The Burglar's Christmas - A tale of redemption set during Xmas
Willa Cather
A Ballad of Death - A poetic examination of grief and lost love
Algernon Charles Swinburne
What the Bells Saw and Said - A people watching story by the famed author of Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
The Ballad of a Nun - A decadent poet describes a young womans struggle between religion and life
John Davidson
The Stolen White Elephant - A detective attempts to unravel the kidnapping of an elephant
Mark Twain
Curious If True - A man seeks shelterin a French town but begins questioning his sanity
Elizabeth Gaskell
Stories From The Shadows – Murder - Embrace the darkness
Prosper Mérimée, A M Burrage, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Barr, Mary E. Penn, Arthur Conan Doyle, J Y Ackerman, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, W F Harvey, Arabella Kenealy, Robert Duncan Milne, William Hope Hodgson, Harold Begbie, Gustave Flaubert, Allen Upward, Fredric Brown
The Black Hand - One of the first examples of the Mafia in fiction
Arthur B Reeves
Stories From The Shadows – Devil - Embrace the darkness
Ernst Raupach, Wilhelm Hauff, William Makepeace Thackeray, Gertrude Atherton, Niccolò Machiavelli, Charles Baudelaire, Fernan Caballeron, Richard Garnett, Ion Luca Caragiale
Stories From The Shadows – Science - Embrace the darkness
Nathaniel Hawthorne, E F Benson, Jack London, H P Lovecraft, John Chilton, Robert Duncan Milne, Mary Shelley, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Violet Hunt, Edward Page Mitchell
Stories From The Shadows – Suicide - Embrace the darkness
Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Amy Levy, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Hanns Heinz Ewers, M P Shiel, Edward Page Mitchell, Mrs Ellen Wood
Hunted Down - A seemingly nice Uncle's murderous scheme is uncovered
Charles Dickens
Stories From The Shadows – Gothic - Embrace the darkness
Ernst Raupach, George Eliot, Hugh Walpole, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rhoda Broughton, E T A Hoffmann, Walter Scott, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Marjorie Bowen, Rosa Mulholland, Harriet Prescott Spofford
A Madman's Manuscript - A man unravels trying to prove that he is actually insane
Charles Dickens
Stories From The Shadows – Sickness & Disease - Embrace the darkness
Mikhail Bulgakov, Valery Bryusov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Bezhin Meadow - One of the iconic short stories in Russian literature an incredibly rewarding listen
Ivan Turgenev
Stories From The Shadows – Art & Artists - Embrace the darkness
W F Harvey, Jan Neruda, Willa Cather, E G Swain, Hume Nisbet, Edith Nesbit, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Stories From The Shadows – Gods Religion & Churches - Embrace the darkness
Leonid Andreyev, Marjorie Bowen, Richard Garnett, Anatole France, Franz Kafka, Barry Pain, the Reverend R S Hawker, Arthur Conan Doyle
Stories From The Shadows – Lost Love - Embrace the darkness
Johann Hebel, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Anatole France, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Richard Le Gallienne
Stories From The Shadows – Ghosts & Love - Embrace the darkness
Mrs Craik, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, William Hunt, Mrs Ellen Wood, Clotilde Graves, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Jean Lorrain, Richard Le Gallienne
Stories From The Shadows – Lovers and Loved Ones Return as Ghosts - Embrace the darkness
Lafcadio Hearn, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, William Hunt, Ambrose Bierce, Mrs Ellen Wood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Family Conflicts About Inheritances - Short Stories - The root of all evil can poison any family tree
Vera Jelihovsky, J Connington, W Jacobs, O Henry, Mary Webb
Stories From The Shadows – Mental Illness - Embrace the darkness
Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Vsevolod Garshin, Lettice Galbraith, Charlotte Riddell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Willa Cather
The Dark Side of Inheritances - Evil passes down the family tree…
Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Nesbit, Louisa Baldwin, W Jacobs, W F Harvey, M R James, Saki Saki
Stories From The Shadows – Madness - Embrace the darkness
Nikolai Gogol, Anatole France, Valery Bryusov, H P Lovecraft, Barry Pain, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Conan Doyle
Stories From The Shadows – Involving Children - Embrace the darkness
Mary E. Mann, Arabella Kenealy, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Louisa Baldwin, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Thomas Hardy
Stories From The Shadows – Driven to Madness - Embrace the darkness
Barry Pain, Nikolai Gogol, Guy de Maupassant, Anatole France
Stories From The Shadows – Supernatural Powers - Embrace the darkness
William Hope Hodgson, Violet Hunt, George Eliot, Louisa Baldwin, D K Broster, F. Marion Crawford
Stories Featuring Funerals - Stories spanning various genres and themes but connected by a sombre event
Ambrose Bierce, Mary Butts, Willa Cather, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, Eca de Queiros, Mary E. Mann, Alfred Lichtenstein, Vincent O'Sullivan, Morley Roberts, Kálmán Mikszáth
Symphonies - The first Southern poet to win the Pulitzer Prize
John Gould Fletcher