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  The Inspired 'Busman - From...

  Elinor Mordaunt

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  Evelyn May Clowes was born on 7th May 1872 in Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire.  
  Growing up in genteel circumstances, her early childhood was spent at Charlton Down House near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and her teenage years near Heythrop in the Cotswolds.  
  She was educated at home by governesses, excelling at German, Latin, Greek, shorthand, landscape painting, and fabric and wallpaper design. 
  In 1897 she went to Mauritius as companion to her cousin Caroline and in 1898 married Maurice Wilhemn Wiehe, the owner of a sugar plantation. She gave birth to two stillborn children. After a few years of marriage, she found life difficult and returned to England. Shortly afterwards she went by herself to Australia, arriving in June 1902 and gave birth to a son a few months later.   
  She lived in Melbourne for about eight years.  To earn a living she took on a wide and varied range of jobs; she edited a woman's fashion paper, wrote short stories and articles, made blouses, designed embroideries, tilled gardens, acted as a housekeeper, and did other artistic work. Her health was not strong, but she undertook any kind of work which would provide a living for herself and her infant son. This gained her an experience of life which was readily put to use in her literary works. 
  Her first book, ‘The Garden of Contentment’, was published in 1902 under her pen-name Elinor Mordaunt. It was the first of many works that covered fiction, short stories, travel and autobiography. 
  She changed her name by deed poll to Evelyn May Mordaunt on 1st July 1915 and gained a further reputation as a writer of short stories for magazines which display both her humour and sense of tragedy. Travel was always high on her priority and the experiences used not only for pleasure but in her writings and, as travel books, ideas in themselves.  
  On 27th January 1933 at Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, she married a retired barrister from Gloucestershire. In her own words, the marriage ‘ended in tragedy.’ 
  Elinor Mordaunt died on 25th June 1942 at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. She was 70.

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  Average Jones

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

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  Adrian Van Reypen Egerton Jones — Average Jones — investigates advertising: the fraudulent notice, the coded personal column, the patent medicine that kills. Adams was one of the muckrakers Roosevelt named, and his 1905 series The Great American Fraud exposed the patent-medicine trade and helped force the Pure Food and Drug Act through Congress. The cases here are that reporting, turned into detection.

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  Vikram And The Vampire

  Richard F. Burton

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  Baital Pachisi , also known as Vikram-Betaal , is a collection of Hindu tales featuring King Vikramaditya as the hero. Eleven of these tales were adapted from Sanskrit to English by Richard F. Burton as Vikram and the Vampire . A tantric yogi is after King Vikram's life because of the wrongdoings of his father. He fools the brave king into bringing him Baital (a vampire) hanging from a siras tree. Baital, in turn, traps the king in an endless loop of stories. If King Vikram answers any question posed by the vampire during his storytelling, the vampire will escape back to the tree, and the king will have to start again. Will King Vikram be able to escape Baital's trap? What doom awaits the king when finally meets his nemesis? Richard F. Burton was a significant literary figure whose work has stood the test of time. This public domain edition preserves the original text in its entirety, making it accessible to modern readers and scholars alike. As a work of classic literary fiction, Vikram And The Vampire exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  Stories and Novels of Saki

  Saki Saki

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  A brilliant collection of witty, satirical, and unforgettable stories from one of the masters of short fiction.
  
  This extensive anthology gathers Saki's finest works, showcasing his sharp humor, clever observations, and memorable characters. Filled with social satire, unexpected twists, and literary charm, these stories remain as entertaining today as when they were first published.
  
  Written by Saki, this collection is a treasure for lovers of classic humor and short fiction.

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  Pigeons from Hell

  Robert E. Howard

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: Pigeons from Hell 
  Author: Robert E. Howard 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1938 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series: Timeless Terrors 
  Number: 105 
  Description: 
  Pigeons from Hell is widely regarded as one of the most chilling works of Southern Gothic horror ever written. The story follows two travelers who seek shelter for the night in a decaying plantation mansion deep in the oppressive backwoods of Georgia. What seems like a refuge from the heat quickly becomes a place of mounting dread as strange noises echo through the abandoned halls and the relentless fluttering of pigeons fills the darkened attic above. 
  Before morning comes, terror strikes — one man is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of unimaginable horror. As authorities investigate the grim scene, whispers emerge of a terrible family history tied to the crumbling estate: cruelty, madness, and dark folk traditions rooted in the region’s past. 
  Blending folklore, mystery, and supernatural horror, Robert E. Howard crafts an atmosphere thick with tension and unease. The sweltering Southern landscape, the haunted ruin of the plantation house, and the restless wings of the pigeons all combine to create a story where the past refuses to remain buried. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance brings new life to Howard’s most famous horror tale, capturing the creeping dread and nightmarish intensity that have made Pigeons from Hell a cornerstone of classic weird fiction.

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  Shadow - A Parable

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Shadow. A Fable: Ye who read are still among the living, but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many centuries shall pass away ere these memorials be seen of men. And when seen there will be some to disbelieve, and some to doubt, and yet a few who will find much to ponder upon in the characters here graven with a stylus of iron.

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