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Audiobooks Narrated by Tony Walker
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"London has been accumulating its dead for two thousand years. These are their stories.
This collection brings together twenty of the finest ghost stories set in the capital, drawn from the Victorian and Edwardian periods and selected by Tony Walker, narrator of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast. The authors gathered here represent the best of their age: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Riddell, Algernon Blackwood, M R James, E F Benson, H G Wells, and others whose names are synonymous with the supernatural tale at its height.
The streets, squares, and buildings in these pages are real. A surgeon walks home through Soho on a winter night. Something stirs in a house on Vauxhall Walk. A man keeps a strange appointment in a part of the city that looks, on the surface, entirely ordinary. London has always been this way — layered, ancient, and not quite done with its past — and these writers knew it.
Tony Walker's introduction sets the stories in context, and each story carries a note on its publication history. Whether you are visiting London for the first time, have lived here all your life, or simply carry the city in your imagination, this is a book to read after dark, when the streets outside are quiet and the old town is doing what it has always done."
"London's older inhabitants are still there, but the luckiest people never see them.
For those who do notice, they keep a bookshop in Bloomsbury that's only there sometimes. They run a frost fair on the frozen Thames. They live in the cellar of a Wapping pub and in the soot-filled flues of a Blackheath Victorian terrace and in the dark water under the Regent's Canal.
It's fair to say that they take an interest in the living — in writers who have run out of ideas, journalists who have run out of stories, publicans who want a little more than the brewery can offer, couples whose compassion isn't what it seems. And they are entirely, by nature, unmoved by human suffering.
The London Fae is a novel in stories — a mythopoetic portrait of a city haunted not by the benign and whimsical but by forces that are ancient, exacting, and without mercy. The bargains in these stories are real. The blood debts accrue. The reckonings, when they come, are calibrated precisely to the particular way each person chose not to be honest with themselves.
Spindledrift Goodfellow keeps his books. Jenny Greenteeth keeps her canal. Ned Ludd haunts the underground railway. Queen Mab keeps her theatre of forgetting, and does not care in the least what the tickets cost her audience.
Only at the city's stone heart does something stranger and more ambiguous stir — something that, for those paying attention, might bring something closer to hope.
Dark, funny, and rooted in genuine scholarship, The London Fae asks what it would mean to live in a city where we still owe the old ones their due, and whether any of us are honest enough to settle our account."
"In a London street he doesn't quite recognise, Alec Fraser — failed writer, widower, man of careful performances — finds a bookshop that shouldn't exist, a tearoom that wasn't there yesterday, and a pale stranger with violet eyes who introduces the four women at his table as his daughters. You might know who this man is. But Alec doesn't. What follows is a moral tale of haunting and bargains and the ancient mischief of the London Fae.
The Haunted Bookshop is the longest story in Tony Walker's The London Fae collection — a sequence of supernatural tales set in a London older and stranger than the one on the maps. Other stories in the series include The Silent Folk, The Frost Fair, and Thames Halloween Dark Ale, with The London Stone and The Crow in the Chimney still to come."
"They say the veil between this world and the next is thin in certain places. In Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan, a single “experiment” in a quiet Welsh house tears that veil just wide enough for something ancient to look back.
Years later, in London’s drawing rooms and alleys, lives begin to come quietly undone: a woman no one really knows, a pattern no one wishes to name, a dread that never fully steps into the light. The unease lies not in what is shown, but in what the mind insists on supplying to fill the gaps.
It is a tale of curiosity without conscience, of a countryside and a city both touched by the same unseen presence, and of the lingering suspicion that the old gods were never as far away as we pretend.
First published in book form in 1894 by John Lane, London. Public domain text available via Project Gutenberg and other archives.
Arthur Machen (1863–1947) was a Welsh author whose strange tales helped shape modern horror and weird fiction. His work profoundly influenced writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, and later Stephen King."
"Sixteen supernatural stories set in the county of Cumbria. The collection includes classic ghost stories such as A West Cumberland Coalmine, modern horror stories such as The Derwentwater Haunting and The Highest Inn in England, stories based on local legends such as The Mallerstang Boggle and The Little Man of Carlisle, and some folk-horror themed stories such as The Grizedale Forest Wedding.
Tony Walker is the narrator of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast."
"More Cumbrian Ghost Stories brings you 16 ghost stories, horror stories, weird tales, and dark fairy tales set in the English county of Cumbria and the Lake District by Tony Walker, author of Cumbrian Ghost Stories and narrator of the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast.
From 'The Milk-White Child of Ravenglass' to 'A Brief Stop in Barrow in Furness', 'The Screaming Skulls of Calgarth', and 'The Dalston Vampire', not to mention the 'High Harrington Horror' and the 'Mole Catcher of Barbon', these stories dance around the county of Cumbria to horrify, scare, terrify, and also make you smile and even laugh a bit, depending on the tale.
For those who have enjoyed Cumbrian Ghost Stories, London Horror Stories, Haunted Castles, and Horror Stories for Halloween, this is more of the same from Tony Walker's inimitable style."
"Dive into the dark and alluring world of 19th-century Gothic literature with 'The Vampyre' by John Polidori, a timeless classic that continues to captivate readers over two centuries since its original publication in 1819. In this spine-chilling tale, the lines between the living and the undead blur as the enigmatic Lord Ruthven prowls through high society, his seductive charm concealing a sinister secret. Inspired by the scandalous exploits of his contemporary, Lord Byron, Polidori weaves a narrative brimming with intrigue, betrayal, and forbidden desires. As the boundaries of morality are tested and the shadows of the night grow longer, readers will be irresistibly drawn into a world where darkness reigns supreme and the price of immortality may be higher than one dares to imagine. 'The Vampyre' remains a haunting masterpiece that continues to cast its spell on generations of readers, offering a tantalizing glimpse into the eternal allure of the undead."
"In the shadow of World War II, in the heart of Yorkshire, Edward Smith, a diligent librarian, embarks on a unique cataloguing assignment at the secluded Hackthwaite Hall. The estate's owner, Dr. Lovegrove, a retired industrial chemist, reveals an unexpected obsession with the arcane art of alchemy, claiming to have conjured a supernatural creature of impossible powers.
Smith's initial amusement and skepticism dissolve as eerie phenomena begin to haunt the hall's ancient walls, and he finds himself drawn into the alchemist's wild tales. In this nexus where science and the occult intertwine, Edward must unravel the enigmatic secrets of 'The Poisoned Rose' before he becomes the next victim of its poisonous thorns.
'The Poisoned Rose' is a riveting supernatural mystery, set in the mid-1940s, brimming with unexpected twists and turns. Delve into the world of alchemy and the unexplained in this captivating novella that will keep you on the edge of your seat."
"The Great Old Ones are stirring. In the Virtual Reality Game Darkworlds, it's 1927 in Paris and something weird is happening in the Bois de Boulogne. Fresh from the terrors of London, Adam Harker is sent to play again and fathom the secrets of gameworld Paris. But this time, he's got something growing in his head."
"A tale of the New Forest in England where Mr and Mrs Bittacy settle after years abroad. A painter with a certain talent for painting trees awakens something in the old man and he takes to wandering deep in the forest. Mrs Bittacy with her strong, Christian values is appalled by the ancient woodland spirits that her husbands seems to seek out. She loves him and wants to protect him from the ancient force of the forest. But will her love and faith be enough? Algernon Blackwood was a man of many talents and is known still for his disturbing ghost and horror stories. The Man Whom The Trees Loved is one of his classics."
"In the real world, it’s 2027 and disgruntled, lone-wolf data analyst Adam Harker works for a corporation he hates.
In this dystopian future many seek to lose themselves in virtual reality games, but Adam is dead set against playing Darkworlds, designed by mega-corporation Miskatonic Games, until he's tempted by two quite different people for two wholly different reasons.
In the game, it's 1927 and Adam Harker is in London battling against the minions of Cthulhu, but then come hints and suggestions that something else stirs, something wicked and secret, something new, rising up and replicating itself within the code and taking on the form of ageless evil.
Hidden knowledge leads Adam through a series of terrifying revelations as he searches from London to Glastonbury and into the Dreamlands.
Join Adam as he fights to save his friends, and maybe even the world itself, from the horrors that lurk in the game."
"The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the while, his portrait ages and records every one of Dorian's sins."
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