Cathy Dobson has narrated 62 audiobooks on Listento.it by 84 authors, with an average listener rating of 3.2★ across 56 ratings. The most-rated is The Psammead Trilogy.
The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains
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Frederick Marryat’s The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains is a unique literary work that stands out amidst the body of work of an author best known for pioneering the genre of the sea story. Excised from Marryat’s novel The Phantom Ship (1839) and published separately as The White Wolf it represents the first appearance of a female werewolf in Victorian literature. Krantz, a fugitive from justice, takes refuge in the Hartz mountains with his three children and lives by hunting in the forest and subsistence farming. One day he chases a white wolf, and meets a hunter with a beautiful daughter. He marries the daughter, but the children soon discover that their new step-mother is not the pretty kind woman she pretends to be. She has an altogether more sinister side...
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks
100 Nursery Rhymes
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A delightful and comprehensive collection of all the best known traditional children's rhymes. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
©2011 Red Door Audiobooks (P)2010 Red Door Audiobooks
Chinese Fairy Tales
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A beautiful collection of some of the finest Chinese fairy tales ever told. Incorporating magic, wicked witches, strange adventures and mysterious spirits. Enchanting! Stories include: "The Magic Pillow" "The Stone Monkey" "Stealing Peaches" "The Painted Skin" "The Wonderful Pear Tree" "The Country of Gentlemen" "Learning Magic" "Theft of a Duck" "Living for Ever" "Football on a Lake" "The Flower Fairies" "The Talking Bird" "The Peach Blossom Fountain" "The Lute Girl’s Lament"
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks
The Ghost Club
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John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, editor and satirist. 'The Ghost Club' is a lighthearted ghost story told by a prisoner who has been found guilty of burglary and the theft of a set of ornate silver teaspoons. His improbable story of how he came to be in possession of the spoons is extraordinary and charmingly engaging.
Public Domain (P)2016 Red Door Audiobooks
The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress
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Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863 – 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian "Golden Age" of the short story. "The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress" is the story of a ten-thousand-pound bet between young gentlemen in their club. The Earl of Normanstowe undertakes to walk out of the club at eight o'clock that evening, and given a sixteen hour start, to disappear for the period of exactly one month without leaving London. Sir Charles Wrigge undertakes to track him down within the month. Normanstowe's plan for his concealment is certainly novel... but the outcome of his adventure is anything but what he expected.
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks
The 39 Steps
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When Richard Hannay returns to London after an action-packed life in Rhodesia, he finds life unbearably dull. He is on the point of leaving the city in search of adventures, when mystery and intrigue turns up at his door in the shape of Franklin Scudder, Hannay’s neighbour, who turns out to be a spy trying to escape the clutches of a shady international organisation, bent on sparking a European war. When Scudder is mysteriously murdered and all the evidence seems to point to Hannay himself, he escapes to Scotland, bearing Scudder’s cryptic coded notebook, which he struggles to decipher. Hannay manages by cunning, skilful disguise and sheer pluck to keep one step ahead of his ruthless pursuers…and eventually works out the cipher to read Scudder’s mysterious notes, which refer to the 39 steps and the enigmatic Black Stone. But can Hannay solve the puzzle, thwart the criminals, and clear his name before Europe is plunged into turmoil?
Public Domain (P)2013 Red Door Audiobooks
Gambler's Luck
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E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror as well as a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories were highly influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. 'Gambler's Luck' tells the story of a young German baron who is enjoying a streak of beginner's luck at the gambling tables. As his winnings mount up, the young man is gradually becoming sucked into the addictive habit of gambling. One night a stranger appears at the gambling table and watches the baron intently. The stranger appears night after night, until the baron is infuriated and challenges the man. A later chance meeting between the two results in the stranger relating a most unusual and gripping tale....
Public Domain (P)2018 Red Door Audiobooks
Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty
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The small minded and prudish sister of an English clergyman travels on her own to a hotel in Bordeaux. When she closes the door of her room after returning from a bath, she finds a man asleep on the bed. She realises then she is in the wrong room, but the door handle has come off in her hand, and she can’t get out. Then she discovers the man is dead. To be found in a strange man’s bedroom in the night is bad enough, but to be found in a dead man’s bedroom was even worse. A masterpiece, with outstanding characterisation and laced with subtle humour.
©1920 Public Domain (P)2013 Red Door Audiobooks
The Short Stories of J. S. Fletcher
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Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story. This collection brings together some of the finest and most diverse examples of Fletcher's genius. This collection brings together some of the finest and most diverse examples of Fletcher's genius. 1. The Malachite Jar. 2. Green Ink. 3. The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand. 4. The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress. 5. Alone on a Wide Wide Sea. 6. The Influence Fails. 7. The Vengeance of La Maraye. 8. Brown Rat’s Dock. 9. The Secret of the Strong Room. 10. Mr. Leggatt leaves his Card. 11. The Registered Packet. 12. The White Kid Glove. 13. Against Time. 14. The Man in the Fur Coat. 15. The Permanent Tenant. 16. Room 53. 17. Skinflint. 18. The Secret of the Barbican.
Public Domain (P)2017 Red Door Audiobooks
The Phoenix and the Carpet
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First written in 1904, this is one of Edith Nesbit's best-loved children's stories. It it the second story about a group of five children - Robert, Anthea, Cyril, Jane, and their baby brother, the Lamb - who live in London. One day their mother buys a new carpet for the nursery which mysteriously contains a stone egg. When the egg falls into the fire by accident, nobody can possibly imagine what adventures will be unleashed. The egg hatches the Phoenix who reveals that the carpet is in fact a magic wishing carpet, which will take the children on a rollercoaster ride of adventures, scrapes and mishaps. They end up stuck inside a tunnel with buried treasure, on a sunny Southern shore where their cook is made Queen of the Island, having tea with the Rania in India, and even when they are at home in Camden town they mysteriously and unexpectedly become the owners of an unfeasibly large number of cats. There are many more adventures... but you will need to listen and find out for yourselves....
©1995 Edith Nesbitt (P)2011 Red Door Audiobooks
An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885) was a Norwegian writer, scholar and collector of traditional folktales. 'An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve' describes a young Norwegian soldier recovering from an illness who finds himself stranded on Christmas Eve with a family who sit around the fire telling a series of quite extraordinary folktales and ghost stories.
Public Domain (P)2017 Red Door Audiobooks
The Severed Hand
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The narrator, Zaleukos, a native of Constantinople, studied medicine in Paris and, following his father's death, develops a successful business as a travelling merchant and healer. Arriving in Florence, he sets up shop as usual. But after he has been in town a few days, he finds a small handwritten note from an unknown stranger, asking to meet him at midnight on the Ponte Vecchio. Curious, he goes to the bridge in question, but ends up tussling with the stranger and comes away with the man's red cloak. Attempting to lure the cloak's owner, by putting it on sale for an extortionate price in his shop a new incident soon occurs which results in him being passed another mysterious note, again asking for a meeting on the same bridge as before. This time, the purpose of the meeting becomes clear...but it is a very odd request, indeed, although financially well rewarded. But as Zaleukos is drawn into the intrigue, his mission takes on a far more horrible character, and before long he has committed an awful crime and is in imminent peril of his life.
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks
The Child with the Bread Shoes
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When little Hans dies of the croup, his mother uses all her scant wealth to ensure him a proper burial. She spins the thread for his shroud and has a beautiful little coffin made. But while she is out, the rats gnaw at little Hans's leather slippers and the dead child has nothing for his feet. Hans' mother makes him a pair of shoes from her last loaf of bread. But after the child is buried, the ghostly child reappears night after night weeping. The bread shoes are preventing him from entering heaven. But the local priest comes up with a plan.
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks
Bloodcurdling Ghost Stories
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A selection of ghost stories which make your blood run cold. "An Account Of Some Disturbances In Aungier Street" - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu "The Spectre Of Tappington" - Richard Harris Barham "The Man Of Science" - Jerome K. Jerome "The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes" - Henry James "The Spectre Bride" - William Harrison Ainsworth "A Haunted House" - Virginia Woolf "To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt" - Charles Dickens
©2011 Red Door Audiobooks (P)2011 Red Door Audiobooks
The Story Of The Amulet
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The magic Psammead is back! This time the four children, Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane are stuck in London for the Summer, when they come across the Psammead (or wish-giving sand-fairy), imprisoned in a pet shop. They manage to free him, and he tells them where they can get hold of a magic amulet which will bring them their hearts' desire. Unfortunately when the amulet is secured, it is incomplete. They and the Psammead must travel back into ancient history to see the part of the amulet which was lost. The children experience one breathtaking adventure after another in Babylon, Egypt, the lost city of Atlantis, Tyre... Edith Nesbit was to children in the early 20th century what J.K. Rowling is to today's young generation. Magic, mythical creatures, time travel, charms, words of power... Nesbit's stories have it all. The Story Of The Amulet is the third and final book in this series. The first two are: Five Children and It, and The Phoenix And The Carpet.
Public Domain (P)2011 Red Door Audiobooks
The Red Hand
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Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. The Red Hand is a mysterious horror story which tells the peculiar tale of the strange murder of Sir Thomas Vivian, the famous heart surgeon. Why was he murdered with an ancient flint weapon when there was an unused, brand-new knife at the scene? What was the meaning of the bizarre letter in the dead man's pocket, written in a very strange hand? And what could be the meaning of the peculiar symbol of a red hand chalked on the wall above the corpse?
Public Domain (P)2018 Red Door Audiobooks
Who Killed Charlie Winpole?
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Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author of 21 novels and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works have been ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. In his stories of detection, Bramah hit on the idea of a blind detective, Max Carrados, whose triumphs are all the more amazing because of his disability. In Who Killed Charlie Winpole?, Max Carrados investigates what initially appears to be a tragic case of a teenage boy who is accidentally poisoned by a toxic toadstool mistaken for an edible mushroom. Within a few days, the boy's uncle has been arrested and charged with murder. But Carrados is not satisfied by this explanation either and embarks on a highly irregular kind of investigation.
Public Domain (P)2015 Red Door Audiobooks
Struwelpeter
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Heinrich Hoffman's classic cautionary tales for children was first published in German in 1844, with this English edition following four years later in 1848. It has remained a popular childhood favourite ever since. The tales tell the stories of children whose disobedience or bad habits lead them to a sticky end. No childhood is complete without characters like Shock-Headed Peter who never cuts his fingernails or combs his hair, or Suck-a-Thumb or Fidgety Philip? The comically gruesome fates which befall the children is partly what makes Struwelpeter so appealing to young listeners.
Public Domain (P)2011 Red Door Audiobooks
Mr. Tallent's Ghost
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Mary Webb (1881-1927) was an English Romantic novelist, short story writer and poet whose work is set chiefly in Shropshire. 'Mr. Tallent's Ghost' is an amusing tale about an eccentric writer who likes to read his appalling and tedious novels aloud to his relatives...or indeed anyone who will listen. He persuades a lawyer to draw up a will devoting his entire fortune to funding the publication of his writing. Shortly after this, news of Mr. Tallent's death arrives. The disinherited relations dispute the will vigorously, and soon after this, the ghost of Mr. Tallent begins to haunt the relatives and the executor. Worse still, the ghost is reading his dreadful novels to them aloud. One by one the relatives are consigned to mental institutions. The lawyer, who is also Mr. Tallent's executor, holds out longest...and then he makes an extraordinary discovery.
Public Domain (P)2016 Red Door Audiobooks
The Great British Short Story Collection
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A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers. 1. "The Missing Years" by Barry Pain 2. "His Brother's Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs 3. "A Madman's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens 4. "The House of Cobwebs" by Barry Pain 5. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier 6. "A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy 7. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey 8. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey 9. "Rose Rose" by Barry Pain 10. "An Undergraduate's Aunt" by F. Anstey 11. "An Idyll of London" by Beatrice Harraden 12. "Hot Potatoes" by Arnold Bennett 13. "Bagnell Terrace" by E. F. Benson 14. "Malachi's Cove" by Anthony Trollope 15. "Moon's Gibbet" by Egerton Castle 16. "The Dancing Partner" by Jerome K. Jerome 17. "The Giraffe Problem" by Barry Pain 18. "The Man who was Blind" by Edwin Pugh 19. "The Perfect Murcer" by Stacy Aumonier 20. "The Other Side" by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock 21. "The Roman Road" by Kenneth Grahame 22. "At the Farmhouse" by E. F. Benson 23. "The Dead Hand" by Wilkie Collins 24. "The Wind in the Portico" by John Buchan 25. "The Smile of La Gioconda" by Morley Roberts 26. "The Room" by Stacy Aumonier 27. "The Octave of Jealousy" by Stacy Aumonier 28. "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling 29. "The Salt of the Earth" by Barry Pain 30. "The Diary of Mr. Poynter" by M. R. James ....and over 20 more exciting stories.
Public Domain (P)2015 Red Door Audiobooks