Nightmare Tales

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 - 1891)

Madame Blavatsky is perhaps most well known as a scholar of Theosophy and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. Her studies of religion, mysticism and philosophy converges in this collection of weird fiction, stories that Blavatsky considered lighter fare compared to her usual writing. In this strange collection, you will find the story of a living ghost tormenting an ex-lover from hundreds of miles away, a revelation of a murder in a most unusual way, a tale from the far east of a seer who allows the visualization of events happening from afar, an unexplainable event from the icy wastes and a gruesome story of a violin imbued with the shrieks of the dead. (Summary by Ben Tucker)

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Language: English

Keyword(s): horror (226), Occult (47), weird (27), spiritualism (24), dervish (3), paganini (2), living ghost (1)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Forward by Annie Besant Ben Tucker
00:01:19
Play 01 A Bewitched Life Part 1 Ben Tucker
00:45:58
Play 02 A Bewitched Life Part 2 Ben Tucker
01:06:43
Play 03 The Cave of the Echoes Ben Tucker
00:22:05
Play 04 The Luminous Shield Ben Tucker
00:19:19
Play 05 From the Polar Lands Ben Tucker
00:08:09
Play 06 The Ensouled Violin Ben Tucker
01:02:08