The Best Ghost Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Best Ghost Stories, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Best Ghost Stories by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Collected together here by master anthologist Joseph Lewis French are some of the finest ghost stories ever to be put to paper. From the early influential tales of Daniel Defoe and Edward Bulwer-Lytton to more contemporary masters of the terror tale such as M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood and E. F. Benson, this collection brings together a bounty of riches sure to keep you awake into the dark, dreadful night! - Summary by Ben Tucker

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Best Ghost Stories
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 8:04:17

Catalogue topics

• ghost stories
• anthology

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction. The Fascination of the Ghost Story, by Arthur B. Reeve — 11:37
2. 02 - The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe — 37:12
3. 03 - Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book by M. R. James — 26:40
4. 04 - The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton — 1:02:27
5. 05 - The Silent Woman by Leopold Kompert — 40:38
6. 06 - Banshees — 15:03
7. 07 - The Man Who Went Too Far by E. F. Benson — 48:14
8. 08 - The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood — 23:51
9. 09 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling — 55:47
10. 10 - The Rival Ghosts by Brander Matthews — 35:11
11. 11 - The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce — 19:32
12. 12 - The Interval by Vincent O'Sullivan — 16:16
13. 13 - Dey Ain't No Ghosts by Ellis Parker Butler — 28:52
14. 14 - Some Real American Ghosts Part 1 — 30:43
15. 15 - Some Real American Ghosts Part 2 — 32:14

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