The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories - ed. Michael Cox, ed. R. A. Gilbert Audiobook

Written by ed. Michael Cox, ed. R. A. Gilbert
Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, Patrick Romer, Frances Jeater, Marie McCarthy, Christopher Scott, John Chancer, Alan Gilchrist, Kate Binchy
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With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people’s overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this marvelous anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories combines a serious literary purpose with the simple intention of arousing a pleasurable fear of the doings of the dead.
As the first volume to present the full range and vitality of the ghost fiction tradition, this selection of forty-two stories, written between 1829 and 1968, demonstrates the tradition’s historical development, as well as its major themes and characteristics. Though the genre reached its peak in the nineteenth century, it enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and even now still attracts dedicated practitioners and readers. The anthology includes stories by Walter Scott, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, T. H. White, and many others.
Stressing the important contribution women writers have made to the genre, the collection also offers eight stories by women, ranging from Amelia Edward’s “The Phantom Ghost” (1864) to Elizabeth Bowen’s “Hand in Glove” (1952).

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Michael Cox & R. A. Gilbert
02) The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott (1828)
03) The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards (1864)
04) Squire Toby’s Will by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1868)
05) The Shadow in the Corner by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1879)
06) The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford (1885)
07) A Wicked Voice by Vernon Lee (1890)
08) The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker (1891)
09) Man-Size in Marble by E. Nesbit (1887)
10) The Roll-Call of the Reef by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1895)
11) The Friends of the Friends by Henry James (1896)
12) The Red Room by H. G. Wells (1896)
13) The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs (1902)
14) The Lost Ghost by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1903)
15) “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” by M. R. James (1904)
16) The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood (1906)
17) The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions (1910)
18) Rose Rose by Barry Pain (1910)
19) The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E. F. Benson (1912)
20) On the Brighton Road by Richard Middleton (1912)
21) Bone to His Bone by E. G. Swain (1912)
22) The True History of Anthony Ffryar by Arthur Gray (1911)
23) The Taipan by W. Somerset Maugham (1922)
24) The Victim by May Sinclair (1922)
25) A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley (1926)
26) Fullcircle by John Buchan (1920)
27) The Clock by William Fryer Harvey (1928)
28) Old Man’s Beard by H. Russell Wakefield (1929)
29) Mr. Jones by Edith Wharton (1928)
30) Smee by A. M. Burrage (1929)
31) The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole (1922)
32) Ahoy, Sailor Boy! by A. E. Coppard (1933)
33) The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke (1933)
34) Et in Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams (1935)
35) Bosworth Summit Pound by L. T. C. Rolt (1948)
36) An Encounter in the Mist by A. N. L. Munby (1949)
37) Hand in Glove by Elizabeth Bowen (1952)
38) A Story of Don Juan by V. S. Pritchett (1941)
39) Cushi by Christopher Woodforde (1952)
40) Bad Company by Walter de la Mare (1955)
41) The Bottle of 1912 by Simon Raven (1961)
42) The Cicerones by Robert Aickman (1967)
43) Soft Voices at Passenham by T. H. White (1981)