Mystery, Thriller & Horror Audiobooks

Considered to the be one of most influential American authors, Howard Philip Lovecraft is synonymous with some of the best fantasy and horror fiction of the 20th century, second only to Edgar Allan Poe. Innsmouth is a dilapidated seaside town with secrets as a hybrid race of half-human and half-amphibian creatures worship the gods of Cthulhu and Dagon... Written in 1931, and published by the Visionary Publishing Company some five years later. "It's a genre blessed with many great stylists, H.P.Lovecraft's baroque imagination and outrageous use of language still manages to stand head and shoulders above the rest. A timeless master of the macabre and the true connoisseur of dread". Michael Marshall-Smith.

HP Lovecraft (Author), Phil Reynolds (Narrator)

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The Clockwork Woman

Synopsis: Honoré and Emily find themselves imprisoned in the 19th Century by a celebrated inventor ... but help comes from an unexpected source - a humanoid automaton created by, and to give pleasure to, its owner. As the trio escape to London, they are unprepared for what awaits them, and at every turn it seems impossible to avert what fate may have in store for the Clockwork Woman. Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction... original adventures in time and space. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Claire Bott is a journalist, currently working full time as a staff writer on Publishing News magazine. She used to be a performance poet, before realising there was no money in it and opting to be a hack instead. She quickly found out there was no money in journalism either, but by then she was hooked and it was too late. She wrote for The Independent, Men's Health and Comics International before settling down at Publishing News. The Clockwork Woman is her first book. ABOUT THE READER: Tracey has just finished a sell-out run playing Martha to Matthew Kelly's George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at London's Trafalgar Studios. Tracey is best known for playing Lynne Howard in the popular eighties drama Howards' Way, and Linda Cosgrove in the long running Born and Bred. Theatre credits include The New Vic's production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Great Gatsby, Sybil in Private Lives, Stepping Out, No Sex Please, We're British, Why Me?, The Hollow and The Unexpected Guest. Television work includes Prometheus, playing Rose in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Devil's Crown, The Amazing Affair of Adelaide Harris, Strangers, Landseer- Working Out The Beast, playing Marianne in Sense and Sensibility, Bergerac, Jane Eyre, Captain Zep, A Talent for Murder, As Seen on TV and Dempsey and Makepeace.

Claire Bott (Author), Tracey Childs (Narrator)

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The Winning Side

The Winning Side: Time Hunter. Emily is dead! Killed by an unknown assailant. Honore Lechasseur is called to identify the body, but who should arrive there as well, but Emily! Honore and Emily find themselves caught up in a plot reaching from the future to their past, and with their very existence, not to mention the future of the entire world, at stake, can they unravel the mystery before it's too late?

Lance Parkin (Author), Louise Jameson (Narrator)

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The Cabinet of Light

Synopsis: Honoré Lechasseur, a "fixer" with time-sensitive abilities, is hired by Emily Blandish to find someone known only as Doctor Smith. He soon discovers that Doctor Smith is a legendary figure that has drifted in and out of Earth's history. As he follows the trail of Doctor Smith, questions arise: what is the Doctor's connection with 1949 London and with the mysterious "cabinet of light" that another group is seeking? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Daniel O'Mahony has written a number of original and Doctor Who novels including 'Falls the Shadow' (Virgin, 1994), 'The Man in the Velvet Mask' (Virgin, 1996), 'Force Majeure' (Telos, 2007), 'Newton's Sleep' (Random Static, 2008) as well as three audio dramas for Big Finish productions including 'Return to the Web Planet' (2007). ABOUT THE READER: Terry Molloy is an experience radio and television actor. Most notably he is best known as Mike Tucker in BBC Radio 4's 'The Archers', while on television he played the Doctor's evil nemesis Davros during the 1980s! He has also recently appeared on BBC 7 in the role of Professor Edward Dunning in 'The Scarifyers' produced by Cosmic Hobo Productions.

Daniel O'Mahoney (Author), Terry Molloy (Narrator)

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MR James: Tales Of The Supernatural

M R James is widely regarded as THE master of the ghost story. His stories abound with spectres skulking in the shrubbery, in shadowy corners and dark recesses. The Mezzotint is a whimsical and apparently supernatural tale of art on the move, a dying man devises a gruesome plan for testing his heirs in The Tractate Middoth, and something lurking under the bedclothes in Rats. These stories are read for you by Garard Green, who has worked extensively for the BBC and voiced more than 900 film and documentaries, and Richard Mitchley who has worked in theatres throughout Britain as well as the BBC and ITV and his own Mayfly Theatre company.

M. R. James, M.R. James (Author), Gareth David-Lloyd, Ian Fairbairn, Phil Reynolds (Narrator)

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Dark

Tormented by the spirit of her dead husband - Virginia Preston seeks help from a young medium Simon Elliot. But as questions commence and the investigation begins; Simon uncovers the real truth behind the events leading up to the murder of her younger lover and the execution of her husband, in this intense psychological paranormal thriller from Victor Pemberton.

Victor Pemberton (Author), James McNicholas, Judith Paris, Tracey Childs (Narrator)

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Night Of The Wolf

Synopsis: Refusing to believe that his son is dead, Judge Mathew Deacon travels across the Atlantic to Cambridge to search for evidence of his son's fate. However when his enquiries take him to the isolated homestead of the Northcotts, he discovers the real circumstances behind his son's sudden disappearance - and the secrets which have permeated the Northcott family for generations. THE CAST - Matthew Deacon: Neil Summerville - Mrs Northcott: Fenella Fielding - Prof. Forrester: Ian Brooker - Nicholas: Daniel King - Sybil: Kiki Kendrik - Griffin: Luke Harris - Dorothy: Laura James. Directed & Produced by Dexter O'Neill. http://www.victorpemberton.com/radio 'NIGHT OF THE WOLF' (1984) - An original ninety minute gothic horror play about a werewolf on the loose in the Fenlands of East Anglia. Originally commissioned as a starring vehicle for the American film actor, James Stewart, but eventually starring Vincent Price and his wife Coral Browne. For SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE, and subsequent BBC audio tape.

Victor Pemberton (Author), Daniel King, Fenella Fielding, Ian Brooker, Neil Summerville (Narrator)

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The Severed Man

What links a clutch of sinister murders in Victorian London, an angel appearing in a Staffordshire village in the 1920s and a small boy running loose around the capital in 1950? When Honoré and Emily encounter a man who appears to have been cut out of time, they think they have the answer. But soon enough they discover that the mystery is only just beginning and that nightmares can turn into reality. Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction... original adventures in time and space.

George Mann (Author), Terry Molloy (Narrator)

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The Tunnel at the End of the Light

Synopsis: In the heart of post-war London, a bomb is discovered lodged at a disused station between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner. The bomb detonates, and as the dust clears, it becomes apparent that something has been awakened. Strange half-human creatures attack the workers at the site, hungrily searching for anything containing sugar . . . Meanwhile, Honoré and Emily are contacted by eccentric poet Randolph Crest, who believes himself to be the target of these subterranean creatures. The ensuing investigation brings Honoré and Emily up against a terrifying force from deep beneath the earth, and one which even with their combined powers, they may have trouble stopping. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stefan Petrucha has been a professional writer of comics, novels and scripts for well over a decade. His first vampire novel, Dark Ages: Assamite is just being reprinted, having attracted rave reviews and quickly selling out its first print run. Petrucha is the writer and creator of such comic book characters as Squalor, Meta-4, Counterparts and The Bandy Man. He has also scripted over a hundred comic book adventures for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck for Egmont Publishing in Denmark, which have been published in more than thirty-five languages. He currently writes dark fantasy novels for White Wolf Publishing and comic books for Moonstone Books and his latest comic, Kolchak: Devil in the Details, is already being hailed as a classic in the series. www.petrucha.com ABOUT THE READER: Mary Tamm graduated from RADA, and made her television debut in the series The Donati Conspracy. Her early television credits include Coronation Street, Public Eye and Return Of The Saint, and on film she appeared in The Likely Lads and The Odessa File, before being cast as the icy Time Lady companion Romana, opposite Tom Baker, in Doctor Who. Since leaving the show Tamm's career has continued to flourish on stage and screen, encompassing such productions as Bergerac, Agatha Christie: Poirot, Heartbeat, Holby City, Jonathan Creek, Wire In The Blood and regular parts in both Brookside (as Penny Crosbie) and the BBC drama Paradise Heights. In 2009 the film Doghouse was released in which Mary stars alongside Danny Dyer and Noel Clark. www.marytamm.com.

Stefan Petrucha (Author), Mary Tamme (Narrator)

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Carmilla

Laura and her father live a quiet life in their remote castle in the dense forests Styria. It is a solitary existence for young Laura, who has no companionship except for her governess and the occasional visits of neighbouring gentry. Into this lonely life comes the mysterious house guest, Carmilla. Slowly Laura falls under Carmilla's spell. Whilst she is both attracted and repulsed by Carmilla, she seems unable to find the energy to resist her. A spate of sudden wasting deaths afflict the peasants in the countryside around the castle and Laura herself falls ill. Will they manage to work out the cause of her illness in time or will she just be the latest victim of the vampire Carmilla?

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Author), Tracey Childs (Narrator)

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MR James: Tales Of The Supernatural - Volume 1

M. R. James, M.R. James (Author), Gareth David-Lloyd, Geoffrey Bayldon, Ian Fairbairn (Narrator)

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Out Of Time

After an accident on his way home from school, seventeen year old Joe Harding is locked out of his house. A stranger, who appears to own Joe's house, warns him to escape. Huge bells on rooftops ring out and Joe is chased out of town by a band of citizens determined to kill him. He escapes, and after surviving alone in an England that is wild and uncultivated, joins a small band of young people in hiding. There he falls passionately in love with Kathryn. He is in a parallel world in which he wants to remain; but fate has other things in store for him...Out of Time' is passionate, violent, and it serves as a paradigm for out world and its present troubles.

Ruth Boswell (Author), Staten Elliot (Narrator)

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