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An enchanting collection of classic stories and rhymes for younger listeners. Warning - you may be tempted to stay up all night listening!

The Listener' First, it was a strange array of cats, then an increasingly mysterious, and then terrifying increase in...happenstances and...appearances... 'Number Thirteen' Unlucky for some this room is...on a visit to a Denmark with an ancient presence... 'The Horla' Yes, I believed, that an invisible being lived beneath my roof. How weak our head is, and how quickly it is terrified and goes astray, we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers. 'The Beast with Five Fingers' With murderous vengeance, the beast pursues the two friends. Will secrecy, intense surveillance and...

Take your first steps into the adrenaline-fuelled fiction of the 41st millennium with a thrilling collection of tales, including an action-packed novella pitting noble Ultramarines against sinister necrons. Whether you're dipping a toe into the galaxy of Warhammer 40,000 or are a hardened veteran of the universe, this anthology is the perfect way to discover the many factions of the games in action-packed tales.

Die Hörbuchbox "Werde dein hellstes Selbst" aus der "Bibliothek Europa" präsentiert Meisterwerke der Literatur und Philosophie in großer Vielfalt der Genres, Themen und Epochen, jeweils mit einer kurzen Erläuterung eingeleitet vom Herausgeber Sven Görtz.

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Die Regentrude" (Storm), "Der Stern über dem Walde" (Zweig), "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts" (Eichendorff), "Die Begegnung" (de Maupassant), "Die Apothekerin" (Tschechow), "Die Tatsachen im Falle Waldemar" (Poe), "Der Großinquisitor" (Dostojevski), "Der Lohn der Liebe" (Boccaccio), "Die Meuterei auf der Bounty" (Verne), "Das Flaschenteufelchen" (Stevenson).

Bringing conversations that take place backstage to front of house. Robert talks with a wide range of people from across the classical music world.

Most everyone has been broken, at one time or another. My goal is to help you put the pieces back together and become whole. “Recovery is a life long process. Recovery is not a destination, recovery is a journey.”-Robert Pardon

An excellent collection of creepy ghost stories from some of the most notable names of early horror fiction, including: “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood, “The Shadows On The Wall” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “The Messenger” by Robert W.Chambers, “Lazarus” by Leonid Andreyev, “The Beast With Five Fingers” by W.F. Harvey, “The Mass Of Shadows” by Anatole France, “What Was It” by Fitz-James O’brien, “The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot” by Ambrose Bierce, “The Shell Of Sense” by Olivia Howard Dunbar, and more!

Mysteries come in all sorts, and this collection of seven short stories covers many of them. From the classic detective Sherlock Holmes to the supernatural-refuting Detective Bell, from invisible creatures invading Paris to true crime investigations.

Ten classic short stories from the quills of great bird-loving authors.

A delightful collection of classic poems that will delight young and old alike, including: "How Beauty Contrived to Get Square with the Beast" by Guy Wetmore Carryl, "How Little Red Riding Hood Contrived to Be Eaten" by Guy Wetmore Carryl, "How Rudeness and Kindness Were Justly Rewarded" by Guy Wetmore Carryl, "If No One Ever Marries Me" by Lawrence Alma TademaI’m, "Nobody, Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson, "Lochinvar" by Sir Walter Scott, "The Akond of Swat" by Edward Lear, and more.

A terrifying collection of classic werewolf stories, ranging from ancient legends to Victorian and Edwardian adaptations on the theme. •Gabriel-Ernest by Saki •The Wolf by Guy de Maupassant •The Werewolf by Eugene Field •The Other Side by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock •The Werewolves by Henry Beaugrand •Jean Grenier the French Werewolf by Sabine Baring-Gould •The Man-Wolf by Leitch Ritchie •The She-Wolf by Saki •The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling

A wonderful collection of classic stories on the theme of love. A must-listen for the incurable romantic.

El miedo es una de las sensaciones más intensas que puede sentir el hombre. Desde las épocas más remotas, las historias de terror le permitieron poner bajo control sus emociones más profundas. Situaciones que sobrepasan las leyes naturales, fenómenos desconocidos, fuerzas ocultas, seres imaginarios o reales, pero siempre enigmáticos, siempre monstruosos. Porque la incertidumbre es atractiva, el relato de horror genera nuevos sentimientos, y devela luces allí donde sólo habitan las sombras.

The screams...the grisly sound effects...the rumbling organ music. Sounds in the dark come strange, mysterious, and terrifying in 21 episodes of such classic series as Lights Out, Inner Sanctum, Suspense, and many more. Spine-chilling tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Arch Oboler, Robert A. Arthur, David Kogan, and Alonzo Deen Cole dabble in dark realms. Boris Karloff, Maurice Tarplin, Paul McGrath, and Bernard Lenrow deliver pulse-pounding performances.

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is of the best "macabre" tales ever written. It is presented here in its entirety along with eight other incredible tales.

Tauche ein in die dunklen Abgründe der Literatur – mit unheimlichen, fesselnden und meisterhaft erzählten Geschichten aus der Welt des Grauens. Diese Hörbuch-Compilation vereint Klassiker der Horrorliteratur, schaurige Novellen, gespenstische Kurzgeschichten und unheimliche Begebenheiten – gelesen von Jürgen Fritsche, Sven Görtz und Tim Eriksson. Von Edgar Allan Poe bis H. P. Lovecraft, von Guy de Maupassant bis Stefan Zweig, von E. T. A. Hoffmann bis Robert Louis Stevenson – die größten Autoren des Schreckens und der düsteren Fantasie sind vertreten.

Have you ever felt like you're not being listened to? That you're quiet? Or that you have amazing ideas that you struggle to articulate to others? I'm Guy Roberts, and here we explore the quiet superpowers of communication. I grew up without ever saying much. It took me a long time to "find my voice". Communication is the single most important skill you can learn in your life. And yes, it can be learnt. In each episode, we break down a topic or aspect of communication skills, to help you on your own journey to creating more meaningful connections with others, building self-confidence, and ...

Schauer, Spannung und Schwarze Romantik, Vol. 2: 10 weitere spannende Meisterwerke der klassischen Literatur. Von der schwarzen Romantik eines Edgar Allan Poe und Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mystery von Robert Louis Stevenson und Washington Irving, Grusel von Guy de Maupassant und Rudyard Kipling bis hin zur Spannung à la Jack London und H.P. Lovecraft! Mit dabei: 1. Der Untergang des Hauses Usher (Poe, Track 1), 2. Der junge Goodman Brown (Hawthorne, Track 2), 3. Das Flaschenteufelchen (Stevenson, Track 3–4), 4. Das Fräulein von Scuderi (Hoffmann, Track 5–7), 5. Blutrache (Maupassant, Track 8), 6.