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  The Scaremongerer - From their...

  Ford Maddox

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  Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer on 17th December 1873 in Wimbledon, London, England.    
  Today he is best known for one book, ‘The Good Soldier’, which is regularly held to be one of the 100 greatest novels of all time.  But, rather unfairly, the breadth of his career has been overshadowed.  He wrote novels as well as essays, poetry, memoirs and literary criticism. Today he is well-regarded but known only for a few works rather than the grand arc of his career. 
  Ford collaborated with Joseph Conrad on three novels but would later complain that, as with all his collaborators, and those he so readily championed, his contribution was overshadowed by theirs.  
  He founded The English Review and The Transatlantic Review which were instrumental in publishing and promoting the works of so many authors and movements. 
  During WWI he initially worked on propaganda books before enlisting. Ford was invalided back to Britain in 1917, remaining in the army and giving lectures until the War’s end. After a spell recuperating in the Sussex countryside he lived mostly in France during the 1920s.  
  He published the series of four novels known as Parade’s End, between 1924 and 1928. These were particularly well-received in America, where Ford spent much of his time from the later 1920s to his death in 1939. 
  His last years were spent teaching at Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan. 
  His poetry is an excellent example of his talents.  His evocation of the horrors of War are outstanding examples of the time and have become greatly admired.  
  Ford Madox Ford died on 26th June 1939 at Deauville, France at the age of 65.

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  Mesmeric Revelation

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Whatever doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubters by profession—an unprofitable and disreputable tribe. There can be no more absolute waste of time than the attempt to prove, at the present day, that man, by mere exercise of will, can so impress his fellow, as to cast him into an abnormal condition, of which the phenomena resemble very closely those of death, or at least resemble them more nearly than they do the phenomena of any other normal condition within our cognizance; that, while in this state, the person so impressed employs only with effort, and then feebly, the external organs of sense, yet perceives, with keenly refined perception, and through channels supposed unknown, matters beyond the scope of the physical organs; that, moreover, his intellectual faculties are wonderfully exalted and invigorated; that his sympathies with the person so impressing him are profound; and, finally, that his susceptibility to the impression increases with its frequency, while, in the same proportion, the peculiar phenomena elicited are more extended and more pronounced.

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  Wuthering Heights

  Emily Brontë

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  Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.

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  A Model Crime - From their pens...

  William Pett Ridge

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  William Pett Ridge was born at Chartham, near Canterbury, Kent, on 22nd April 1859.  
  His family’s resources were certainly limited. His father was a railway porter, and the young Pett Ridge, after schooling in Marden, Kent became a clerk in a railway clearing-house. The hours were long and arduous, but self-improvement was Pett Ridge’s goal.  After working from nine until seven o’clock he would attend evening classes at Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institute and then to follow his passion; the ambition to write.  He was heavily influenced by Dickens and several critics thought he had the capability to be his successor.  
  From 1891 many of his humourous sketches were published in the St James's Gazette, the Idler, Windsor Magazine and other literary periodicals of the day. 
  Pett Ridge published his first novel in 1895, A Clever Wife. By the advent of his fifth novel, Mord Em'ly, a mere three years later in 1898, his success was obvious.  His writing was written from the perspective of those born with no privilege and relied on his great talent to find humour and sympathy in his portrayal of working class life. 
  Today Pett Ridge and other East End novelists including Arthur Nevinson, Arthur Morrison and Edwin Pugh are being grouped together as the Cockney Novelists.   
  In 1924, Pugh set out his recollections of Pett Ridge from the 1890s: “I see him most clearly, as he was in those days, through a blue haze of tobacco smoke. We used sometimes to travel together from Waterloo to Worcester Park on our way to spend a Saturday afternoon and evening with H. G. Wells. Pett Ridge does not know it, but it was through watching him fill his pipe, as he sat opposite me in a stuffy little railway compartment, that I completed my own education as a smoker... Pett Ridge had a small, dark, rather spiky moustache in those days, and thick, dark, sleek hair which is perhaps not quite so thick or dark, though hardly less sleek nowadays than it was then”. 
  With his success, on the back of his prolific output and commercial success, Pett Ridge gave generously of both time and money to charity. In 1907 he founded the Babies Home at Hoxton.  This was one of several organisations that he supported that had the welfare of children as their mission.  
  His circle considered Pett Ridge to be one of life's natural bachelors. In 1909 they were rather surprised therefore when he married Olga Hentschel.  
  As the 1920’s arrived Pett Ridge added to his popularity with the movies. Four of his books were adapted into films.  
  Pett Ridge now found the peak of his fame had passed. Although he still managed to produce a book a year he was falling out of fashion and favour with the reading public and his popularity declined rapidly.  His canon runs to over sixty novels and short-story collections as well as many pieces for magazines and periodicals. 
  William Pett Ridge died, on 29th September 1930, at his home, Ampthill, Willow Grove, Chislehurst, at the age of 71. 
  He was cremated at West Norwood on 2nd October 1930.

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  The Dream Snake

  Robert E. Howard

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: The Dream Snake 
  Author: Robert E. Howard 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1928 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series: Timeless Terrors 
  Number: 102 
  Description: 
  The Dream Snake is a haunting and surreal tale of isolation, fear, and the thin line between life and death. Set in a stark and unforgiving landscape, the story follows Mary, a solitary healer who travels a remote wilderness carrying a mysterious, deadly snake used for curing illnesses. When a tragic accident occurs during one of her treatments, Mary is confronted with the fragility of human life, the limits of her knowledge, and the unpredictable consequences of her actions. 
  Robert E. Howard weaves a narrative charged with psychological tension and existential unease, exploring themes of mortality, responsibility, and the uncanny presence of forces beyond human understanding. The sparse, dreamlike prose evokes both wonder and dread, creating a world where isolation amplifies fear and where every choice can have irreversible consequences. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance brings Lovecraft’s eerie, introspective story to life, immersing listeners in a chilling meditation on death, guilt, and the unknowable. The Dream Snake endures as a masterwork of psychological horror, where the most unsettling terror comes not from monsters, but from the consequences of our own hands.

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  The Lost Continent - A thrilling...

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  Two centuries after the Great War, Europe has been wiped from the map—and crossing the deadline means certain death. 
  It is the year 2137. The Pan-American Federation has enjoyed two hundred years of absolute peace, isolated from the Eastern Hemisphere by the draconian edicts of longitude 30. No ship has crossed the meridian and returned. No man knows what lies beyond. But when a catastrophic malfunction strands Lieutenant Jefferson Turck and his aero-submarine over the forbidden waters of the Atlantic, he is left with a dire choice: face execution for treason at home, or chart a course eastward into the terrifying unknown. 
  Landing on the shores of ancient England, Turck discovers not the glorious civilization of history books, but a savage, overgrown wilderness teeming with fierce predators and primitive, brutal human tribes. Stripped of his high-tech advantages, the modern naval officer must rely on his raw survival instincts. With the help of Victory, a fiercely independent tribal queen, Turck must navigate the crumbling ruins of London, battle apex predators reigning from the thrones of kings, and escape the barbaric warlords who wish them both dead. 
  Why you will love this audiobook: Fans of classic Science Fiction will be mesmerized by this thrilling blend of post-apocalyptic survival, dystopian world-building, and high-octane pulp adventure. Combining futuristic exploration, military sci-fi undertones, and lost world tropes, this action-packed odyssey delivers an unforgettable vision of a fallen empire reclaimed by nature. 
  Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) was a legendary pioneer of 20th-century speculative fiction. Best known for creating Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, his fast-paced narratives laid the foundation for modern science fiction.

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