Audiobooks narrated by Robin Reads

Rev James O'leary, Saint Patrick (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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“It is important that when you call, you are first completely sure to whom it is you are calling.” I think I can honestly say that, up until the point that it closed temporarily during the global pandemic, I’d had visited The Anchor pub for at least a single pint, virtually every night for the past 45 years. There were, of course, exceptions. In 1992, I had a smash in my car and had to spend a night in the hospital, and midway through 1986 I got married and spent my wedding day and night away from the place. I didn’t visit The Anchor on either of those days, though in the case of my wedding night, half the people who would otherwise have been in the pub joined me at my reception venue, so it was pretty much the same thing anyway.

Michael Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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The Woods By Little Brooke

We were in Nell’s the day I told them about the thing in the woods. It was broad daylight, and, in the daylight, I felt safe. Plus, I wasn’t alone, not then. Though I was only ten, small and, to my mind, vulnerable, I was surrounded by four, sensible, levelheaded, adults. Men. Men who, to me at least, seemed massive, solid, and unbeatable, like giants made of steel. These weren’t men who got scared. These were grown-up men, men who went to grown-up jobs and did grown-up man things like fixing cars and drinking coffee. Men who wore overalls and cussed and didn’t have time for things like fairy tales and stuff about the boogeyman. They were too busy doing men stuff, like fighting and swearing and drinking beer. They couldn’t be scared. Or so I thought.

Michael H Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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Alone With The Devil

¨As a linguist and historian, I’ve always been fascinated by words and phrases. I am particularly interested in how certain idioms and expressions come to be picked up, where they originated and what, if any, history lies behind their origins. It was this interest that led me in 2018 to consider writing a paper on the dialect, idioms, and aphorisms used by people in my hometown. It was also what led the kid known as Skit to spend a night ‘Alone with The Devil’. In the small rural town where I grew up, in the hills of Northern England, the phrase “Alone with the Devil” is a very common one. It's a quaint, if mildly sinister, little idiom that if you stick around town long enough, you’re almost certain to hear.¨

Michael Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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Preston's Attic

¨He was a Cambridge man and, having no other living relatives and few friends outside of those whom he could also count as colleagues, he spent much of the ink from his pen not expended upon notes and essays, corresponding with his ever loving and miraculously ever patient sibling. A sibling, who, for her part, had become somewhat accustomed to her brother’s habit of sharing his thoughts and musings in these interminable scrawlings. She, to her credit, maintained the habit of reading and responding to them in a timely fashion. Albeit whilst also maintaining the necessary habit of skim reading some of the more self-indulgent philosophical musings, of the type that this particular missive threatened to become.¨

Michael Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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Terror At Midnight

Michael Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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Dark Horrors

Michael Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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Rip Van Winkle: A Robin Reads Audiobook

Washington Irving (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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The Taking Of Teeth

Forced by accusations of fould play to exhume the body of a recently deceased man, a young detective finds something far worse than he expected. A collapsed jaw, tattered lips and leaking gums, an empty black cavern where once once the mouth had been, evidence that someone had attacked the body with pliers and stolen all of the teeth. In the Taking of Teeth Occult detective Erasmus Crane faces another terrifying case. and a race against time to prevent a murder. A case which will bring him face to face not only with a crazed mad man, but with the darker older forces that drive him.

Michael Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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Blood In The Milk

It is late in the Nineteenth Century and monsters stalk the narrow cobbled backstreets of a gaslit Victorian London. On the heath strange stories about the Bloofer Lady, whom Stoker's novel would reveal as Lucy Westenra, tempts the children with sweet delights, behind which lie the sharper points of fangs. Blood in the Milk is a gothic tale that explores the relationship between mothers and monsters, vampires and those other creatures who feed on the young in the dark.

Michael Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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Relics: Short Horror Story

Sometimes even love stories, have dark undercurrents. Sometimes it is the humans and their hideous wishes that are the real monsters. But that doesn't mean that the other monsters aren't watching. Relics is a modern fairy tale that mixes the struggle of PTSD, obsessive compulsion and body horror with the grimmer corners of European folklore, to make a potent mix that will leave your skin crawling.

Michael Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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Grandma El: A Short Horror Story

Sometimes monsters do not live in the dark places, like under the bed or at the edge of the forest. Sometimes they live in normal houses and look just like us. Sometimes those monsters act like us too. Until someone chooses to cross them. Grandma El is a story of witchcraft, loyalty, and urban folklore that will make the reader wonder just how close to home the dark things really are.

Michael Van Der Voort (Author), Robin Reads (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Robin Reads