Gripping Stories: Tales of Adventure, Horror and Mystery

Written by Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

A fabulous anthology of some of the finest stories ever written. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson. The Withered Arm – Thomas Hardy. The Stolen White Elephant – Mark Twain. The Jew’s Beech Tree – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. The Phantom Rickshaw – Rudyard Kipling. The Suicide Club - Robert Louis Stevenson. The Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk - Robert Louis Stevenson. The Adventure of the Hansom Cabs - Robert Louis Stevenson. The 39 Steps – John Buchan. The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter – Ambrose Bierce. The Pavilion on the Links - Robert Louis Stevenson. The Dead – James Joyce.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Apr 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781467668866

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, critic and war veteran. Bierce fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of brevet major before resigning from the Army following an 1866 expedition across the Great Plains. Bierce’s harrowing experiences during the Civil War, particularly those at the Battle of Shiloh, shaped a writing career that included editorials, novels, short stories and poetry. Among his most famous works are “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “The Boarded Window,” “Chickamauga,” and What I Saw of Shiloh. While on a tour of Civil-War battlefields in 1913, Bierce is believed to have joined Pancho Villa’s army before disappearing in the chaos of the Mexican Revolution.