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Fifty Classic Ghost Stories

By: E. F. Benson, Edith Wharton, F. Marion Crawford, Lettice Galbraith, Hugh Walpole, Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Publisher's summary

A wonderful collection of 50 of the best classic ghost stories ever written.

  • 'The Missing Model' by Lettice Galbraith
  • 'Pomegranate Seed' by Edith Wharton
  • 'The Screaming Skull' by F. Marion Crawford
  • 'The Ghost in the Cupboard Room' by Wilkie Collins
  • 'The Shadow on the Blind' by Louisa Baldwin
  • 'A Ghost's Revenge' by Lettice Galbraith
  • 'The Lost Ghost' by Mary Wilkins-Freeman
  • 'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie
  • 'The Cold Embrace' by Mary E. Braddon
  • 'The Dust Cloud' by E. F. Benson
  • 'The Haunted Dolls' House' by M. R. James
  • 'For the Blood Is the Life' by F. Marion Crawford
  • 'Miss Mary Pask' by Edith Wharton
  • 'Mrs Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith
  • 'The Man with the Roller' by E. G. Swain
  • 'Over an Absinthe Bottle' by W. C. Morrow
  • 'The Diary of Mr. Poynter' by M. R. James
  • 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole
  • 'They' by Rudyard Kipling
  • 'The Evil Clergyman' by H. P. Lovecraft

Plus 30 more classic ghost stories....

Public Domain (P)2015 Red Door Audiobooks
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I never slept so well



When it said ghost stories I was hoping for a chill or two. instead I was bored to tears . Not only where these ghost stories rather dull so was the narrator her inflections and rhythm got annoying before she was even done with the first story. I want my money back i

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Really well done

Cheers !!!!! To all who had a hand in putting this performance on. The authors to the narrator really delivered on this one. Thank you ALL

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I agree on narration

Good narration is the heart of an audiobook - cannot understand this narrator and
just gave up on it. And believe me, I listen to lots of ghost stories and mysteries.

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The narrator is the problem with these stories

Do you like to hear an extremely affected voice narrate stories in what sounds to be a forced-English accent? It is so over-acted it detracts from every story. Her pronunciation and emphasis are as irritating as they are distracting and this all takes away from every story she reads. Hard pass on anything narrated by Cathy Dobson. (Maybe this is less annoying to someone who was born and raised in Brittain? ) Now, if this were Patrick Stewart narrating this, I'm sure I would have been riveted to these same stories, so it's not the accent, it's the jerky-timing and forced enunciation.

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The worst performance ever,

I just couldn’t stand listening to this women’s voice for another second after the third story! She ends every sentence with a reverberation!!! Total waste of money!

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Took multiple tries to listen to this book.

I'm dissappointed in this book. I had thought 30 hours of ghost stories was great but the narrator kept putting me to sleep. The narrator was difficult to understand and was mostly monotone. I wonder what my opinion would be if another narrator read it.

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Not happy with this purchase

The narrator was extremely dry and hard to understand when she changed her voice for multiple characters. It also sounds like she is trying to have a monotonous argument with herself.

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Nightmares

Couldn't listen to this at night because it gave me nightmares every time,guaranteed! ;) Great stories other wise!

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Great stories ! Really annoying narrator !!

This is an interesting, diverse choice of stories of good quality.
I dread the narration.

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Annoying

Stories may be good but the reader’s voice is so grating I couldn’t finish it.

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