Cassette 1 Rudyard Kipling's "Plain Tales from the Hills" read by Martin Jarvis: "His Wedded Wife"; "The Bisara of Pooree"; "Watches of the Night"; "The Broken-Link Handicap"; "A Bank Fraud"; "Miss Yougal's Sais". Cassette 2 Classic Love stories: "Angela", W.S. Gilbert read by Martin Jarvis; "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion", Thomas Hardy read by Martin Jarvis; "The Singing Lesson", Katerine Mansfield read by Rosalind Ayres; "Perilous Play", Louisa May Alcott read by Rosalind Ayres. Cassette 3 Classic ghost stories read by Richard Pasco: "Narrative of the Ghost of the Hand", J. Sheridan Le Fanu; "To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt", Charles Dickens; "The Tell-Tale Heart", Edgar Allan Poe; "Gabriel-Ernest", Saki (H.H. Munroe; "The Furnished Room", O. Henry. Cassette 4 Classic tales of mystery and the supernatural read by Robin Bailey: "The Werewolf", Frederick Maryat; "The Mezzotint", M.R. James; "The Black Cat", Edgar Allan Poe. Cassette 5 Selected stories of John Buchan read by Iain Cuthbertson: "'Divus' Johnston"; "The Black Fishers"; "On Cademuir Hill"; "Ship to Tarshish". Cassette 6 Classic science fiction stories read by Nicky Henson: "Dr Heidegger's Experiment", Nathaniel Hawthorne; "A Thousand Deaths", Jack London; "a Tale of Negative Gravity", Frank R. Stockton.
