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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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  Magic of Flesh and Bone

  Kim Richardson

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  Once again, I am faced with The Forsaken-that nefarious order cloaked in darkness and malice. 
  Whispers of their latest diabolical scheme have reached my ears, and now it's up to me to stop them. But my hands are tied (literally) by the cursed rusane around my neck, rendering my magic useless against them. 
  As if that wasn't bad enough, turns out my own family is part of this wicked group. Wonderful. 
  And just when I thought my love life was back on track, it's not. Dash has been taken from me by his demoness ex-wife, and I will never see him again… 
  Now I have to put my shattered heart on the back burner as I try to take down The Forsaken. 
  But I'm a stubborn beast, so I can't let this go. Not even The Forsaken or Rita can stand in my way of bringing Dash back to me, consequences be damned. 
  I will get him back. And that's a promise. 
   

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  Sinister Graves

  Marcie R. Rendon

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  Minnesota, 1970s: A snowmelt has sent floodwaters down to the fields of the Red River Valley, dragging the body of an unidentified Native woman into the town of Ada. The only evidence the medical examiner recovers is a torn piece of paper inside her bra: a hymn written in English and Ojibwe. 
   
  Cash Blackbear, a 19-year-old, tough-as-nails Ojibwe woman, sometimes uses her special abilities to help Sheriff Wheaton, her guardian, with his investigations.  
   
  When Cash sees the hymn, she knows her search for justice for this anonymous victim will lead her somewhere she hasn’t been in over a decade: the White Earth Reservation, a place she once called home. 
   
  When Cash happens upon two small graves in the yard of a rural, “speak-intongues kinda church,” she is pulled into the lives of the pastor and his wife while yet another Native woman turns up dead and her newborn is nowhere to be found.

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  The Book of Death

  Rachel Lawson

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  "What killed him?" asked Reynard. 
  "We don't know it seems like it may have been a dark enchantment," said Death. 
  "Oh?" said Reynard, "Yes what sort of enchantment?" 
  "We are reading up on it in our library of enchantments," said Death. 
  A grim reaper walked out of a dark portal between the dimensions of the living and the dead. 
  "Dante, hi," said Death to the reaper who was his assistant. 
  "Hi, Blake," said Dante the reaper. 
  "Anything new?" asked Death. 
  "Yes we found the spell," said Dante. 
  "What was it?" asked Death. 
  "It came from the Book of Death," Dante said. 
  "You have a book?" said Reynard. 
  "No, its not my book! It's the Egyptian Book of the Dead," said Death. 
  "It's real?" asked Reynard. 
  "Yes," said Dante. 
  "Is it a rogue reaper killing people?" asked Reynard. 
  "No it could be anyone it was lost ages ago?" said Death. 
  "Where?" asked Reynard. 
  "We don't know?" said Death. 
  "How could you lose a cursed book?" asked Reynard shocked. 
  "We don't know it was lost," said Death. 
  Reynard understood, but felt no comfort that a killer had it now.

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  The Weiser Book of Horror and...

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Montague...

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  Frightful fiction by masters from Lovecraft to Stoker to Crowley to Poe.   Packed with stories selected and introduced by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths and forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to the Devil himself, this one-of-a-kind volume includes selections from:   Aleister Crowley * Ambrose Bierce * Arthur Machen *Edgar Allan Poe * Robert W. Chambers * Ralph Adams Cram * H.P. Lovecraft * Dion Fortune * Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton *Bram Stoker   As Lon Milo DuQuette writes in his introduction, horror takes its time. It creeps in, seeps in, and lingers. These stories will stay with you, biting at your heels from the shadows. Don’t say we didn’t warn you…

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  The Operation - A premonition...

  Violet Hunt

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  Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists.   
   
  As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her activities fighting for and promoting better rights for women. 
   
  Although she remained unmarried she had lovers as notable as Somerset Maugham, H G Wells and Ford Maddox Ford, the latter whom she lived with for a number of years. 
   
  Her collections of supernatural short stories contain much of her best work and despite her considerable talents and literary output her reputation rests both on the literary salons she held at her home in Campden Hill, where the very best of literary society attended, and for her founding of the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and her participation in the founding of International PEN in 1921. 
   
  Violet Hunt died of pneumonia at her home in Campden Hill on 16th January 1942. She was 79 and is buried at Brookwood Cemetery.

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