The Phantom Regiment of Killiecrankie ♦ By Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatu...

The Phantom Regiment of Killiecrankie ♦ By Elliott O'Donnell ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  The Phantom Regiment of Killiecrankie



Author:  Elliott O'Donnell



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Nan Dodge



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An unsuspecting cyclist encounters a group of ghost soldiers and Highlanders whose spirits are locked in battle. As if that wasn't terrifying enough, she is then confronted by a murderous grave-robbing ghost girl. From the book of Scottish Ghost Stories compiled by Elliott O'Donnell in 1911.



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

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



Title:  Dagon



Author:  H. P. Lovecraft



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



Language: English



Read By:  Phil Chenevert



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Plot:

The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I. In the unnamed narrator's account, his cargo ship is captured by an Imperial German sea-raider in "one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific".[2] He escapes on a lifeboat and drifts aimlessly, south of the equator, until he eventually finds himself stranded on "a slimy expanse of hellish black mire which extended about [him] in monotonous undulations as far as [he] could see.... The region was putrid with the carcasses of decaying fish and less describable things which [he] saw protruding from the nasty mud of the unending plain." He theorizes that this area was formerly a portion of the ocean floor thrown to the surface by volcanic activity, "exposing regions which for innumerable millions of years had lain hidden under unfathomable watery depths."[3]



After waiting three days for the seafloor to dry out sufficiently to walk on, he ventures out on foot to find the sea and possible rescue. After two days of walking, he reaches his goal, a hill which turns out to be a mound on the edge of an "immeasurable pit or canyon".[4] Descending the slope, he sees a gigantic white stone object that he soon perceives to be a "well-shaped monolith whose massive bulk had known the workmanship and perhaps the worship of living and thinking creatures."[5] The monolith, situated next to a channel of water in the bottom of the chasm, is covered in unfamiliar hieroglyphs "consisting for the most part of conventionalized aquatic symbols such as fishes, eels, octopuses, crustaceans, mollusks, whales, and the like."[5] There are also "crude sculptures" depicting:



men—at least, a certain sort of men; though the creatures were shown disporting like fishes in the waters of some marine grotto, or paying homage at some monolithic shrine which appeared to be under the waves as well... [T]hey were damnably human in general outline despite webbed hands and feet, shockingly wide and flabby lips, glassy, bulging eyes, and other features less pleasant to recall. Curiously enough, they seemed to have been chiseled badly out of proportion with their scenic background; for one of the creatures was shown in the act of killing a whale represented as but little larger than himself Summary by Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagon_(short_story)



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The Mass of Shadows ♦ By Anatole France ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Aud...

The Mass of Shadows ♦ By Anatole France ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Famous Modern Ghost Stories



Title:  The Mass of Shadows



Author:  Anatole France



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Sage Tyrtle



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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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What Was It ♦ By Fitz-James O'Brien ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook

What Was It ♦ By Fitz-James O'Brien ♦ Supernatural Horror ♦ Full Audiobook



Famous Modern Ghost Stories



Title:  What Was It



Author:  Fitz-James O'Brien



Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  Igor Teaforay



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Most famous in O’Brien’s oeuvre is the following episode: “What Was It?” In the original publication (which we have included), references to opium and a stark ending brooding with uncertainty enhanced the Gothic aesthetic. While those were redacted in the secondary, more widely published, Victorian version of the tale (compare to the incorrigible censorship of Poe’s gruesome “Berenice”), all versions maintain a vigorous element of melancholy, otherworldliness, and mystery. As in “The Lost Room,” we are denied explanations and refused clarification. Unlike the tales thematic descendents – particularly H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man – there are no science fictional expositions to unwrap the grisly puzzle. The story invites comparisons to Machen’s The Great God Pan, Lovecraft’s “From Beyond,” and “The Music of Erich Zann,” Blackwood’s “The Willows,” and especially de Maupassant’s “The Horla,” and Bierce’s “The Damned Thing” (two direct descendents) – stories that wonder at the possibility that other worlds exist alongside ours, worlds terrifying, malignant, and awesome. Like Bierce’s compendium, “Strange Disappearances,” it reads like a newspaper clipping concerning a little-noticed, little-understood oddity which science has yet to explain. The weirdness of this writing style leaves the reader feeling insecure, confused, and vulnerable; we are used to clean-cut explanations, and while O’Brien’s withholding plot lost him the affection of critics in his own day, we may look back at his style as artistically brave and philosophically chilling. Summary by M. Grant Kellermeyer



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