Title: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Description:
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. “Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. There is a short author’s preface before the first story in each volume. License: Listen and Distribute
Sponsor: LibriVox Narrator: Peter Yearsley.
Length: 10 hour(s), 6 minute(s)

Title: The Empty House
Description:
A classic horror tale by Algernon Blackwood. License: Creative Commons NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
Sponsor: Literal Systems Narrator: Stefany Burrowes
Length: 0 hour(s), 43 minute(s)

Title: Metamorphosis
Description:
Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his family and financially supports his parents and younger sister. One morning he awakes to discover that during the night he has been transformed into a horrible vermin. Although somewhat of a horror genre, the story is often very funny as Gregor, his family and those around him deal with their own transformations as a result of this odd predicament.
The analogies of this story are unending. The Metamorphosis has been stated to represent Gregor's personal alienation and the effect of his deadening job, the problems in his family and how the demands placed on him have forced him to become a terrible being and the alienation of aged or disabled individuals confined to a bedridden state of existence.

Franz Kafka is a Czechoslovakian writer who lived from 1883-1924. Though virtually unknown during his lifetime, Kafka has come to be known as one of the most influential writers of his century. His writings have been recognized as symbolizing modern man's anxiety-ridden and grotesque alienation in an unintelligible, hostile, or indifferent world.
The Metamorphosis, though sometimes emotionally disturbing in its content, is an important and classic work to include in your listening library. License: Limited - Thought Audio
Sponsor: Thought Audio Narrator: Michael Scott
Length: 1 hour(s), 59 minute(s)

Title: The Upper Berth
Description:
A classic horror story by Francis Marion Crawford. License: Creative Commons NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
Sponsor: Literal Systems Narrator: Rod Mehling
Length: 0 hour(s), 40 minute(s)