Classic Ghost Stories: The Signal-Man, the Mezzotint and Others

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Detailed Information

  • NAXOS AUDIO BOOKS , 02/2008
  • Binding: CD
  • Language: Englisch
  • ISBN-13: 9789626344590
  • Order no.: 7389997
  • Weight: 112 g
  • Format: 140 x 126 mm
  • Thickness: 9 mm
  • Duration: 150:00 Min.
  • Release date: 29.2.2008

Product Information

These stories are designed to engender a chill in the listener which is not just due to the season. Stephen Critchlow, a characterful actor, is a collector of ghost stories and relishes putting across those slightly odd moments when things don’t just seem to follow the normal process. Charles Dickens was chilling enough in his novels – one only has to remember the entry of Magwitch in Great Expectations! – but as a writer set deeply in the Victorian era and unashamedly a lover of the melodramatic, it comes as no surprise that one of the greatest classics of the genre was The Signalman. As a medieval scholar of a later period (1862–1936) M. R. James had a very different temperament but produced a string of classic ghost stories, of which The Mezzotint is one of the best known.

Blurb

Includes five ghost stories by masters of the genre, such as the Dickens thriller "The Signalman" and M. R. James's "The Mezzotint". Read by Stephen Critchlow, on 2 CDs. Running time: 2hrs 30mins.

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