Ring Once for Death ♦ By Robert Arthur Jr. ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦...

Ring Once for Death ♦ By Robert Arthur Jr. ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Ring Once for Death



Author:  Robert Arthur, Jr.



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Chris Pyle



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The power of the old gods was certainly nothing for Mark and Edith—a modern, twentieth-century couple—to worry about. After all—everybody dies! Twenty years had left no trace inside Sam Kee's little shop on Mott Street. There were the same dusty jars of ginseng root and tigers' whiskers, the same little bronze Buddahs, the same gim-cracks mixed with fine jade.



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A Suspicious Gift ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ ...

A Suspicious Gift ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  A Suspicious Gift



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  William Mosqueda



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Excerpt:

It was curious—that sense of dull uneasiness that came over him so suddenly, so stealthily at first he scarcely noticed it, but with such marked increase after a time that he presently got up and left the theater. His seat was on the gangway of the dress circle, and he slipped out awkwardly in the middle of what seemed to be the best and jolliest song of the piece. The full house was shaking with laughter; so infectious was the gaiety that even strangers turned to one another as much as to say, "Now, isn't that funny?"



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A Case of Eavesdropping ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Sh...

A Case of Eavesdropping ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  A Case of Eavesdropping



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Chiquito Crasto



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Excerpt:

Jim Shorthouse was the sort of fellow who always made a mess of things. Everything with which his hands or mind came into contact issued from such contact in an unqualified and irremediable state of mess. His college days were a mess: he was twice rusticated. His schooldays were a mess: he went to half a dozen, each passing him on to the next with a worse character and in a more developed state of mess. His early boyhood was the sort of mess that copy-books and dictionaries spell with a big "M," and his babyhood—ugh! was the embodiment of howling, yowling, screaming mess.



At the age of forty, however, there came a change in his troubled life, when he met a girl with half a million in her own right, who consented to marry him, and who very soon succeeded in reducing his most messy existence into a state of comparative order and system.



Certain incidents, important and otherwise, of Jim's life would never have come to be told here but for the fact that in getting into his "messes" and out of them again he succeeded in drawing himself into the atmosphere of peculiar circumstances and strange happenings. He attracted to his path the curious adventures of life as unfailingly as meat attracts flies, and jam wasps. It is to the meat and jam of his life, so to speak, that he owes his experiences; his after-life was all pudding, which attracts nothing but greedy children. With marriage the interest of his life ceased for all but one person, and his path became regular as the sun's instead of erratic as a comet's.

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The Return ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Au...

The Return ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Return



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Louise J. Belle



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Excerpt:

It was curious—that sense of dull uneasiness that came over him so suddenly, so stealthily at first he scarcely noticed it, but with such marked increase after a time that he presently got up and left the theater. His seat was on the gangway of the dress circle, and he slipped out awkwardly in the middle of what seemed to be the best and jolliest song of the piece. The full house was shaking with laughter; so infectious was the gaiety that even strangers turned to one another as much as to say, "Now, isn't that funny?"



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Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural...

Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Occult



Language: English



Read By:  Bernard Spiel



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Summary

The characters in this story are all on a hunting trip for moose, somewhere up in Canada. It tells how another man washes up on the shore of Skeleton Lake right near the narrator's camp. The narrator says that the man, named Rushton, simply began to ramble about his recent experience, and could not be stopped from telling it. Rushton had said that a companion and his canoe had overturned and left the two men clinging to it, when they drifted near an island. Jake, Rushton's friend, had wanted to swim to the shore, and disappeared below the water instantly having let go of the canoe. Rushton said he'd gotten to the island and had seen shadows crawling out of the water and into the bushes. The narrator said that Rushton had so many flaws in his story that the truth was almost obvious. At the end of the story, two of the men went to go looking for the body, and found it with a terrible wound in the back of its head. One that he couldn't have done to himself. Summary by: Sophia Buhrow



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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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Keeping his Promise ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ...

Keeping his Promise ♦ By Algernon Blackwood ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Keeping his Promise



Author:  Algernon Blackwood



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Chris Pyle



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Excerpt:

It was a stranger. He saw a youngish man short of figure and very broad. His face was the colour of a piece of chalk and the eyes, which were very bright, had heavy lines underneath them. Though the cheeks and chin were unshaven and the general appearance unkempt, the man was evidently a gentleman, for he was well dressed and bore himself with a certain air. But, strangest of all, he wore no hat, and carried none in his hand; and although rain had been falling steadily all the evening, he appeared to have neither overcoat nor umbrella.



A hundred questions sprang up in Marriott’s mind and rushed to his lips, chief among which was something like “Who in the world are you?” and “What in the name of heaven do you come to me for?” But none of these questions found time to express themselves in words, for almost at once the caller turned his head a little so that the gas light in the hall fell upon his features from a new angle. Then in a flash Marriott recognised him.



“Field! Man alive! Is it you?” he gasped.



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

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



Title:  The Tree



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



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



Language: English



Read By:  Michael Sample



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Plot:

On a slope of Mount Maenalus in Arcadia is an olive grove that grows around a marble tomb and the ruin of an old villa. There, one gigantic tree resembles a frighteningly distorted man, and the roots of the tree have shifted the blocks of the tomb.



The narrator explains that the beekeeper who lives next door told him a story about the tree: Two renowned sculptors, Kalos and Musides, lived in the colonnaded villa, which was "resplendent" in its day. Both men created works that were widely known and celebrated. They were devoted friends, but different in disposition: Musides enjoyed the nightlife, while Kalos preferred the quiet of the olive grove. It was there he was said to receive his inspiration.



One day, emissaries from "the Tyrant of Syracuse" ask the sculptors each to create a statue of Tyché (Greek: τύχη, lit. 'fortune; fate'). The statue, they are told, must be "of great size and cunning workmanship", since it is to be "a wonder of nations and a goal of travellers." The most beautiful statue will be erected in the Tyrant's city, Syracuse. Kalos and Musides accept the commission. Secretly, the Tyrant expects the sculptors not only to compete but to cooperate, resulting in statuary that will be truly magnificent.



The work proceeds, and although Musides is still social and active, he seems morose—apparently because Kalos has fallen ill. Despite Kalos' weakened state, his visitors detect in him a serenity that contrasts Musides' dismay. Despite the efforts of his doctors and his friend Musides, Kalos weakens. When Kalos' death seems imminent, Musides weeps and promises to carve for him an elaborate marble sepulchre. Kalos asks that one twig each from two specific olive trees in the grove be buried near his head. Soon after, Kalos dies in the olive grove.



Musides builds the tomb and buries the olive twigs. From the burial place of the twigs an enormous olive tree grows at an incredible rate. An especially large branch hangs over the villa and Musides' statue.



Three years later, Musides' work on the statue is complete. The Tyrant's agents arrive, then head to town to stay the night. That evening, a windstorm whips down the mountain. When the Tyrant's people return to the villa the next morning, they find it utterly destroyed; the great tree branch has fallen, and Musides' statue has been crushed into unrecognizable pieces. Musides himself is nowhere to be found.



The end of the story recalls the Latin aphorism that precedes the text: "Fata viam invenient" ("fate will find a way"). Summary By Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tree_(short_story)



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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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The Mummy's Curse ♦ By Louisa May Alcott ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ F...

The Mummy's Curse ♦ By Louisa May Alcott ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Mummy's Curse or Lost In A Pyramid



Author:  Louisa May Alcott



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Louise J. Belle



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Summary

After an expedition to Egypt with his colleague Professor Niles, Paul Forsyth returns to his fiancée Evelyn with a mysterious box of scarlet seeds. He warns her that the story of their origin will haunt her, but her naïve curiosity prevails.



Forsyth's tale begins when, despite fatigue and growing wariness, he follows the insatiable Niles deep into the Pyramid of Cheops. The two decide to lie in the sand and rest while Niles's guide, Jumal, seeks another guide to lead Forsyth to safety. Awaking alone, Forsyth plunges farther into the labyrinth in search of Niles, whom he finds lost and despairing. Niles breaks his leg in a fall, and, fearing for their lives, the two resolve to start a fire in order to signal Jumal. They burn a wooden coffin and unroll the wrappings of the mummified woman inside, where they discover the box of seeds. Despite strong reservations, Forsyth throws the mummy on the fire at Niles's command, before deciphering a piece of parchment which identifies the woman as a powerful sorceress who has vowed to curse anyone who dares disturb her grave. Forsyth keeps the box as a "souvenir" and Jumal rescues the hapless explorers, who have lost consciousness from the fumes.



Evelyn asks to plant the seeds, but Forsyth throws them into the fireplace, fearing that they may be cursed or poisonous. He reveals that Niles has had bad luck since his return, but the happy lovers do not think much of it. Three months later, Forsyth remarks to Evelyn on their wedding day that she has grown frail and sickly. She confides that she feels she is dying, but he dismisses her ailment as bridal nerves. He reveals that one seed has escaped the fire after all, and after being sent to Niles, it has bloomed into an unusual white flower. She surprises him by revealing that she has grown her own strange flower in her boudoir, and that she intends to wear it during the wedding, which he cautions against. She appears at the ceremony with renewed vivacity, but later falls into a swoon, revealing the flower pinned to her breast. An urgent letter arrives from a friend of Niles's, bringing news of the professor's death after wearing his own flower, which was later pronounced to be a lethal poison which drains the vitality of the wearer. Evelyn falls into a catatonic state of "death in life," and Forsyth secludes himself to tend to his insensate wife. Summery by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_a_Pyramid;_or,_The_Mummy%27s_Curse



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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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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



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.



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

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



Title:  The Nameless City



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



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



Language: English



Read By:  Scott Carpenter



Librivox Recording



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Plot:

The Nameless City of the story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, and is older than any human civilization. In ancient times, the Nameless City was built and inhabited by an unnamed race of reptiles with a body shaped like a cross between a crocodile and a seal with a strange head common to neither, involving a protruding forehead, horns, lack of a nose, and an alligator-like jaw. These beings moved by crawling; thus, the architecture of the city has very low ceilings and some places are too low for a human being to stand upright. Their city was originally coastal, but, when the seas receded, it was left in the depths of a desert. This resulted in the decline and eventual ruin of the city.



The protagonist of "The Nameless City" states:



It was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet [author of the Necronomicon] dreamed on the night before he sang his unexplained couplet:



"That is not dead which can eternal lie,

And with strange aeons, even death may die."

However, the reptilians still maintain some form of life in a vast luminous paradise located within a cavern beneath the Nameless City, preserved and placed along the walls in a subterranean chamber. Also within this chamber are hieroglyphs and reliefs that tell to the protagonist the story of the city's heyday of prosperity and its fall, as well as their eventual hatred of humanity. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nameless_City



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Afterward ♦ By Edith Wharton ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook

Afterward ♦ By Edith Wharton ♦ Supernatural Horror Short ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Afterward



Author:  Edith Wharton



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  annehaviland



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Plot:

She recalls a conversation that she and her husband, Ned Boyne, had with their cousin Alida Stair six months earlier. The conversation centered on their search for a house in a southern or southwestern county in England. Alida suggested Lyng in Dorsetshire, after they had turned down several more suitable suggestions. Lyng is old, isolated, and in disrepair and they are attracted to it because of the “charm of having been for centuries a deep dim reservoir of life.[1]” They only wanted the house if it was haunted. Legend has it that the inhabitants of Lyng don’t know they’ve encountered the ghost until long afterward. Mary reflected on the legend with a new “perception of its significance[2]” because of her husband’s disappearance.



The Boyne’s were nouveau riche because of a business deal made by Ned and were looking for a place to pursue their dream of a life of leisure. They wanted to sit “in the thick December dusk, by just such a wide-hooded fireplace, under just such black oak rafters, with the sense that beyond the mullioned panes the downs were darkened to a deeper solitude.[3]”



Mary recalls that her husband seemed withdrawn and worried earlier in the month but she did not question him about it and he did not reveal why he was upset. As she is reflecting on that day, she recalls an event two months prior, in October, where she had accidentally come across a hidden stairwell that led to a flat ledge on the roof. She remembers that she and Ned climbed the stairs to take in the view and that as they were reveling in the beautiful landscape, a stranger approached. Mary remembers noticing that Ned became perplexed and suddenly fled. At the time of the incident, Mary gave it no more thought because there were various tradesmen coming and going each day working on the house and Ned redirected Mary’s concern with a trip to Meldon Steep. Now, however, she recalls the anxiety that was evident on Ned’s face. Summary by wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterward



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Werewolves in Austria, Hungary and the Balkans ♦ by Elliott O'Donnell ♦ ...

Werewolves in Austria, Hungary and the Balkans ♦ 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: William Hahn



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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 Return of the Soul ♦ By Robert Smythe Hichens ♦ Horror ♦ Full Audio...

The Return of the Soul ♦ By Robert Smythe Hichens ♦ Horror  ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Return of the Soul



Author:  Robert Smythe Hichens



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Roger Melin



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Can the soul of the dead come back to haunt the one who was responsible for its death? What would happen if the responsible one did not believe it could be so, and yet was in love with the returned soul? The Return of the Soul is a horror story of a man who is visited by the returning soul of a deceased, and who has some very perplexing issues to deal with upon that return. (Introduction by Roger Melin)



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The Beast in the Cave ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook

The Beast in the Cave ♦ By H. P. Lovecraft ♦ (Horror) ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Beast in the Cave



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



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



Language: English



Read By:  Cameron Halket



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Plot:

Basil Elton, a lighthouse keeper, engages in a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man in robes is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full. Elton walks across the water on a bridge of moonbeams, joins the bearded man on the ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.



They travel past Zar, a green land where "dwell all the dreams and thoughts of beauty that come to men once and then are forgotten", then the majestic city of Thalarion, "City of a Thousand Wonders", where frightful demons dwell. They pass Akariel, the huge carven gate of Thalarion, and continue their voyage. Elton is informed that those who enter both places have never returned. During the voyage, they seem to be following an azure celestial bird. They also pass Xura, the "Land of Pleasures Unattained", which seems pleasant from a distance but reeks of plague upon getting nearer. They finally settle in Sona-Nyl, the "Land of Fancy", where Elton spends a period of time which he describes as "many aeons", living in what seems to be a perfect society. During his time in Sona-Nyl, he learns of Cathuria, the "Land of Hope". Though no man truly knows where Cathuria is or what lies there, Elton is thrilled with the idea, fantasizing about it wildly, and urges the bearded man to take him there, which the man reluctantly agrees to do. They follow the celestial bird westward. After a perilous journey to where the crew believes Cathuria to be, the ship instead finds itself at the edge of the world, and plummets to its doom.



Elton awakens to find himself on the wet rocks next to his lighthouse, mere moments after he first departed on the white ship - and just in time to witness a catastrophic shipwreck caused by the light having gone out for the first time. He is further shaken by his later finding a dead azure bird and a spar of pure white. Summary by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Ship_(story)



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The Messenger ♦ By Robert W. Chambers ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audi...

The Messenger  ♦ By Robert W. Chambers ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Famous Modern Ghost Stories



Title:  The Messenger



Author:  Robert W. Chambers



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Marian Brown



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A man who is familiar with the behavior of ghosts tells the story of a woman who comes across a spectral church service.

The story that "One Sunday Morning" in Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark was based off of, this very short but memorable, vivid story takes us to a silent church service for the dead souls caught in Purgatory. A great, classic ghost story perfect for a quick bedtime story.

Anatole France born François-Anatole Thibault, [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament



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