Audiobooks by Herbert C Ridout

The Freezing of London

"Herbert Currington Ridout was born in 1881. His literary life included being a journalist, editor, and short story writer although he also had various jobs in the music business and was later a radio broadcaster on the BBCHe died in 1948."

Herbert C Ridout (Author), Mark Rice-Oxley (Narrator)

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The Foundations of Fiction - Mad Scientists

"In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving. Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues. In literary terms it seems you are never more than half a dozen stories away from a mad scientist. True or not it’s a given that they are amongst the most entertaining of protagonists and one of the go-to characters for authors down the ages. In this volume we explore everything from the seemingly plausible to the obviously mad-cap and, of course, each narrative is driven by a character full of ideas but missing a button or two of common sense.01 - Foundations of Fiction - Mad Scientists - An Introduction2 - Herbert West - Re-Animator by H P Lovecraft3 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson4 - The Facts in the Case of Monsieur Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe5 - Doctor Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne6 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley7 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London8 - A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce9 - Carnivorine by Lucy Hamilton Hooper10 - Lost Hearts by M R James11 - The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne12 - The Blue Laboratory by L T Meade13 - The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell14 - The Moaning Lily by Emma Vane15 - The Love Germ by Constance Cotterell16 - Cool Air by H P Lovecraft17 - The Freezing of London by Herbert C Ridout18 - Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne"

Ambrose Bierce, Constance Cotterell, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Page Mitchell, Emma Vane, H.P. Lovecraft, Herbert C Ridout, Jack London, L. T. Meade, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, M.R. James, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker, Robert Maskell (Narrator)

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Catastrophe - A Short Story Collection

"'The End of the World is Nigh' has been seen, heard and quoted ad infinitum all of our lives. In the comfort zone of our own arrogance and the resources that we humans have at our disposal it seems we are both inviolable and invincible. All is safe. We are in control. But Nature has a way of sending earthquakes, eruptions, fires and flood, and much else besides, at the most inopportune times and, in these more modern days, with increasing frequency and extremes. In this volume our classic authors conjure up all sorts of damnations and destructions in literary assaults testing our will to survive and our ingenuity to overcome situations where the outlook is bleak at best and the total extinction of us at worse. 1 - Catastrophe - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - The Unparallelled Invasion by Jack London 3 - The Freezing of London by Herbert C Ridout 4 - London's Danger by C J Cutcliffe Hyne 5 - Into the Sun by Robert Duncan Milne 6 - The Cloud-Men by Owen Oliver 7 - The Dust of Death by Fred M White 8 - The End of the World by Simon Newcomb 9 - Within An Ace of the End of the World by Robert Barr 10 - The World's Last Cataclysm by Robert Duncan Milne"

C J Cutcliffe Hyne, Fred M White, Herbert C Ridout, Jack London, Owen Oliver, Robert Barr, Robert Duncan Milne, Simon Newcomb (Author), Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley (Narrator)

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Inventions - A Short Story Collection

"The human mind has many amazing characteristics. It is logical and creative and able to make great leaps of imagination and turn many of its ideas into physical reality. In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and delightful. 1 - Inventions - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3 - Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce 4 - Those Who Wait by Ethel Dell 5 - The Freezing of London by Herbert C Ridout 6 - The Voice of God by Winifred Holtby 7 - The Tachypomp by Edward Page Mitchell 8 - A Tale of Negative Gravity by Frank R Stockton 9 - The Eidoloscope by Robert Duncan Milne 10 - Bullet-Proof by Bernard Capes"

Ambrose Bierce, Bernard Capes, Edward Page Mitchell, Ethel Dell, Frank R Stockton, Herbert C Ridout, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Duncan Milne, Winifred Holt (Author), Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Eric Meyers (Narrator)

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