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When Gabriel Utterson takes charge of the will of his good friend Dr Jekyll, in which the doctor leaves everything to the mysterious Mr Hyde, he's alarmed at what appears to be a recipe for murder. Over the following months, he investigates Mr Hyde until he uncovers a horrific murder. What's the relationship between his friend and the murderer, and can Utterson save the doctor?

Victor Frankenstein is a driven man. His single-minded scientific drive has controlled his life from childhood. It has driven him to do the unthinkable, to carry out fiendish, craven tasks, to do that which only God has done before. His goal of creating life - a living, thinking being, a man - has come to pass. Little did he expect that his zeal would forge a monster, an intelligent being set upon Victor's complete destruction.

The battle of the Somme was the largest battle of the first world war, in which over one million men were killed or wounded, and during which the British army suffered its worst day ever with over sixty thousand casualties. The Commander in Chief of the British forces, Sir Douglas Haig, issued a despatch in the following month via the London Gazette. Part news, part propaganda this despatch failed to mention the tragic losses and maximised the minimal gains.

FNH Audio presents this unabridged reading of the heroic story of a territorial battalion mobilised and sent overseas into the bloodiest conflict the world has ever known. They fought with distinction at the Somme and Arras through some of the most terrible and wasteful of battles. In one three month period this battalion alone lost 1,200 men and sixty officers. That it survived until the end of the war was nothing short of a miracle.This history was written by the battalions Adjutant in 1919.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading ofVampires of Venus, a story that was first published in the April 1930 edition of "Astounding Stories of Super Science". Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.

Something has gone missing from the most secure facility in the United Kingdom. The secret government organisation that had control of it want it back, and will do anything to get it. Peter is an academic who has made the study of a mysterious and elusive race of beings, the Mi-Go, his life's work. When he receives a note from an unknown person, he's so intrigued that he breaks away from his studies and is drawn into something he could never have imagined. A short story inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos.

The House of Kralitz has thrived for hundreds of years while hiding a dark secret in the family vaults. A curse was laid upon the Kralitz line, and today the present head of the household will learn its true horror.

The darkest room of the prison is known as the "Dungeon". The inmate of this bleak abode is about to tell his story after years of abuse and solitude. Why is he there? What injustice has been committed?FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this classic short story.

FNH Audio presents a reading of this classic science fiction story, lifted directly from the pages of the April, 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Astounding Stories was a magazine that had its zenith during the "classic" age of science fiction. This short tells contains all the classic elements of such stories: a brave protagonist, an evil enemy, and amazing Super Science. Set in the backwoods of the United States during a cold dark night, a stranger has a horrid tale to tell.

FNH Audio present the first in a new series of science fiction short story collections. A journalist on Mars finds himself in the middle of a coup. An underground operative discovers a man with a formula for winning a planetary war. A lone hunter takes to space to bring down the legendary giant space bat. The best of space detectives gets caught up in an interplanetary extortion ring. In Jorgensen's Worlds secret operative Retief gets dispatched to a frozen world to face off an invasion. Peeten is the guard for the last of the Martian water, when an alien drops into his world...

The old nunnery on the cliff top had long ago been sold off by the church but the current inhabitants had got more than they bargained for. Every owner of the place had found that they shared the residence with a ghostly apparition that walked the halls and seemed in need of help.

Calhoun was assigned the sector because the previous Med Ship inspector had dropped the ball, and the whole sector had gone to rack and ruin. When he starts his first inspection he becomes embroiled in a pandemic driven war between worlds. What can a simple Med Ship pilot in a 50 ton flitter do to bring peace and health back to two worlds on the brink?

Conan has fallen on hard times and spends his last few coins for a night in the cheapest inn he can find. He ignores the warnings against staying there, and it turns into an evil nightmare of cannibals, monsters, and magicians.

WWI was a war fought on the sea, in the air, across the landscape, in the trenches and underground. Beneath the soil both sides tunnelled and planted explosives to blow the enemy trenches apart. They also attacked each other far underground with counter mines and explosive camouflets. Every day, they silently dug their way towards the enemy while listening intently for the enemy's own tunnelling. This memoir, told by an American serving with the British army, relates the extraordinary experiences of an engineer carrying on his own quiet, deadly underground war .

Henry Fleming is a young man who feels the draw of the glory to be found on the battlefield. As the United States is torn by civil war, young Fleming joins the army and quickly finds himself caught up in the chaos of battle. As the canons roar and the muskets flame, Fleming suddenly find himself running, fleeing the battlefield!

The stowaway cost a day of custom inspections, but worse, it would mean arriving late back on Earth. Newly promoted Captain Douglas fears losing his command due to the delay, but he does have one option to make up the time. Dare he take the space lane known as the “Pass o' the Twin Witches”, a route that’s been shunned for decades after claiming multiple ships?

When the aliens arrived on Earth they brought peace. Everywhere they went a wave of calm understanding followed behind. Everyone was happy, everyone was content. The aliens promised to share their technology, man would be able to reach the stars. Danial Matson seemed to be the only man on Earth who didn’t fall in line, the only man who saw something darker in their motives. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Bone’s sci-fi classic.

When a fascist-like government comes to power, it decides to rid society of the disabled, the crippled and the sick by shipping them all to a new Martian colony that is doomed and expected to fail. Yet Mars is not the empty, barren world the government expected.

'The Retreat from Mons' was a pamphlet published during the Great War (1917) which explained to the British public in glowing and glorious terms the details of the war's first allied disasters. An exercise in self-proclaimed propaganda, it stands as an exemplary sample of how the war was presented to the public in general. With heroic anecdotes and an overview of the retreat of an entire army, this is a fascinating insight into wartime publications.

After the world crashed and civilisation crumbled, humanity descended into barbarism. Drake Qualland is a force for order. He travels the world righting wrongs and bringing justice to the people. When Drake finds a woman’s tortured body hanging from a bridge, he tightens his sword belt and determines to find her murderers.