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  The Wilding

  Ian McDonald

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  Five kids are on a sleepover in a restored wilderness project in Ireland. With them, three teachers and one Ranger: Lisa. She is twenty-six, longing to leave her job, out of her depth and soon to find herself mired in a nightmare.Strange things have been happening at Lough Carrow, a vast rewilding project on the site of a former commercial peat-bog. Livestock mutilations. Rumors, myths from the neighboring villages. Strange, unidentifiable tracks. On the trek in to the sleepover site they sight animals that have not yet been introduced to the park—wolves, wolverines, things older. Things thought long extinct.As they near the center of the wilding a boy realizes he's forgotten his meds. A teacher volunteers to take him back to the visitor center. Sure, what could go wrong?That night the camp is attacked. A teacher is dragged away. Lisa's group is marooned in the wild. It is night, the four remaining kids are terrified, they need to get back to the ARK, but the wilderness seems to be playing with time and distance and something is out there. Something hungry and hunting . . .

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  Devil's Bluff

  Mark Towse

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  It's a perfect town . . . as long as you never try to leave . . . 
  Devil's Bluff is a tiny idyllic town off the coast of England. Boasting crystal-blue waters and golden sands, it's a popular tourist spot during the warmer months, with people flocking from miles to enjoy a slice of relaxation. There's only one road in and one road out, and locals like it that way.Sound perfect? There's a catch.While tourists can come and go as they please, the last time a local allegedly attempted to leave town, they were found on the side of the road with mist pouring from every orifice and their eyes gouged out.From an early age, parents tell their children stories about what happens if they try to cross the border, often using poor Tommy Nicholls as an example.Eager to uncover the town's secrets and put paid to such fairytales, best friends Ryan and Zac plan a midnight stroll down Mulville Road. What happens next? Find out if you dare . . .Contains mature themes.

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  The Flayed Hand

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Title: The Flayed Hand 
  Author: Guy de Maupassant 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1875 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 25 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  The Flayed Hand by Guy de Maupassant is a macabre tale of obsession, vengeance, and the supernatural — a chilling exploration of how the dead may reach back to punish the living. When a collector acquires a mummified human hand, said to have belonged to a murderer, he regards it as a mere curiosity. But when the relic’s gruesome history begins to manifest in reality, terror takes hold, and reason gives way to horror. 
  Maupassant’s sharp realism and psychological insight lend the story a disturbing plausibility, transforming a simple ghost tale into a meditation on guilt, possession, and the price of curiosity. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s eerie tension and mounting dread — the quiet unease of an ordinary setting pierced by the inexplicable. While the text itself resides in the public domain, this narration is an original work and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  This audiobook is part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to reviving the dark classics of horror and the uncanny — timeless stories that still chill the blood, rendered in haunting new performances for a modern audience. 
  Listeners should prepare for a tale where curiosity becomes curse, where relics of the past refuse to rest, and where the hand of the dead may yet reach for the living.

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  Short Ghost and Horror...

  Various

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  A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night.  Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

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  The Edgar Allan Poe Audio...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe’s dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre. 
  Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe’s most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant interpreters of his work, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Between them, they perform 20 of Poe’s chilling stories and poems, creating an unforgettably intense listening experience.Includes:• The Gold Bug • The Imp of the Perverse• Ligeia Performed by Vincent Price• The Tell-Tale Heart • The Pit and the Pendulum• The Raven Performed by Basil Rathbone

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  The Sky Trap

  Frank Belknap Long

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  Suspended in mid-air high above the planet, the stratoship Perseus should still be moving—but it isn’t. Meteorologist Lawton and his crew find themselves trapped in a silent, motionless bubble of sky, where the clouds have frozen beneath them and the air outside has become a strange, alien theatre. Inside the ship, tensions mount, minds unravel, and something unseen creeps across the outer hull in creeping tendrils of life. 
  In this golden-age thriller from Frank Belknap Long, the fight isn’t just for survival against a terrifying alien vegetation; it’s a battle of human instincts, fragile alliances and the terror of staring into the unknown. As hours stretch into endless moments, Lawton must face what it means to live when the world won’t move—and what it means to stay sane when reality itself begins to shift. 
  With a haunting narration by Phil Thompson, this edition immerses you in a high-altitude nightmare where the sky becomes a trap, and the only escape may lie deep inside the human heart.

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