Curious Tales

Written by Wilkie Collins, Alphonse Alphonse Daudet and W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

Curious Tales:

1. “A Joy Ride” by A. J. Alan
2. “The Death Mask” by H. D. Everett
3. “Query” by Austin Small
4. “The Dancing Partner” by Jerome K. Jerome
5. “The Furnished Room” by O. Henry
6. “The Squaw” by Bram Stoker
7. “The Interruption” by W. W. Jacobs
8. “The 19 Club” by A. J. Alan
9. “The Giraffe Problem” by Barry Pain
10. “The Man who Stole a Meeting House” by John Townsend Trowbridge
11. “The Lightning-Rod Man” by Herman Melville
12. “Gabriel-Ernest” by Saki
13. “An Undergraduate's Aunt” by F. Anstey
14. “Major Namby” by Wilkie Collins
15. “The Tale” by Joseph Conrad
16. “The Green Light” by Barry Pain
17. “A Coincidence” by A. J. Alan
18. “The Three Sisters” by W. W. Jacobs
19. “The Siege of Berlin” by Alphonse Daudet
20. “The Marquise” by George Sand
21. “The Mad Veteran of Fort Ratonneau” by Ludwig Achim von Arnim
22. “Comrades” by Maxim Gorky
23. “The Man who was Blind” by Edwin Pugh
24. “A Witch in the Peak” by R. Murray Gilchrist
25. “My Adventure in Jermyn Street” by A. J. Alan
26. “His Brother's Keeper” by W. W. Jacobs
27. “The Singing Lesson” by Katherine Mansfield
28. “The Reverent Father Gaucher's Elixir” by Alphonse Daudet
29. “The Story of a Piebald Horse” by W. H. Hudson
30. “Long Odds” by H. Rider Haggard

…and sixteen more unusual tales.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Oct 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781467697620

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824-September 23, 1889) was the author of thirty novels, more than sixty short stories, fourteen plays (including an adaptation of The Moonstone), and more than one hundred nonfiction pieces. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.