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  Countess Otho (Unabridged)

  Reggie Oliver

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  Reggie Oliver is a stage actor and playwright. His biography of Stella Gibbons was praised as "a triumph" by Hilary Spurling in the Daily Telegraph, his play Winner Takes All, was described as "the funniest evening in London", by Michael Billington in The Guardian, and his adaptation of Hennequin and Delacour's Once Bitten opened at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in December 2010.
  COUNTESS OTHO: I loathe fans. I realise I shouldn't be saying this. The correct thing for actors to say is that fans are the lifeblood of the theatre: we love and respect them. No, we don't.

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray -...

  Oscar Wilde, Gerhard Symons

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  This is an abridged audiobook of The Picture of Dorian Gray in English. It is intended for intermediate English-language students (CEFR: level B1/B2). 
  This audiobook is a simplified version of the classic story by nineteenth-century playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). 
  It is abridged and narrated by Gerhard Symons, a native English speaker with a neutral English accent. 
  The audiobook run time is five hours and fifty minutes (350 minutes). The audiobook is enhanced with appropriate sound effects throughout. 
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  WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR ETERNAL YOUTH? 
  Victorian London. One afternoon, a beautiful young man is sitting in an artist’s studio. His name is Dorian Gray. He is discussing life in the company of friends. 
  One of his friends convinces him that youth and beauty are the most important things in life. Dorian Gray fears growing old and ugly. He accepts this idea without question, and decides to make a terrible deal with the devil… 
  Every sin that Dorian commits has a cost. Every picture must be seen. Every pleasure that Dorian enjoys has a price. And Dorian will pay a terrible price for eternal youth… 
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  Frankenstein - The Modern...

  Mary Shelley

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  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. 
  Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.Shelley had travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the river Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17 km (10 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before an alchemist was engaged in experiments. Later, she travelled in the region of Geneva (Switzerland)—where much of the story takes place—and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband, Percy Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the story within the novel.

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  Frankenstein

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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  Written in 1816, when she was only nineteen Mary Shelley’s novel of “The Modern Prometheus” chillingly dramatised the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time. Frankenstein remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind.

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  The WoodWalker

  Cherylann Cook-hoar

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  The island city of Righteous, A deep dark history of a purge, has come back to plague the new owners. When you are at your peak as we were, the WoodWalker will return and slaughter you won by one as we had been slaughtered. And now a great hundred year rain has come, plunging the inhabitants into a fight for survival against a manifested curse, hunting them all. The WoodWalker loves its glowing stars the horror of their shine. The time is fast on arrival every page you read brings it closer! Until…

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  Tombob - A Short Horror Story

  Michael van der Voort

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  When Scotty’s older brother brings home a ventriloquist dummy named Tombob and sets it on their dresser, the seven-year-old tries his best not to be afraid. After all, big boys aren’t scared of dolls. But no matter how hard he tries, Scotty can’t shake the unease creeping up his spine. 
  There’s something about that wooden face—the glossy, staring eyes and the frozen, painted grin—that feels wrong. Unnatural. Watching. 
  He tells himself it’s just his imagination. If he pulls the blanket over his head and squeezes his eyes shut, maybe the feeling will pass. Maybe he’ll drift off to sleep. 
  Then, across the room, a thin, tinny voice slices through the darkness. Slow. Sweet. Unmistakably real.

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