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Wednesday 17 June 2015

Three Ghost Stories [by Charles Dickens]


As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Man is one of the best known. Though quite different from his most celebrated realistic and humorous critical novels, these ghost stories, Gothic and grotesque as they are, are of good portrayal, and worth a read/listen.

Read by Marian Brown and Muhammad Mussnoon.


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Three Ghost Stories [by Charles Dickens]

Saturday 13 June 2015

The Room in the Dragon Volant [by J. Sheridan LeFanu]


J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom he glimpses momentarily behind her black veil. In order to be near her, he takes a room in the Dragon Volant (the Flying Dragon), a haunted inn that has been the site of mysterious disappearances.

Read by Elizabeth Klett.


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The Room in the Dragon Volant [by J. Sheridan LeFanu]

Monday 1 June 2015

Humorous Ghost Stories [introduction by Dorothy Scarborough]


Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough -- The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde -- The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess -- "Dey ain't no ghosts" / by Ellis Parker Butler -- The transferred ghost / by Frank R. Stockton -- The mummy's foot / Théophile Gautier -- The rival ghosts / Brander Matthews -- The water ghost of Harrowby Hall / by John Kendrick Bangs -- Back from that bourne / Anonymous -- The ghost-ship / by Richard Middleton -- The transplanted ghost / by Wallace Irwin -- The last ghost in Harmony / by Nelson LLoyd -- The ghost of Miser Brimpson / by Eden Phillpotts -- The haunted photograph / by Ruth McEnery Stuart -- The ghost that got the button / by Will Adams -- The specter bridegroom / by Washington Irving -- The specter of Tappington / compiled by Richard Barham -- In the barn / by Burges Johnson -- A shady plot / by Elsie Brown -- The lady and the ghost / by Rose Cecil O'Neill.

Read by Madam Fickle; Kevin W. Davidson; ElleyKat; Barry Eads; GlassMask; Alan Winterrowd; RLC; Jackie Drown; geoffbl; Ric F; JamesMcAndrew; Mike Pelton; Rusty Dancer; Jon Smith; Michelle Goode; Chuck Williamson

link to the free audiobook
Humorous Ghost Stories [introduction by Dorothy Scarborough]