Strange Pages from Family Papers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Strange Pages from Family Papers, credited to T. F. Thiselton Dyer, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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A LibriVox recording of Strange Pages from Family Papers by T.F. Thiselton Dyer, in the public domain. The LibriVox catalog page for this work lists the LibriVox readers. Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man's hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be mentioned the famous dead hand, which was, in years past, kept at Bryn Hall, Lancashire Thus the case is related of a woman who, attacked with the smallpox, had this dead hand in bed with her every night for six weeks, and of a poor lad living near Manchester who was touched with it for the cure of scrofulous sores. Though not all chapters have such gruesome subjects as The Dead Hand, all are full of a curious mixture of superstition and local history that will delight and amuse the modern listener. (Summary by David Barnes). For more information on LibriVox, or to volunteer, please see: http://librivox.org/

Recording facts

• Recording title: Strange Pages from Family Papers
• Author credits: T. F. Thiselton Dyer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 7:33:41

Catalogue topics

• superstition
• history

Track guide

1. 01 - Fatal Curses — 41:21
2. 02 - The Screaming Skull — 26:35
3. 03 - Eccentric Vows — 37:30
4. 04 - Strange Banquets — 29:50
5. 05 - Mysterious Rooms — 36:33
6. 06 - Indelible Bloodstains — 28:46
7. 07 - Curious Secrets — 31:14
8. 08 - The Dead Hand — 10:54
9. 09 - Devil Compacts — 24:47
10. 10 - Family Death Omens — 27:04
11. 11 - Weird Possessions — 12:24
12. 12 - Romance of Disguise — 32:06
13. 13 - Extraordinary Disappearances — 33:58
14. 14 - Honored Hearts — 14:19
15. 15 - Romance of Wealth — 24:29
16. 16 - Lucky Accidents — 14:16
17. 17 - Fatal Passion — 27:41

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