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    Ghost Stories
    Ghost Stories
    Ghost Stories
    Audiobook5 hours

    Ghost Stories

    Written by E.F. Benson

    Narrated by Roy Macready

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    About this audiobook

    E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic “Lucia”novels. In his own day it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works.

    This collection of ten stories exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of ghostly and macabre tales.

    They are:

    • "Mrs. Amworth"
    • "Naboth's Vineyard"
    • "At the Farmhouse"
    • "Negotium Perambulans"
    • "The Wishing Well"
    • "The Terror by Night"
    • "The Thing in the Hall"
    • "The Cat"
    • "The Sanctuary"

    Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family
    Release dateMar 7, 2016
    ISBN9781509461196
    Ghost Stories
    Author

    E.F. Benson

    Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer. Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. A great humorist, he achieved success at an early age with his first novel, Dodo(1893). Benson was a prolific author, writing over one hundred books including serious novels, ghost stories, plays, and biographies. But he is best remembered for his Lucia and Mapp comedies written between 1920 and 1939 and other comic novels such as Paying Guests and Mrs Ames. Benson served as mayor of Rye, the Sussex town that provided the model for his fictional Tilling, from 1934 to 1937.  

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    • 2/5
      The reader is very good, but the writer, who I've previously assessed as fairly good, proves to be terrible in this volume--uninteresting stories and ridiculously florid language. I skipped halfway through half of the stories and had to stop before the last one. The only reason I gave this title two stars instead of one is that the reader is good.