Here is a selection of chilling tales only to be enjoyed of a dark evening when safely by the warmth of the fire. • The Monkey’s Paw • In The Penal Colony • O Whistle and I’ll Come to You my Lad • A Warning to the Curious • Afterwards • The Haunted and the Haunter • The Red Room • Tell Tale Heart • The Signal Man • August Heat • The Bus Conductor • In the Dark Stories by E.Nesbit, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka, Edgar Alan Poe, E.F Benson, H.G Wells, M.R James and others; narrated wi...

The story of three wishes being granted is an old one and often takes the form of a precautionary tale with the resultant moral being “be careful what you wish for!” Such is the fallibility of human nature that we can’t easily be trusted to use those wishes wisely. The great children’s author Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) took this popular concept for her 1903 book “Five Children and It” and extended the wishes from three to eleven, now granted to five young siblings in Edwardian England. They have...