The Grim Reaper's Bedside Story Book: Tales of Gruesome and Unusual Deaths

Written by Dan Ariely, Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

A highly unsettling collection of macabre stories in which death and the dead are key themes.

"Moon’s Gibbet", by Egerton Castle
"A Strange Goldfield", by Guy Boothby
"The Withered Arm", by Thomas Hardy
"The Pistol Shot", by Alexander Pushkin
"The Premature Burial", by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Dead Hand", by Wilkie Collins
"The Famous Race Between the Hearse and the Steamroller", by Sidney Keyes
"The Masque of the Red Death", by Edgar Allan Poe
"Nine O’Clock", by Wilkie Collins
"The Queen of Spades", by Alexander Pushkin
"The Other Side", by Count Eric Stenislaus Stenbock
"The King is Dead, Long Live the King", by Mary Coleridge
"The Restless Dead", by Lord Halifax
"The Dumb Man", by Sherwood Anderson
"The Idiot", by Arnold Bennett
"The Mortal Immortal", by Mary Shelley
"Lost in a Pyramid", by Louisa M. Alcott
"They", by Rudyard Kipling
"An Idyll of London", by Beatrice Harraden
"The Monkey’s Paw", by W. W. Jacobs
"Senility", by Sherwood Anderson
"The Black Ferry", by John Galt
"The Mines of Falun", by E. T. A. Hoffmann
"The Dead", by James Joyce
"The Cord", by Charles Baudelaire
"The Child with the Bread Shoes", by Théophile Gautier
"Jenny", by Victor Hugo

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Jul 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781467682213

Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He is a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight; a cocreator of the film documentary (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies; and a three-time New York Times bestselling author. His books include Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, Irrationally Yours, Payoff, Dollars and Sense, and Amazing Decisions. His TED Talks have been viewed more than 27 million times. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and elsewhere. He lives in North Carolina with his family.