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Curious Tales

46 Weird and Wonderful Stories

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Curious Tales

By: A. J. Alan, Arnold Bennett, Wilkie Collins, Barry Pain, W. W. Jacobs, Maxim Gorky, Alphonse Daudet
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Curious Tales:

  • 1. “A Joy Ride” by A. J. Alan
  • 2. “The Death Mask” by H. D. Everett
  • 3. “Query” by Austin Small
  • 4. “The Dancing Partner” by Jerome K. Jerome
  • 5. “The Furnished Room” by O. Henry
  • 6. “The Squaw” by Bram Stoker
  • 7. “The Interruption” by W. W. Jacobs
  • 8. “The 19 Club” by A. J. Alan
  • 9. “The Giraffe Problem” by Barry Pain
  • 10. “The Man who Stole a Meeting House” by John Townsend Trowbridge
  • 11. “The Lightning-Rod Man” by Herman Melville
  • 12. “Gabriel-Ernest” by Saki
  • 13. “An Undergraduate's Aunt” by F. Anstey
  • 14. “Major Namby” by Wilkie Collins
  • 15. “The Tale” by Joseph Conrad
  • 16. “The Green Light” by Barry Pain
  • 17. “A Coincidence” by A. J. Alan
  • 18. “The Three Sisters” by W. W. Jacobs
  • 19. “The Siege of Berlin” by Alphonse Daudet
  • 20. “The Marquise” by George Sand
  • 21. “The Mad Veteran of Fort Ratonneau” by Ludwig Achim von Arnim
  • 22. “Comrades” by Maxim Gorky
  • 23. “The Man who was Blind” by Edwin Pugh
  • 24. “A Witch in the Peak” by R. Murray Gilchrist
  • 25. “My Adventure in Jermyn Street” by A. J. Alan
  • 26. “His Brother's Keeper” by W. W. Jacobs
  • 27. “The Singing Lesson” by Katherine Mansfield
  • 28. “The Reverent Father Gaucher's Elixir” by Alphonse Daudet
  • 29. “The Story of a Piebald Horse” by W. H. Hudson
  • 30. “Long Odds” by H. Rider Haggard

…and sixteen more unusual tales.

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