A Haunted Island ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ F...

A Haunted Island ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  A Haunted Island



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Bernard Spiel



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Summary:

A short story originally published in Pall Mall Magazine Vol. 17, No. 72, in 1899. Its first appearance in a collection was in Blackwood's 1906 "The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories."



A supernatural vision on an Island, in which a man encounters a group of natives with particularly ill intent.





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The Mezzotint ♦ By M. R. James ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook

The Mezzotint ♦ By M. R. James ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Mezzotint



Author:  M. R. James



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Ghost Story



Language: English



Read By:  Louise J. Belle



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Summary:

Mr. Williams, the curator of a university art museum (implied to be Oxford) receives a mezzotint from an art dealer. The very disturbing engraving changes each time Mr. Williams and the colleagues he enlists look at it. In the end, it is suggested that the nighttime engraving depicts a vengeful poacher named Gawdy, returning from the grave to kidnap and murder the infant heir of a Mr. Arthur Francis. Gawdy had been hanged for shooting a gamekeeper while poaching on Francis' land. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mezzotint



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Smith: An Episode In A Lodging House ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatu...

Smith: An Episode In A Lodging House ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Smith: An Episode In A Lodging House



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Occult



Language: English



Read By:  Lynne T



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Summary

A man's neighbor in an apartment appears to be dabbling in the black arts. Another story inspired by Blackwood's time in New York. The events depicted are likely based on Blackwood's learning whilst a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Summary by Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27873069-smith



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Banshees ♦ By Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audio...

Banshees ♦ By Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Banshees



Author:  Elliott O'Donnell



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Occult



Language: English



Read By:  Caesura



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Summary

Many of the earliest occult stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive to buy.



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At the Gate ♦ By Myla Jo Closser ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audi...

At the Gate ♦ By Myla Jo Closser ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  At the Gate



Author:  Myla Jo Closser



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  brockprice



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Summary

At the Gate has a simple premise, and would make a wonderful film. It has a child-like quality, including gentle humor, and is an uplifting story which would appeal to any petlover of any age.



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The Phantom Coach ♦ By Amelia B. Edwards ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ F...

The Phantom Coach ♦ By Amelia B. Edwards ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Phantom Coach



Author:  Amelia B. Edwards



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  E. Johnston



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Summary

Horror is perhaps best dictated to the senses – to the animal rather than the intellectual faculties. Amelia B. Edwards shoots for both in this cerebrally visceral tale by cushioning a quaint, fireside chat with a scholar of the natural and supernatural between two lonely, agonizing experiences of fear. The first is an experience that anyone might have when a car breaks down in an unfamiliar county on a winter night. The second is a vision that most can only say to have viewed – and smelled – in their nightmares. It is the intellect behind its construction that projects this story directly into the soft underbelly of irrational human terror. Like Wells, Edwards (whom E. F. Bleiler ranks amongst Le Fanu and Broughton as one of the Victorian’s best supernaturalists) introduces us to a bleak landscape in a bleak universe – one hostile to humanity and devoid of help or guidance. Summary by https://www.oldstyletales.com/single-post/2018/04/10/Amelia-B-Edwards-The-Phantom-Coach----A-Four-Minute-Analysis-of-the-Classic-Horror-Story



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A Piece of String ♦ By Jacques Futrelle ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Fu...

A Piece of String ♦ By Jacques Futrelle ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  A Piece of String



Author:  Jacques Futrelle



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  brockprice



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Summary

Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 – April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.



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Celephais ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

Celephais ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Celephais



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  Garrett Fitzgerald



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Plot:

The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I. As the city grows up around the street, it is planted with many trees and built along with "simple, beautiful houses of brick and wood," each with a rose garden. As the Industrial Revolution runs its course, the area degenerates into a run-down, polluted slum, with all of the street's old houses falling into disrepair.



Celephaïs was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams—his real name is not given) as a child of the English landed gentry. As a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in contemporary London, he dreams it again and then, seeking it, slowly slips away to the dream-world. Finally knights guide him through medieval England to his ancestral estate, where he spent his boyhood, and then to Celephaïs. He became the king and chief god of the city, though his body washes up by his ancestors' tower, now owned by a parvenu.



In The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Randolph Carter pays a visit to Kuranes, finding that the great dreamer has grown so homesick for his native Cornwall, he has dreamed parts of Celephaïs to resemble the land of his boyhood. Kuranes advises Carter, on a mission to find his own dream-city, to be careful what he wishes for—he might get it. Summary be wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celepha%C3%AFs



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Between the Lights ♦ By E. F. Benson ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full ...

Between the Lights ♦ By E. F. Benson ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Between the Lights



Author:  E. F. Benson



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Rafe Ball



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Summary

Between the Lights is a short horror story published in 1912. Between the Lights is a part of a short story collection "The Room in the Tower and Other Stories" also published in 1912.



Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 - 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E. F. Benson.

Benson's first book was Sketches from Marlborough. He started his novel writing career with the (then) fashionably controversial Dodo (1893), which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama.



A prolific writer, Benson created the famous Mapp and Lucia series, which satirized upper-middle class British life in the 1920s and 30s. He also developed a reputation for writing macabre ghost stories and other stories of the supernatural, which have been adapted for film and television.  Summary by Goodreads.



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The Dualitists ♦ By Bram Stoker ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audio...

The Dualitists ♦ By Bram Stoker ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Dualitists, or, The Death Doom of the Double Born



Author:  Bram Stoker



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Louise J. Belle



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Summary

This short story was written by Bram Stoker the world famous author of Dracula. In it a married couple, after trying for many years, has a set of identical twins. The dote on the twins for three years unaware that two neighborhood boys have developed an obsession for destroying things. At first the boys ruin various objects found in their houses. However, as time goes by they become bored with inanimate objects and decide to move on to something else. Summary by Goodreads



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LIGHTS OUT ♦ Classic Radio Show ♦ Ep 4 ♦ Sakhalin ♦ 03/03/1937

Lights Out radio show. 03/03/1937



Episode 4



Title: Sakhalin



Author:  Wyllis Cooper



Genre(s): Horror, Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show)



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The Street ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

The Street ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Street



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  Sarah Jennings



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I. As the city grows up around the street, it is planted with many trees and built along with "simple, beautiful houses of brick and wood," each with a rose garden. As the Industrial Revolution runs its course, the area degenerates into a run-down, polluted slum, with all of the street's old houses falling into disrepair.



After World War I and the October Revolution, the area becomes home to a community of Jewish Russian immigrants; among the new residents are the leadership of a "vast band of terrorists" who are plotting the destruction of the United States on Independence Day. When the day arrives, the terrorists gather to do the deed, but before they can get started, all the houses in the street collapse concurrently on top of them, killing them all. An observer at the scene testified that immediately after the collapse, he had seen visions of the trees and the rose gardens that had once been in the street. Plot by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Street_(short_story)



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The Wood of the Dead ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short...

The Wood of the Dead ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Wood of the Dead



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  annehaviland



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Summary

"The Wood of the Dead" is a short story by British author, Algernon Blackwood, included in the collection "The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories". In the story, a visitor to the West Country comes upon the ghost of an old man, whose appearance is an omen of death, which spells doom for the residents of a small mountain village.



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The Werewolf in Russia and Siberia ♦ by Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural...

The Werewolf in Russia and Siberia ♦ by Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural ♦ Audiobook



Title: Werewolves in Austria, Hungary and the Balkans



Author:  Elliott O'Donnell



Genre(s): Gothic Fiction, Horror, Supernatural



Language: English



Read By: Mike Justice



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Written in 1912 by a famous ghost hunter who was also an occult fantasy writer, this interesting book collects together folktales and traditions from across Europe, starting in the British Isles, through Spain, France, Belgium and Norway to Russia. The "scientific" accounts (including "How to Become a Werewolf") are embellished by anecdotes of the author's personal experiences with werewolves, ghosts and vampires.



The wolf is not the only animal whose shape, it is stated, man may possess the power of assuming; and it may be of some interest to inquire briefly into the varying branches of lycanthropy, comparing them with the one already under discussion. In Orissa, the power of metamorphosing into a tiger is asserted by the Kandhs to be hereditary, and also to be acquired through the practice of magic; many who have traveled in this country have assured me that there is a very great amount of truth in this assertion; and that although there are, without doubt, a number of impostors among those designated wer-tigers, there are most certainly many who are genuine. As with the werewolf, so with the were-tiger, the metamorphosis is usually dependent on the hour of the day, and generally occurs contemporaneously with the setting of the sun. But the lycanthropy of the were-tiger differs from that of the werewolf inasmuch as there is a definite god or spirit, in the shape of a tiger, that is directly responsible for the bestowal of the property. This tiger deity is looked upon and worshipped as a totem or national deity—that is to say, as a divine being that has the welfare of the Kandh nation especially at heart. It is communed with at home, but more particularly in the wild dreariness of the jungle, where, on the condition that the prayers of its devotees are sufficiently concentrated and in earnest, it confers—as an honor and privilege—the power of transmutation into its own shape.



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The Phantom Motor ♦ By Jacques Futrelle ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Fu...

The Phantom Motor ♦ By Jacques Futrelle ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Phantom Motor



Author:  Jacques Futrelle



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  brockprice



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Summary:

A car speeds onto a road with high walls either side, but never comes out the other end...



Taken from the collection of Jacques Futrelle's Thinking Machine stories, The Phantom Motor only briefly features the renown detective. Primarily focusing on the two policemen that reside either side of a thin stretch of road, the plot follows the confusion and frustration of the first policeman as he tries to convince his colleague of the seemingly impossible. Almost ever night, a mysterious car rushes past the officer (Baker) and into the inescapable stretch of road. When Baker calls his colleague (Bowman) at the other end to catch the speeding vehicle, it is nowhere to be seen. Even after walking the entire length of the road, neither policeman can determine how the vehicle could have accomplished such a feat. Only The Thinking Machine can piece together the story...  Summary by The Locked Room



A popular, classic haunted-house story, "The Empty House" can be found in many anthologies.



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Polaris ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

Polaris ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Polaris



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Read By:  jpontoli



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Plot:

The story begins with the narrator describing the night sky as observed over long sleepless nights from his window, in particular that of the Pole Star, Polaris, which he describes as "winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey".



He then describes the night of the aurora over his house in the swamp, and how on this night he first dreamed of a city of marble lying on a plateau between two peaks, with Polaris above in the night sky. The narrator describes after a while observing motion within the houses and seeing men beginning to populate the streets, conversing to each other in language that he had never heard before but still, strangely, understood. However, before he could learn any more of this city, he awoke.



Many times, he would again dream of the city and the men who dwelt within. After a while, the narrator tired of merely existing as an incorporeal observer and began to desire to establish his place within the city, simultaneously beginning to question his conceptualization of what constituted reality and thus whether this was just a dream or whether it was real.



Then, one night, while listening to discourses of those who populate the city, the narrator obtains a physical form: not as a stranger, but as an inhabitant of the city, which he now knew as Olathoë, lying on the plateau of Sarkis in the land of Lomar, which was besieged by an enemy known as the Inutos.



While the other men within the city engage in combat with Inutos, the narrator is sent to a watchtower to signal if the Inutos gain access to the city itself. Within the tower, he notices Polaris in the sky and senses it as a malign presence, hearing a rhyme which appears to be spoken by the star:



"Slumber, watcher, till the spheres,

Six and twenty thousand years[3]

Have revolv'd, and I return

To the spot where now I burn.

Other stars anon shall rise

To the axis of the skies;

Stars that soothe and stars that bless

With a sweet forgetfulness:

Only when my round is o'er

Shall the past disturb thy door."

Uncertain as to its meaning, he drifts off to sleep, thus failing in his duty to guard Olathoë. Upon awakening, the narrator finds himself back in the house by the swamp, but the narrator now is convinced that this life is not real but a dream from which he cannot awaken. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_(short_story)



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Ghosts in Court ♦ By Sabine Baring-Gould ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ F...

Ghosts in Court ♦ By Sabine Baring-Gould ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Ghosts in Court



Author:  Sabine Baring-Gould



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Colleen McMahon



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Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he published more than 100 books, among them this collection of ghost stories. (Summary by Wikipedia)



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The Werewolf ♦ by Clemence Housman ♦ Supernatural ♦ Audiobook

The Werewolf ♦ by Clemence Housman ♦ Supernatural ♦ Audiobook



Title: The Werewolf



Author:  Clemence Housman



Genre(s): Gothic Fiction, Horror, Supernatural



Language: English



Read By: David Wales



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Clemence Annie Housman was born in 1861 in the United Kingdom. She is known as an author, illustrator, and suffragette. Housman worked as an illustrator, producing wood engravings for illustrated papers. In 1909, Clemence and her younger brother Laurence Housman founded the Suffrage Atelier, a company focused on producing political art for the women’s suffrage movement. As an author, Housman is best known for writing Unknown Sea (1898) and The Life of Sir Aglovale De Galis (1905). Housman’s short story “The Were-Wolf,” published in 1896, is an allegorical fairy tale. Unlike other pieces of werewolf literature, the short story features a female werewolf as the main antagonist rather than a male one. Echoing both gothic Victorian and Christian fantasy literature, “The Were-Wolf” is an alluring and frightening look into the unknown, uncontrolled, and holy.



The wolf is not the only animal whose shape, it is stated, man may possess the power of assuming; and it may be of some interest to inquire briefly into the varying branches of lycanthropy, comparing them with the one already under discussion. In Orissa, the power of metamorphosing into a tiger is asserted by the Kandhs to be hereditary, and also to be acquired through the practice of magic; many who have traveled in this country have assured me that there is a very great amount of truth in this assertion; and that although there are, without doubt, a number of impostors among those designated wer-tigers, there are most certainly many who are genuine. As with the werewolf, so with the were-tiger, the metamorphosis is usually dependent on the hour of the day, and generally occurs contemporaneously with the setting of the sun. But the lycanthropy of the were-tiger differs from that of the werewolf inasmuch as there is a definite god or spirit, in the shape of a tiger, that is directly responsible for the bestowal of the property. This tiger deity is looked upon and worshipped as a totem or national deity—that is to say, as a divine being that has the welfare of the Kandh nation especially at heart. It is communed with at home, but more particularly in the wild dreariness of the jungle, where, on the condition that the prayers of its devotees are sufficiently concentrated and in earnest, it confers—as an honor and privilege—the power of transmutation into its own shape.



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The Moonlit Road ♦ By Ambrose Bierce ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full ...

The Moonlit Road ♦ By Ambrose Bierce ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Moonlit Road



Author:  Ambrose Bierce



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Louise J. Belle



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Summary:

"The Moonlit Road" is a gothic horror short story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in a 1907 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, illustrated by Charles B. Falls. This story is presented in three parts and relates the tale of the murder of Julia Hetman from the perspective of her son, a man who may be her husband, and Julia herself, through a medium.

The first part is narrated by Joel Hetman Jr. He is summoned home from college by his father, because his mother, Julia, has been found strangled. His father claims that he returned from a business trip and saw the figure of a man fleeing the home. Upon entering the house, he found his wife lying dead in her bedroom. Months later, the father and son are walking down a moonlit road when the father sees something and suddenly turns pale and disappears into the night.



The second part of the story is narrated by a man who describes himself as a wandering outcast, wracked by guilt. He recounts a dream in which he suspects his wife is being unfaithful and he returns from a business trip early to find a strange man leaving his house. When he finds his wife cowering in her room, he murders her in a fit of jealous rage. In another dream, his wife's ghost confronts him on a moonlit road at night and the strangulation marks are still visible on her neck.



The third and final section is the statement of the murder victim, Julia Hetman, delivered through a medium. She describes the night she was murdered. Alone in the house, she heard frightening noises and believed she was being hunted by some creature of the night. While she cowered in the corner of her room, a man entered and strangled her, but she never saw his face. Later, upon seeing that her husband and son were sad, she tried to communicate with them from the spirit world and offer them comfort. She was finally able to appear to them on the moonlit road, but only her husband could see her and he fled in fear. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moonlit_Road



A popular, classic haunted-house story, "The Empty House" can be found in many anthologies.



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The Woman at Seven Brothers ♦ By Wilbur Daniel Steele ♦ Supernatural Ho...

The Woman at Seven Brothers  ♦ By Wilbur Daniel Steele ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Famous Modern Ghost Stories



Title:  The Woman at Seven Brothers



Author:  Wilbur Daniel Steele



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Anna Simon



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In this eerie short story, a patient in an asylum recalls a haunting incident that occurred in a isolated lighthouse.



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