BBC Classics Suspense Collection, Mary Shelley
BBC Classics Suspense Collection, Mary Shelley
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BBC Classics: Suspense Collection
Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & The Turn of the Screw

Author: Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James

Series: BBC Classics

Narrator: Shaun Mason, Sean Baker, Sam Dale, Clare Corbett

Unabridged: 18 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2021

Synopsis

Unabridged readings of four spine-tingling stories

This suspenseful anthology collects together four gripping tales of gruesome scientific experiments and chilling supernatural events - all read in full by some of the very best voice actors. With over 18 hours of electrifying listening, tracked by chapter, these classic tales will have you on the edge of your seat.

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece about young scientist Victor Frankenstein, whose quest to create new life has horrific consequences... Read by Shaun Mason.

A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens' timeless classic about a bitter old miser who has a Christmas epiphany when he is visited by four spirits. Read by Sean Baker

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novella about a doctor who experiments with the duality of human nature - and in doing so creates a monster. Read by Sam Dale.

The Turn of the Screw
Henry James' terrifying tale of a governess sent to look after two children in a haunted country house. Read by Sam Dale and Clare Corbett.

Credits:

Frankenstein
Read by Shaun Mason
Produced by Martha Littlehailes
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 24 August 2019

A Christmas Carol
Read by Sean Baker
Produced by Anne Bunting
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 22 August 2019

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Read by Sam Dale
Produced by Julian Wilkinson
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 22 August 2019

The Turn of the Screw
Read by Sam Dale and Clare Corbett
Produced by Julian Wilkinson
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019

(p) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
© 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

About Mary Shelley

The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, the ardent feminist and author of A Vindication on the Right of Women, and William Goodwin, the radical-anarchist philosopher and author of Lives of the Necromancers, Mary Goodwin was born into a free-thinking, revolutionary household in London on August 30, 1797. Educated mainly by her intellectual surroundings, she had little formal schooling, and at age sixteen, she eloped with the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelly; they eventually married in 1816.

Mary Shelly's life had many tragic elements: her mother died giving birth to Mary; her half-sister committed suicide; Percy's wife Harriet Shelly drowned herself and her unborn child after he ran off with Mary; William Goodwin disowned Mary and Shelly after the elopement but, heavily in debt, recanted and came to them for money; Mary's first child died soon after its birth; and in 1822 Percy Shelly drowned in the Gulf of La Spezia—Mary was not quite twenty-five then.

Mary did not begin to write seriously until the summer of 1816, when she and Shelly were living in Switzerland, neighbors to Lord Byron. One night following a contest to compose ghost stories, Mary conceived her masterpiece, Frankenstein. After her husband's death, she continued to write, publishing Valperga, The Last Man, Ladore, and Faulkner between 1823 and 1837, in addition to editing Percy's works. In 1838 she began to work on his biography, but due to poor health she completed only a fragment.

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