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The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told (Best Stories Ever Told)

By: Stephen Brennan - editor
Narrated by: J. M. Badger, Imelda Pot
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A big, brilliant, spooky collection of classic and contemporary ghost stories that will make you hesitate before turning off that light.

©2011 Stephen Vincent Brennan (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Ghosts Horror Scary Haunted Fiction Paranormal Fantasy Short Story
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Build up your bonfire, break out your marshmallows, and make sure you’ve got someone to grab when things get scary...then press play on this classic collection of over 40 spooky stories, edited by Stephen Brennan, who has left no stone unturned in his search for the most memorable haunted tales of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Including unforgettable additions from such literary greats as H. G. Wells and Edgar Allen Poe, this collection is guaranteed to thrill and chill. J. M Badger and Imelda Pot prove themselves to be energetic and animated performers, exercising careful pacing to amp up the tension in these ghoulish shorts, guaranteed to creep you out!
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Perfect to listen to at bedtime. Well narrated, with good collection of short stories.

Great collection

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Caution some stories are a 'product of their time' so expect outdated and racist attitudes.

Monkey's Paw, The Jacobs, W. W.
Green Tea Le Fanu, J. S.
Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, The Kipling, Rudyard
Mystery of Barney O'Rourke The Bangs, John K.
Red-Haired Girl, The Baring-Gould, Sabine
Man and the Snake, The Bierce, Ambrose
Open Window, The Saki (H.H. Monroe)
Story of Salome, The Edwards, Amelia B.
Black Cat, The Poe, Edgar Allan
John Charrington's Wedding Nesbit, E
Old Nurses' Story, The Gaskell, Elizabeth
Business of Madame Jahn, The O'Sullivan, Vincent
Canterville Ghost, The Wilde, Oscar
Haunted Island, A Blackwood, Algernon
Secret of Macarger's Gulch, The Bierce, Ambrose
Romance of Certain Old Clothes, The James, Henry
Lost Ghost, The Wilkins-Freeman, Mary E.
Man-size in Marble Nesbit, E
Queen of Spades, The Pushkin, Alexander S.
Story of the Spaniards, The Heron, E & H
Number 13 James, M R.
Apparition of Mrs Veal, The Defoe, Daniel
Round the Fire Crowe, Catherine
Isle of Voices, The Stevenson, Robert L.
Plattner Story, The Wells, H. G.
On the Brighton Road Middleton, Richard
Last House in C - Street Mulock, Dinah M.
Furnished Room, The James, Henry
Hamlet's Ghost Shakespeare
Caterpillars Benson E. F.
Black Mate, The Conrad, Joseph
Tough Tussle, A Bierce, Ambrose
Napoleon and the Spectre Bronte, Charlotte
John Jago's Ghost Collins, Wilkie
Terror, The De Maupassant, Guy
Not to Be Taken at Bedtime Mulholland, Rosa
Haunted House, The Dickens, Charles
Bold Dragoon, The (Adventure of my Grandfather) Irving, Washington
Ghost Story, A Twain, Mark
Afterward Wharton, Edith
Brown Hand, The Conan Doyle, Arthur
Affair at Grover Station, The Cather, Willa

Caution some stories are a 'product of their time'

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Overall, very enjoyable. One thing which detracts from the performance is the Americanised mispronunciation of archaic words like, “blackguard” as “black guard” instead of “blaggard” and the mispronunciation of British, African or Indian place names. A properly professional director or actor should make it their business to ensure that unfamiliar words are pronounced correctly. The male voice actor seemed to make only a patchy attempt at doing this. This is a criticism of not only this book, but also several other Audible titles.

Good ghost stories of a certain age, which still bear hearing.

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Great stories adequately read. There are some odd accents also.... but anything read by Badger and Pot must be at least acceptable. Even when there is a mispronunciation, it's forgiven as it is after all, Badger. Bad accent?? Blame Pot!

Badger and Pot.

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I can't finish it, the narration is terrible. An American doing bad English accents. The stories themselves are very much of their time.

Awful narration

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