Flaw in the Crystal-May Sinclair

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 The Tempest.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett.If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it, is how the Greeks saw thunder-storms and other huge convulsions; that is how they saw meadow, grove and stream—in terms of their own fair humanity. They saw such natural phenomena as shadows of spiritual conflict or of spiritual calm, and within the appearance apprehended the truth. So it may be that I have done. Some such may be the explanation of all fairy experience. Let it be so. It is a fact, I believe, that there is nothing revealed in this book which will not bear a spiritual, and a moral, interpretation; and I venture to say of some of it that the moral implications involved are exceedingly momentous, and timely too. I need not refer to such matters any further.Featured on The Tempest.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Third Volume by Fergus Hume.A widely publicized and unsolved murder of five and twenty years is brought to the forefront in a best-selling novel entitled “A Whim of Fate". While Spencer Tait is looking forward to reading it, his best friend Claude Larcher, learns of the tragic death of his father which mirrors every detail of the new book. Not believing it to be a coincidence the two friends resolve to discover what truly happened so many years ago and who committed the vile act. As they delve deeper into the past, the motives, the evidence, and the list of potential suspects becomes so confusing that a solution to the mystery seems impossible. Will they ever know WHO killed Georges Larcher????Featured on The Tempest.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 The Tempest.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 The Tempest.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Woman of the Wood by Abraham Merritt.Here is a story utterly different from any you have ever read before—a tale of a forest of trees in actual warfare against their human foes—utterly weird, utterly fascinating, utterly thrilling, written by the author of “The Moon Pool,” “The Metal Monster,” “The Ship of Ishtar,” and other gripping books. It is a tale of vivid beauty and eery thrills. For four centuries a family of French peasants had lived on the edge of this forest in the Vosges Mountains; and now, when the last of the race attacked the trees with fire and ax, the forest struck back.Featured on The Tempest.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 The Tempest.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Journey into the Interior of the Earth (Version 2) by Jules Verne.A German scientist discovers an ancient runic message, which when translated proves to be a map to the center of a hollow Earth! The professor and his nephew then embark on a dangerous adventure down an Icelandic volcano to explore an unknown world in the interior of the Earth.Featured on The Tempest.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 The Tempest.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Flight of the Shadow by Laura M. Dake.The original printing of The Flight of the Shadow is a highly sought novel among collectors and tells the tale of an Astral soul who tells a man named John Cecil of a story of the American Revolution, a story of lost love and murder, a story of reincarnation and fate. Enjoy this rare briskly told supernatural book of adventure and weirdness that few before have experienced!Featured on The Tempest.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.