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Featuring work by M. R. James, Edith Nesbit, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Atherton and many more, this enhanced audio collection of eight enduring stories - some well-known, others less familiar - transport you to a candlelit fireside to hear tales of lonely coastlines, deadly rivers, dark, creaking corridors, horrific, everlasting love and unknown entities lurking in black velvet shadows.

Delve into the eerie world of Perceval Landon, a journalist and master of short fiction, as he weaves two captivating supernatural tales. In ‚òRailhead‚, an urgent message arrives through an out-of-service telegraph, leading to unsettling revelations. Meanwhile, ‚òThurnley Abbey‚ reveals that the abbeys haunting history may be closer than its inhabitants realize. Please note that these stories, originally published in 1908, reflect the contemporary views of their time regarding race and violence. As per Librivox policy, the original text remains unchanged. - Summary by ...

In India, Colvin used to be friends with an Englishman named Broughton. They both moved back to England, where Broughton settled down, married and moved into Thurnley Abbey, an ancient manor that was rumoured to be haunted. These rumours were fed by the previous owner, who hated people. Broughton doesn’t fully believe in the ghost, and even if it exists, he seems unworried.