Tales of Murder and Mayhem: 40 Classic Short Stories

Written by E.F. Benson, O. Henry and W.F. Harvey

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

1. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey
2. "A Madman’s Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
3. "The Hair" by A. J. Alan
4. "My Favourite Murder" by Ambrose Bierce
5. "Cannibalism in the Cars" by Mark Twain
6. "Gabriel-Earnest" by Saki
7. "The Pistol Shot" by Alexander Pushkin
8. "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling
9. "At the Farmhouse" by E. F. Benson
10. "The Parasite" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11. "The Murder of the Mandarin" by Arnold Bennett
12. "Moon’s Gibbet" by Egerton Castle
13. "Query" by Seamark
14. "The Beast with Five Fingers" by W. F. Harvey
15. "The Enemy" by Hugh Walpole
16. "The First of April" by A. J. Alan
17. "The Invisible Man" by G. K. Chesterton
18. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier
19. "Bagnell Terrace" by E. F. Benson
20. "The Furnished Room" by O. Henry
21. "The Perfect Murder" by Stacy Aumonier
22. "The Thing in the Hall" by E. F. Benson
23. "The Watcher by the Threshold" by John Buchan
24. "The Smile of La Gioconda" by Morley Roberts
25. "Nyarlathotep" by H. P. Lovecraft
26. "The Three Sisters" by W. W. Jacobs
27. "The Judgment of Paris" by Leonard Merrick
28. "Professor of Egyptology" by Guy Boothby
29. "Where Was Wych Street" by Stacy Aumonier
30. "A Joy Ride" by A. J. Alan
31. "Caterpillars" by E. F. Benson
32. "The Saloon Passenger" by E. W. Hornung
33. "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
34. "The Cord" by Charles Baudelaire
35. "A Child’s Revenge" by Paul Bourget
36. "Charles" by A. J. Alan
37. "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence
38. "The Confession of Charles Linkworth" by E. F. Benson
39. "The Eyes" by Edith Wharton
40. "The Marionette" by O. Henry

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Feb 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781467603997

E.F. Benson

Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer. Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. A great humorist, he achieved success at an early age with his first novel, Dodo(1893). Benson was a prolific author, writing over one hundred books including serious novels, ghost stories, plays, and biographies. But he is best remembered for his Lucia and Mapp comedies written between 1920 and 1939 and other comic novels such as Paying Guests and Mrs Ames. Benson served as mayor of Rye, the Sussex town that provided the model for his fictional Tilling, from 1934 to 1937.