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Ghostly Terror!

By: M. R. James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W. F. Harvey
Narrated by: Andrew Sachs, Larel Lefkow, Steven Pacey
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Summary

Three classic tales from the golden age of the ghost story, read by Andrew Sachs, Laurel Lefkow and Steven Pacey.

1. Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook by M.R. James

2. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3. The Beast with Five Fingers by W.F. Harvey

A collector of antiquities acquires a priceless ancient book in Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook - only to find that something evil hides within its pages.

A young wife becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in the room of her holiday home in The Yellow Wallpaper. A man is tormented by the embalmed hand of his deceased uncle in The Beast with Five Fingers. For the protagonists of these three supernatural stories, ghostly terror lurks beneath the surface of ordinary life, and reality can all too easily fray at the seams....

Evocatively read by three of our finest actors, and with atmospheric music, these eerie, enthralling tales are perfect listening for dark winter nights.

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Listen just to ‘the yellow wallpaper’

The first and final stories are not worth bothering with, but the second, entitled ‘the yellow wallpaper’ is well worth a listen. Since it’s free I would suggest just listening to this one.

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Classic stories, superb narration

I already owned these stories but love Andrew Sachs narration so much I bought them again!

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1) Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book - by M. R. James, read by Andrew Sachs (genuinely terrifying!)
2) The Yellow Wallpaper - by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, read by Laurel Lefkow (American author and narrator, gaslighting, disturbing story)
3) The Beast with Five Fingers - by read by Stephen Pacey (classic horror story)

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Good

Read and performed beautifully. Good story. Well worth a listen. I’ve kept it in my library to revisit

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No Terror here

I tried but could not listen to this. I hated the yellow wallpaper. sounded more like insanity than horror.

I did not enjoy any of the stories. They did not feel very supernatural or ghostly or terrifying. The characters were not sympathetic and I did not relate to any of them. All a bit old and dusty.

Not listening to any more of this title. Just my opinion you may love it.

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Bloody wonderful

Thank you to the authors I got my garage painted on this. A fun little wease and great narration

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Overall not too bad

A few short stories not frightening at all but the first one was the best. One of the included audios so if you want something for a couple of hours this does just nicely.
The narration was also very good.

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Shaking Hands and Chilling Spines, Shorty

Written between 1892 and 1919, these three golden age ghost stories make for a fairly brief collection that covers a lot of ground in terms of form, tone and content.
First off the bat is M.R. James' heavy-hitter, 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook', an absolute gem and, to my mind, one of James' most representative tales; if you don't like this story then you probably won't enjoy his other works. Here, layers of antiquarian verisimilitude shroud a wry, cautionary tale warning against the dangers of acquisitiveness and intellectual hubris. Andrew Sachs does a wonderful job with the narration.
Second out the belfry comes Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist classic, 'The Yellow Wallpaper', which uses an ambiguous spine-chiller to misdirect from a brutal commentary on the gilded cage of the middle class miss (and possibly also post-partum psychosis, coercive control and the infantilization of women). I didn't enjoy this at first - not being keen on the unravelling mind monologue in fiction - but both the story and Larel Lefkow's demure narration really won me over by the halfway mark: Gilman's use of imagery is very powerful and the final lines are magnificent.
Last of the gang to die is W.F. Harvey's 'The Beast With Five Fingers', which is both the quirkiest and most conventional story here. An engaging tale let down by an unsatisfactory motive; Steven Pacey gives a first-rate reading that carries the listener along despite the shaky foundations.
Excellent stories and excellent narration, this would have got five stars across the board if it had been a little more generous in length and included a few more stories of similar quality.

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KAZ Bedford 🇬🇧💩 Total CRAP!! 💩💩💩

Sorry but these stories were absolute crap 💩 There supposed to be horror stories but that's a laugh 😂 coz there's nothing scarry about them I didn't understand the Yellow Wallpaper story at all I just wanted me woman to stop 🛑 saying John so much it drove me nuts I hoped they would get better but nope didn't just droned on & on If I could give a score of minus I would but obviously can't 😭 The only good thing was the narration So glad I got this rubbish free coz I'd never use a credit for this crap!!

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Classic short stories

I liked them but my favourite one was The Yellow Wallpaper. it wasn't about a ghost but it gave me chills when listening.

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Nice 😊

Nice stories well read interesting at the most kept me noticing all the time 😊m

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