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In addition to being an accomplished lawyer and a highly influential music critic, the nineteenth-century German Romantic Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) also wrote pioneering works of crime and horror fiction, including The Sandman, Mademoiselle de Scuderi, and The Nu ...  Show more

The 1920s were a tumultuous time for Russia, as the nation careened from the aftermath of revolution to the death of Lenin, the establishment of the Soviet Union, and the slide toward Stalinist totalitarianism. Given all of that serious upheaval, what explains the public's passio ...  Show more

Let's read some horror poetry.

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To read along:

A Child's Nightmare by Robert Graves: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_descriptio ...

To celebrate Melvyn Bragg’s 27 years presenting In Our Time, five well-known fans of the programme have chosen their favourite episodes. Comedian Frank Skinner has picked the episode on the life and work of the poet Emily Dickinson and recorded an introduction to it. (This introd ...  Show more

This was originally uploaded as a video on my YouTube channel, but I thought it might be nice for some to have the audio. I love these poems dearly, and I hope you will too.

You can find the original video here: Death ...

The Haunted Island by Edward Harold Visiak audiobook. Genre: adventure Christmas Eve, 1668: young Francis Clayton listens as his bold older brother Dick speaks of a treasure so vast it has become a sailor's nightmare, hidden on a remote island said to be watched by a gigantic spe ...  Show more