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by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
In Sir Edmund Orme
Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…

Lochinvárovič

by Richard Hughes Read by Ben Tucker 3.5
In A Moment of Time
British author Richard Hughes is perhaps most well-known for his sea-faring adventure novel A High Wind in Jamaica, but a dive into his shor…

Lubrietta

by Edmund Gill Swain Read by Peter Yearsley 4.5
In The Stoneground Ghost Tales, Version 2
A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by the fens in East Anglia. The author was an associate of Montague Rhodes James, …

2 - Part 2

by Washington Irving Read by Phil Chenevert 4.8
In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (version 3)
Everyone knows the story of the Headless Horseman but perhaps you, like me, did not remember what a marvelous story teller Washington Irving…

Gothic

by Aldous Huxley Read by Jack Watson Warr
In Leda
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is…

A Thousand-Dollar Job, by Richard Barker Shelton

by Various 4.5
In Black Cat Vol. 06 No. 07 April 1901
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

Preface

by Various 4.8
In Dreamland and Ghostland
This collection of accounts and short stories of a ghostly nature was originally published in 3 volumes. The subtitle of this compilation ni…

Railhead

by Perceval Landon Read by Newgatenovelist 4.7
In Two Supernatural Stories
Perceval Landon was a journalist and short story author, and in these two tales he explored the supernatural. In ‘Railhead’, a man receives …

Lubrietta

by Edmund Gill Swain Read by Kathrine Engan 4.2
In The Stoneground Ghost Tales
The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country…

Kerfol, Part III

by Edith Wharton Read by Winnifred Assmann 4.2
In The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One
Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door…

Preface

by Andrew Lang Read by Gloria Loughry 3.5
In The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang is a book mainly focused on the stories of ghosts and other mystical phenomenon. With frequent …

Soldier Folk

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Peter Yearsley 4.5
In Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Part 1: Chapters 1-5

by Anton Chekhov Read by Daniel Davison 4.4
In The Black Monk
Aspiring academic Andrei Kovrin, while summering in the countryside per the advice of a physician, is haunted by the apparition of a black m…

Grotesques

by Cloyd Head Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
In One-Act Play Collection 007
LibriVox’s One-Act Play Collection 007 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.Project BC: Michele…

Author's Note

by Joseph Conrad Read by Peter Dann 4
In Typhoon and Other Stories
An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…

Medallion's Whim

by Gilbert Parker Read by Michele Fry 4.2
In The Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac
This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting i…

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