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Featuring work by M. R. James, Edith Nesbit, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Atherton and many more, this enhanced audio collection of eight enduring stories - some well-known, others less familiar - transport you to a candlelit fireside to hear tales of lonely coastlines, deadly rivers, dark, creaking corridors, horrific, everlasting love and unknown entities lurking in black velvet shadows.

When the body of a man dressed in a pinstriped suit is discovered by war photographer Eva Paisley in a secluded bay on Portland Island, Dorset, Inspector Alun Ryga of Scotland Yard is sent to investigate. Recently promoted, the thoughtful, observant Ryga is on his first solo investigation outside of London and is keen to prove his worth.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Casting The Runes". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Arriving in post World War 2 Vienna, an American pulp writer finds his friend who was meant to be waiting for him has been killed under mysterious circumstances. Follow this mystery, starring Joseph Cotten, which trails through the murky world of the black market, with the involvement of the international police and the writer's Czechoslovakian girlfriend. This is one of the Classic Radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again!

Aubrey, an orphaned young gentleman in possession of a large fortune, arrives in London for the season where he meets the mysterious Lord Ruthven. Aubrey befriends Lord Ruthven and upon discovering that Ruthven is planning a trip to Europe, decides to take his grand tour at the same time and travel with him. The longer Aubrey is with Ruthven the more he discovers about him. He decides to distance himself from Ruthven; but is he already too late to save all that he holds dear from the thirst of the vampire?

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Mezzotint". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Starring Montgomery Cliff and Joan Lorring - The classic novel by Emily Bronte comes to life in this audio play. The story of Heathcliffe and Cathy tells the story of love, lust, hatred, and the life and death struggles of the characters. The vivid descriptions of the Yorkshire Countryside in which it is set create a powerful gripping drama you will not want to miss. One of the Classic Radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again!

The narrator - the old nurse of the title - is an old family retainer who has worked in the service of the same family for three generations. She tells the young children about a dark incident that she experienced in the company of the children’s mother, when she was a young woman and visiting her mother’s ancestral home.

The most renowned and wittiest of Oscar Wilde's comedies, The Importance of Being Earnest ridicules Victorian sensibilities and is still strikingly relevant to this day. This full-cast audio adaptation featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor as Lady Bracknell is unique yet at the same time reassuringly familiar, with wonderful performances from the Offstage Theatre Group.

The American Otis family moves into the old English country house Canterville Chase. They are warned that the house is haunted before they move in but are unconcerned at first. They soon accept that the ghost is real but are not frightened by it. The ghost, who had been frightening all those who stayed at Canterville Chase for 300 years, takes the Americans' unwillingness to be scared by him as a great insult. He grows to despise them all, except for the teenage daughter, Virginia, who he feels is different from the rest of her family.

Maggie had fallen on hard times, and money was running out fast. She could see no way out of her situation until she answered a mysterious advert in the newspaper for participants in a medical trial. With the promise of a large payday, Maggie signed up. Having been drugged to make her more compliant, Maggie now found herself in a milking pen, strapped up to a complicated supporting structure. Kept subdued by a drug added to the contents of her feed - which was available to her through a carefully positioned pipe - Maggie had no idea that she was just one of hundreds of such women participating in the same ‘trial’.

In this well-known classic, a school inspector travelling to the village of Pit End wonders whether the things he’s seeing are products of his imagination or something supernatural. There’s a rational answer, but is it the right one? Was It an Illusion 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.

Narrated by some of the leading voice actors of today, Stoker’s short stories are dark, twisted and of course hugely entertaining. Simon Templeman plays Dracula, with all the expertise and finesse one would expect from such a lauded performer, whilst Claudia Christian is the mysterious Thief. TV’s sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, masterfully narrates vampire hunter Van Helsing’s stories, whilst Terry Molloy takes the part of Renfield. Jessica Martin completes the line-up as Mina Harker.

A woman of extraordinary courage, beauty and iron will - uniquely Queen of France then Queen of England, and mother of two English Kings - Eleanor of Aquitaine’s name was legendary even before her death. B7 Media have teamed up with Tara Arts to release for the first time on audio Eileen Page's mesmerising final performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine: Mother of the Pride.

Maggie has fallen on hard times, recently having lost her job as a secretary at a PR firm. About to resort to desperate measures, she notices a mysterious advert in the newspaper asking for volunteers for a clinical trial. On the promise of a significant pay-day, Maggie agrees to cut off all ties with the outside world, but is she really ready to take on the role of human cow that the mysterious pharmaceutical company have in mind for her? This prologue to the erotic Maggie the Milked Maid series is a must for milk-lovers everywhere.

Maureen Whittaker takes the listener on an intimate journey through the entire Granada Sherlock Holmes series, exploring and analysing the decisions, process and reaction to Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Holmes. Using an array of first-hand reflections from those involved in the production of the series - and from Jeremy himself - listeners will hear, episode by episode, how Brett constructed his interpretation of the world's only unofficial consulting detective.

The unnamed narrator of the story lives alone in a dark, ancient castle surrounded by a dense forest. He never sees sunlight, and he has no memory of human contact. One day, desperate to see the sun, the narrator decides to climb the ruined tower which is the only part of the castle taller than the trees. After the dangerous climb to the top room of the tower, the narrator is delighted to see the moon through a grating. Soon, however, he discovers the horrible truth behind his confinement.

Since the invention of photography people have been obsessed with both taking and looking at erotic images. The Nude Shots series visits five snapshots from this illustrious history, including a dirty postcard studio in Edwardian Paris, making stag movies in 1930s Coney Island, a beach photographer in the Blackpool of the 1960s, a glamour film coming back to haunt a respectable vicar's wife in 90s middle England and a sexy photoshoot for an internet porn site in present day New York.

Welcome to ancient Rome, where the steps of the Forum are peopled by nubile slave girls and a range of outrageous characters including Lurcio’s owner, Ludicrus Sextus the senator, his wife, Ammonia, his son, Nausius, and his daughter, Erotica. Lurcio attempts to deliver his prologue and begin proceedings before he’s quickly caught up in the myriad of sexual liaisons in all quarters of his master’s house.

Few ghost stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. Featuring work by H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, F.G. Loring and Florence Marryat, this second volume of eight enduring stories, some well-known, others less familiar, transport you to a cosy fireside to hear tales of disembodied voices, haunted objects and unknown entities lurking in the shadows cast by candlelight.