Great Classic Ghost Stories
- Author various authors
- Narrator various narrators
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 7 hours and 19 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Anthologies: general, Biography and non-fiction prose, Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Horror and supernatural fiction, Short stories.
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What to expect
This collection of short ghost stories includes some of the best-known classics in the genre, as well as some that may be new to ghost story fans.
This recording includes: “The Damned Thing,” by Ambrose Bierce; “The Empty House,” by Algernon Blackwood;“The Consequences,” by Willa Cather; “How It Happened,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; “A Ghost,” by Guy De Maupassant; “The Shell of Sense,” by Olivia Howard Dunbar; “Ligeia,” by Edgar Allen Poe; “The Signal-Man,” by Charles Dickens; “The Secret of the Growing Gold,” by Bram Stoker; “The Fullness of Life,” by Edith Wharton; “An Old Woman’s Tale,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne; “Playing with Fire,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; “Narrative of the Ghost of the Hand,” by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” by Edgar Allan Poe; “My Platonic Sweetheart,” by Mark Twain; and “The Bold Dragoon (or The Adventure of My Grandfather),” by Washington Irving.
Critics Review
“Every culture and many leading authors have mined the rich ore of this genre; the amazing variety of styles, moods, and themes is well represented here…There’s nothing deficient in the quality of Pasco’s narrations. They are uniformly outstanding.”
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