Immersive Audio Stories – Narrated & Produced by David Sweeney-Bear
A Time-Travelling Assassin... A prison inmate is given a second chance...The man, Conger, must go back in time and kill a mysterious and religious leader (the Founder) who gave just one speech before disappearing. The only clue to his identity is a yellowed 200 hundred year old skull. He travels back in time to a small town near Denver in 1960 and waits for his target....Listen Now...
A Man Is Re-Animated Over and Over... Our protagonist is saved from drowning, only to find himself the subject of bizarre experimentation, carried out by none other than his estranged father. Will he escape, or will he perish at the hands of a mad scientist?... Listen Now...
A Nefarious Plot is Averted... [Part 2] Having heard the bizarre account of Mr Jabez Wilson, Holmes and Watson head to the pawnbroker's premises to investigate. There, Holmes gathers enough information to feel he has solved the mystery and to predict a crime about to be committed. Holmes and Watson, along with Police Inspector Jones and a Mr. Merryweather secrete themselves in an underground vault awaiting the emergence of the perpetrators and hopefully to foil their plans. Listen Now...
A Sherlock Holmes Detective Mystery... [Part 1] A pawnbroker, the red-headed Jabez Wilson, approaches Sherlock Homes and Dr. Watson with a mystery to be solved. He recounts his tale of having been recruited by an obscure organisation called "The Red-Headed League" and employed by them on account of his fiery red hair. However, he is much dismayed when the league, along with his employment, suddenly disappears. Having listened to the facts, Sherlock Holmes is convinced that a much more sinister plot is at play than might at first sight appear... Listen Now...
A Young Man Trapped In An Old Man's Body... An impoverished young medical student, Edward Eden, is visited by the wealthy and elderly Mr. Elvesham with an offer to make Eden his heir - but the offer comes with certain conditions that the younger man couldn't have imagined! Listen Now...
Phantom Echoes In This Nightmare Tale... Mr. Izvertzoff, a wealthy Russian landowner, mysteriously disappears while visiting a cavern on his land - the so-called "Cave Of The Echoes". He is presumed to have been murdered and the finger of blame is pointed firmly at his man-servant, Ivan.... Listen Now...
A Ghost In The London Underground... In this spooky classic tale, our narrator is an overnight guest at the house of Anthony Carling. Anthony begins the story with a philosophical monologue on the nature of time, space and eternity. Listen Now...
Man vs Machine... Following a debate between our narrator and Moxon regarding the degree of intelligence a machine can possess, one of Moxon's inventions - a chess-playing automaton runs amok, with fatal consequences. Listen Now...
An Egyptian Mummy Is Re-animated.... In this satire on American scientific culture by Edgar Allan Poe, Dr Ponnoner invites our narrator to the unwrapping of a 5000-year-old Egyptian mummy. First published in 1845, the story is the earliest known representation of a revived Egyptian mummy. Listen now...
A Ghostly Pack Of Dogs Get Their Revenge... [Part 2] Edith Wharton’s 1916 ghost story, “Kerfol,” tells the story of a young woman convicted of her older husband’s murder. Her claim that the dogs the man had systematically murdered for their devotion to her were responsible for maiming her husband was met with derision, and yet ever after, on the anniversary of his death, the caretakers leave the estate to avoid encountering the silent, sinister pack of ghostly canines. Listen now...
A Deserted Mansion... In part 1 of "Kerfol", our narrator goes to visit an old semi-fortified mansion in Brittany, at the suggestion of his friend Lanrivain. He is impressed by its age and the sense of history it exudes. No guardian or owners appear, but he is met by a pack of assorted dogs which are mysteriously quiet. When he returns to his friend’s house that night, Mrs Lanvirain tells him that the dogs are the ‘ghosts of Kerfol’.... Listen Now...
Zombies and Sleepwalkers Everywhere... "The Leadington Incident" recounts the disturbing experience of a Cabinet minister who suddenly perceives that though the people around him move and talk as though alive, they are all actually just animated corpses or sleepwalking zombies. Listen Now...
The Ghost of a Hanged Man Haunts A Priest... Alfred Wadham is convicted of murder and about to be hanged. He protests his innocence but no one believes him. Then, on the evening before the hanging is to take place, another man goes to the prison priest, Father Denys, and confesses that it was he and not poor Alfred Wadham who committed the murder. Father Denys begs him to own up. He refuses. Listen Now...
A Covert Conspiracy By Non-Human Entities...A patient fears evil is at work in the shape of a sinister conspiracy. Will his psychiatrist be able to help? Listen Now...
A Man Falls In Love With The Ghost of a Woman's Portrait... Mr. Devigne inherits a house in Chelsea and an annuity from his wealthy Aunt Dorcas. There he discovers two portraits, one bearing a striking resemblance to himself, and the other of a woman clad in a black velvet gown with “large, deep, luminous eyes”. Infatuated with the image of the beguiling beauty, he wishes that she “...were a woman and not a picture”. A story of dark romance and tragedy unfolds.Listen Now...
Sinister Stone Statues Come To Life... A newly-wed couple rent a cottage in the country which at first seems idyllic, but they soon learn of a local superstition concerning the local church, where the marble effigies on the tombs within the church are said to arise and walk "in their marble" each year on All Saint's Eve (Halloween). Listen Now...
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