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Stories From the Shadows - Ghosts & Love

by Lafcadio Hearn, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Jean Lorrain ...

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestio ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestio
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Stories to Read by Candlelight

Translated by Patricia Worth ...

by Jean Lorrain ...

Stories to Read by Candlelight contains eight stories first published in the 1890s by the French author, Jean Lorrain, translated here into English by Patricia Worth. Jean draws the reader back in time to his provincial childhood when his grandmother’s seamstress would tell him stories that gave him goose bumps and made him jump under the covers. Here he recounts these same stories, or invents new ... Read more

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Stories to Read by Candlelight contains eight stories first published in the 1890s by the French author, Jean Lorrain, translated here into English by Patricia Worth. Jean draws the reader back in time to his provincial childhood when his grandmother’s seamstress would tell him stories that gave him goose bumps and made him jump under the covers. Here he recounts these same stories, or invents new
... Read more
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Atmospheric Horror Stories

Setting the scene in the worst way…

by A M Burrage, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, E F Benson, E T A Hoffman, Ernst Raupach, F Marion Crawford, Jean Lorrain, M R James, Margaret Oliphant, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, May Sinclair, R Murray Gilchrist, Rosa Mulholland, Washington Irving ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

13 hours 21 min

Horror stories are designed from the onset to create a story that will suddenly go very wrong and create a sheer horror and hell not only for the characters in the story but by extension ourselves.In this carefully crafted volume, our authors use their talents to create an atmosphere that might start with tingling tension but builds and builds until we can trust nothing but the certainty of the ... Read more

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Horror stories are designed from the onset to create a story that will suddenly go very wrong and create a sheer horror and hell not only for the characters in the story but by extension ourselves.In this carefully crafted volume, our authors use their talents to create an atmosphere that might start with tingling tension but builds and builds until we can trust nothing but the certainty of the
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows – The French

Embrace the darkness

by Marcel Schwob, Prosper Merimee, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Guy De Maupassant, Anatole France, Honoré de Balzac, Jean Lorrain ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

4 hours 4 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Dark Masters, The - Volume 4

Washington Irving to Gustav Meyrink

by Washington Irving, W W Jacobs, M R James, Franz Kafka, W G Kelly, Rudyard Kipling, Perceval Landon, Sheridan Le Fanu, Alfred Lichtenstein, Jack London, F G Loring, Jean Lorrain, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Lynch, Arthur Machen, Niccolo Machiavelli, R H Malden, Richard Marsh, Guy De Maupassant, Gustav Meyrink ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

12 hours 2 min

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy, ... Read more

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Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy,
... Read more
Decadent Plays: 1890–1930

Salome; The Race of Leaves; The Orgy: A Dramatic Poem; Madame La Mort; Lilith; Ennoïa: A Triptych; The Black Maskers; La Gioconda; Ardiane and Barbe Bleue or, The Useless Deliverance; Kerria Japonica; The Dove

by Mr Michael Field, Ms Lesya Ukrainka, Ms Rachilde, Mr Remy de Gourmont, Mr Jean Lorrain, Leonid Andreyev, Ms Djuna Barnes, Mr Izumi Kyoka, Maurice Maeterlinck, Mr Gabriele D'Annunzio ...

Translated by Ms Vera Rich, Frazer Lively, Ms Kiki Gounaridou, Prof. Dan Rebellato, Ms Jennifer Higgins, Mr Fred Newton Scott, Mr Clarence L Meader, M Cody Poulton, Mr Bernard Miall, Mr Arthur Symons ...

Poisoned cigars, seductive apparitions, minds and empires in the last of their decline and the most notorious kiss in dramatic history – decadent plays challenged the moral as much as the dramatic imagination of their own day, and continue to probe horizons of taste and the possibilities of stagecraft.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many writers reacted to urban modernity by embracing ... Read more

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Poisoned cigars, seductive apparitions, minds and empires in the last of their decline and the most notorious kiss in dramatic history – decadent plays challenged the moral as much as the dramatic imagination of their own day, and continue to probe horizons of taste and the possibilities of stagecraft.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many writers reacted to urban modernity by embracing
... Read more
Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker

by Jean Lorrain ...

Translated by Brian Stableford ...

None of Jean Lorrain’s biographers has contrived to discover exactly when or why he began taking ether, or how much of it he took before realising (too late) that it was an extremely bad idea. The drug certainly helped provide the feverish, nightmarish atmosphere of these wonderfully decadent and sophisticated tales, and many of the apparitions with which they are populated.Brian Stableford’s ... Read more

$8.69 USD

None of Jean Lorrain’s biographers has contrived to discover exactly when or why he began taking ether, or how much of it he took before realising (too late) that it was an extremely bad idea. The drug certainly helped provide the feverish, nightmarish atmosphere of these wonderfully decadent and sophisticated tales, and many of the apparitions with which they are populated.Brian Stableford’s
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Buried in Paris

The top 10 short stories by authors buried in Paris

by Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Voltaire, Honore de Balzac, Jean Lorrain, Auguste Villiers de I'Ísle-Adam, Alphonse Daudet, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Schwob, Oscar Wilde ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

5 hours 37 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows – Haunted House

Embrace the darkness

by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bram Stoker, Walter Scott, Perceval Landon, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell, D K Broster, Rosa Mulholland, A C Benson, B M Croker, Rhoda Broughton, Jean Lorrain, Allen Upward, E G Swain ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

10 hours 55 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Supernatural Murder Mysteries

Classic tales from an iconic thrilling genre

by Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, Jean Lorrain, Algernon Blackwood, F Marion Crawford, J Y Ackerman, Hugh Walpole, Ambrose Bierce, W F Harvey, Edith Stewart Drewery, Mary Cholmondeley.wav, Amelia Edwards ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

8 hours 5 min

In this volume we give the murder mystery a dastardly twist with an element of the Supernatural. With this simple addition stories become flights of evil fancy and thoughts from the dark recesses of our author’s minds. ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this volume we give the murder mystery a dastardly twist with an element of the Supernatural. With this simple addition stories become flights of evil fancy and thoughts from the dark recesses of our author’s minds.
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows – Ghosts & Love

Embrace the darkness

by Mrs Craik, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, William Hunt, Mrs Ellen Wood, Clotilde Graves, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Jean Lorrain, Richard Le Gallienne ...

Narrated by Lisa Bowerman, Mark Rice-Oxley, Eve Karpf ...

Unabridged

3 hours 11 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Spectral Hand, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Jean Lorrain ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

17 min

The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the French writer Jean Lorrain. ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is the French writer Jean Lorrain.
... Read more

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Stories From the Shadows - Ghosts & Love

Stories to Read by Candlelight

Atmospheric Horror Stories

Stories From The Shadows – The French

Dark Masters, The - Volume 4

Decadent Plays: 1890–1930

Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker

Top 10 Short Stories, The - Buried in Paris

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Stories From The Shadows – Ghosts & Love

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