Not Exactly Ghosts (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Subtle Edwardian Supernatural Tales of Country House Terror, Psychological Unease, and Lingering Gothic AmbiguityBy Andrew Caldecott
Length7h
About this audiobook
Not Exactly Ghosts is a refined collection of uncanny tales in which the supernatural seldom announces itself as a conventional apparition. Caldecott's stories proceed through polished Edwardian and interwar prose, urbane dialogue, and carefully staged ambiguity, turning drawing rooms, country houses, colonial outposts, and remembered incidents into theatres of unease. In the tradition of M. R. James and the English ghost story, the book favors implication over spectacle, yet its ironic title signals a distinctive interest in psychological disturbance, moral consequence, and the porous boundary between coincidence and haunting. Andrew Caldecott was not primarily a professional man of letters but a distinguished British colonial administrator, serving in Malaya, Hong Kong, and Ceylon. That career gave him intimate knowledge of bureaucracy, social hierarchy, expatriate life, and the tensions between public rationality and private fear. His fiction often reflects the trained observer's eye: precise, courteous, skeptical, yet alert to the irrational pressures that official language cannot contain. Readers who admire subtle supernatural fiction will find Not Exactly Ghosts especially rewarding. It is recommended not for shock, but for atmosphere, intelligence, and craftsmanship: a book for those who prefer their terrors insinuated, elegantly framed, and left lingering after the final page.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror
Length7 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Not Exactly Ghosts (Annotated)
9Light in the Darkness
2A Room in a Rectory
10Decastroland
3Branch Line to Benceston
11A Victim of Medusa
4Sonata in D Minor
12Fits of the Blues
5Autoepitaphy
13Christmas Re-union
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6The Pump in Thorp's Spinney
14THE END
7Whiffs of the Sea
15Memorable Quotes
8In Due Course
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