Classic Ghost Stories

Name: Classic Ghost Stories
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Dickens, M. R. James
ISBN: 9789629544881

Author: Charles Dickens, M. R. James

Narrator: Stephen Critchlow

Unabridged: 2 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 10/01/2007

Categories: Fiction, Ghost

Synopsis

These stories are designed to engender a chill in the listener which is not just due to the season. Stephen Critchlow, a characterful actor, is a collector of ghost stories and relishes putting across those slightly odd moments when things don’t just seem to follow the normal process. Charles Dickens was chilling enough in his novels – one only has to remember the entry of Magwitch in Great Expectations! – but as a writer set deeply in the Victorian era and unashamedly a lover of the melodramatic, it comes as no surprise that one of the greatest classics of the genre was The Signalman. As a medieval scholar of a later period (1862–1936) M. R. James had a very different temperament but produced a string of classic ghost stories, of which The Mezzotint is one of the best known.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie

You know when you want to read some Dickens but not a whole long novel? This is for those times. Some funny ghost stories, one that chilled me to the bone (as it did Mr. Pickwick), and many which were classic examples of the genre. All enjoyable.......more

Goodreads review by Kavita

This volume comprises a collection of fifteen ghost stories by Dickens. As with any collection, it is a bit of a mixed bag. Some are superlative, some are less than mediocre. The Queer Chair: A man takes shelter in an inn and falls in love with the widowed (and moneyed) innkeeper, who is courted by......more

Goodreads review by Gary

A fascinating and lesser known side of Charles' Dickens work is his flair for ghost stories. Dickens showed a fascination with ghosts and the macabre and was a masterpiece of this wonderful genre. Most well known is his ghostly parable-'A Christmas Carol', of the visit to the bitter and tight fist ed......more