Short Ghost and Horror Collection 037
Various
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder. You may also feel more jumpy tonight than usual.
Note: “Wake Not the Dead” (the last story in this collection) is often attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck; however, work by researchers such as Rob Brautigam and Heide Crawford rediscovered that the actual author was Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach. Attributed to Raupach at its first German publication in “Minerva: Taschenbuch fur das Jahr 1823”, its English translation in “Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations” in the same year (the source used here) lacked any author attribution. The misattribution to Tieck may have been due to the fact that one of Tieck’s famous tales directly followed “Wake Not the Dead” in that anthology. The misattribution became widespread after anthologist Peter Haining credited the story to Tieck in his popular collection “Gothic Tales of Terror, Vol. 2” in 1973. (Note contributed by Rafe Ball) (6 hr 33 min)
Chapters
An Arrest | 4:54 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
The Cold Embrace | 24:13 | Read by dmusgrove |
A Dark Mirror | 7:57 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
Doom of the House of Duryea | 41:27 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
The Highwaymen | 13:33 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
An Incident On Route 12 | 14:07 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
John Mortonson's Funeral | 4:38 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
A Legend of Sonora | 5:52 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
A Man With Two Lives | 7:11 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
The Murderer | 4:29 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
Out of the Deep | 1:17:00 | Read by Rafe Ball |
The Phantom Coach | 33:40 | Read by Harmon Lee Busby |
The Tap | 13:34 | Read by Colleen McMahon |
There Shall Be No Misunderstanding | 17:27 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
The Thing at Ghent | 5:23 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
Three And One Are One | 8:58 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
An Unbidden Guest | 8:12 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
Wake Not the Dead, Part 1 | 39:53 | Read by Louise J. Belle |
Wake Not the Dead, Part 2 | 29:16 | Read by Louise J. Belle |
Wake Not the Dead, Part 3 | 31:43 | Read by Louise J. Belle |
Reviews
The Reader
As usual, a very good collection of stories to choose from and read.