
Fear
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Narrated by:
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Rory Kinnear
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Julian Rhind-Tutt
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Tom Felton
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Kevin Eldon
About this listen
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Fear by Roald Dahl, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kevin Eldon, Tom Felton and Rory Kinnear.
Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl, these terrible tales of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering with fear as you turn the pages.
They include such timeless and haunting stories as Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone.
They don't have the same style as Dahl (think story with an ironic twist at the end), but they're still good!
NOT Roald Dahl!
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Absolutely classic
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Good collection of stories, well narrated
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And if you've seen American Werewolf in London, you'll know that dread and laughter are a dream ticket. In one story in particular, the description of the tremendous resentment demonstrated by a maid subjected to reasonable questioning by her mistress had me laughing, despite the sinister events which occasioned the interrogation.
Although most of the stories are set during the genre's golden age (the Victorian and Edwardian eras) the collection contains examples of what is still everyday contemporary horror too - as, for example, when a loved one walks through a door into the great silence, a mystery with no resolution. These authors know that leaving a certain amount up to the reader's own imagination - refusing to explain everything - is an effective way of magnifying dread. A picture on the side of a milk carton can represent the greatest horror of all, when you think about it.
Goosebumps
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For good, old-fashioned malignancy, the most potent pieces are F. Marion Crawford's 'The Upper Berth' and Rosemary Timperley's 'Harry'. Elsewhere, 'Elias and the Draug' by Jonas Lie is a creditable attempt to broaden the remit and move further afield (Norway, in this instance), but it is an unfortunately dull tale. Best in show, by some distance, is Robert Aickman's eerie and enigmatic 'Ringing The Changes'; easily highlight of the set for me.
Of the narration, it's a pretty good bunch: Tom Felton is okay; Rory Kinnear puts in stout work and lifts some of the more middling tales; and Julian Rhind-Tutt's dry, haughty voice is always a supercilious pleasure. Kevin Eldon is the revelation for me; I'd only known him from his oddball comedy roles but he has a wonderful voice for audiobooks, rather like Robert Hardy: ideal for golden age detective fiction or classic ghost stories, which is handy here...
The Six Weird Roads Of Death
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Ok. Not a bad collection.
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Boring
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Poor stories that don't grip you
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