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Edgar Wallace was a bestselling author, journalist, playwright and film director, and the creator of King Kong. A prolific writer and celebrity superstar, he was thought to be responsible for a quarter of all new books read in Britain by the late 1920s. Presented here are full-cast adaptations of four of his classic crime novels, readings of four short detective stories, and vintage recording of Wallace reading one of his own stories. Tying them all together is linking commentary from Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Much?, a documentary celebration of his life.

The extraordinary debut novel that became a modern classic Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose remarkable gift for...

David Edgar is among the UK’s leading contemporary dramatists, well known for his powerful plays chronicling Britain's changing political landscape over the past 50 years. More than 60 of his original plays, adaptations and translations have been performed around the world, and in 2023 he was honoured with a Writers’ Guild Outstanding Contribution award for his service to British playwriting. This radio anthology contains some of his most notable work.

Auf einem verwilderten Grundstück steht ein mächtiger Davidsahorn, der drei geheimnisvolle Initialen trägt. Immer wenn sich der Todestag seiner Adoptivmutter jährt, legt Jan rote Nelken in seine Krone. Doch dieses Jahr wird er von der Besitzerin des Grundstücks überrascht und beschimpft. Was hat es mit dieser Frau auf sich, deren Rückkehr niemand in dem kleinen österreichischen Dorf begrüßt? Und was weiß sie über die Geschichte des Baums? Jan macht sich auf die Suche.

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.

Als Spielhöllenbesitzer James Ryan Reale getötet wird, hinterlässt er zwei Millionen Pfund. Auf dieses Vermögen hat es nicht nur die berüchtigte Stadtbande abgesehen. Auch der gerissene Rechtsanwalt William Spedding will sich das Erbe unter den Nagel reißen. Und dann ist da noch Kathleen Kent, deren Vater einst vom alten Reale in den Ruin getrieben worden war und sich das Leben genommen hatte. Doch das Geld liegt gut geschützt in einem Safe in Reales Haus, dessen Schloss sich nur mithilfe eines rätselhaften Verses öffnen lässt. Wird es Inspector Angel gelingen, dieses Rätsel zu lösen?

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. The Fall of the House of Usher is a slow-burning Gothic horror, describing the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past.

George Bernard Shaw - or Bernard Shaw, as he preferred to be known - was one of Ireland's foremost dramatists and thinkers. His plays range from contemporary satires to historical allegories, and are infused with ideas, insight, wit and wisdom. Included here are some of his best works, adapted for radio and brought together in reverse chronological order in one statement collection.

Es ist ein schönes Jubiläum, das die beliebte Reihe mit dieser 50. Folge feiern kann. Thomas Birker hat sich zu diesem Anlass für eine Anthologie entschieden und den Klassiker "Das Fass Amontillado" stellvertretend für die Klassikautoren des Grusels vertont sowie vier seiner liebsten Autorinnen und Autoren für exklusive neue Geschichten gewinnen können. Tony Ballard-Autor A. F. Morland zeigt uns mit seinem Beitrag "Tod nach dem Tod" was es bedeutet, einen Blick ins Jenseits zu werfen.

This selection includes works by Edgar Allan Poe: Tales, The Gold-Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, Hop-Frog, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Poems, A Dream Within A Dream, A Valentine, An Enigma, Annabel Lee, Bridal Ballad, Dream-land, Eldorado, Eulalie, For Annie, Hymn, Lenore, Marie Louise (Shew), Silence, The Bells, The City In The Sea, The Coliseum, The Conqueror Worm.

When Woodsley, a young English painter, arrives in Barbados and finds no lodging available, he thinks himself fortunate to be invited to stay at Eltonsbrody, a mansion belonging to the eccentric widow Mrs Scaife. But behind the locked doors of the house’s disused rooms lurk terrible secrets, and soon strange and blood-curdling events begin to unfold. The tension builds towards a shocking and unforgettable conclusion, when the full horror of Eltonsbrody will be revealed.

Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer - James Joyce. Araby - Ivan Turgenev. First Love.

A collection of thrilling tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, including six full-cast dramas and a short story read by Benedict Cumberbatch In the first half of the 20th century, the detective story exploded in popularity. Innovative authors penned whodunits, whydunits and...

Written just 40 years after David Livingstone’s death, this admiring account of the famous missionary’s life and work takes us deep into the “dark continent” of 19th-century Africa, where he labored to bring “Christianity, commerce, and civilization.” A national hero in Victorian Britain, Livingstone earned fame as an explorer and scientific investigator, an antislavery crusader, and imperial reformer, as well as in the role of a Protestant missionary and martyr who eventually died in Africa of malaria.

"Lou Berney's Crooks stands with some of the finest crime novels ever written." — Don Winslow, #1 Internationally bestselling author "A panoramic, cross-generational look at a unique family pursuing their individual visions of the American dream.” — Joseph Finder, New York Times...

This audiobook describes the Akashic Records, the source from which Edgar Cayce received many of his remarkable insights. Also known as the Book of Life, the Akashic Records is the storehouse of all information - every word, deed, feeling, thought, and intent - for every individual who has ever lived upon the Earth. Todeschi explains how each of us can access our own Book of Life to learn about our past, present, and future.

Dive into the life and career of D.W. Griffith, the man who boldly claimed the title Father of Filmmaking. This authorized biography, penned by Robert Edgar Long in collaboration with Griffith himself, takes you on a journey through his early years, his time on stage, his rise to prominence as a visionary filmmaker at Biograph, and the creation of his groundbreaking and contentious feature films such as The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Broken Blossoms. Get a deeper understanding of these cinema classics and the man behind them in this podcast episode, summarized by ChuckW.

July 30, 1945 - The USS Indianapolis and its 1,196-man crew is making its way toward a small island in the South Pacific. The ship is sailing unescorted, assured by headquarters the waters are safe. It is midnight, and Marine Edgar Harrell and several others have sacked out on deck rather than spend the night in their hot and muggy quarters below. Fresh off a top-secret mission to deliver uranium for the atomic bombs that would ultimately end World War II, they are unaware their ship is being watched.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form... As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with primal emotion, the horror-tale is as old as human thought and speech themselves.