A collection of favourite classic poems by some of our best loved poets including Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Love Peacock, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Algernon Charles Swinburne and others.

Here is a collection of 41 favourite classic children's poems by some of our best loved writers including Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling and others.

A collection of seventeen classic tales of the macabre and supernatural by some of the best known writers in these genres.E.Nesbit - “Man-Size in Marble” and “The Letter in Brown Ink”Edgar Allan Poe - “The Sphinx” and “The Angel of the Odd”Arthur Conan Doyle - “The Case of Lady Sannox” and “Playing with Fire”Henry Seton Merriman - “The Tale of a Scorpion”M.R. James - “The Ash Tree”Robert Louis Stevenson - “The Body-Snatcher” and “Markheim”Mary Elizabeth Braddon - “The Cold Embrace”Wilkie C...

THE TOYS OF PEACE AND OTHER PAPERS by "Saki" (H. H. Munro) is a collection of 33 "papers" or short stories, which were originally published separately in various journals and later issued in one volume in 1919, three years after the writer's death in the Great War. They are some of the most delightful of literary miniatures.They are: The Toys of PeaceLouiseTeaThe Disappearance of Chrispina UmberleighThe Wolves of CernogratzLouisThe GuestsThe PenanceThe Phantom LuncheonA Bread and Butter Mi...

“Reginald”, published in 1904, was the first of Saki's collections of short stories. The eponymous Reginald is an effete, cynical young man-about-town, whose character is a vehicle for Saki's delicicous biting wit satirizing Edwardian high society.Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name “Saki”, was born in Burma in 1870 where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. From the age of two he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmo...

A third collection of eighteen classic tales of the weird and supernatural by some of the best known writers in these genres.E.Nesbit - “In the Dark” and “No. 17”Edgar Allan Poe - “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”Arthur Conan Doyle - “The New Catacomb”M.R. James - “Wailing Well” and “Rats”Saki - “ The Hounds of Fate” and “The Peace of Mowsle Barton”Hugh Walpole - “Field with Five Trees” and “The Silver Mask”E.F. Benson - “The Thing in the Hall” and “The W...

The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful of exquisite literary miniatures. In this second volume there are 22 glittering examples.Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870 where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. From the age of two he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. ...

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre "Can Such Things Be?" was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. This selection contains two of his most famous tales: "The Moonlit Road" and "The Death of Halpin Frayser" together with 10 others: “John Mortonson's Funeral,” “One Summer Night,” “A Baby Tramp,” “A Diagnosis of Death,””Staley Fleming's Hallucination,” “Moxon's Master,” “A Psychological Shipwreck,” “John Bartine's Watch...

E. Nesbit is best known for her children's books such as “The Railway Children”, the “Psammead” series. and the stories of the “Bastable” family. She was also a poet and wrote many works for adults including short stories in the genre of the supernatural and the macabre. “The Head” is one of her most strange and disturbing.

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. His “Fairy Books”, each named a colour, were twelve volumes of tales collected from many sources and were published between 1889 and 1910. The eight stories in this collection are taken from the Blue, Red and Green Fairy Books and are:“Rapunzel”“Toads and Diamonds”“Cinderella”"Little Red Riding Hood”“Rumpelstilzkin”“Three Bears”“Jack, Giant-Killer”“Bronze Ring”

E. Nesbit is best known for her children's books such as “The Railway Children”, the “Psammead” series. and the stories of the “Bastable” family. She was also a poet and wrote many works for adults including short stories in the genre of the supernatural and the macabre, eight of which are included in this collection.

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author known for his works of horror and the fantastic. He is recognized as an influence on modern writers of supernatural fiction. “Holy Terrors” (published in 1946, a year before his death) is a collection of fourteen short stories of which nine are very short and are included in this recording. They are:“The Rose Garden”“Psychology”“The Soldier's Rest””“The Cosy Room”“The Ceremony”“Holy Things”“The Turanians”“The Happy Children”“Munitions of War”