Barry Pain

Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children.He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read classics and contributed to and edited...

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that...

"Eliza" was the first volume of the Eliza Stories by Barry Pain (1864-1928). It was published in 1900 and was the first of these stories that appeared in cheap editions and were sold on Railway bookstalls. The stories were hugely popular and made...

A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of anecdotes following the life of the main character and his wife, Eliza. Full summary to follow. (Summary by Nigel Boydell) Author - Barry Pain. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19...

Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'.We follow the professional and marital decline of long suffering (and loving it), Luke Sharper, as his marriage to Mabel flounders while his love for Jona...

A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfunctional family, and delights in relating every cringing, if not wholly accurate, minutiae of her exciting...

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories."Miracles" is the tale of two extraordinarily talented men, Best and Bliss, who develop a way of communicating nonverbally and...

Barry Pain was noted for his humorous tales of “Eliza” and her husband but his tales of the weird and supernatural are equally noteworthy. This volume of More “Tales in the Dark” contains eight of them. They are:“The Gray Cat”“Post-Mortem”“Linda”“The...

Barry Pain was noted for his humorous tales of “Eliza” and her husband but his tales of the weird and supernatural are equally noteworthy. This volume contains seven of them. They are:“The Undying Thing”“The Moon-slave”“The Case of Vincent...

A colourful palette of short stories featuring artists and their love of paintings."Rose Rose" by Barry Pain"The Cat" by E. F. Benson"The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde"A Queer Night in Paris" by Guy de Maupassant"Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K....

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer. The End of a Show is a poignant tale of a quack showman and seller of dubious stomach pills who carries out what he believes to be his first-ever act of kindness - an act...

Barry Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer, best known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.The Giraffe Problem tells the story of an evening at the Problem Club, a secret society of gentlemen in London who meet...

The short story is considered to be one of the most challenging genres because of the need for compact plotlines and the ability to conjure up atmosphere and character in a few sentences and to engage the reader instantly. This collection presents 66...

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer. The Green Light is an iconic horror story describing graphically the rapid decline into psychosis of a man who has murdered his wife. Author - Barry Pain. Narrator - Cathy...

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his outstanding ghost and horror stories.'The Grey Cat' is a supernatural story about a very peculiar and sinister cat which follows an explorer home from...

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories."The Magnet" is the uncanny story of a very unusual copycat mass murderer. Author - Barry Pain. Narrator - Cathy Dobson....

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories."The Missing Years" is the haunting tale of Sylvia Hetheril, who goes out to post letters one day and fails to return. All...

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his outstanding ghost and horror stories.This selection gives a marvellous insight into the strength and diversity of Pain's writing. Collection includes "The...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult...

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories.The Tree of Death is a haunting story with something of a fairy tale character to it...but a fairy tale that turns into a...

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories.This Is All tells the story of Alexander Wyatt ,who has a morbid fear of dying. Unfortunately Wyatt is ill with a heart condition...