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Fireside Tales

By: O. Henry,H. P. Lovecraft,W. F. Harvey,Mark Twain,Robert E. Howard,A. J. Alan,Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Summary

An enthralling collection of creepy and mysterious stories. From classic detective stories to spine-tingling horror and scary ghost stories, these tales will make your flesh crawl....

  • 'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain
  • 'The Silver Mask' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'The Cactus' by O. Henry
  • 'Dead of Night' by W. F. Harvey
  • 'The Terrible Old Man' by H. P. Lovecraft
  • 'Rattle of Bones' by Robert E. Howard
  • 'The Last Leaf' by O. Henry
  • 'The Magnet' by Barry Pain
  • 'Pickman’s Model' by H. P. Lovecraft
  • 'Sea Curse' by Robert E. Howard
  • 'The Mystery of the Steel Room' by Thomas W. Hanshew
  • 'The Whistle' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone' by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 'The Ransom of Red Chief' by O. Henry
  • 'The Man who hated Aspidistras' by W. F. Harvey
  • 'The Dream Snake' by Robert E. Howard
  • 'This is All' by Barry Pain
  • 'The House of Cobwebs' by George Gissing
  • 'Miracles' by Barry Pain
  • 'Pigeons from Hell' by Robert E. Howard
  • 'The Paradise of Thieves' by G. K. Chesterton
  • 'The Cop and the Anthem' by O. Henry
  • 'The Blue Sequin' by R. Austin Freeman
  • 'Double Demon' by W. F. Harvey
  • 'The Thing on the Roof' by Robert E. Howard
  • 'Bagnell Terrace' by E. F. Benson
  • 'A Foggy Evening' by A. J. Alan
  • 'His Brother’s Keeper' by W. W. Jacobs
  • 'Moon’s Gibbet' by Egerton Castle
  • 'Charles' by A. J. Alan

And 30 more enthralling stories...

Public Domain (P)2015 Red Door Audiobooks

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horrible reading

Good stories ruined completely by the person reading them. I will never again purchase anything read by this person.

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The storys are fine the narration is awful

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I could not get past the first story due to the poor narration

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the material is good

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don't buy

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couldn't get past the overly dramatic narrator

narrator was attempting to inject drama into every single sentence and it made it unbearable.

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Good stories ruined by poor narration

The collection contains some great tales, but the narrator’s eccentric delivery makes them almost unendurable. Very disappointing.

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5 minutes narration too much

Given the story a three rating as a I couldn’t bear the narrator long enough to rate the actual story.

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