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  The Shadows on the Wall

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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  Title: The Shadows on the Wall 
  Author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1903 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 82 
  Description: 
  The Shadows on the Wall is one of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s most unsettling works of supernatural and psychological horror—a quiet, relentless study of grief, guilt, and unseen terror. After the sudden death of a brother, a family becomes haunted by an impossible phenomenon: a life-sized human shadow that appears nightly on the wall, cast by nothing and resembling the dead man with horrifying precision. 
  Central to the story is the shadow itself—motionless, silent, and utterly inexplicable. As fear deepens, another brother attempts to confront the apparition with desperate violence, only to discover that reason and force are powerless against it. Freeman transforms an ordinary domestic space into a site of mounting dread, where silence and stillness become instruments of terror. 
  Rather than relying on spectacle, Freeman builds horror through psychological pressure and restraint, allowing fear to grow naturally from the characters’ reactions to the impossible. Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s slow-burn tension, escalating panic, and devastating final revelation. 
  The Shadows on the Wall endures as a masterclass in subtle horror—a reminder that the most frightening forces are often those that cannot be seen, explained, or escaped.

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  A Ghost Story - From their pens...

  Mark Twain

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  Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on the 30th November 1835 and is far better known by his pen name of Mark Twain.  An American writer and humorist of the first order he is perhaps best known for his novels ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and its sequel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ which are often described with that mythic line The Great American Novel. 
  Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri which would later provide the backdrop to these great novels.  Apprenticed to a printer he also became a typesetter and then a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi.  Later, heading west with his brother Orion to make his fortune, he failed at gold mining and instead turned to journalism and thence his true calling as a writer of humorous stories where his wit and humor sparkled from every paragraph, his craft evident with every page and punctured target. 
  A staunch supporter of copyright protections this helped him keep much of the wealth his writing created, though much money was also lost on investments that he pursued in his love for science and technology as well as investing in his own inventions. 
  Twain was born during a visit by Halley’s comet, and he predicted that he would go out with it as well.  He died the day after its subsequent return on 21st April 1910, at his house, Stormfield, located in Redding, Connecticut.

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  3 Stories About - Cannibals - A...

  HP Lovecraft, M R James, the...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  The Daughter of Lilith - From...

  Anatole France

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  François-Anatole Thibault was born on the 16th April 1844 in Paris, France, the son of a bookseller and bibliophile. 
  He studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduating joined his father in the bookstore, which specialised in works on the French Revolution.  Several years later he secured a position as cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre before being appointed librarian for the French Senate in 1876. 
  His literary career had begun as a journalist and as a poet before publishing his novel ‘Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard’ in 1881.  Praised for its elegant prose, it won him a prestigious prize from the Académie Française, which later elected him to its storied ranks. 
  His works were profound and thoughtful and often couched in surreal and outlandish expressions; whether penguins baptized by a near-blind Abbott transformed themselves into humans or of a guardian angel who becomes an atheist, his stories turned established thought into startling literature. 
  His short stories run in the same vein.  The premise may seem plausible but his distinctive style turns them into an individual viewpoint which invokes both discussion and admiration. 
  In his private life his relationships with women were often turbulent.  A Socialist, he was a fervent supporter of the Russian Revolution and the early years of the French Communist party. 
  He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 but the following year his entire canon of works was placed on the prohibited list of the Catholic Church, which he thought of as a credit to his name. 
  Anatole France died on the 12th October 1924 in Tours.  He was 80.

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  Green Tea

  Sheridan Le Fanu

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  Title: Green Tea 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 142 
  Author: Sheridan Le Fanu 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1869 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Description: 
  Green Tea is one of Sheridan Le Fanu’s most haunting and influential tales of supernatural psychological horror — a chilling descent into isolation, obsession, and unseen terror. 
  The story follows the Reverend Mr. Jennings, a learned and deeply thoughtful clergyman whose quiet scholarly life begins to unravel after an encounter with obscure occult research and long periods of nervous exhaustion. As his health and peace of mind deteriorate, Jennings becomes increasingly troubled by strange experiences he cannot explain and dares not fully confess. 
  Concerned by his growing distress, a physician specializing in disorders of the mind and spirit attempts to understand the nature of the affliction consuming him. Yet the deeper the investigation goes, the more uncertain the boundary becomes between psychological collapse and something far more sinister. 
  Le Fanu masterfully sustains an atmosphere of creeping dread, allowing terror to emerge gradually through suggestion, ambiguity, and mounting paranoia. Rich with Gothic unease and spiritual anxiety, Green Tea remains a landmark work of Victorian horror — a disturbing meditation on guilt, perception, and the terrifying possibility that some doors, once opened, can never truly be closed.

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  The Enchantress of Sylaire

  Clark Ashton Smith

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  In the desolate forest of Averoigne, resides Anselme, a young romantic who became a recluse after being rejected by his beloved Dorothée. After 13 months of solitude, Anselme stumbles upon a beautiful woman bathing in a forest pond, accompanied by a massive wolf. She is Séphora, an enchantress, who invites him to her realm—Sylaire, “a land lying beyond time and space.” Anselme becomes her lover and dwells with her in Sylaire. However, the wolf, revealed to be Malachie du Marais, Séphora’s former lover, warns Anselme that Séphora is an ancient lamia who feeds on the life force of young men. Séphora gives Anselme a magical sword and a glass vial, which he must exchange with Malachie to cure him of lycanthropy. When Dorothée appears in Sylaire, Anselme confronts the truth of his feelings and must face the frenzied Malachie in wolf form. Will Anselme withstand the test of love, magic, and betrayal?

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