Barry Pain
Short Story Collection Vol. 059
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LibriVox readers bring you 20 short stories including lesser known works by Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe, an ear…
Stories in the Dark
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This is a collection of some of Barry Pain's finest horror stories and weird fiction. - Summary by Carolin
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 034
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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…
An Exchange of Souls
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Although only lightly known as an author of horror stories, Barry Pain departs from his typical themes with 'An Exchange of Souls'. In this …
Marge Askinforit
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A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…
Eliza
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A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…
The Octave of Claudius
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One night, Dr. Gabriel Lamb saves the life of Claudius Sandell. He takes him home and treats him excellently, nursing him back to health. Ho…
Stories in Grey
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This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain. Pain was well-known in his time for his supernatural and horror stories. This collectio…
The Problem Club
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The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathem…
The Times' Red Cross Story Book By Famous Novelists Serving In His Majesty's Fo…
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These eighteen stories were published in 1915, in the midst of World War I. "Published For The Times' Fund For The Sick And Wounded&qu…
Here and Hereafter
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This is a collection of stories by Barry Pain. While not all of these fall squarely into the genre of ghost and horror story, for which the …
Stories without Tears
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This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain, first published in 1914. While generally best-known for his horror and supernatural fic…
If Winter Don't
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Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'.We follow the professional and marital decl…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 070
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This year's Halloween edition of Ghost and Horror Collection features 15 stories of a wide variety in length as in content! Short and long s…
Three Dialogues
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Barry Pain is today best known for his ghost and horror stories, but he could also write some excellent social satire. This series of three …
Short Poetry Collection 229
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This is a collection of 31 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2022.
The Shadow of the Unseen
Read by Andy Sames
A supernatural melodrama, set in the Fens and Marshlands of Cambridgeshire, which draws upon the traditional folklore of witchcraft. Linda P…