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Classic Ghost Stories

Audiobook

These stories are designed to engender a chill in the listener which is not just due to the season. Stephen Critchlow, a characterful actor, is a collector of ghost stories and relishes putting across those slightly odd moments when things don't just seem to follow the normal process. Charles Dickens was chilling enough in his novels — one only has to remember the entry of Magwitch in Great Expectations! — but as a writer set deeply in the Victorian era and unashamedly a lover of the melodramatic, it comes as no surprise that one of the greatest classics of the genre was The Signalman. As a medieval scholar of a later period (1862 — 1936) M. R. James had a very different temperament but produced a string of classic ghost stories, of which The Mezzotint is one of the best known.


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Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Edition: Abridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9789629544881
  • File size: 72399 KB
  • Release date: May 13, 2008
  • Duration: 02:30:49

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9789629544881
  • File size: 72410 KB
  • Release date: May 13, 2008
  • Duration: 02:30:49
  • Number of parts: 2

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Formats

OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

subjects

Fantasy Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Text Difficulty:6-12

These stories are designed to engender a chill in the listener which is not just due to the season. Stephen Critchlow, a characterful actor, is a collector of ghost stories and relishes putting across those slightly odd moments when things don't just seem to follow the normal process. Charles Dickens was chilling enough in his novels — one only has to remember the entry of Magwitch in Great Expectations! — but as a writer set deeply in the Victorian era and unashamedly a lover of the melodramatic, it comes as no surprise that one of the greatest classics of the genre was The Signalman. As a medieval scholar of a later period (1862 — 1936) M. R. James had a very different temperament but produced a string of classic ghost stories, of which The Mezzotint is one of the best known.


Expand title description text