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  Classic London Ghost Stories

  Various Authors

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  London has been accumulating its dead for two thousand years. These are their stories. 
   
  This collection brings together twenty of the finest ghost stories set in the capital, drawn from the Victorian and Edwardian periods and selected by Tony Walker, narrator of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast. The authors gathered here represent the best of their age: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Riddell, Algernon Blackwood, M R James, E F Benson, H G Wells, and others whose names are synonymous with the supernatural tale at its height. 
   
  The streets, squares, and buildings in these pages are real. A surgeon walks home through Soho on a winter night. Something stirs in a house on Vauxhall Walk. A man keeps a strange appointment in a part of the city that looks, on the surface, entirely ordinary. London has always been this way — layered, ancient, and not quite done with its past — and these writers knew it. 
   
  Tony Walker's introduction sets the stories in context, and each story carries a note on its publication history. Whether you are visiting London for the first time, have lived here all your life, or simply carry the city in your imagination, this is a book to read after dark, when the streets outside are quiet and the old town is doing what it has always done.

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  Bram Stoker - A Short Story...

  Bram Stoker

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  Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on the 8th of November 1847, the third of seven children.  
   
  His early years were plagued with such ill-health that he was unable to start school until the age of seven.  He turned the long periods of recovery into an opportunity for thinking and said “I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years”.  
   
  Strikingly at Trinity College, Dublin his health had returned with such vigour that he was named their University Athlete whilst also achieving a BA in Mathematics with honours.  
   
  At this time his interest in theatre became a job offer to be the Dublin Evening Mail’s theatre critic, co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu.  He now began to also write short stories and in 1872 ‘The Crystal Cup’ was published.  An interest in art developed and he co-founded the Dublin Sketching Club.  
   
  In 1878 came marriage to Florence Balcombe.  She had formerly been courted by Stoker’s acquaintance, Oscar Wilde.  The marriage produced one child.   
   
  Stoker had some years before reviewed Henry Irving’s Hamlet and had dined with him.  That friendship now resulted in a proposal from Irving to move to London and to manage his Lyceum Theatre.  His numerous commercial innovations ensured both he and the theatre thrived.  Irving would also often take Stoker with him when he toured abroad. 
   
  Despite this busy life Stoker continued to write and these works paved the way for his most famous creation, published in 1897, ‘Dracula’.  It is rightly recognised as one of the greatest horror novels of all time and although not the first with a theme of Vampires, it is undoubtedly the most well-known. 
   
  Stoker also wrote poetry and many excellent short stories and continued to write novels and other works throughout his career. 
   
  Politically Stoker supported Home Rule, though only by peaceful means.  He was also keen on following scientific trends particularly in medicine. 
   
  In 1902 his tenure at the Lyceum Theatre ended and although he continued to write his health was deteriorating, mainly due to a series of debilitating strokes. 
   
  Bram Stoker died on the 20th April 1912, in Pimlico, London.  He was 64.   
   
  1 - Bram Stoker - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker 
  3 - The Squaw by Bram Stoker 
  4 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker 
  5 - The Secret of the Growing Gold by Bram Stoker 
  6 - The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker

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  The Alchemist

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Presented by Aetherborne Creations, this audiobook edition of The Alchemist offers H.P. Lovecraft’s early Gothic tale as it was always implied. Not as a sensational horror, but as a measured testament set down by an aged hand. 
  Written in Lovecraft’s youth, yet steeped in ancestral decay and the quiet tyranny of time, The Alchemist unfolds as a first-person account of lineage, inheritance, and a fate long prepared. Within the ruins of a once-noble château, the last heir of an ancient family records the history of a curse that has claimed each generation before its prime. 
  This production is newly recorded and crafted expressly for attentive listening. The narration is delivered as the final memoir of an elder scholar, penning his reckoning by candlelight — unhurried, restrained, and dignified. No musical underscore intrudes upon the telling; the voice alone bears the weight of memory, stone, and years endured. 
  Faithful to the sombre beauty of Lovecraft’s early style, this edition favours atmosphere over excess, and reflection over spectacle. It is an audiobook for listeners who value literary horror, gothic restraint, and the quiet power of a story told as it must finally be told. 
  The Alchemist endures — not as a tale of monsters, but as a meditation upon time, ancestry, and the inescapable reckoning of the past.

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  The Walker in Shadows

  Barbara Michaels

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  A mother learns evil resides in the house next door in this chilling classic gothic mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author. 
   
  The house next door to Pat Robbins—eerily identical to the home Pat shares with her college-aged son, Mark—has been empty for years, the darkness within seeming to warn all to stay away. Now new tenants are moving in: affable Josef Friedrichs and his lovely daughter, Kathy, who has stolen Mark’s heart on first glance. But something is not right—something old and secret lurking in the shadows that fresh paint and new furnishings cannot mask or exorcise. There is evil alive in the heart of the house next door—and it means to feed on the fears of two families . . . and drag Kathy Friedrichs with it into peril.

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  The Lost Legion

  Rudyard Kipling

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  The Lost Legion by Rudyard Kipling is a gripping tale of mystery, honor, and supernatural folklore set against the backdrop of the Indian frontier. Blending the stark realities of colonial military life with haunting legend, Kipling recounts the story of a rebel cavalry regiment that vanished into the Afghan hills—only to return as ghostly riders, eternally paying for their betrayal. When a daring night operation to capture a notorious tribal outlaw stirs echoes of the past, British soldiers confront the eerie presence of the lost regiment. This atmospheric story explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the inescapable weight of history.

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  H P Lovecraft The - Box 1

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, but his legacy is also apparent in terms like "Lovecraftian horror" and an enduring fandom.
  
  The H. P. Lovecraft - Box 1 - Contents: Azathoth / Celephaïs / Dagon / He / Old Bugs / The Book / The Cats of Ulthar / The Descendant / The Doom That Came to Sarnath / The Transition of Juan Romero

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