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Title: Passing of a God

Author: Henry S. Whitehead

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Henry St. Clair Whitehead (1882-1932) was an American clergyman, teacher and a writer of horror fiction and fantasy, best known for his creepy tales of magic and voodoo.

'Passing of a God' is a voodoo story set in the West Indies which tells of an American who presents himself at the hospital in Port au Prince with a huge tumour in his abdomen.

The surgeon there agrees to operate...but discovers there is something very peculiar and sinister about the tumour...and about the story his patient tells him about how he came to visit the hospital.

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Title: The Shadows

Author: Henry S. Whitehead

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-13-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Dr Henry St Clair Whitehead ( 1882-1932) was an American clergyman and teacher who became famous for his creepy tales of magic and voodoo published in the magazine Weird Tales in the 1920s.

'The Shadows' is a tale from the West Indies about Mr. Stewart, an American who moves into an old house, locally known as Morris' House. Morris has been dead for several decades, but nobody seems keen to tell Mr. Stewart anything about the circumstances of Morris' death.

But after he has been in the house for a few nights, he starts to see strange apparitions of ancient furniture in his bedroom, and he realises that he must find out what happened to Morris. As he sets out to solve the mystery, the apparitions intensify and become more and more sinister....

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Title: Story of an Obstinate Corpse

Author: Elia W. Peattie

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) was an American author, journalist and critic. As a child she was an avid reader, and despite leaving school at 14, she quickly became recognized as a brilliant short story writer.

'Story of an Obstinate Corpse' is the eerie tale of a woman who never wanted her photograph taken in life...and after death continues to confound photographers.

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Title: Story of the Vanishing Patients

Author: Elia W. Peattie

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) was a prolific American author, journalist and critic. Although she left school at 14, she was enormously talented, and by her 20s she was well established as a writer of short stories.

'Story of the Vanishing Patient' is a ghostly tale of the strange happenings when a young doctor is summoned next door to attend a dying woman one night....

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Title: The Permanent Stiletto

Author: W. C. Morrow

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American author famed for his short stories of horror and suspense.

'The Permanent Stiletto' is the story of a young man who has been stabbed close to the heart with a stiletto. The blade has pierced the aorta and come out the other side.

To withdraw the blade would mean the man would bleed to death...but so long as the blade is in place, it is blocking off the wound. The only solution is to leave the blade in place...after which the young man will live his life on a knife edge. Any excitement, sudden movement or emotion could cause the blade to slip and kill him instantly.

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Title: The Screaming Skull

Author: F. Marion Crawford

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer famed for his classic weird and fantastic stories.

One of his most famous tales is 'The Screaming Skull' - a terrifying ghost story based on a true horror legend of a hideous murder which is avenged from beyond the grave.

Members Reviews:

Great, spooky story!

Great, spooky short story. See the movie too. A classic horror movie from the 50s and based only loosely on the short story but still good.

Supernatural rip off

"The Screaming Skull" is a good ghost story, but you can buy F. Marion Crawford's complete set of supernatural short stories under the title "The Complete Wandering Ghosts" for almost the same price. If you'd like more variety, read "Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural," edited by Herbert A. Wise and Phyllis Fraser. The latter book is one of the finest supernatural anthologies ever published and it also contains "The Screaming Skull."

There are probably other good anthologies that contain this story, so don't make the same mistake I did and acquire this Kessinger Publishing version. It is just one story, not the collected work of F. Marion Crawford, and if you buy it you too will be screaming, "Rip off!"

single story for the kindle

The Screaming Skull; read this on a recommendation... found it to be a terrifically creepy ghost story. It was a short easy read, but kept me engrossed til the end... and left me with a screaming question that I won't ask lest I spoil it for others.

Wish I could find more by this author, either in a collection or as singles.

Set on repeat, and not because it's enjoyable

This is a good ghost story premise which goes on about five times as long as it should. It's SO repetitive! If this had been written in the last decade, Crawford's editor would have beat him about the head for going on so long.

The basic story is that a man is haunted by a screaming skull, which reacts whenever it is moved from its favorite spot. He suspects it is the skull of a friend of his, killed one night after he had dinner with the man and wife and described the details of a particular murder. He fears that his chatter inspired the wife in how to kill, and fears the skull more for the proof of his guilt, rather than the screaming.

But he says this WHO KNOWS HOW MANY TIMES!?

I could see this as being great to lull you to sleep, seeing as how the words repeat enough to be hypnotic. But for suspense? Utterly ruined. Go elsewhere.

This story is in the public domain and can be found free from many sources. I listened to an audio production from Librivox.

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Title: From the Loom of the Dead

Author: Elia W. Peattie

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

'From the Loom of the Dead' is a story with the character of an Icelandic folktale about two young orphaned children suffering at the hands of a cruel and neglectful stepmother. But the ghost of their dead mother returns to haunt the stepmother and forces her to care for the children.

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Title: An Egyptian Cigarette

Author: Kate Chopin

Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A woman is visiting a friend who travels widely, and he offers her a package of Egyptian cigarettes he received as a gift while in Cairo. The package has never been opened and has no print of any kind to indicate a brand, its origin, or its ingredients. The woman decides to try one of the cigarettes in the man's private smoking room. Her experience when she smokes one of the cigarettes shakes her to her core.

A provocative story written by Kate Chopin.

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Title: The Premature Burial

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Edgar Lloyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The fear of being buried alive is the ultimate fear, and no classic author has put into words the terror-filled experience any better than Edgar Allan Poe. Experience author and narrator Edgar Lloyd's chilling narration of this all-time classic as he takes you deep, deep, deep into the realms of the undead in this gripping tale.... "The Premature Burial". This short but telling tale will exhume your greatest fears.... Be scared for the first time...all over again.

Members Reviews:

Not like the movie.

I was hoping this was gonna be a takeoff of the movie with Ray Milland, IT WAS NOT! This was a pricey book for $8.00 and was only 32 pages long. Was not a good purchase.

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Title: Ethan Frome [Swedish Edition]

Author: Edith Wharton

Narrator: Hkan Mohede

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-15

Publisher: Viatone

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

P en enskilt belägen grd i ett kallt, snötäckt New England arbetar Ethan Frome hrt för att kunna försörja sig själv och sin svaga fru Zeena, som han gift sig med p grund av sin rädsla för att bli ensam efter sina föräldrars död. Deras äktenskap är inte lyckligt och Zeena är bde beräknande och manipulerande. När Zeenas livliga, unga kusin, Mattie Silver, flyttar in hos dem för att hjälpa till med hushllet uppstr det snabbt ett starkt band mellan henne och Ethan. I takt med att deras förhllande utvecklar sig, s växer Zeenas bitterhet, och eftersom alla tre är beroende av varandra, p ett eller annat sätt, s slutar detta triangeldrama i en tervändsgränd, som kulminerar i ett överraskande och ironiskt slut.

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Critic Reviews:

"En av Amerikas finaste och intensivaste berättelser. Mark Twain sade att en klassiker var en bok som folk rosar, men inte läser'. Detta är uppenbart inte fallet med boken du hller i handen. Den är en klassiker och den läses fortfarande bde flitigt och välförtjänt." (Doris Grumbach, inledningen i Penguin-utgvan av Ethan Frome)