Length5h 57m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "This collection of ghost stories owes its publication to an interest that I have long felt in the supernatural and in works of the imagination. As a child, I was deeply concerned with tales of spooks, haunted houses, wraiths and specters and stories of weird experiences, clanking chains, ghostly sights, and gruesome sounds always held me spellbound and breathless Experiences in editorial offices taught me that I was not alone in liking stories of mystery. The desire to know something of that existence that is veiled by Death is equally potent in old age and in youth, and men, women, and children like to be thrilled and to have a "creepy" feeling along the spinal column as the result of the reading of a visitor from beyond the grave This volume contains the most famous of the weird stories of Edgar Allan Poe, that master of this form of literature. "The Black Cat" contains all the needed elements of mystery and supernatural, and yet the feline acts in a natural manner all of the time, and the story is quite possibly true. It is only in the manner of its telling that the tale becomes one that fittingly finds its place in this collection Guy de Maupassant, the clever Frenchman, is also represented by two effective bits of work, and other less widely known writers have also contributed stories that are worth reading, and when once read will be remembered. There is not a story among the twenty-five that is not worthy of close reading There has recently been a revival in interest in ghost stories. Many of the high-class magazines have within a few months printed stories with supernatural incidents, and writers whose names are known to all who read have turned their attention to this form of literature. Whether or not the reader believes in ghosts, he cannot fail to be interested in this little book. Without venturing to express a positive opinion either way, I will only say with Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.6 (312)
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GenreMystery and Thriller, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 30, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CONTENTS.
2PREFACE
3THE BLACK CAT. BY EDGAR ALLAN POE.
4THE FLAYED HAND. BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT.
5THE VENGEANCE OF A TREE. BY ELEANOR F. LEWIS.
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6THE PARLOR-CAR GHOST.
7GHOST OF BUCKSTOWN INN. BY ARNOLD M. ANDERSON.
8THE BURGLAR’S GHOST.
9A PHANTOM TOE.
10MRS. DAVENPORT’S GHOST. BY FREDERICK P. SCHRADER.
11THE PHANTOM WOMAN.
12THE PHANTOM HAG.
13FROM THE TOMB. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF DE MAUPASSANT BY E. C. WAGGENER.
14SANDY’S GHOST.
15THE GHOSTS OF RED CREEK. BY S. T.
16THE SPECTRE BRIDE.
17HOW HE CAUGHT THE GHOST.
18GRAND-DAME’S GHOST STORY. BY C. D.
19A FIGHT WITH A GHOST. BY Q. E. D.
20COLONEL HALIFAX’S GHOST STORY.
21THE GHOST OF THE COUNT.
22THE OLD MANSION.
23A MISFIT GHOST.
24AN UNBIDDEN GUEST.
25THE DEAD WOMAN’S PHOTOGRAPH.
26THE GHOST OF A LIVE MAN.
27THE GHOST OF WASHINGTON.
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