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  The Phantoms of the Fire

  Clark Ashton Smith

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  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition plus narrator intro and outro of this tale by searching 'Jonathan Dunne Horror' on YouTube.  
  Title: The Phantoms of the Fire 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 119 
  Author: Clark Ashton Smith 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1930 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Description: 
  The Phantoms of the Fire is a haunting tale of cosmic horror and elemental vengeance set in the strange and perilous landscapes of colonial India. 
  The story follows an English forest officer stationed in a remote district, a man of practical temperament and rational mind. Yet amid the oppressive heat and smoldering jungles, he confronts something that defies reason. After a devastating blaze sweeps through the forest under mysterious circumstances, survivors whisper of uncanny shapes moving within the flames — living forms born of fire itself. What begins as rumor soon becomes terrifying reality as the narrator encounters manifestations that seem neither wholly material nor wholly spirit, but something ancient, alien, and inimical to humankind. 
  Clark Ashton Smith weaves lush, atmospheric prose with mounting dread, transforming the natural element of fire into a vehicle for the uncanny. Unlike the visceral physical horror of pulp adventure fiction, this tale burns slowly — suffused with cosmic unease, hallucinatory imagery, and the sense of humanity’s frailty before vast, indifferent forces. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s hypnotic atmosphere, mounting unreality, and creeping cosmic dread — bringing Smith’s strange and smoldering vision vividly to life.

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  His Wife's Deceased Sister -...

  Frank R. Stockton

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  Frank Richard Stockton was born in Philadelphia on 5th April 1834.  
  His father, a Methodist minister, discouraged Stockton’s literary career from an early age.  Feeling unable to go against those wishes it was for many years that Stockton’s income was maintained as a wood engraver.   
  His first work was published in 1867 and his first collection only appeared in 1870.  Despite this late arrival Stockton’s innovative and often far-fetched stories, with a gentle ‘poking fun’ humour were very popular.  Like his contemporary Mark Twain he avoided the scolding, hectoring and moral tones of many other authors and instead gently teased and cajoled his reader to open their eyes to the ills, the greed and the ambitions of the world around them.  His sci-fi stories in particular were far-seeing and inventive including a tale of negative gravity and a bloodless Anglo-US war won by technological feats.  
  Perhaps his most enduring tale though is ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’ from 1882.  A condemned man is given a choice of being eaten alive or marrying his princess lover.  But he has to choose which door each is behind. 
  Frank R Stockton died in Washington, DC, on 20th April 1902, of a cerebral haemorrhage.  He is buried at The Woodlands in Philadelphia.

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  The Wild Birds - Six Stories of...

  Wendell Berry

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  "Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don't get any better than these." —People 
   
   
   
  As part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue of his 1986 classic, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. Those stories include "Thicker Than Liquor," "Where Did They Go?," "It Wasn't Me," "The Boundary," "That Distant Land," and the titular "The Wild Birds." 
   
   
   
  Spanning more than three decades, from 1930 to 1967, these wonderful stories follow Wheeler Catlett, and reintroduce listeners to the beloved people who live in Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky.

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  Her Last Time in Dothan - A Good...

  Halle Hill

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  A seventh-grade girl travels to south Alabama where her grandmother is being cared for by incapable extended family members. The mother is overwhelmed with grief. But the girl, busy with her own relationship troubles, witnesses something else disturbing.  Her Last Time in Dothan is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect.

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  Lancashire Dialogues

  John Byrom

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  A scion of the Byroms of Byrom Hall in Lowton, Lancashire, John Byrom was born and lived in Manchester and Salford for much of his life. Educated at Cambridge, Byrom become a member of the Royal Society and a leading poet of his day. In addition to his poetical works, he invented a system of shorthand, composed the Christmas carol "Christians awake! Salute the happy morn", and coined the phrase "Tweedledum and Tweedledee". Byrom's work included three early poems in the Lancashire dialect, for which he was well remembered by the Lancashire dialect writers of the 19th century, in the form of satirical dialogues on topics of current political interest. - Summary by Phil Benson

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  Fallen Hunter - A Jesse...

  Wayne Stinnett

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  Jesse McDermitt has been grieving the loss of a loved one to terrorists. He’s been holed up on his secluded island home for months, numbing his mind and body with endless, mundane tasks. But he has a plan for vengeance. 
  A friend approaches Jesse seeking help for her dad who's been pressured into running drugs for a dangerous Cuban smuggler. When Jesse learns that the smuggler is also an arms merchant for Hezbollah, the terrorist organization responsible for the death of someone close, he once again looks to settle the score. 
  Fast boats, beautiful underwater scenery, and blazing guns abound in this fast paced romp through the Caribbean, with stops in Cuba, Key West, and Cozumel, Mexico.

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