
"The Magnet" & "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain
Two more short stories by Barry Pain. In "The Magnet" (1901), the Reverend Ingram Shallow becomes obsessed with the recent train crash that...
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Classic tales of supernatural horror and suspense are brought to life in this series of audiobooks featuring the works of E.F.Benson, Saki, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, and more. Fans of the...

Two more short stories by Barry Pain. In "The Magnet" (1901), the Reverend Ingram Shallow becomes obsessed with the recent train crash that...

Two short stories by Barry Pain. In "The End of a Show" (1901), a quack showman has the opportunity to perform an act of charity. In "Not on...

A wealthy American by the name buys the supposedly haunted Barton Cross Manor and, with the help of the local vicar, begins to unearth a sto...

A cowboy believes himself to be cursed after he commits a terrible atrocity.This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Est...

After an Indian rajah's servant commits a shocking act of violence the rajah condemns him to an extreme punishment meant to keep him restrai...

Having moved to a rural Shropshire, a mother becomes worried about her teenage son – and why he seems drawn to the copse at Rickett’s field....

Lieutenant Ward Harrison is sent to find out what is delaying the meteorological monitoring of a planned colonial base on the planet Mars. V...

VALENTINE'S SPECIAL ***IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode contains dark humour . It also contains brief and very occasional mild swearing . If you...

A chess fanatic inherits a chess set with a sinister and chequered history…and has to play for his life.This original recording is an audio...

While on an expedition in the Canadian north woods, something begins to kill off the party – a mysterious something that “burns” patterns in...

Howard, long-suffering general dogsbody at White Lawns residential home, hatches a plan after hearing the bizarre story of his employer’s no...

A professor of comparative religion is drawn to investigate a remote part of Cornwall following a spate of disappearances.This original reco...

Asked whether he’s ever experienced the sensation of “the other man on the rope”, seasoned mountaineer Sir Andrew Poursuivant regales his co...

A man is haunted from childhood by a recurring, deeply unsettling dream in which he always finds himself visiting the same gloomy house, mee...

A university museum curator receives a mezzotint print depicting a country house. At first glance, the image seems ordinary, but on repeated...

One winter’s evening, a man, dogged by depression, encounters a mysterious figure who challenges his perception of time and fulfillment. But...

A wealthy British businessman living in colonial Egypt finds his comfortable life begin to unravel when he is haunted by the mysterious soun...

Two wintry fireside tales. In “The Vanishing House” by Bernard Capes, a group of travelling musicians are passing the night in a country inn...

Visiting a friend on the East Anglian coast, a man learns of a supernatural happenings that have followed a tragic motor accident. This orig...

An unhappily married man takes his wife on holiday to Switzerland with a view to killing her.This original recording is an audio presentatio...

To settle her father's debts the beautiful Alison Mercer is betrothed to mysterious archaeologist Simeon Stroud. But when dashing Hugh Daven...

When a US Navy exploratory ship finds a tramp steamer that went missing some years before, the mystery surrounding its disappearance becomes...

A journalist with an interest in crime and the supernatural is invited by a disliked former colleague to investigate a strange item that has...

A shy novelist accepts an invitation to spend Christmas with another writer in a remote house in Penzance, Cornwall. He quickly regrets his...

Two stories by J.D. Beresford. In “The Misanthrope” a man pays a visit to a hermit living on a Cornish island to find out what drove him the...

Young Viola’s childhood is made less lonely by her mysterious companion “Binns” – but is he fairy, familiar or something more sinister? This...

Out walking in the countryside, a man spots something different about a hill in Symondsbury, Dorset. Intrigued, he finds himself inexorably...

An old man starts to fear for his safety when he suspects his live-in carer is not quite what he seems.This original recording is an audio p...

A grandmother warns her grandchildren not to pick blackcurrants where they grow in a particular spot in the village. When asked why, she rel...

A sceptical researcher incurs the wrath of a sinister occultist and soon finds himself embroiled in strange, escalating events. As fear moun...

In The Tombs prison, New York, preparing to be hanged for a crime he didn’t commit, Harry Jessup has a supernatural experience with far-reac...

A man is dogged by the vision of a seemingly innocuous rural scene that he becomes convinced is a harbinger of death. This original recordin...

When Esor McIre, in his duties as County Surveyor, is called upon to inspect the property of his old schoolfriend Carlton, it awakens an old...

The new curate in a remote village fails to heed the local superstitions surrounding a mysterious monolith (menhir) known as “The Grey Gamme...

Two stories about lonely travellers seeking shelter…who find more than they bargained for. In “The Lover of the Dead”, a stranded motorist u...

When two friends hiking in the Pennines become lost, they think their fortunes have changed when they find refuge in the old Roper house. Bu...

After being run over by a traction engine, Mr Tilly – now a spirit – elects to keep his appointment at a séance with the famed medium Mrs Cu...

Nothing will ever be the same again for a country doctor when his son finds something deeply disturbing buried in the ground. This original...

When a worker at the local potteries burns to death in a freak industrial accident, the Reverend Noah Scallard develops a morbid obsession w...

What is the secret of the curiously empty seat on the Embankment between the Avenue and Westminster Bridge?This original recording is an aud...

Dark rumours surround a famous stage ventriloquist. Does his dummy contain the soul of his former partner?This original recording is an audi...

Having relocated their family to her husband’s ancestral home, Laura becomes concerned by their daughter’s increasingly naughty and wilful b...

Walking in the Cotswolds, a man encounters a strange garden with unfinished walls and its even stranger owner. But what – or who – is this f...

A family adopts a stray poodle who charms its way into their lives, but were the strange portents that heralded the little dog's arrival mor...

A recently married man becomes convinced that his wife is haunted by a disturbing doppelgänger – perhaps a “fetch” – that only he can see. T...

A bus driver recalls the highs and lows of his life in this dark and blackly comic monologue. This is a bit of an experiment for me, inspire...

Visiting Munich on his way to Transylvania, an Englishman ignores the warnings of the hotelier and coach driver in order to explore an aband...

When their son leaves for university, a couple’s discovery of some old photographs and letters in the attic reveals a family secret and sets...

With the Stennings and their guests gathered round the fireplace on Christmas Eve, Northanger offers to share a very different ghost story,...

Two sisters share a premonition of a violent burglary the night after Christmas…one which threatens to be realised when they receive a knock...