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Enter a world of secrets, passions, strange visitations, unhappy marriages, daring women, and lives lived just beyond the boundaries of respectability.The Florence Marryat Library presents the works of Florence Marryat in full, inviting a new generation of listeners into the vivid and often unsettling imagination of one of the Victorian era’s most fascinating novelists. Here are tales of love and jealousy, disguise and scandal, restless spirits and forbidden desires. Stories in which nothing is ever quite so respectable, or so easily explained, as it first appears.Draw the curtains, settle ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Enter a haunting Victorian London filled with dark secrets and occult obsession. Signor Ricardo, a refined Italian language professor and political refugee living in Soho, harbors a dark past: consumed by jealousy, he murdered his unfaithful wife...

A determined and strong-minded young lady plagues Sigismund Braggett for his professional attention and friendship - then becomes very put out when he refuses to introduce her to his wife. Even her untimely death seems to be no obstacle to her intent. The Ghost of Charlotte Cray is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known. With music by Benedict Edwards.

Step into the haunting world of Blood of the Vampire, a captivating Gothic novel that invites comparisons to Bram Stokers Dracula and Le Fanus Carmilla. Meet Harriet, a vampire who grapples with her unintentional killings as she seeks to find her place within the confines of a Victorian convent. This thought-provoking tale explores themes of eugenics, race, and class, offering a fresh perspective on vampirism as a medical affliction rather than a mere supernatural curse. Join us as we delve into Harriets journey of integration and self-discovery, narrated by Lynne T.