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Here and Hereafter (Unabridged)

by Barry Pain ...

Narrated by Timothy Paulsen, Ronald Salinas, Carrol Register ...

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7 hours 9 min

In the quaint town of Willowdene, where secrets whisper through the cobblestone streets, a chilling discovery sends shockwaves through the community. The lifeless body of a young woman, Eleanor, is found in the depths of an ancient well. As the investigation unfolds, Detective Inspector Martineau delves into a labyrinth of hidden lives and unspoken truths. With each twist and turn, Martineau ... Read more

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In the quaint town of Willowdene, where secrets whisper through the cobblestone streets, a chilling discovery sends shockwaves through the community. The lifeless body of a young woman, Eleanor, is found in the depths of an ancient well. As the investigation unfolds, Detective Inspector Martineau delves into a labyrinth of hidden lives and unspoken truths. With each twist and turn, Martineau
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Magnet, The

by Barry Pain ...

Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

Unabridged

11 min

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories."The Magnet" is the uncanny story of a very unusual copycat mass murderer. ... Read more

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Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories."The Magnet" is the uncanny story of a very unusual copycat mass murderer.
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Problem Club, The

by Barry Pain ...

Narrated by Mike Polischuk ...

Unabridged

3 hours 54 min

Welcome to The Problem Club, where logic takes a holiday and wit is the law of the land. In this delightful collection of early 20th-century comic tales by Barry Pain, twelve eccentric gentlemen gather regularly in an upscale London club to tackle bizarre, imaginative challenges—each one a “problem” designed to confound, amuse, and showcase their cleverness.From the unforgettable “Giraffe Problem” ... Read more

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Welcome to The Problem Club, where logic takes a holiday and wit is the law of the land. In this delightful collection of early 20th-century comic tales by Barry Pain, twelve eccentric gentlemen gather regularly in an upscale London club to tackle bizarre, imaginative challenges—each one a “problem” designed to confound, amuse, and showcase their cleverness.From the unforgettable “Giraffe Problem”
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Act of Heroism, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Barry Pain ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

22 min

Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children.He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read classics and contributed to and edited Granta.Four years of service as an Army coach followed before he moved to London. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine published his short story ‘The Hundred Gates’. ... Read more

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Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children.He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read classics and contributed to and edited Granta.Four years of service as an Army coach followed before he moved to London. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine published his short story ‘The Hundred Gates’.
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Stories in the Dark

by Barry Pain ...

Series series Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural
First published in 1901, Barry Pain's collection of short stories plays deftly with an array of supernatural and macabre ideas - the Roman soldier who encounters a nameless horror when he falls through a crack in the earth; ordinary people driven mad by their obsession with other people's crimes; the wife who haunts her husband via a ghostly telephone line. Perhaps most memorable of all, however, ... Read more

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First published in 1901, Barry Pain's collection of short stories plays deftly with an array of supernatural and macabre ideas - the Roman soldier who encounters a nameless horror when he falls through a crack in the earth; ordinary people driven mad by their obsession with other people's crimes; the wife who haunts her husband via a ghostly telephone line. Perhaps most memorable of all, however,
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Not on the Passenger List and other Strange Stories

by Barry Pain ...

Series series Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural
A distraught woman is haunted by the ghost of her dead husband on a voyage to England... or is she?A billiard-room echoes to the sounds of a spectral game...A haunted tower reveals its terrifying secret on Christmas Eve...A family dog appears to foretell a terrible danger...These are just some of the delights contained in this unsettling collection of supernatural stories from a master of the ... Read more

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A distraught woman is haunted by the ghost of her dead husband on a voyage to England... or is she?A billiard-room echoes to the sounds of a spectral game...A haunted tower reveals its terrifying secret on Christmas Eve...A family dog appears to foretell a terrible danger...These are just some of the delights contained in this unsettling collection of supernatural stories from a master of the
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An Exchange of Souls and The Octave of Claudius

by Barry Pain ...

Series series Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural
“You have done something which is against Nature… And Nature punishes.”In An Exchange of Souls (1911), a novel which greatly influenced Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep", Doctor Myas is obsessed with proving his theory that the soul and the body are separate entities. When Myas is found dead in his laboratory, his friend Compton begins to suspect that he may have succeeded - but at a ... Read more

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“You have done something which is against Nature… And Nature punishes.”In An Exchange of Souls (1911), a novel which greatly influenced Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep", Doctor Myas is obsessed with proving his theory that the soul and the body are separate entities. When Myas is found dead in his laboratory, his friend Compton begins to suspect that he may have succeeded - but at a
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Marge Askinforit (Unabridged)

by Barry PAIN ...

Narrated by Larry Hong ...

Unabridged

2 hours 10 min

A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfunctional family, and delights in relating every cringing, if not wholly accurate, minutiae of her exciting private life. ... Read more

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A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfunctional family, and delights in relating every cringing, if not wholly accurate, minutiae of her exciting private life.
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An Exchange of Souls

by Barry Pain ...

Narrated by Aplicazona Estudios ...

Unabridged

4 hours 35 min

In this novel, respected doctor Daniel Myas is a scientist who has developed a machine which allows for the exchange of his 'personality' with that of another. However when his attempt at 'exchanging souls' occurs with an individual very close to him, only a form of horror can be the result, and the reader is led down a path of deterioration and fear. ... Read more

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In this novel, respected doctor Daniel Myas is a scientist who has developed a machine which allows for the exchange of his 'personality' with that of another. However when his attempt at 'exchanging souls' occurs with an individual very close to him, only a form of horror can be the result, and the reader is led down a path of deterioration and fear.
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Eliza

Humorous Stories

by Barry Pain ...

Series series Classic Novels
"Suppose," I said to one of the junior clerks at our office the other day, "you were asked to describe yourself in a few words, could you do it?"His answer that he could describe me in two was no answer at all. Also the two words were not a description, and were so offensive that I did not continue the conversation.I believe there are but few people who could give you an accurate description of ... Read more

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"Suppose," I said to one of the junior clerks at our office the other day, "you were asked to describe yourself in a few words, could you do it?"His answer that he could describe me in two was no answer at all. Also the two words were not a description, and were so offensive that I did not continue the conversation.I believe there are but few people who could give you an accurate description of
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Tales in the Dark

The Undying Thing and Other Stories

by Barry Pain ...

Narrated by Roy Macready ...

Unabridged

2 hours 18 min

Barry Pain was noted for his humorous tales of “Eliza” and her husband but his tales of the weird and supernatural are equally noteworthy. This volume contains seven of them. They are:“The Undying Thing”“The Moon-slave”“The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit”“The Four-fingered Hand”“The Glass of Supreme Moments”“The Green Light”“The Tower” ... Read more

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Barry Pain was noted for his humorous tales of “Eliza” and her husband but his tales of the weird and supernatural are equally noteworthy. This volume contains seven of them. They are:“The Undying Thing”“The Moon-slave”“The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit”“The Four-fingered Hand”“The Glass of Supreme Moments”“The Green Light”“The Tower”
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Miracles

by Barry Pain ...

Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

Unabridged

19 min

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories."Miracles" is the tale of two extraordinarily talented men, Best and Bliss, who develop a way of communicating nonverbally and use it for a career on the stage as mind readers. But when a bereaved mother asks them to try to contact her dead son, things take on a highly ... Read more

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Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories."Miracles" is the tale of two extraordinarily talented men, Best and Bliss, who develop a way of communicating nonverbally and use it for a career on the stage as mind readers. But when a bereaved mother asks them to try to contact her dead son, things take on a highly
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