Dark Holidays, Various
Dark Holidays, Various
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Dark Holidays
A Collection of Ghost Stories

Author: Various

Narrator: Anonymous

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/25/2006


Synopsis

Feeling a chill amidst the warmth of the season? Sensing a shadow lurking behind the tinsel and lights? Experience the darker visions hidden within our brightest holiday. Come listen to the water ghost’s story as she spends Christmas Eve haunting Harrowby Hill. Listen as Charles Dickens examines the figure which haunts “The Signalman,” and Edgar Allan Poe details the secret of “The Oval Portrait.” You’ll shiver as “The Monkey’s Paw” twitches grimly in the cold and enjoy Mark Twain’s fascinating yarn about a ghostly giant warming himself at the fireplace.Sixteen unabridged tales of spirits to playfully darken the holidays and add chill to a winter’s night:“The Traveller” by R. H. Benson
“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” by John Kendrick Bangs
“The Oval Portrait” and “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe
“A Ghost Story” by Mark Twain
“The Wolf" by Guy de Maupassant
“The Adventures of the German Student” by Washington Irving
“The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs
“From the Tideless Sea” by W. H. Hodgson
“Madam Crowl’s Ghost” by J. S. Le Fanu
“The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde
“Doctor Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Old Nurse’s Story” by Mrs. Gaskell
“The Black Veil” and “The Signalman” by Charles Dickens
“Selecting a Ghost” by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleRead by Tom Casaletto, Sandra Burr, Leanor Reizen, Jim Bond, Roger Dressler, and Michael Page

About Various

A Simon & Schuster author.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on February 04, 2015

Sadly this ghostly anthology opens with R.H.Benson's The Traveller, standing like Charon demanding payment before the journey begins, as it does in so many such collections. Benson's prophetic works such as 'Lord of the World' may have secured his place in literary regard, but his ghost story only s......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on September 05, 2009

"The Traveller" by R. H. Benson [1903:] (1* -- too dull and dated to finish) "The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall" by John Kendrick Bangs [1894:] (4* -- very fun) "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe [1850:] (3* -- over before you knew it) "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain [1843:] (3* -- witty) "The Wolf" b......more

Goodreads review by Craig on December 16, 2017

This is a collection of readings of sixteen classic horror stories with sometimes somewhat tenuous Christmas themes or connections. The selections are for the most part from early literary icons including Poe, Irving, Dickens, Doyle, Hawthorne, etc. My favorites were The Monkey's Paw by Jacobs, The......more

Goodreads review by Laurence on August 08, 2022

I had read the best from this collection already, the Poe and Washington Irving's The German Student. I had Wilde's The Canterville Ghost on my to read for quite a long time and it didn't really grab me like I expected/hoped.......more

Goodreads review by JRW on July 13, 2021

An interesting mix of stories, not sure how most of them fit the theme of Holidays.......more