Compelling Short Stories
Forty Great Classic Tales
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Narrated by:
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Cathy Dobson
About this listen
A rich and varied anthology of inventive classic tales by some of the world's top storytellers.
- 'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells
- 'The Scarecrow' by G. Ranger Wormser
- 'Only a Dream' by H. Rider Haggard
- 'The Magic Shop' by H. G. Wells
- 'The Business of Madame Jahn' by Vincent O'Sullivan
- 'The Old Portrait' by Hume Nisbet
- 'The Yellow Globe' by Alexander W. Drake
- 'The Last Trump' by Hugh Walpole
- 'The White Cat' by W. W. Jacobs
- 'The Effigy' by G. Ranger Wormser
- 'The Flowering of the Strange Orchid' by H. G. Wells
- 'The Piano Next Door' by Elia W. Peattie
- 'The Khitmatgar' by B. M. Croker
- 'The Crystal Egg' by H. G. Wells
- 'The Fire' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne
- 'The Horla' by Guy de Maupassant
- 'Haunted' by G. Ranger Wormser
- 'Through a Window' by H. G. Wells
- 'The Devil of the Marsh' by H. B. Marriott-Watson
- 'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number' by Gertrude Atherton...and over 20 more fascinating classic stories.
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