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  Those Who Wait - From their pens...

  Ethel Dell

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  Ethel May Dell was born on 2nd August 1881, in the London borough of Streatham, England to a middle class and comfortably off family. 
  She wrote short stories from an early age, mainly romance themed and located in various parts of the British Empire buy more usually India.  For their time they were considered to be rather racy. 
  Her first novel, which she worked on for many years, was constantly rejected by publishers until when finally released in 1911 as ‘The Way of An Eagle’ was a huge success and went through 30 reprints. 
  Further works followed, all loved by her audience and generally panned by her critics, but it didn’t seem to upset her in the slightest.  Her income kept all criticisms and enquiries at bay. 
  In 1922 she married Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Tahourdin Savage. He resigned his commission, devoted himself to her well-being and kept all outside interest away from his very shy and private wife. 
  Across her career she wrote some thirty novels and many short stories in magazines and periodicals which were later collected and published in their own volumes. 
  Ethel May Dell Savage died of cancer on 17th September 1939.  She was 58.

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  The Widow's Breakfast

  Joe Hill

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. 
  Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . 
  Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . 
  Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . 
  John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . 
    
   

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  Spirit of Christmas The (version 2)

  Henry van Dyke

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  A collection of short Christmas works by the author of The Story of the Fourth Wise Man (Summary by D. Leeson).

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  The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of short stories featuring the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. John Watson. First published in 1892, the book includes some of Sherlock Holmes's most famous cases, such as "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." These stories showcase Holmes's unparalleled powers of observation and deduction as he solves various mysteries, from thefts and kidnappings to more complex and unusual crimes.

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  Ligeia

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  🎬 For the fully produced cinematic edition of this story — including exclusive narrator introduction and closing reflections — search “Jonathan Dunne Horror” on YouTube. 
  Title: Ligeia 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 125 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1838 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Description: 
  Ligeia is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most haunting and enigmatic tales — a meditation on love, death, and the terrifying power of the human will. 
  The unnamed narrator recounts his marriage to the mysterious and intellectual Lady Ligeia, a woman of extraordinary beauty and even more extraordinary mind. Her vast learning, her fierce intensity, and her almost supernatural strength of spirit leave an indelible mark upon him. Yet it is her obsession with the triumph of the will over mortality that proves most unsettling — a doctrine she clings to even as illness draws her toward the grave. 
  After Ligeia’s death, the narrator retreats into a decaying English abbey with a new bride, the fair and fragile Lady Rowena. But the shadow of his first wife lingers in every darkened chamber and heavy tapestry. As Rowena sickens under strange and unaccountable circumstances, the narrator witnesses a series of chilling transformations that blur the boundary between life and death, dream and reality. 
  In Ligeia, Poe crafts a tale steeped in Gothic atmosphere — rich with opium-hazed visions, funereal splendor, and mounting psychological dread. The horror is not loud but insidious, growing from grief, obsession, and the unrelenting question: can the human will conquer even death itself? 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures Poe’s lyrical prose, mounting unease, and the unforgettable climax of one of Gothic literature’s most disturbing masterpieces — a story where love refuses to die… and something waits beyond the veil.

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  The Leather Funnel - From their...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22nd May 1859.  His childhood was blighted by his father’s heavy drinking which for some years broke up the family. Fortunately, wealthy uncles were willing to support them by paying for education and clothing.  
  He was accepted at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine and also began to write short stories the first, ‘The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe’, was published in Blackwood’s Magazine.  Despite several other stories and some articles in the British Medical Journal his medical studies took priority. 
  When these finished he was appointed as Doctor on the Greenland whaler ‘Hope of Peterhead’ in 1880 and then, after graduation, as ship’s surgeon on the SS Mayumba on its voyage to West Africa. 
  1882 saw a move to Plymouth and his own independent practice. With few patients he resumed writing and completed his first novel, ‘The Mystery of Cloomber’, although most of his output was short stories based on his experiences at sea.  
  He married Louisa Hawkins in 1885. However, two years later he met and fell in love with Jean Elizabeth Leckie, though they remained platonic out of respect for, and loyalty to, his wife. 
  His literary career suddenly burst into life in November 1886 with ‘A Study In Scarlet’, the first of the fabulously successful Sherlock Holmes stories.  
  With two children to support he now revisited his haphazard commercial arrangements and curtailed everything save for commissions from the Strand Magazine.  
  As a sportsman he was remarkably proficient. He was goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club and played ten first-class cricket matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club as well as captain of the Crowborough Beacon Golf Club in East Sussex.  
  In 1891 tired of writing Holmes stories, he began a series of historical novels and even went so far as to apparently kill off Holmes in a lethal brawl with his arch-nemesis Moriarty. 
  Despite heavy and sustained criticism he continued to write in support of the Boer War, a fact he thought contributed to his knighthood in 1902.  The following year to great relief and acclaim he brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead in his first outing for a decade. 
  Sadly, his wife Louisa died from TB in 1906 and, a year later, he at last married Jean.  
  During the War and for several years after family deaths had left him depressed. In a search for solace and answers he alighted upon spiritualism and, such was his interest, that he wrote several books on the subject. 
  On 7th July 1930 Conan Doyle was discovered in the hall of Windlesham Manor, his house in East Sussex, clutching his chest dying of a heart attack.  He was 71.

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