Classic Horror Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Ghost and Dark Stories

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The plot of L-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief by turning to the study of the Middle Ages and begins to research the life of the notorious 15th-century child-murderer Gilles de Rais. Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Genre: Classic Detective Myster...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Strange Visitation is a Christmas ghost story in the spirit of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It was commissioned by the Strand as a supplement to its December volume of that year. Author: Marie Corelli Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Published 1900 onward Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 16:49 - Chapter 2 31:40 - Chapte...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The lives of a prosperous, intellectual family are disrupted when they meet the mysterious Carwin. Set in the period before the Revolutionary War, this is often described as the first American Gothic novel. This is Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown. Author: Charles Brockden Brown Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Genre...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com An eclectic, catholic even, collection from the exquisitely excellent tale-telling of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Author: Edgar Allan Poe Length: 13 hours 25 minutes Genre: Classic Gothic Horror Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 57:23 - Chapter 2 01:55:57 - Chapter 3 02:43:39 - Chapter 4 03:04:59 - Chapter 5 03:45:09 - Chapter 6 04:15:24 - Chapter 7 04:47:22 - Chapt...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Considered by her contemporaries a playwright "second only to Shakespeare," Joanna Baillie was one of the most critically acclaimed writers of the Romantic Era. The Plays on the Passions, first published in 1798, stands as her undeniable magnum opus: a multivolume series of tragedies and comedies exploring the overruling passions of the mind. Author: Jo...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is a collection of some of Barry Pain's finest horror stories and weird fiction. - Summary by Carolin. Author: Barry Pain Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 20:21 - Chapter 2 40:49 - Chapter 3 54:17 - Chapter 4 01:09:26 - Chapter 5 01:21:24 - Chapter 6 01:29:34 - Chapter 7 01:38:51 - Chap...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Laura grew up on a castle in the Austrian mountains with her father, slightly lonely as there are no potential companions around. Her loneliness is at an end when a carriage accindent close by their castle brings a mysterious visitor: Carmilla was injured in the accident, and remains at the castle to heal. Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Length: 3 hours...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Witches, spells, ghosts, pacts with the Devil, occult rituals, love triangles, popes and the Anti-Christ are some of the ingredients of this chilling early horror work (set in the middle-ages) by Marjorie Bowen that some consider to be the ultimate Gothic Novel. With enough suspenseful plot twists and turns to keep most listeners on edge guessing till t...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Chapters:Fifteen ghost stories to hear around the Yule log. "It happened that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north of England, where we had a succession of visitors, and all manner of amusements-. This is Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas by Catherine Crowe. Author: Catherine Crowe Length: 6 hours 46 minutes G...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is a collection of seven ghost stories by Francis Marion Crawford. The volume includes all of the essential ingredients for good ghost and horror stories, such as mysterious deaths, haunted houses, and even vampires. Author: Francis Marion Crawford Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Genre: Classic Gothic Horror Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 12:46 - Chapter 2...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of ghostly presences abound. Author: George Walter Thornbury Length: 17 hours 9 minutes Genre: Classic Gothic Horror Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 09:27 - Chapter 2 16:48 - Chapter 3 01:04:48 - Chapter 4 01:40:04 - Chapte...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com William Clark Russell is well-known for his maritime stories, for which he could draw upon his own experiences as a sailor in the British Navy. This is one of the finest examples of his maritime ghost stories. Author: William Clark Russell Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Genre: Classic Gothic Horror Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 04:23 - Chapter 2 11:47 - Chap...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com An early werewolf novel, praised by H. P Lovecraft. This is Door of the Unreal by Gerald Biss. Author: Gerald Biss Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 03:10 - Chapter 2 23:42 - Chapter 3 37:03 - Chapter 4 54:56 - Chapter 5 01:08:56 - Chapter 6 01:26:34 - Chapter 7 01:40:13 - Chapter 8 01:51:49...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "A miraculous masterpiece" it seemed to Henry James, who wrote it. What actually happens in this most remarkable story (though at one level, it is quite clear - a ghost appears) must ever remain unresolved. This is Jolly Corner (Remastered) by Henry James. Author: Henry James Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction Chapters: 0...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com One of May Sinclair's "uncanny" stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair's most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflict between flesh and spirit, the complexity of human emotions in relation to other humans, the practical everyday implications of philosophical Idealism. In the story, when Agatha Verrall enters into an extra-marital...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Best known under the title "The Friends Of The Friends" and chosen under that title for his classic fantasy anthology "Black Water" by Alberto Manguel as one of the best ghost stories ever written, this "ghost" story (that is, if it is "a ghost story") is a profound psychological observation of a love transcending death - also a detailed exploration of...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Cecilia de Noel is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different viewpoints. This is Cecilia de Noel by Mary Elizabeth Hawker. Author: Mary Elizabeth Hawker Length: 3 hours 29 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Published 1800 -1900 Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 28:11 - Cha...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high - the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. This is Night Land by William Hope Hodgson. Author: William Hope Hodgson L...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A fantastical story of personal growth and a warning against the dangers of keeping secrets. This novel by George MacDonald is a deceptively easy read aimed to be accessible to teens, but the ideas will remain in your mind long afterwards. This is Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald. Author: George MacDonald Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Genre: Gothic...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Gertrude Barrows Bennett was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". This is Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens. Autho...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Written in 1912 by a famous ghost hunter who was also an occult fantasy writer, this interesting book collects together folktales and traditions from across Europe, starting in the British Isles, through Spain, France, Belgium and Norway to Russia. The "scientific" accounts (including "How to Become a Werewolf") are embellished by anecdotes of the autho...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A series of mysterious and increasingly alarming crimes are taking place across London. People are being injured, even murdered without mercy and without reason. This is Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 4 - Dramatic Reading) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Length: 2 hours 38 minutes Genre: Dramatic Readings, Hor...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Book 1 - Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. This is Windsor Castle, Book 1 by William Harrison Ainsworth — a classic public domain horror story. Author: William Harrison Ainsworth Length: 3 hours 13 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Hi...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he published more than 100 books, among them this collection of ghost stories. This is Book of Ghosts by Sabine Baring-Gould — a classic ghost story. Author: Sabine Baring-Gould Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Genre: Horror &amp...