Carmilla (Audiobook)
£1.99A lonely young woman befriends a mysterious new companion who turns out to be a centuries-old vampire, in the novella that predates and influenced Dracula.
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A lonely young woman befriends a mysterious new companion who turns out to be a centuries-old vampire, in the novella that predates and influenced Dracula.

Leprechauns, banshees, and the fairy folk of the Irish and Scottish countryside, collected from oral tradition before they could be lost.

Samuel Smiles follows up his bestseller Self-Help with more case studies arguing that duty, work, and courage build character better than wealth or birth ever could.

Paine’s plain-spoken pamphlet arguing for American independence sold hundreds of thousands of copies and helped turn colonial grumbling into revolution.

A destitute former student murders a pawnbroker to test his own theory of moral exceptionalism, then can’t outrun his conscience.

Dickens’ most autobiographical novel follows David from a difficult childhood through hardship, friendship, and eventual success.

A con man tours provincial Russia buying up the paperwork of dead serfs, in Gogol’s savage, funny portrait of a nation’s bureaucracy and vanity.

A Transylvanian count sails to England with a taste for blood, hunted by Van Helsing and a small band of the sane and the desperate.

Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse fancies herself a matchmaker — and gets nearly everyone’s romantic life wrong before her own.

A traveller stumbles into a hidden society that criminalises illness and treats crime as a matter for doctors, in Samuel Butler’s inverted satire of Victorian values.

A poor New England farmer’s loveless marriage and forbidden love collide in a single, devastating sled ride.

Independent farmer Bathsheba Everdene is courted by three very different men, with consequences none of them see coming.

A retired merchant bankrupts himself supporting his two ungrateful daughters’ climb into Parisian high society, in Balzac’s tragedy of parental love.

A young nihilist’s visit home exposes the widening gulf between Russia’s old aristocracy and its restless, radical youth.

Five children dig up a bad-tempered sand fairy who grants wishes — badly, and with unpredictable consequences, every single day.

Scholars and antiquarians disturb things better left buried in M.R. James’s classic ghost stories, still the gold standard of the genre.