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By Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, H. Rider Haggard, Daniel Defoe, Walter Scott, Bram Stoker, Ambrose Bierce, Margaret Oliphant, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Perceval Landon, Richard Le Gallienne, Rosa Mulholland, Richard Harris Barham, William Hunt, Edith Nesbit, Clotilde Graves, Mrs Ellen Wood, Amelia Edwards, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow

Unabridged — 7 hours, 5 minutes

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Overview

An author's talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.

But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?

Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twi...