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The Skipper's Wooing

Read by Alan Lord

W. W. Jacobs

The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

Lord Brougham

In The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain

Read by Alan Mapstone

John Henry Ingram

Possibly no part in the world is more connected in our minds to hauntings, ghost sightings and gruesome legends than Great Britain with its …

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Read by Alan Mapstone

George Gordon, Lord Byron

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was first published anonymously in 1809 with Byron only identified as the author in the 2nd edition. Byro…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto III

Read by Alan Mapstone

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describ…

Poems Concerning the Slave Trade

Read by Alan Mapstone

Robert Southey

Robert Southey, a future Poet Laureate, was born in Bristol, one of the principal ports in England for the slave trade. He wrote these poems…

21 - Lord Beltham's Murderer

In Fantômas

Read by Alan Winterrowd

Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain

Fantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The title character is a ruthless t…

Chillon by Lord Byron

In Sonnets of This Century

Read by Alan Mapstone

Various

This comprehensive anthology of English sonnets of the Nineteenth Century, edited and arranged by William Sharp, was published in 1887. It…

Monsieur Angot, by Charles F. Bourke

In The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 06 March 1897

Read by Alan Lord

Various

The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053

Read by Alan Lord

Harriet Beecher Stowe

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Billy Has a Ride in the Police Patrol Wagon

In Billy Whiskers, The Autobiography of a Goat (Version 2)

Read by Alan Lord

Frances Trego Montgomery

This is the original story in the beloved series of Billy Whisker books by Frances Trego Montgomery. Billy is a loveable goat whose adventur…