Publisher: ATOZ Classics
The vampire count of Transylvania seeks his lost love and the conquest of Britain by plague. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola." The basis of vampiric mythology. Bram Stoker's masterpiece
Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.Skinflint is a bittersweet tale of an embittered middle-aged woman who has never recovered from being jilted as a young woman. Since that sorry episode she has thrown herself into the micro-management of her grocery and drapery business. Then one day she learns that her former lover is on the brink of ruin...and the memories of her youth come surging back....Show book
"Olalla" was a "shilling shocker" written for the Christmas season in 1885, just before the publication of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The nameless protagonist of this Gothic tale, a wounded soldier, goes to the Spanish countryside to recuperate. He finds himself enthralled by the beautiful Olalla, the daughter of his hostess, whose family conceals a terrible secret. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Show book
"The Lurking Fear" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew. The story is narrated by an unnamed seeker of "strange horrors" who is investigating the massacre of a community of some six dozen backwoods degenerates in an obscure region of the Catskills, a massacre which occurred during a particularly violent electrical storm and seems to have been perpetrated by an unidentified clawed beast. The narrator soon discovers that the most sinister legends of the region center around the abandoned Martense mansion, and he decides—together with two companions—to spend the night in the big old house. And thus our lengthy, four-part tale begins.Show book
Classic thrills and unforgettable chills are drawn from the pages of literary mysteries. Draw the curtains, dim the lights, close your eyes, and enter The Weird Circle! With stories adapted from the works of unquestioned masters of the Gothic genre by top radio talent, you'll go from shiver to shake with every episode.Each broadcast opens with the sounds of crashing waves and tolling bells, followed by the authoritative voice of announcer Ted Jewett. He introduces tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, and more. These are brought to thrilling life by Eleanor Audley, Ted de Corsia, Lesley Woods, Elspeth Eric, Parker Fennelly, Alfred Shirley, Roc Rogers, and Joan Banks.Episodes Include: The Knightsbridge Mystery 1943 (Program # 8); William Wilson 1943 (Program # 10); A Passion in the Desert 1943 (Program # 11); Mateo Falcone 1943 (Program # 12); The Great Plague 1943 (Program # 15); The Lingering Expectations of an Heir 1943 (Program # 16); The Murders in the Rue Morgue 1943 (Program # 19); The Tell-Tale Heart 1943 (Program # 23); The Niche of Doom 1943 (Program # 24); The Feast of Redgauntlet 1943 (Program # 27); The Murder of the Little Pig 1943 (Program # 28); The Strange Judgement 1944 (Program # 30); The Old Nurse's Story 1944 (Program # 38); The Queer Client 1944 (Program # 46); The Executioner 1944 (Program # 51); Tapestry Horse 1944 (Program # 61)Show book
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is of course famous for his creation of the great Sherlock Holmes. The stories of the master detective are justifiably well known but he also wrote many short stories which are not so well known but deserve to be. The four stories in this recording were first published singly in magazines, principally “The Strand.” They later appeared in the collection “The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen” in 1919. They are:“The Brown Hand”“Playing with Fire”“How it Happened”“De Profundis”Show book
In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He's kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants-the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?Show book
