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The Great Ghost Story Collection

Over 40 Spooky Tales

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The Great Ghost Story Collection

By: Richard Middleton, Hugh Walpole, E. F. Benson, W. C. Morrow, Robert E. Howard, M. R. James, Arthur Gray
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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About this listen

A spectacular collection of classic ghost stories from some of the masters of spooky fiction.

  • 'On the Brighton Road' by Richard Middleton
  • 'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain
  • 'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray
  • 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'Rose Rose' by Barry Pain
  • 'The Ghost Ship' by Richard Middleton
  • 'The Bus Conductor' by E. F. Benson
  • 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'The Diary of Mr. Poynter' by M. R. James
  • 'Rattle of Bones' by Robert E. Howard
  • 'Shepherd’s Boy' by Richard Middleton
  • 'Over an Absinthe Bottle' by W. C. Morrow
  • 'The Right Hand of Doom' by Robert E. Howard
  • 'My Adventure in Norfolk' by A. J. Alan
  • 'The House with the Brick Kiln' by E. F. Benson
  • 'Pigeons from Hell' by Robert E. Howard
  • 'A Very Black Business' by Ernest Bramah
  • 'The Story of the Spaniards' by E. & H. Heron
  • 'The Face' by E. F. Benson
  • 'The Staircase' by Hugh Walpole.

And over 20 more gripping ghost stories.

Public Domain (P)2015 Red Door Audiobooks Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Haunted Fantasy Paranormal Ghost
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Turned classic ghost stories to laughable dribble.

so bad you could not follow the story, inflections all wrong!

shocking reader

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Waste of a credit!!! Hated the readers voice - so bad I was not able to listen

Terrible

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What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Another reader. I could only stand her for one and a half stories. Completely ruined the book.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

Only managed one complete story in this anthology, although I do know some of these stories already

What didn’t you like about Cathy Dobson’s performance?

Her voice was dreary in the extreme lacking, in any emotion or differentiation between characters

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment

Any additional comments?

For stories of this sort I think a man's voice is preferable - the M R James recordings by Derek Jacobi are excellent.

Couldn't stand the reader's dreary voice

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I bought this book in spite of a number of reviews slating the narration, I could not believe Audio could really employ so poor a narrator and I love ghost stories. . Unfortunately I was wrong, it was so poor that I gave up at chapter three. The narrators voice was so monotone it, if you will excuse the pun, sucked all life out of the ghost stories.

Ruined by the narration

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