At the height of summer, as something deep in the soil stirs, one old tree's leaves are already turning red - find out why in this seminal tale of folk horror from Ulric Daubeny!
Showing posts with label audiobooks. Show all posts
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Sunday, 31 August 2025
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 148 - The Sumach by Ulric Daubeny
Sunday, 2 June 2024
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 109 - Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson
As a little tie-in to the Hypnogoria Roger Corman series here is a tale of terror from one of his collaborators - Richard Matheson. And this story is in fact the very first that Matheson ever had published...
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Saturday, 6 April 2024
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 104 - The Waxwork by AM Burrage
With another reading of a favourite old tale of terror, Mr Jim revisits The Waxwork by AM Burrage, a classic chiller many of us discovered in the creepy tales for kids anthology Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery!
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Sunday, 10 September 2023
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 090 - Gabriel-Ernest by Saki
Tonight we have a classic chiller from master story teller Saki AKA writer HH Monroe. In this short, sharp shocker we encounter a curious foundling who may, or not be, something else entirely..
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Tuesday, 27 September 2022
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 061 - The Outsider by HP Lovecraft
Tonight we have a reading of an early classic short story by the great HP Lovecraft, a tale that begins in a benighted castle deep beneath the earth...
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Saturday, 10 September 2022
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 060 - The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White
Tonight we have a reading of one of the all-time classic ghost stories, The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White! When a gentlemen's roadster breaks down on a lonely road he finds curious company in the house where he stays the night...
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Thursday, 25 August 2022
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 059 - Ancient Lights by Algernon Blackwood
In this visit to the Great Library we have a sunlit tale of folk horror from Mr Algernon Blackwood, where a walk in the woods is no picnic...
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 058 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford
Concluding our summer season of vampiric tales, in this show Mr Jim Moon reads classic chiller For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford, the story of a curious vision revealed by moonlight and its dark history...
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Sunday, 3 July 2022
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 057- And No Bird Sings by EF Benson
In this show, we return to the chilling tales of EF Benson. In this particular story we discover that even the English countryside at the height of a glorious summer can be home to dark and dreadful things...
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Saturday, 18 June 2022
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 056 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet
In this podcast, we have a reading of an eerie tale by Hume Nisbet, in which a summer holiday goes terribly wrong when our narrator encounters The Vampire Maid...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2022
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 053 - The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen
In this tale of creeping terror from Elizabeth Bowen, we visit a quiet corner of war-time London where a sinister rendezvous is about to occur...
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Saturday, 26 February 2022
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 052 - The Underbody by Allison V Harding
From the pages of Weird Tales, a very dark and disturbing tale from Allison V Harding.
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Wednesday, 2 February 2022
From the Great Library of Dreams 049 - The Story of Yand Manor House by E and H Heron
Another curious case for occult detective Mr Flaxman Low! A dining room is haunted by a perplexing and highly perilous paranormal phenomena...
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Monday, 13 December 2021
From the Great Library of Dreams 046 - The Treasure of Abbot Thomas by MR James
No Christmas is complete without a tale from the master of ghost stories, M. R. James. And tonight we discover why some things should stay buried in The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, first published back in 1906 in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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Tuesday, 16 November 2021
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 044 - The Story of the Moor Road by E and H Heron
Another tale from the casebook of Mr Flaxman Low, the original occult detective! In this story Mr Low encounters a highly dangerous apparition that haunts a lonely road, something that's far more sinister than your usual ghost...
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Saturday, 30 October 2021
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 043 - The Vow on Halloween by Lyllian Huntley Harris
A tale of terror for Hallowe'en night, first published in the pages of Weird Tales magazine back in 1924!
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 042 - Room for One by Frederick Cowles
In this show we have a little story from Mr Frederick Cowles from his 1936 collection The Horror of Abbot's Grange and Other Stories, a suitably seasonal tale of terror set in the month of October!
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Saturday, 2 October 2021
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 041 - A Vignette by MR James
Our final reading in our MR James mini season is coincidentally the final ghost story the good doctor ever wrote, a short piece entitled A Vignette, which many suspect may be not be a story at all but a memoir of an eerie event...
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Tuesday, 14 September 2021
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 040 - Living Night by MR James
Continuing our season of MR James readings, things take a dark turn with some verses penned about what goes on at Great Livermore in the dead of night...
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Tuesday, 7 September 2021
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 039 - A Night in the King's College Chapel by MR James
Continuing our season of readings exploring places important to MR James, and showing a lighter side to the master of ghost stories, in this show we have a reading of the earliest surviving supernatural tale he ever wrote - a whimsical nocturnal adventure set in King's College, Cambridge.
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