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    Chilling Ghost Stories
    Chilling Ghost Stories
    Chilling Ghost Stories
    Audiobook2 hours

    Chilling Ghost Stories

    Written by M. R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce and

    Narrated by Anthony Donovan

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    About this audiobook

    A chilling collection of ghost stories containing Rats by M. R. James, The Raven and Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe, The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde, A Tough Tussle by Ambrose Bierce and The Signalman by Charles Dickens. In Rats, Mr Thompson comes to regret his decision to investigate a locked room in a country inn, and in The Signalman, the subject of the story is haunted by ghostly appearances that always precede tragic events.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateOct 1, 2008
    ISBN9789629547707
    Chilling Ghost Stories
    Author

    M. R. James

    Montague Rhodes James was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage, Kent, where his father was a curate, but the family moved soon afterwards to Great Livermere in Suffolk. James attended Eton College and later King's College Cambridge where he won many awards and scholarships. From 1894 to 1908 he was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and from 1905 to 1918 was Provost of King's College. In 1913, he became Vice-Chancellor of the University for two years. In 1918 he was installed as Provost of Eton. A distinguished medievalist and scholar of international status, James published many works on biblical and historical antiquarian subjects. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1930. His ghost story writing began almost as a divertissement from his academic work and as a form of entertainment for his colleagues. His first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was published in 1904. He never married and died in 1936.

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    • 5/5
      An interesting collection and well worth a listen. Don't expect every story to involve ghosts though:)

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    • 4/5
      Classic ghostly tales well written by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde amongst others. I much prefer these kinds of ghost stories than to the ones that occur today filled with violence and horror. These stories are of a much more subtle kind.