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By Charlotte Riddell, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, W W Jacobs, M R James, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Sheridan Le Fanu, Amy Levy, Alfred Lichtenstein, H. P. Lovecraft, Niccolò Machiavelli, Charlotte Mew, Edward Page Mitchell, Jan Neruda, Edith Nesbit, Margaret Oliphant, Edgar Allan Poe, John Willaim Polidori, Ernst Raupach, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Louisa May Alcott, Leonid Andreyev, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell

Unabridged — 10 hours, 12 minutes

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Overview

An author's talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.

But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?

Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twi...