attempts to comfort his friend, he becomes increasingly aware of the eerie connection between the siblings and the ancestral home. The atmosphere grows heavier, and reality begins to blur with nightmare.
  
  Poe masterfully builds suspense through vivid imagery, symbolic detail, and psychological tension. The mansion functions as more than a setting—it mirrors the internal decay of the Usher family. Themes of isolation, hereditary madness, and the inescapable weight of the past intertwine to create a sense of mounting catastrophe. Every creaking floorboard and whispering corridor amplifies the feeling that something terrible is approaching.
  
  As the story unfolds, the line between rational explanation and supernatural influence becomes increasingly uncertain. Strange sounds echo through the halls, and an overwhelming sense of dread consumes the narrator. The unfolding events lead to a dramatic and unforgettable climax that solidifies the tale's place among the most iconic works of American Gothic literature.
  
  What makes The Fall of the House of Usher particularly powerful is its exploration of psychological terror rather than physical horror. Poe probes the depths of fear that arise from within—the terror of losing one's sanity, the burden of inherited guilt, and the oppressive power of isolation. The story's rich symbolism, poetic language, and carefully controlled pacing create an immersive experience that lingers long after the final scene.
  
  Dark, atmospheric, and profoundly unsettling, The Fall of the House of Usher stands as a testament to Edgar Allan Poe's genius in crafting tales of suspense and emotional intensity. It remains a timeless exploration of decay, fear, and the mysterious forces that dwell in the shadowed corners of both the mind and the world around us.

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  The Haunted Hotel

  Wilkie Collins

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  The scandalous marriage of the Countess Narona to Lord Montbarry takes place in London to the disgust of his family. Not least to his treatment of his former betrothed: Agnes Lockwood. But scandal turns to tragedy when he dies of illness in a Venetian Palace. Under a cloud of suspicion and mystery, the Palace is turned into a hotel, but still questions remain... What has happened to the mysteriously missing Courier, last seen in Lord Montbarry's employ? ...and why do strange and unearthly things happen when members of his family sleep in a certain room in that hotel, the room in which he died...?  
  Written by that grandfather of mystery and crime, Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel is a supernatural mystery first published in 1879.  
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  Hunger of the Werewolf - Blood Lust

  R.L. Summerfield

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Some hungers can't be satisfied - only unleashed 
  After a lustful encounter, a man becomes the unwilling victim of a horrifying infection that begins to twist him into a monstrous werewolf. Desperate to stop his transformation, he hunts for the mysterious female creature who bit him. But as he follows her trail, he uncovers a dark web of vicious secrets-truths far more terrifying than the beast he's becoming.

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  Dying to Get In - Reworked -...

  Rachel Lawson

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  When a killer stalks the Karaoke for victims, the magicians go to the Karaoke to stalk him. Will it kill one of them, and who murders the songs?

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