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Famous Modern Ghost Stories

By: Algernon Blackwood, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Guy de Maupassant, Robert W. Chambers
Narrated by: Alan Munro
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Summary

An excellent collection of creepy ghost stories from some of the most notable names of early horror fiction!

Includes: “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood, “The Shadows On The Wall” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “The Messenger” by Robert W.Chambers, “Lazarus” by Leonid Andreyev, “The Beast With Five Fingers” by W.F. Harvey, “The Mass Of Shadows” by Anatole France, “What Was It” by Fitz-James O’brien, “The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot” by Ambrose Bierce, “The Shell Of Sense” by Olivia Howard Dunbar, “The Woman At Seven Brothers” by Wilbur Daniel Steele, “At The Gate” by Myla Jo Closer, “Ligeia” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Haunted Orchard” by Richard Le Gallenne, “The Bowmen” by Arthur Machen, “A Ghost” by Guy De Maupassant.

Includes an essay, “The Imperishable Ghost”, by Dorothy Scarborough.

Public Domain (P)2019 Trout Lake Media
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Great ghost Stories

I love the twist som of these stories have.
No satanic possession or like poldergeist, gore, just mysterious and scary.
The vollume was in the public domain, great performance by Allan Munro. Great value for the price and no scam like riped from librifox ore narated by a voice computer.
Great audio book.

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Not bad for a dark cold night

This was a fairly run of the mill narration of well known ghost stories. The stories are good but the narrator for me is dull.

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Disappointed

Just before Christmas we had a power cut in our area. Sitting around the fire, with candles flickering, it seemed just the right atmosphere to listen to these ghost stories. We managed about 10 minutes, but found the narration impossible to listen to, because it sounds like a computer generated voice. Very disappointing.

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