50 Classic Horror Short Stories 1 cover art

50 Classic Horror Short Stories 1

Works by Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle and Many More!

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for £5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

50 Classic Horror Short Stories 1

By: H. P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: Anthony Maher
Try Standard free

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £0.99

Buy Now for £0.99

About this listen

CONTENTS:

  1. A Suspicious Gift [Algernon Blackwood],
  2. Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp [Algernon Blackwood],
  3. The Wood of the Dead [Algernon Blackwood],
  4. A Baby Tramp [Ambrose Bierce],
  5. The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce],
  6. Dagon [H.P Lovecraft],
  7. The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle],
  8. The_Descendant [H.P Lovecraft],
  9. The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft],
  10. The Evil Clergyman [H.P Lovecraft],
  11. He [H.P Lovecraft],
  12. The Book [H.P Lovecraft],
  13. In the Vault [H.P Lovecraft],
  14. Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft],
  15. Death and the Woman [Gertrude Atherton],
  16. The Striding Place [Gertrude Atherton],
  17. Hop-Frog [Edgar Allan Poe],
  18. The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe],
  19. The Tell-Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe],
  20. Shadow [Edgar Allan Poe],
  21. The Beast in the Cave [H.P Lovecraft],
  22. The Doom That Came to Sarnath [H.P Lovecraft],
  23. The Vampire Maid [Hume Nisbet],
  24. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Edgar Allan Poe],
  25. The Demon Spell [Hume Nisbet],
  26. Out of the Earth [Arthur Machen],
  27. The Signal-Man [Charles Dickens],
  28. The Colloquy of Monos and Una [Edgar Allan Poe],
  29. Demons of the Sea [William Hope Hodgson],
  30. Glámir [Sabine Baring-Gould],
  31. Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story [Sabine Baring-Gould],
  32. Tales of Secret Egypt [Sax Rohmer],
  33. Some Words with a Mummy [Edgar Allan Poe],
  34. In the Dark [Edith Nesbit],
  35. The Sea Raiders [H. G. Wells],
  36. The Baron of Beauguard [Gilbert Parke],
  37. The Vampire [Jan Neruda],
  38. A Journey of Little Profit [John Buchan],
  39. The Keeper of Cademuir [John Buchan],
  40. Dickon the Devil [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],
  41. The Child That Went With The Fairies [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],
  42. Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],
  43. Two Doctors Montague [Rhodes James],
  44. A School Story Montague [Rhodes James],
  45. The Diary of Mr. Poynter Montague[ Rhodes James],
  46. In the Forest of Villefére by [Robert Robert E. Howard],
  47. The Dream Snake [Robert E. Howard],
  48. The Thing On the Roof [Robert E. Howard],
  49. The Imp of the Perverse [Edgar Allan Poe],
  50. The Devil in the Belfry [Edgar Allan Poe].
©2019 H.P Lovecraft (P)2019 Doom Classics Horror Heartfelt Scary
All stars
Most relevant
Good value however narration was a bit sketchy and some stories were too oldly worldly.

Collection of old fashioned horror stories

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Loved the stories, but narrator needs to learn how to pronounce English places/names. Use Google!

Entertaining, but Google is your friend!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This collection is dirt cheap -even more so during 50% off sales. Because of that, criticism seems a bit ungrateful. I do have some, though. First off, the narration is really not that great. It is tolerable for me, but I can imagine people tuning out because of it. The tales themselves vary in quality. Obviously Poe and Lovecraft are the stars of this collection, but there are others worth listening to as well. Some of the stories are very dated, though. They were written over a 100 years ago, and contain sexist and racist tropes/words. Almost all are written from a male perspective, mostly the 'English gentleman' discovering something spooky. Some of the stories are just bad regardless. Another point of criticism is the mismatch between cover/title and contents. I knew most of these tales going in already, so I was not surprised. But a title like 'classic tales of the macabre' would have been much better. This is not horror in the modern sense. The image used for the cover art does not catch the vibe at all.

Positive points are the low price & the fact that you get a lot of classic stories. There are bound to be a few that interest you. If you have a job where you can listen to long stretches of audiobooks or just want something on in the background it may be an OK deal for you.

You get what you pay for

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I quite like traditional weird fiction and ghost stories, of which there are some good ones here but the collection is seemingly narrated by a semi-literate. I can forgive the bad pronunciation of British towns and counties, as painful on the ear as they are, but the narrator's inability to read "anecdote" as "anecdote", instead repeatedly using "antidote" is shameful.

There are many occasions where words are mispronounced. This was initially quite amusing but coupled with the monotone reading and horrendous attempts at accents it all serves to grate. I appreciate this was a cheap buy but I can't believe just how bad the narration is.

Some Good Stories With Bad Narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Stories fine but the somewhat monotonal delivery puts me to sleep. Very cheap so wasn't expecting much and that's what I got.

Don't get along with the reader

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews