Short Ghost and Horror Collection 037: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 037, credited to Various, 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 Short Ghost and Horror Collection 037 by Various. Read in English by Dale Grothmann; dmusgrove; Newgatenovelist; Rafe Ball; Harmon Lee Busby; Colleen McMahon; Louise J. Belle 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Ghost and Horror Collection 037
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 6:33:27

Track guide

1. 01 - An Arrest — 4:54
2. 02 - The Cold Embrace — 24:12
3. 03 - A Dark Mirror — 7:57
4. 04 - Doom of the House of Duryea — 41:27
5. 05 - The Highwaymen — 13:33
6. 06 - An Incident On Route 12 — 14:07
7. 07 - John Mortonson's Funeral — 4:38
8. 08 - A Legend of Sonora — 5:52
9. 09 - A Man With Two Lives — 7:11
10. 10 - The Murderer — 4:29
11. 11 - Out of the Deep — 1:17:00
12. 12 - The Phantom Coach — 33:40
13. 13 - The Tap — 13:34
14. 14 - There Shall Be No Misunderstanding — 17:27
15. 15 - The Thing at Ghent — 5:23
16. 16 - Three And One Are One — 8:58
17. 17 - An Unbidden Guest — 8:12
18. 18 - Wake Not the Dead, Part 1 — 39:53
19. 19 - Wake Not the Dead, Part 2 — 29:16
20. 20 - Wake Not the Dead, Part 3 — 31:43

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