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  Down with the Tide (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
  DOWN WITH THE TIDE: A VERY dark night it was, and bitter cold; the east wind blowing bleak, and bringing with it stinging particles from marsh, and moor, and fen from the Great Desert and Old Egypt, may be. Some of the component parts of the sharp-edged vapour that came flying up the Thames at London might be mummy-dust, dry atoms from the Temple at Jerusalem, camels' foot-prints, crocodiles' hatching-places, loosened grains of expression from the visages of blunt-nosed sphynxes, waifs and strays from caravans of turbaned merchants, vegetation from jungles, frozen snow from the Himalayas. O! It was very, very dark upon the Thames, and it was bitter, bitter cold.

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  W L George - A Short Story...

  W L George

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  Walter Lionel George was born to British parents on the 20th March 1882 in Paris, France. 
   
  It was not until he was a young man of 20 that he learned English.  In 1905 he moved to London to work in an office but soon found himself working as a journalist, and as a foreign correspondent, for various London newspapers. 
   
  By 1911, with the publication of his first novel ‘A Bed of Roses’, which portrayed the fall of a penniless young woman into prostitution, his efforts were rewarded, and he turned to literature as a full-time career. 
   
  His writings now sold well.  He added short stories to his offerings as well as literary essays and several tracts that discussed left-wing themes.  Some critics thought his subject matter to be difficult and poorly chosen. His political views gained him little credit amongst his peers although such luminaries as George Orwell praised both subject matter and style. 
   
  His personal life was also turbulent.  His three marriages left him widowed twice.  In 1908 he married Helen Porter who died in 1914.  Helen Agnes Moorhead followed in 1916 but died only 4 years later.  His last marriage was to Kathleen Geipel in 1921. 
   
  W. L George died on 30th January 1926.  He was 43.

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  A Middle-Sized Artist - From...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on 3rd July 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to an unaffectionate mother and a father who abandoned her and her older brother to a life of poverty. 
  Inevitably her schooling was limited and by 15 she had attended seven different schools but received only four years education.  However Charlotte was resourceful and did spend time with her father’s aunts – the suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker and the ‘Uncle Tom Cabin’s’ author, Harriet Beecher Stowe as well as many hours at the public library studying ancient civilisations. 
  In 1878, she enrolled in classes at the Rhode Island School of Design where she met Martha Luther and they developed a close relationship until Luther married in 1881. Charlotte was devastated and detested romance and love until she met and married the artist Charles Walter Stetson.  
  Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson, was born in 1885 but left Charlotte with post-natal depression, then often dismissed as a case of hysteria or nerves.  Unsuited to domestic life she ruptured her life and moved to California with Katherine.  She divorced in 1894 and then sent Katharine east to live with her father and his second wife confirming that his paternal rights be acknowledged and that Katherine establish a relationship with her father. 
  After her mother died in 1893, Charlotte moved back east and became involved with her first cousin, Wall Street attorney, Houghton Gilman who she married in 1900. After his death she moved back to California, where Katherine now lived.   
  Her most popular story is ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which touched on her own post-partum depression and underlined the need for women to be responsible for their mental and physical well-being, as the narrator is ordered by her husband/doctor to take compete rest in her room where she is isolated and becomes obsessed with the revolting yellow wallpaper.   
  She wrote other notable short stories the best of which we also include.   
  Charlotte lectured widely for social reform, wrote important non-fiction works that questioned our patriarchal system and left a legacy as a leading and positive spokesperson for feminism.  
  She was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in 1932 and, as she wrote in her suicide note and autobiography, she ‘chose chloroform over cancer’    
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman took her own life on 17th August 1935, aged 75, in Pasadena, California.

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  The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire by Arthur Conan Doyle is a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery that blends gothic atmosphere, domestic intrigue, and Holmes’s signature deductive brilliance. When a distraught husband seeks Holmes’s help after witnessing his wife appearing to bite their infant son, rumors of vampirism spread through the quiet Sussex countryside. Holmes and Watson investigate the troubling case, uncovering layers of jealousy, childhood resentment, and cultural misunderstandings beneath the eerie accusations.

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  The Demon Spell

  Hume Nisbet

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  Title: The Boarded Window 
  Author: Hume Nisbet 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1902 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 21 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  The Boarded Window by Hume Nisbet is a grimly atmospheric tale steeped in Gothic dread and the macabre. Set against the backdrop of a mysterious house with its single, shuttered window, the story reveals secrets of death, decay, and the lingering presence of the uncanny. Nisbet weaves a chilling exploration of isolation, superstition, and the spectral weight of things best left hidden. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s brooding suspense and eerie tension, merging gothic atmosphere with psychological horror. While the text is in the public domain, this narration is an original work and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  This audiobook is part of Timeless Terrors, a series dedicated to resurrecting classic horror — works from masters of the macabre, retold in haunting new performances for a modern audience. 
  Listeners should be prepared for an unsettling encounter with shadows, silence, and the terrifying suggestion of what lies beyond the boarded window.

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  American Tragedy An

  Theodore Dreiser

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  An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser is a gripping tale of ambition, love, and the moral consequences of one's actions. It follows Clyde Griffiths, a young man desperate to rise above his poor upbringing, who becomes entangled in a deadly love triangle. When his pursuit of wealth and social status leads him to commit a terrible crime, Clyde faces the harsh realities of justice and guilt. A powerful exploration of the American Dream gone wrong, this novel delves into the complexities of human nature, moral decay, and the high cost of ambition.

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