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Fifty Classic Ghost Stories

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Fifty Classic Ghost Stories

By: E. F. Benson, Edith Wharton, F. Marion Crawford, Lettice Galbraith, Hugh Walpole, Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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A wonderful collection of 50 of the best classic ghost stories ever written.

  • 'The Missing Model' by Lettice Galbraith
  • 'Pomegranate Seed' by Edith Wharton
  • 'The Screaming Skull' by F. Marion Crawford
  • 'The Ghost in the Cupboard Room' by Wilkie Collins
  • 'The Shadow on the Blind' by Louisa Baldwin
  • 'A Ghost's Revenge' by Lettice Galbraith
  • 'The Lost Ghost' by Mary Wilkins-Freeman
  • 'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie
  • 'The Cold Embrace' by Mary E. Braddon
  • 'The Dust Cloud' by E. F. Benson
  • 'The Haunted Dolls' House' by M. R. James
  • 'For the Blood Is the Life' by F. Marion Crawford
  • 'Miss Mary Pask' by Edith Wharton
  • 'Mrs Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith
  • 'The Man with the Roller' by E. G. Swain
  • 'Over an Absinthe Bottle' by W. C. Morrow
  • 'The Diary of Mr. Poynter' by M. R. James
  • 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'They' by Rudyard Kipling
  • 'The Evil Clergyman' by H. P. Lovecraft

Plus 30 more classic ghost stories....

Public Domain (P)2015 Red Door Audiobooks
Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Haunted Ghost Fantasy Paranormal

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These are good stories but are completely ruined by the narrator. Cathy Dobson's voice is grating. I couldn't absorb the story being told due to her seriously irritating voice. Surely, somebody at Audible must listen to these before publishing.

Good Stories Completely Ruined

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Reading stories more than, say, 100 years old, requires a good deal of skill and can bring difficult literature to life. Sadly this reader seems to have honed her skills on a decade or two of UK local radio commercials, and perhaps some Christmas panto in her local village hall. Combine this with a refreshingly relaxed approach to pronouncing 'difficult' words, and we have an audio experience that is not quite what I was hoping for. Harsh, maybe, but people on Libravox do this better for love, not for money.

Classic stories, badly presented

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The narration is abysmal, or as the narrator would have said, “The na-ray-shunnn isss a-bizzzz-malllll”. I had to stop part way through. I couldn’t stand it any longer. Give this collection a wide berth, if you like your ears.

I wish I had read the previous reviews

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Beware, this is a Text-to-Speech automated reading and the appalling intonation makes it unlistenable nonsense.

Text to speach

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what a load of rubbish. stories go on and on making no sense and the narrator has to be the most talentless person ever. no charisma what so ever. give this a miss. I'm annoyed I wasted my credit on this!

very poor

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