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  Victorian Ghost Story The -...

  Elizabeth Gaskell, J Y Ackerman,...

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  Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians. 
   
  When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.  
   
  Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your reading and listening pleasure. 
   
  01 - The Victorian Ghost Story - An Introduction - Volume 1 
  02 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  03 - The Miniature by J Y Ackerman 
  04 - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  09 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik 
  06 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 1 by Edward Bulwer Lytton 
  07 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 2 by Edward Bulwer Lytton 
  08 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 
  09 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  10 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker 
  11 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

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  The Wind Began to Howl

  Laird Barron

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  Laird Barron's acclaimed crime saga makes a triumphant return in The Wind Began to Howl, an all-new story set after the events of Worse Angels. A seemingly benign case gradually pulls mob enforcer-turned-PI Isaiah Coleridge into a chilling mix of music, movie magic, mayhem, and madness. 
   
   
   
  This time, Coleridge's dark journey forces him to confront a brutal truth: For some who try to escape the past, there is no way out. 
   
   
   
  "Hardboiled and trippy at the same time, The Wind Began to Howl by Laird Barron is a twisted ride through the darker recesses of the mind complete with conspiracy theories, ex-government operatives, movie madness, and possibly a portal into another dimension." —Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor 
   
   
   
  "Isaiah Coleridge hits back hard in this bare-knuckle novella that's equal parts Hollyweird fiction and conspiracy-laden Catskills noir." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters

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  Silence - A Fable

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  "Silence - A Fable" by Edgar Allan Poe tells the story of a man who encounters a demon in a desert land. The demon shows how frightening silence and solitude can be, using the calm but tense nature to teach a lesson about fear and isolation.

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  Dracula's Guest - A story of...

  Bram Stoker

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  This story, by the famous author of Dracula, is about vampires and evil incarnate.  The story opens showing a young man finding a young woman he knows behind bars, having been imprisoned and raped. He swears to get her out and the scene cuts to six months earlier. The young man is Bram Stoker and he has a relationship with Admiral Murray's daughter, Elizabeth in Victorian England. He works in a real estate company and has just given his career a boost by finding a home for the firm's new client, Count Dracula. The Admiral is not impressed with Bram and insists he and Elizabeth observe a year's separation to test their love before he'll give his blessing to their marriage. Bram accepts and leaves to begin his year but Elizabeth is rebellious and runs off, presumably to find Bram in Scotland. She gets waylaid by the Count at the train station where he abducts her to his home in Transylvania. Bram's friend Malcolm rushes to find Bram and tell him about the abduction but is caught and killed by Dracula at Stoker's apartment. He had told his business to Mrs. Withen the landlady, before he died so Bram was able to get the information he needed and rushed off to her rescue. He is accosted twice on the road to the Slovak region, once in France and the second time in Germany on Walpurgisnacht. Meanwhile, the Admiral is also on his way to rescue his daughter. We come again to the scene where Bram finds Elizabeth imprisoned in her underground chamber and he then begins a death-defying climb up the side of the mountain to where he can enter the castle. He challenges the Count to a fight in which he is clearly outmatched and when the Count abandons him the Admiral catches up to Bram in the mausoleum. He sends the young man on to find his daughter, while he searches for Dracula. The two older men meet up in front of the dungeon grating shortly after Bram finds Elizabeth and fight. The Admiral wins in spite of taunting by the Count and the scene fades out.

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  The Black Cat

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  A condemned man's final confession. A beloved pet turns into an instrument of terror. A crime that cannot stay buried. 
  Edgar Allan Poe pens one of the most psychologically devastating tales ever written—now brought to life in a chilling dramatic narration that will haunt you long after the final words fade. 
  On the eve of his execution, a prisoner writes his confession. He was once a gentle soul who cherished animals above all else. His favorite companion: a magnificent black cat named Pluto. But alcohol poisoned his mind, and something dark awakened within him—a perverse impulse to destroy what he loved most. 
  What follows is a descent into madness so complete, so horrifying, that it defies explanation. An act of unspeakable cruelty. A house consumed by flames. A ghostly image seared into stone. And then... the cat returns. 
  Or does it? 
  This new cat bears an uncanny resemblance to Pluto, except for one detail: a white marking on its chest that grows clearer each day, forming the shape of something terrible. Something that looks like a gallows. 
  As the narrator's sanity crumbles, his hatred for the creature intensifies. In a moment of blind rage, he strikes—but the axe finds the wrong victim. To conceal his crime, he walls up the evidence in his cellar, brick by brick, sealing away his darkest secret. 
  But guilt cannot be buried. And some witnesses cannot be silenced. 
  When the police arrive, what's hidden will claw its way into the light in one of literature's most shocking and unforgettable climaxes. 
  Experience the story that defined psychological horror. Chikondi Chanthunya delivers Poe's masterpiece with gut-wrenching intensity, capturing every shade of the protagonist's deteriorating mind—from tender affection to explosive violence, from cunning confidence to gibbering terror. 
  Contains themes of violence and psychological horror. Listener discretion advised.

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  The Horla

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Title: The Horla 
  Author: Guy de Maupassant 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1887 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 64 
  Description: 
  The Horla is one of Guy de Maupassant’s most unsettling tales — a study of madness, obsession, and the invisible forces that may govern our lives. Told in the form of a diary, the story follows an unnamed narrator whose calm, orderly life gradually unravels as he becomes convinced that an unseen, supernatural being is haunting him — controlling his thoughts, his desires, and even his will to live. 
  Maupassant blends psychological horror with the uncanny, crafting a story where fear grows not from gore, but from the creeping realization that the human mind may be powerless against what it cannot perceive. The ordinary becomes sinister: windows seem to watch, the air feels heavy with presence, and the night is filled with a silent, inescapable dread. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the mounting terror and disorientation of Maupassant’s masterpiece. While the text itself is fully in the public domain, this narration and production are copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series devoted to reviving the classics of horror, The Horla is a chilling reminder that some fears are real — and some presences are beyond comprehension. 🕯️

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