The Five Jars (UNABRIDGED) - format MP3

El profesor Parkins, un académico racional que pasa sus vacaciones en Burnstow, descubre un antiguo silbato de bronce entre las ruinas de un preceptorio templario. Movido por la curiosidad, lo sopla y,...

El huérfano Stephen Elliott va a vivir con su primo solitario, Mr. Abney, en Aswarby Hall. Aunque parece amable, Abney oculta planes siniestros arraigados en su obsesión por rituales antiguos de inmortalidad....

El anticuario Mr. Somerton descifra un criptograma en las vidrieras de la Abadía de Steinfeld que señala un tesoro oculto en un pozo. Al abrir la losa marcada con "siete ojos", encuentra no solo sacos...

En Castringham Hall, Sir Matthew Fell condena a la horca a la supuesta bruja Mrs. Mothersole, quien advierte: "Habrá huéspedes en la Mansión." Poco después, aparece muerto en su cama, ennegrecido y retorcido,...

El viajero señor Wraxall investiga los archivos de una antigua propiedad sueca y se obsesiona con su feroz antepasado, el Conde Magnus de la Gardie. En el mausoleo de la iglesia descubre rastros de la...

El señor Williams, curador de un museo universitario, adquiere una mezzotinta aparentemente trivial de una mansión rural. Para su espanto, el grabado comienza a transformarse, mostrando una secuencia...

En la decadente ciudad de St. Bertrand de Comminges, un anticuario inglés descubre una invaluable colección de manuscritos, antaño reunida por el siniestro canónigo Alberic. Entre los tesoros se encuentra...

El señor Anderson, investigador de la historia eclesiástica en Viborg, se hospeda en la posada Golden Lion. Nota que no existe un cuarto número 13 en el registro del hotel, pero lo ve repetidamente e...

"Historias de Fantasmas de un Anticuario" (1904), de M. R. James, es una colección clásica de ocho relatos escalofriantes que mezclan escenarios académicos con terror sobrenatural. James, un medievalista...

A young boy sent to live with his eccentric uncle soon discovers that the old man’s passion for the past has a terrifying and bloody foundation. As the mystery of the missing children unfolds, the true...

While staying at a hotel in Denmark, a traveler becomes haunted by a room that shouldn't exist—a space that only reveals its dark secrets under the cover of night. His investigation into the history of...

A series of meticulously crafted tales introduces readers to a world where ancient curses and malevolent entities lurk just behind the veil of the everyday. Through the eyes of unsuspecting scholars,...

In the shadows of a rural English estate, an ancient tree harbors a vengeful spirit that preys upon the living. This classic ghost story builds unbearable tension through its slow revelation of historical...

Una selección de relatos de horror que muestra lo más oscuro del mundo vegetal. Una antología que reúne a nombres como Roald Dahl, Eudora Welty o H.P. Lovecraft. Orquídeas sanguinarias, bosques enteros...

Looking for some spooky stories to read on a camping trip, at a Halloween party, or at home with the family in front of a roaring fire? The works of medieval scholar M.R. James should fit the bill. James...

If you read the title-page of this book—a thing which young persons very seldom do—you will see that it (the book) contains stories taken "out of some of the less-known apocryphal books of the Old Testament."...

"Far from here, in the land the swallows flee to in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elisa." So begins the story of Elisa and her brothers. At the beginning, everything was...

Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself was written in response to critics who questioned the authenticity of the experiences Douglass drew...

The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief. Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately...

In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially Aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals....

Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid in...

"This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfurd before the age of twenty. As a boy growing up on the coast...

Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world. So begins the poignant story of the two orphans who were to become inseparable companions. They were Nello, an orphaned youth, and Patrasche, the...

Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip proposed by Mountry, despite her ex-husband having won custody...

As usual, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin finds himself wrongfully accused of murder, and must find the real killer to clear his coloured name. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century.

The Fortunes of Philippa is based on the author's mother, Angelica Brazil, who had grown up in Rio de Janeiro and attended an English boarding school at the age of 10, finding the English culture, school...

"Darklands" is Niels Krause-Kjær’s independent sequel to the filmed bestselling novel "Solitaire". Suspicion of fraud at the highest level turns out to have threads reaching far into Danish democracy....

Hurlingham House school is a high-achiever’s heaven, full of happy, hard-working pupils. There’s just the small matter of the dead body on the field... Sounds like a case for Epiphany Bloom! When Epiphany...

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, CH, KBE , usually known as Hall Caine, was a British author. He is best known as a novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his time he was...

This is a wonderfully written novel by Mrs. Hungerford about the perennial bachelor and the various interests in his life, where he is a doctor by trade. From taking care of his sister's children to a...

Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. Dudley answers the summons, only to find himself immediately...

J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom...

A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor injuries, embarrassment, and Trollope's usual 'nice' social interactions.

Lysis discusses friendship and love between the good and bad.

Frank L. Packard worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He brings this experience to the fictional Hill Division -- those those twisting, climbing, dangerous and glorious miles of...

English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school at the age of 13 to pursue rigorous self-study, eventually...

Merlin. King Arthur. War betwixt British and Saxons. Uther Pendragon. Collapsing castle foundations, Magicians and spirits, and fighting dragons and a blazing comet. Good entertaining stuff. But is it...

The master detective from Baker Street must solve three cases in quick succession this time: a sophisticated fraud involving a diamond gift within the circle of the English royal family, an art-loving...

A grieving detective on the edge. A missing woman. And a serial killer hunting in the shadows of Stockholm’s cobbled alleys.Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt – known as Ravn – is adrift after the...

Murder takes a page out of a killer’s playbook - and now literary agent Allie Cobb is her Indiana hometown’s top suspect.Juggling her family’s literary agency, her best friend’s wedding, and a stubborn...

Fifteen years ago, Hannah walked into the woods and never came back.Louise hasn’t seen her university friends since that night. But when she’s invited to a birthday weekend at a cottage on the edge of...

In rugged Calabria, historian Carmen Nero is drawn into a perilous hunt for the lost tomb of Alaric I, the Visigoth king who looted ancient Rome. But the ruthless Calabrian Mafia has its own deadly designs...

What happens when silence turns into solidarity?In 2018, artist and activist Erin Darcy launched 'In Her Shoes – Women of the Eighth', an online project where Irish women anonymously shared the realities...

What happens when two lawyers who can’t stand each other are forced to cooperate… by law?Amalia Berger and Ryan O'Moore have despised each other since their days at Yale Law School.Amalia, a high-powered...

When the hammer falls, a killer wins...Summerview Secondary School is holding its annual charity auction. Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are on hand to prepare delicious baked goods for the big...