Uncanny Stories-May Sinclair

Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft.“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” This creepy horror story is one of the best written by Lovecraft in my opinion. What unknown being is lurking out there? What entity arrived in that meteor? Never described exactly, yet he manages to let your own imagination smell and taste it in this story.Featured on Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. Ingram.To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assistance of his cousin Phillida and her beau Ethan Vere, he sets about fixing up the place. Immediately however, an unseen mysterious woman begins giving him warnings during nocturnal visits to leave the house at once. Soon he begins hearing strange ominous sounds emanating from the tiny lake at the back of the house coupled with a permeation of sickly odors. An evil presence then begins to visit him during the witching hours of the late night, challenging him to a battle of wits from which there can be only one victor. Is his mysterious female visitor there to help and encourage him to flee from the house, or is she working in tandem with The Thing From the Lake ? A gripping, occasionally frightening tale, Ms.Featured on Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London.Well-known and well-regarded author Jack London, known for adventurous stories of the outdoors such as Call of the Wild and White Fang shows us a broader scope of interest in his short stories which here run the gamut from darkly comic tales of murder most foul to light and frothy tales of newspapermen (and women) and from crackling sci-fi to stories of sinister shadowy organizations and spiritualism, London illustrates the many talents he holds as a writer beyond his tales of the frozen north.Featured on Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson.Ready to explore the depths of the human mind and soul? This book explores the themes of morality, spirituality, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world. Benson ponders the deeper questions of life and existence from his own experiences.Featured on Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair.May Sinclair’s Uncanny Stories is a collection of short stories filled with macabre, romantic, and Gothic themes. Enjoy tales of love and loss, murder, philosophy, and supernatural happenings.Featured on Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Flaw in the Crystal by May Sinclair.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 affair with Rodney Lanyon, she struggles to keep the relationship on a spiritual plane without falling into the physical passion that she fears. To her astonishment, she discovers that she has an extraordinary paranormal ability to manipulate the psyches and even the physical states of the people around her. At first, she uses it in a way that seems harmless to her, coaxing the oblivious Rodney to visit her whenever she wants him.Featured on Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Way It Came by Henry James.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 the min of the woman who would rather have her love right here in life. Echoing "The Turn Of The Screw" in its treatment of the supernatural as psychological, it turns the tables by making the supernatural consummately "real" - at least in the mind of one who loves. To find out how, listen on.Featured on Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Tongues of Conscience by Robert Smythe Hichens.Tongues of Conscience (1898) is a collection of five thought-provoking stories where an innocent, but selfish, action leads to horrific consequences. Robert Hichens writes some wonderfully evocative descriptions of nature: from a raw and exposed violent seascape, to the serene and idyllic countryside “…the violets seemed to sing in odours…” , to a train pushing through the white-out of a blizzard. In Sea Change an artist with a dark secret (“…I painted for him in words, the varying colors of waves in different seas… I drowned little Jack in the sea.”) shares the details of his guilt with a priest who tells a simple white lie in an effort to save his tortured friend’s sanity. In “William Foster”, the works of an author rouses his own wife’s religious nature with a most shocking result.Featured on Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Visible and Invisible by E. F. Benson.The second collection of short stories from the pen of E.F. Benson. Found within are stories with a touch of the authors penchant for melodrama and the macabre, sometimes venturing into the realm of Science Fiction, often delving into the nature of the spirit. Some of the stories seem quirky, almost quaint, but several others are quite powerful and have been admired by some of the greatest practitioners of the genre.Featured on Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Grim Tales by E. Nesbit.A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can touch across the boundaries of death.Featured on Death in Venice - Thomas Mann.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.