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  Collection of Hymns for the...

  John Wesley

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  A collection of poems reflecting on Christmas and the New Year, written by the founder of the Methodist denomination.

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  To Build a Fire

  Jack London

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  A man, with only his dog for company, ventures into the frozen wasteland of Yukon. Despite warnings of the bone-chilling temperatures, he sets out on a journey to meet his companions, unaware of the desperate struggle for survival that awaits him.

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  The Affair of the Avalanche...

  Arthur Morrison

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  Private detective Horace Dorrington sees no conflict in helping himself while helping his clients. A promising new bicycle company presents him with an opportunity to cash in on his insider knowledge. But it's a dirty business, so Dorrington takes steps to ensure he's not taken for a ride.

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  The Ash Tree - From their pens...

  M R James

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  Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. 
  James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.  
  From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated initially as a boarder at Temple Grove School in East Sheen, west London, before gaining a scholarship to Eton and thence Cambridge where he gained a double first, becoming a distinguished linguist and mediaevalist.  
  Before the Great War vacations were usually spent touring Europe absorbing cultures and references for his later writing. 
  A man of enormous knowledge it was said he timed his breakfast egg whilst he completed the Times crossword.  
  Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic cliches and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting.  Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. 
  Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times. 
  James was also a medievalist scholar and translator whose work remains highly respected. He was also Provost of Eton College between 1918 and 1936. 
  M R James died on 12th June 1936 at Eton in Buckinghamshire.  He was 73.

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  The Murders in the Rue Morgue

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Murders in the Rue Morgue 
  A mysterious double homicide baffles the Paris police. Two women are found brutally murdered in their locked apartment, with no apparent entry or exit points. As the city is gripped by fear, the brilliant amateur detective, C. Auguste Dupin, takes on the case. Through keen observation and logical deduction, he unravels a horrifying truth hidden beneath the seemingly impossible crime scene.

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  Dead Man's Race The: A Christmas...

  William Jerden

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  The host of a Christmas party recounts a spooky story involving a dead man and a race for survival. Written by William Jerden and first published in 1839. 
  Narrated by Robin Reads.

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