Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories, credited to Robert Louis Stevenson; Guy de Maupassant; Ralph Adams Cram; Algernon Blackwood; Pliny the Younger; W. F. Harvey; M. R. James; Wilbur Daniel Steele; Katherine Rickford, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson; Guy de Maupassant; Ralph Adams Cram; Algernon Blackwood; Pliny the Younger; W. F. Harvey; M. R. James; Wilbur Daniel Steele; Katherine Rickford. Read in English by Edmund Bloxam 'The Listener' First, it was a strange array of cats, then an increasingly mysterious, and then terrifying increase in...happenstances and...appearances... 'Number Thirteen' Unlucky for some this room is...on a visit to a Denmark with an ancient presence... 'The Horla' Yes, I believed, that an invisible being lived beneath my roof. How weak our head is, and how quickly it is terrified and goes astray, we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers. 'The Beast with Five Fingers' With murderous vengeance, the beast pursues the two friends. Will secrecy, intense surveillance and a marked attention to battening down save them? 'Sister Maddalena' Will a trapped and tragic woman finally find peace? 'Thrawn Janet' A lost soul wandering the Scottish moor. Is she misunderstood? Is she ill? Or is she in league with the devil himself? 'The Yellow Cat' A terrifying tale at sea! But what is it about the ship's cat? 'Letter to Sura' Who says ancient Rome can't have ghost stories? - Summary by The Reader

Recording facts

• Recording title: Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories
• Author credits: Robert Louis Stevenson; Guy de Maupassant; Ralph Adams Cram; Algernon Blackwood; Pliny the Younger; W. F. Harvey; M. R. James; Wilbur Daniel Steele; Katherine Rickford
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 5:10:31

Catalogue topics

• horror
• ghost
• Scottish
• cat
• Moor
• scary
• haunted house

Track guide

1. 01 - 'The Listener' by Algernon Blackwood — 54:29
2. 02 - 'Number Thirteen' by Montague Rhodes James — 31:33
3. 03 - 'Joseph: A Story' by Katherine Rickford — 17:34
4. 04 - 'The Horla' by Guy de Maupassant — 51:15
5. 05 - 'The Beast With Five Fingers' by William F. Harvey — 51:02
6. 06 - 'Sister Maddalena' by Ralph Adams Cram — 35:06
7. 07 - 'Thrawn Janet' by Robert Louis Stevenson — 23:18
8. 08 - 'The Yellow Cat' by William Daniel Steele — 38:40
9. 09 - 'Letter to Sura' by Pliny the Younger — 7:34

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