Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 324382 Title: Leaden Ring Author: Sabine Baring-Gould Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:34:14 Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was a British writer, clergyman and member of the landed gentry, having inherited an estate of 3,000 acres. While a young curate, he met and fell in love with a beautiful 16-year-old mill worker. He paid for her education and married her, and they subsequently had 15 children. Their relationship formed the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, which was turned into the musical My Fair Lady. Baring-Gould's strangest and most enduring works are those which are based on fantastical medieval myths and folklore. 'The Leaden Ring' is the tale of a young woman persistently and cruelly haunted by the sinister ghost of a previous admirer who committed suicide when she refused his marriage proposal. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 324375 Title: Major Wilbraham Author: Hugh Walpole Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:38:06 Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. 'Major Wilbraham' is the extraordinary tale of a respectable ex-army officer whose mysterious death is shrouded in the greatest mystery of all. What could have led to Major Wilbraham to behave like that? Causing a scene on Piccadilly, staying out all night in Green Park with a street fighter and a prostitute, causing a fight at Covent Garden Market in which he was fatally injured.... Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 324386 Title: Red-Haired Girl Author: Sabine Baring-Gould Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:29:46 Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was a British writer, clergyman and member of the landed gentry, having inherited an estate of 3,000 acres. While a young curate, he met and fell in love with a beautiful 16-year-old mill worker. He paid for her education and married her, and they subsequently had 15 children. Their relationship formed the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, which was turned into the musical My Fair Lady. Baring-Gould's strangest and most enduring works are those which are based on fantastical medieval myths and folklore. 'The Red-Haired Girl' is a ghost story about an eerie and ominous servant girl who stalks the house, watching its inhabitants malevolently. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 324378 Title: Presentiments Author: P. C. Wren Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:31:39 Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer of adventure fiction mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. 'Presentiments' is the story of a legionnaire who knows he will be killed the following day but does not want to die without telling somebody about a set of terrible events which occurred in his childhood and which have overshadowed his life. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 324387 Title: Torture Author: Arthur Machen Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:09:21 Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. 'Torture' is a horror story about a schoolboy with a dangerous secret fantasy. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 324384 Title: Mahatma's Story Author: May Sinclair Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:30:30 Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: May Sinclair was the nom de plume of Mary Amelia St. Clair (1863-1946), a British writer of novels, short stories and poetry and an active suffragette and spiritualist. 'The Mahatma's Story' is a strange supernatural story about an oriental magician who switches the memories of two couples, with bizarre results. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 324371 Title: Double Return Author: Arthur Machen Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:08:15 Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. 'A Double Return' is a classic doppelganger tale. A successful artist, Hallswell, is returning by train from a painting trip in the southwest of England. As the down train passes him at a junction, he imagines he catches a glimpse of his own face in the train rushing past his window. When he reaches home, a strange and sinister mystery awaits him.... Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 324385 Title: Other Sense Author: J. S. Fletcher Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:28:30 Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story. 'The Other Sense' is the story of a young man, Angus MacIntyre, whose ability to see phenomena - ghosts in particular - which other people cannot has caused his guardian to think he is insane and send him to stay with Dr. Schreiber, who is specialised in mental disorders. While there, Angus begins to see the spectre of a pale young man who appears to be seeking something in the doctor's house and garden. Together with the doctor, Angus sets out to solve the mystery. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320867 Title: Bohemian Bag Author: F. Anstey Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:10:06 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934) was an English novelist and journalist who wrote his comic novels and humorous short stories under the pseudonym F. Anstey. 'A Bohemian Bag' is the story of a piece of luggage with a perverse mind of its own. The Gladstone bag in question goes on its own travels every time it is left in the care of a railway porter or station master...usually catching up with its hapless owner only days later. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320868 Title: New Cook Author: Neil Munro Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:13:24 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: "Neil Munro (1863-1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author, and literary critic who is now mainly known for his humorous short stories. ""A New Cook"" is one of Munro's hilarious tales of Para Handy, Sunny Jim and the rest of the crew of the Vital Spark. The ship is welcoming a new cook whose talents include dancing, melodian playing, practical joking... but sadly not culinary skill. " Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320869 Title: Drug Author: Aleister Crowley Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:19:48 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Edward Alexander Crowley (1875-1947) was a British writer, poet, magician and follower of the occult who wrote under the name Aleister Crowley. His works scandalised Victorian England with their diabolical and deviantly sexual themes. 'The Drug' is the story of a man who accepts a strange drug from an alchemist and goes on a terrifying psychic trip. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320878 Title: Miggles Author: Francis Bret Harte Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:28:36 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: "Francis Bret Harte (1839 - 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short stories set against the background of the California gold rush. He himself set off at the age of fifteen to become a gold miner, and absorbed the rough atmosphere of the mining camps, which he used as a setting against which the interplay of human emotions stands out poignently. ""Miggles"" is an outstanding example of his humorously tender style which made his stories so popular. " Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320876 Title: At a Moment's Notice Author: F. Anstey Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 01:09:34 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: "Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934) was an English novelist and journalist who wrote his comic novels and humorous short stories under the pseudonym F. Anstey. "At a Moment's Notice" is the amusing tale of a young man who is involved in a cab accident on Pall Mall. When he comes to after the crash, he has mysteriously been transformed into an organ grinder's monkey. His adventures in his new simean state are extraordinary and hilarious. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320873 Title: Puzzler Author: Rudyard Kipling Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:33:48 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. "The Puzzler" is a humorous tale of a young man who is trying to engineer a meeting with an influential law lord who he hopes will support him with a great business idea. A fortuitous chance means he happens on the law lord while he is conducting a light-hearted experiment with a group of old school friends. They are attempting to see whether a monkey can climb an araucaria (monkey puzzle) tree. The experiment ends in farce as the monkey escapes and gets into the house... exactly at the moment when the owners of the house appear. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320870 Title: Lamplighter Author: Charles Dickens Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:46:28 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Charles Dickens' brilliant comic adventure of a lamplighter, Tom Grig, who is called into the house of an eccentric astronomer who is searching for the philosopher's stone. He declares that the stars have foretold that Tom will marry the astronomer's niece and inherit the secret of the philosopher's stone which will make him the richest man on earth. Unfortunately this good fortune will be time-limited, as the stars have also forecast Tom's death in exactly two months. But the niece, the astronomer's son and daughter, together with their maid and the laboratory assistant all have other ideas... with hilarious consequences. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320874 Title: Violinist Author: Aleister Crowley Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:07:28 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Edward Alexander Crowley (1875-1947), who wrote under the name Aleister Crowley, was a British occultist, magician, writer and poet. He shocked Victorian Britain with his stories and novels of diabolical magic and deviant sexuality which pushed far beyond the acceptable boundaries of the day. 'The Violinist' is a terrifyingly erotic and wicked tale of a female violinist whose wild fiddle playing is filled with sexuality and pure evil, with the power to raise demons and commit murder. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320875 Title: Vixen Author: Aleister Crowley Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:09:14 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Edward Alexander Crowley (1875-1947) was a British occultist and writer who wrote as Aleister Crowley. His stories and novels shocked Victorian England with their focus on demonic magic and sexual deviance. The Vixen is a traditional werewolf story but with Crowley's typical cruel and savage erotic twist on the classic theme. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320872 Title: Photograph Author: A. J. Alan Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:09:15 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: A. J. Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert (1883-1941), an English magician, intelligence officer, short story writer and radio broadcaster. He was hugely popular in the '20s and '30s for his radio broadcasts, when he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening dress. 'The Photograph' is a short story about a photographer who is hired to take pictures of an old historical house. When the negatives are developed, there are some strange and very eerie images on the film.... Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320879 Title: Number Fifty-Six Author: Stephen Leacock Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:15:46 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: "Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (1869 - 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. ""Number Fifty-Six"" is a humorous tale of a Chinese laundryman who gets to know his clients through their laundry habits. He is able to infer much from the state of the various shirts, handkerchiefs, waistcoats etc. which are delivered to him for washing. Of all his clients he is most fascinated by number fifty-six... a man with strangely fluctuating shirt habits. And then one fateful day, a dreadful set of laundry is delivered to him..." Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 320871 Title: Magic H's Author: F. Anstey Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 00:34:57 Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934) was an English novelist and journalist who wrote his comic novels and humorous short stories under the pseudonym F. Anstey. 'The Magic H's' is a humorous tale of a young, rich, eligible and attractive young aristocrat: Harald Hipperholme. Tragically, the young man suffers a speech impediment - he is unable to pronounce the letter H - which in polite London society amounts to social death. The young earl sounds more like a Cockney without his H's. He resorts in the first place to elocution lessons but with no success. Then he tries black magic and conjures up a demon who agrees to help him. But of course there is a terrible catch to the deal.... Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com