This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorPaul Finch
NarratorJonathan Keeble
Duration7h 30m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Horror, Short Stories
PublisherAvid
VersionUnabridged
A collection of short stories by an award-winning master of horror and suspense. In The Poppet a faceless wooden doll holds the secret to a chilling curse . In Hell in the Cathedral, a bunch of tourists are marooned at the mercy of a voracious sea-beast . In The Baleful Dead an ageing heavy metal band reunite at a lonely mansion, unaware of the bloodthirsty forces lingering in the nearby wood. Check out these and several other nerve-shredding tales... if you think you've got the guts!
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 11m
A popular story in the acclaimed 'Pat Hobby' series. Poor Pat Hobby's fates go from bad to worse when he gets the wrong impression of a heated situation. Amusing and delightfully cringeworthy at times, Pat Hobby is a stubborn anti-hero who you won't be able to resist.
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Detective Mark Heckenburg Series Book 6: Ashes To Ashes
Author: Paul Finch
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Paul Thornley
SeriesDetective Mark Heckenburg Series, Book 6
Duration 14h 58m
John Sagan is a forgettable man. You could pass him in the street and not realise he's there. But then, that's why he's so dangerous. A torturer for hire, Sagan has terrorised - and mutilated - countless victims. And now he's on the move. DS Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg must chase the trail, even when it leads him to his hometown of Bradburn - a place he...
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Galloping Foxley (a Roald Dahl Story)
Author: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Richard Griffiths
Duration 37m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Galloping Foxley by Roald Dahl, read by Richard Griffiths. In Galloping Foxley, Roald Dahl tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a commuter is disturbed by an encounter with a man he vividly remembers from school . . . Galloping Foxley is taken from the short story collection S...
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Detective Mark Heckenburgh Series Book 7: Kiss of Death
Author: Paul Finch
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Paul Thornley
SeriesDetective Mark Heckenburg Series, Book 7
Duration 13h 30m
Could this be the end for Heck? The Sunday Times best seller returns with an unforgettable crime thriller. For fans of MJ Arlidge and Stuart MacBride. Don’t let them catch you.... A Deadly Hunt DS ‘Heck’ Heckenburg has been tasked with retrieving one of the UK’s most wanted men. But the trail runs cold w...
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Detective Mark Heckenburg Series Book 4: Dead Man Walking
Author: Paul Finch
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Paul Thornley
SeriesDetective Mark Heckenburg Series, Book 4
Duration 13h 16m
His worst nightmare is back.As a brutal winter takes hold of the Lake District, a prolific serial killer stalks the fells. 'The Stranger' has returned and for DS Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg, the signs are all too familiar. Last seen on Dartmoor ten years earlier, The Stranger murdered his victims in vicious, cold-blooded attacks - and when two young wom...
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Author: Paul Finch
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Chloe Massey
Duration 13h 27m
DC Lucy Clayburn is having a tough time of it. Not only is her estranged father one of the North West's toughest gangsters, but she is in the midst of one of the biggest police operations of her life. Members of the public have started to disappear, taken from the streets as they're going about their every day lives. But no bodies are appearing - i...
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Detective Mark Heckenburg Series Book 2: Sacrifice
Author: Paul Finch
Author Paul Finch
Narrator Paul Thornley
SeriesDetective Mark Heckenburg Series, Book 2
Duration 13h 15m
A vicious serial killer is holding the country to ransom, publicly - and gruesomely - murdering his victims. When a man is burnt alive on a bonfire, it seems like a tragic Guy Fawkes Night accident. But with the discovery of a young couple on Valentine's Day - each with an arrow through the heart - something more sinister becomes clear. A 'calendar...
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Author: Hilary Mantel
Author Hilary Mantel
Narrator Jane Carr
Duration 4h 30m
In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all of Hilary Mantel's gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in 'Comma'; nurses clash in 'Harley Street' over something more than professional differences. Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain r...
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Author: Zadie Smith
Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Zadie Smith
Duration 6h 5m
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else's story of hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart - and other parts of the human body - considering the ways in which desire is always an act...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Sally Scott
Duration 2h 30m
Brought to you by Penguin. How often do you think about your bedtime routine? Almost half of people in Britain say they're kept awake at night due to worry and stress - so making time to switch off in the hour before bed is more important than ever. Penguin Sleep Tales are ten specially designed descriptive audio tales to help you wind down and rel...
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