Length12m
About this audiobook
A child's memory, a shadowed path, a glimpse of something that should not be.
In
A Vignette, M. R. James offers a final brushstroke of quiet terror—intimate, elusive, and disquietingly real. This short, unsettling piece lingers like a half-remembered dream, evoking the moment when the everyday slips into the uncanny.
With masterful restraint and emotional undercurrent, James reminds us that the most chilling hauntings are those born in the mind—and never truly forgotten.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (156)
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GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length12 mins
Narrated byPeter Coates
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 12, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Vignette-Intro
2A Vignette
3A Vignette-Outro
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The Hauntings: 20 Chilling Tales of Macabre & MysteryM. R. James13h 40m$0.99 · $0.00
Ghost Stories of an AntiquaryM. R. James8h 57m4.2 (9.6K)$16 · $0.00
The Five JarsM. R. James1h 56m3.6 (617)$16 · $0.00
Spooky Christmas: 30+ Supernatural & Eerie TalesM. R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, John Kendrick Bangs, Jerome K. Jerome, Leonard Kip, Catherine Crowe, Lucie E. Jackson, William Douglas O'Connor, Frank R. Stockton, James Bowker, Grant Allen, Louisa M. Alcott, Florence Marryat, Katherine Rickford, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Bithia Mary Croker, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Catherine L. Pirkis, E. F. Benson43h 54m$1.99 · $0.00
The Wanderings and Homes of ManuscriptsM. R. James2h 15m$1.99 · $0.00
20 HAUNTING TALES OF MYSTERY & MACABRE (Annotated)M. R. James14h 2m$2 · $0.00
A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost StoriesM. R. James4h 12m$1 · $0.00
A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost StoriesM. R. James4h 11m3.6 (854)$1 · $0.00
The Tales of Mystery & MacabreM. R. James13h 11m$2 · $0.00
The Collected Ghost StoriesM. R. James18h 30m4.3 (12.1K)$2 · $0.00
A School StoryM. R. James15m3.8 (496)$1 · $0.00
An Evening's EntertainmentM. R. James24m3.7 (72)$1 · $0.00
The Story of a Disappearance and an AppearanceM. R. James30m3.7 (269)$1 · $0.00
An Episode of Cathedral HistoryM. R. James36m4.3 (101)$1 · $0.00
The Experiment: A New Year's Eve Ghost StoryM. R. James13m3.4 (76)$1 · $0.00
The Anthology of Ghost Stories of M. R. James. Tales of horror and mysteryM. R. James10h 12m$10 · $0.00
Wailing WellM. R. James24m3.8 (264)$1 · $0.00
The Uncommon Prayer-bookM. R. James34m$1 · $0.00
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The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
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