Ghostly Terror!
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Ghostly Terror!
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Narrated by:
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Andrew Sachs
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Larel Lefkow
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Steven Pacey
About this listen
Three classic tales from the golden age of the ghost story, read by Andrew Sachs, Laurel Lefkow and Steven Pacey.
1. Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook by M.R. James
2. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3. The Beast with Five Fingers by W.F. Harvey
A collector of antiquities acquires a priceless ancient book in Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook - only to find that something evil hides within its pages.
A young wife becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in the room of her holiday home in The Yellow Wallpaper. A man is tormented by the embalmed hand of his deceased uncle in The Beast with Five Fingers. For the protagonists of these three supernatural stories, ghostly terror lurks beneath the surface of ordinary life, and reality can all too easily fray at the seams....
Evocatively read by three of our finest actors, and with atmospheric music, these eerie, enthralling tales are perfect listening for dark winter nights.
Public Domain (P)2014 Audible, Inc.I did not enjoy any of the stories. They did not feel very supernatural or ghostly or terrifying. The characters were not sympathetic and I did not relate to any of them. All a bit old and dusty.
Not listening to any more of this title. Just my opinion you may love it.
No Terror here
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Ghost Stories
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First off the bat is M.R. James' heavy-hitter, 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook', an absolute gem and, to my mind, one of James' most representative tales; if you don't like this story then you probably won't enjoy his other works. Here, layers of antiquarian verisimilitude shroud a wry, cautionary tale warning against the dangers of acquisitiveness and intellectual hubris. Andrew Sachs does a wonderful job with the narration.
Second out the belfry comes Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist classic, 'The Yellow Wallpaper', which uses an ambiguous spine-chiller to misdirect from a brutal commentary on the gilded cage of the middle class miss (and possibly also post-partum psychosis, coercive control and the infantilization of women). I didn't enjoy this at first - not being keen on the unravelling mind monologue in fiction - but both the story and Larel Lefkow's demure narration really won me over by the halfway mark: Gilman's use of imagery is very powerful and the final lines are magnificent.
Last of the gang to die is W.F. Harvey's 'The Beast With Five Fingers', which is both the quirkiest and most conventional story here. An engaging tale let down by an unsatisfactory motive; Steven Pacey gives a first-rate reading that carries the listener along despite the shaky foundations.
Excellent stories and excellent narration, this would have got five stars across the board if it had been a little more generous in length and included a few more stories of similar quality.
Shaking Hands and Chilling Spines, Shorty
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Listen just to ‘the yellow wallpaper’
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