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Publisher's summary
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood
Narrated by Aisling Gray, Erin Grassie, and Graham Scott.
This classic collection of macabre tales, one of 10 such anthologies by Algernon Blackwood, was first published in 1916.
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- "The Wood of the Dead"
- "Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House"
- "A Suspicious Gift"
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
The first of the popular mystery series introduces a pair of English detectives to their archnemesis, the diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu. Flavorful atmosphere, fast-paced action, and colorful characters enliven this classic of the genre.
By: Sax Rohmer
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The Third Policeman
- By: Flann O'Brien
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 593
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Story4 out of 5 stars 409
Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder.
Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased with the mention of the novel in the TV series Lost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hell is other people's bicycles.
- By Darwin8u on 03-01-15
By: Flann O'Brien
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Tales of Terror
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Jack Foreman
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Edgar Allan Poe, the master of terror, wrote some of literature's most entertaining and influential short stories, works that invented or anticipated modern detective novels, science fiction, and the horror genre. Tales of Terror collects nine of Poe's best-loved stories, all performed in chilling, highly dramatic readings by Jack Foreman. This collection includes such classics as "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and what many consider his masterpiece, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poe's Best Horror by an Outstanding Narrator
- By Gary on 08-29-04
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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The Phantom Coach
- A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories
- By: Michael Sims
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and W. F. Harvey. Amelia B. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. W. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Narration and Great Selection of Stories
- By Robert on 05-03-15
By: Michael Sims
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The Man in Lower Ten
- By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 12
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 12
A young lawyer survives a ghastly train wreck only to be accused of murdering a man who accidentally fell asleep in the wrong berth! This is another whirlwind of a whodunit by the author of The Circular Staircase.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not for me
- By Amazon Customer on 10-26-22
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Summer
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Grace Conlin
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 679
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 564
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Story4 out of 5 stars 560
Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917, a woman's awakening to her sexuality. Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Like the succulent summer landscape in the Berkshires around them, Charity's romance is lush and picturesque, but its consequences are harsh and real.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent first audible purchase!
- By lilyglint on 08-23-04
By: Edith Wharton
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E.F. Benson's Ghost Stories
- read by Mark Gatiss
- By: E. F. Benson
- Narrated by: Mark Gatiss
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 175
Mark Gatiss ( Sherlock, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones) reads chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story: E. F. Benson. There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy train platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little caterpillar. And a telephone, what could be scary about that? Don't be frightened of the dark corners of your room. Don't be alarmed by a sudden inexplicable chill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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E.F. Benson Classics Excellently Read by Gatiss
- By Robert on 10-28-17
By: E. F. Benson
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The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told
- Best Stories Ever Told
- By: Stephen Brennan - editor
- Narrated by: J. M. Badger, Imelda Pot
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 192
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Story4 out of 5 stars 191
A big, brilliant, spooky collection of classic and contemporary ghost stories that will make you hesitate before turning off that light.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A very mixed review
- By Michael Mayer on 08-05-15
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The Invisible Man and The Time Machine
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 133
In The Invisible Man, a scientist theorizes that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will not be visible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. In The Time Machine, we follow the Time Traveller to the year 802,701 A.D.. He finds a golden race of small, soft, innocent people. But what is it that lurks in the dark shadows?
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5 out of 5 stars
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When The Invisible Man ends and The Time Machine begins
- By kíli on 04-08-18
By: H. G. Wells
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Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Audio Books, Volume 1
- Classic Horror Stories
- By: Charles Dickens, H. P. Lovecraft, Saki, and others
- Narrated by: Doug Bradley
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
This volume features William F Harvey's original undead hand story "The Beast with Five Fingers" that sparked many movies including Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". Poe's classic "The Tell Tale Heart" is joined by Lovecraft's creepy tale of alienation "The Outsider", and a chilling Dickens ghost story "The Signalman".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent stories and wonderful performance
- By Gavin Lees on 10-12-18
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
- By: William Hope Hodgson
- Narrated by: Dan Starkey, Joseph Kloska
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Dan Starkey takes on the mantle of William Hope Hodgson's supernatural detective, Thomas Carnacki, in this collection of enhanced audiobook readings: 'The Gateway of the Monster', 'The House Among the Laurels', 'The Whistling Room', 'The Horse of the Invisible', 'The Searcher of the End House' and 'The Thing Invisible'. Directed by Scott Handcock.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Disappointment Due To 'Atmospheric' Music
- By M. Barnard on 01-12-18
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Dracula
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 173
Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula - the pinnacle of Gothic horror for generations - rises again. When young English lawyer Jonathan Harker arrives in Transylvania on the eve of Saint George's Day, he cannot shake a strange feeling of uneasiness. The air grows colder as he arrives at his destination: the castle of Count Dracula. Jonathan has been summoned by the count for business, and while he finds his new host obliging and polite, he can't help but notice the man's pallid skin, odd lack of appetite, and long daytime absences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bram Stoker + Nick Sandys = Pure Satisfaction
- By linny on 01-09-19
By: Bram Stoker
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The Great God Pan
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 143
Machen's novella The Great God Pan is often cited as one of Lovecraft's most notable influences. In it, Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan". After much study of the human mind, he devises an experiment that involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakens she is terrified and mentally crippled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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classic horror
- By Shantee on 05-04-16
By: Arthur Machen
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The Hopkins Manuscript
- A Novel
- By: R.C. Sherriff
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton, Lameece Issaq
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride is winning poultry-breeding contests. When not meticulously caring for his Bantam, Edgar is an active member of the British Lunar Society. Thanks to that affiliation, Edgar becomes one of the first people to learn that the moon is on a collision course with the earth. Members of the society are sworn to secrecy, but eventually the moon begins to loom so large in the sky that the truth can no longer be denied.
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4 out of 5 stars
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1939 or present?
- By TimePresentTimePast on 01-23-23
By: R.C. Sherriff
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar [Classic Tales Edition]
- By: Maurice Leblanc
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 543
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 474
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 472
Fine-art aficionado. Master of disguise. Jewelry expert. Historian. Gentleman. Burglar. Arsene Lupin is all of these and more. In 1905, Maurice Leblanc introduced his gentleman-burglar in the story "L'Arrestation d'Arsène Lupin". Shortly thereafter, the stories were collected as one single volume. In these charming adventures, Lupin orchestrates a myriad of extravagant heists in the very face of the determined Inspector Ganimard.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Original Gentleman Thief
- By David S. Mathew on 09-24-17
By: Maurice Leblanc
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The Most Dangerous Game
- By: Richard Connell
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,934
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,693
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,695
A mysterious island, shrouded in fear, evil, and darkness. Here the amoral General Zaroff hunts. And what, you ask, is the most dangerous game? It is the manner and substance of his nightly killings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A TRUE COSMOPOLITE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-02-16
By: Richard Connell
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-15-19
Aisling Gray one of my fave narrators.
The stories were creepy. The narrators did a good job, especially my favorite Aisling Gray.
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