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  Death in the Woods - From their...

  Sherwood Anderson

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  Sherwood Anderson was born on 13th September 1876 in Camden, Ohio. 
  When his father’s business failed the family was forced to move on a regular basis before finally settling in Clyde, Ohio.   
  Anderson, one of 7 children, left school at 14 to take a number of jobs to help with the family finances. These were difficult years. 
  He moved to Chicago in search of opportunities before joining the Army for the US-Spanish War of 1898.  He then entered Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio to complete his education before moving back to Chicago to take up a writing job. 
  In 1904 he married Cornelia Lane, her family had resources and Anderson was keen, with this family backing, to run a business. 
  The early years of their marriage produced 3 children but a nervous breakdown in 1907 and another in 1912, despite his success as a business entrepreneur, resulted in him abandoning his family and deciding that a literary career would be best for him.   
  A move back to Chicago resulted in a job in advertising, a divorce from Cornelia and marriage to Tennessee Mitchell.  
  That same year his first book ‘Windy McPherson’s Son’ was released and in 1919, his most famous book, ‘Winesburg, Ohio’, a collection of short stories about life in an Ohio town was released. 
  Anderson continued to write short stories, novels and non-fiction but his only true bestseller came with ‘Dark Laughter’.  His influence on writers that followed, from Faulkner to Hemingway, was immense. He also married a further two times.   
  Sherwood Anderson died in in Colón, Panama, on the 8th March, 1941. He was 64. An autopsy revealed that a swallowed toothpick had resulted in peritonitis. 
  His headstone epitaph reads ‘Life, Not Death is the Great Adventure.’

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  MS Found in a Bottle

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: MS. Found in a Bottle 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1833 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 94 
  Description: 
  MS. Found in a Bottle is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s earliest and most haunting explorations of cosmic dread and maritime terror. The story follows an unnamed narrator who survives a catastrophic storm at sea, only to find himself aboard a mysterious vessel crewed by ancient, silent figures who appear wholly unaware of his presence—a journey that carries him ever deeper into icy waters and existential uncertainty. 
  The tale’s horror is vast and philosophical. The storm-torn ocean, the unnatural ship, and the ghostly crew create mounting tension through isolation, inevitability, and the relentless pull southward into darkness. Every moment aboard the vessel blurs the boundary between life and death, reality and nightmare, reminding readers that knowledge offers no protection against the infinite. 
  Unlike tales driven by physical confrontation, the story’s fear emerges from atmosphere, insignificance, and the crushing immensity of the unknown. The horror is existential, atmospheric, and inescapable—a reflection of humanity’s fragility when faced with forces that dwarf comprehension. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the mounting dread and vast, indifferent terror of Poe’s vision, bringing to life its tension, philosophical unease, and spiraling descent into oblivion. MS. Found in a Bottle endures as a foundational work of gothic and cosmic horror, where curiosity leads not to discovery, but to annihilation.

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  The Just So Stories

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Rudyard Kipling's classic fables, from the story of how the whale got his throat, to the tale of the butterfly that stamped. 
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  The Edgar Allan Poe Collection

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Descend into the Haunting Brilliance of a Literary Legend.
  
  Edgar Allan Poe was the undisputed master of the American Gothic, a writer who peered into the darkest recesses of the human mind and brought back tales of unmatched beauty and terror. This comprehensive collection brings together his complete literary output, showcasing the eerie atmosphere and rhythmic precision that made him a global icon of the macabre.
  
  This collection explores the diverse genius of Poe's imagination:
  
  The Architecture of Fear: Experience the definitive works of Gothic horror, where crumbling mansions, premature burials, and ancient curses create an atmosphere of suffocating dread.
  
  The Birth of the Detective: Discover the "tales of ratiocination" that invented the modern mystery genre, featuring the brilliant analytical minds that influenced every detective from Sherlock Holmes to the present.
  
  Psychological Ruin: Delve into the fractured psyches of narrators haunted by guilt, obsession, and the "imp of the perverse"—a deep dive into the madness that lurks within.
  
  Lyrical Melancholy: Immerse yourself in the haunting cadences of his poetry, where themes of lost love, mortality, and the supernatural are woven into hypnotic, musical verse.
  
  Poe's influence stretches across horror, science fiction, and modern mystery. His ability to blend the grotesque with the sublime makes this volume an essential cornerstone for any library of classic literature, dark fantasy, or psychological suspense.
  
  Face the darkness within. Buy "The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" today and own the masterworks of the macabre.

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  Exasperated - A Short Story...

  J M Barrie, Frank Stockton, G K...

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  In this volume we discover that the obvious and the easy are not perhaps as obvious and easy as our authors first present them. 
   
  They play with us.  There is certainty.  Then there is uncertainty.  There is a fact and then seemingly not. 
   
  One thing we can rely on though is that each new twist and turn takes us on a journey of frustration and exasperation that is as enjoyable as it is bewildering. 
   
  And, in the company of the sparkling wits of Chesterton, Aumonier, Barrie and a host of others who summon indignation and vexation as they rile and befuddle us then being exasperated was never quite so much fun. 
   
  01 - Exasperated - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton 
  03 - The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck by Jerome K Jerome 
  04 - Putois by Anatole France 
  05 - The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton 
  06 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie 
  07 - The Absent Minded Man by Jerome K Jerome 
  08 - The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne 
  09 - The Mysterious Card by Cleveland Moffet 
  10 - Where Was Wych Street by Stacy Aumonier

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  Henry James - A Short Story...

  Henry James

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  Henry James was born 15th April 1843 in New York City. 
   
  His youth was spent travelling with his family receiving what was an "extraordinarily haphazard and promiscuous" education as they journeyed through London, Paris, Geneva, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Newport, Rhode Island, according to the father's current interests and publishing ventures. James studied primarily with tutors and only briefly attended schools.    
   
  Undoubtedly the quality of his writing has ensured his name is enshrined in the American literary tradition.  
   
  James was a committed Anglophile and spent most of his adult life as an expatriate in Europe.  Many of his novels juxtapose the Old World with the New World. Classics such as ‘The Portrait of a Lady’, ‘Daisy Miller’ and ‘The Ambassadors’, display the entanglement between American and European cultures and mentalities. They highlight the differences between the two worlds through following the experiences of American expatriates in Europe.  
   
  A prolific author he was able to easily move across genres to create vivid and totally real worlds and situations and to offer sophisticated observations of human relations as well as realistic, social criticism. 
  As a critic James was unafraid to venture into reviews and essays of those other literary giants around him.  These together with his short stories and, of course, classic novels, make Henry James an author to be not only admired but read, and read often.  
   
  In 1915 Henry James became a British citizen. 
   
  On 28th February 1916, at the age of 72, Henry James died in Chelsea, London. 
   
  He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912 and 1916. He never won.

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