Wilkie Collins: The Short Stories

Wilkie Collins was a prolific writer of short stories. Always original, his combination of cleverly constructed plots and believable characters has made him one of our most widely read authors. 

In “The Dead Hand,” a visitor to Doncaster in race week is forced by circumstances to spend the night at an inauspicious inn, while an evening at a Paris gambling house ends in near tragedy for the narrator in “A Terribly Strange Bed,” and in “The Dream Woman,” a nightmarish apparition exerts a sinister blight on a man’s life. 

This collection is read for you by Richard Mitchley, who has worked in theater throughout Britain,  and Ian Holm, one of England’s finest actors.