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  A Pair of Silk Stockings - From...

  Kate Chopin

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  Katherine O'Flaherty was born on the 8th February 1850 in St Louis, Missouri to parents of French and Irish descent. 
  At age 5, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Academy and, apart from a 2 year period at home when her father died, remained there until graduating in 1868.  Whilst there she began writing and became an avid reader of almost anything that crossed her path.   
  Kate married Oscar Chopin in 1870 and the couple moved to New Orleans, and later to the rural setting of Cloutierville, Louisiana to raise their 6 children.  
  In 1882 her husband died leaving her in a deep trench of debt.  Despite her best efforts to turn the businesses around they were sold, and she moved the family back to St Louis and the financial help of her mother.  Sadly, her mother died within the year.  Kate, now struggling with depression, pushed herself to write and gained a local reputation as a writer of short stories that captured the local color and vibrancy of her surroundings. 
  By the early 1890’s her short stories were published nationally.  With this widespread audience also came negative reviews, controversy, and cries of immorality as themes such as interracial relationships, the rights of women and other burning issues of the day were written about. 
  Despite the criticism, which unnerved her, she continued to write though in the main her works, around 100 short stories and two novels, were not attributed with any literary worth. 
  Kate Chopin died from a brain haemorrhage in St Louis Missouri on the 22nd of August 1904.  She was 54. 
  For much of the 20th Century her work was forgotten and out of print.  It was only in early 1970’s, with the rise of feminism and the call for a more just society that she was given the status her works had long described and shone a literary light at.  She is now safely revered as one of America’s great authors.

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  A Source of Irritation - From...

  Stacy Aumonier

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Stacy Aumonier.

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  The Venetian Silk-Mercere - A...

  Carlo Gozzi

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  The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Grazia Deledda.

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  Hot Water Music

  Charles Bukowski

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  With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque. 
  The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town – a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton – and depict the darkest parts of human existence.  Bukowski talks simply and profoundly about the underbelly of the working class without raising judgement.   
  In the way he writes about sex, relationships, writing, and inebriation, Bukowski sets the bar for irreverent art – his work inhabits the basest part of the mind and the most extreme absurdity of the everyday.

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  Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated...

  Mary Shelley

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman 
  Author: Mary Shelley 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1826 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 89 
  Description: 
  Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman is a haunting example of Mary Shelley’s mastery of early Gothic horror, blending science, morality, and the uncanny. The story follows the discovery of a man preserved in ice for more than a century, and the profound consequences of restoring him to life. As Dodsworth awakens, he carries with him the manners, memories, and worldview of a bygone era—alien and dissonant in the present world. 
  Rather than relying on spectacle, Shelley builds unease through atmosphere, character reaction, and the philosophical weight of revival. The horror emerges not from the act of reanimation itself, but from the unsettling confrontation between past and present, and the implications of bringing something once long dead back into a world that has moved on. 
  Central to Roger Dodsworth is Shelley’s exploration of mortality, memory, and human ambition. The narrative probes the moral and emotional consequences of defying natural law, revealing a subtle, persistent dread that resonates long after the final page. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance emphasizes Shelley’s quiet tension, lingering eeriness, and reflective horror. Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman remains a striking example of early nineteenth-century Gothic fiction—where curiosity, science, and obsession intersect, and the boundaries of life and death are disturbingly blurred.

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  Three Act Tragedy - A Hercule...

  Agatha Christie

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  In Agatha Christie’s classic, Three Act Tragedy, the normally unflappable Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling investigation: the seemingly motiveless murder of the thirteenth guest at dinner party, who choked to death on a cocktail containing not a trace of poison. 
  Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison. 
  Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.…

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