<p>From the author of <i>Little Women</i> comes a collection of gothic romantic and spellbinding tales guaranteed to surprise and delight.</p><p>This collection represents the best of Alcott’s adult oeuvre. The stories in this volume display dramatic intensity and thrilling suspenseful plots that show Alcott to be a complex and passionate writer. Listeners will discover within this maelstrom of murder deceit obsessive desire treachery duplicity and betrayal that love and honor can still conquer all.</p><p>The book takes its title from the tale “A Whisper in the Dark” arguably Alcott’s gothic masterpiece a story of imperiled innocence. Also featured are “The Mysterious Key and What It Opened” “The Abbot’s Ghost; or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation: A Christmas Story” “La Jeune; or Actress and Woman” “Ariel: A Legend of the Lighthouse” and “The Skeleton in the Closet.”</p>