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Title: Fear
Author: Roald Dahl - editor, Cynthia Asquith, Mary Treadgold, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Wharton, L. P. Hartley
Narrator: Rory Kinnear, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Tom Felton, Kevin Eldon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-10-17
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Horror
Publisher's Summary:
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Fear collected by Roald Dahl, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kevin Eldon, Tom Felton and Rory Kinnear. An audio collection of deliciously dark ghost stories for adults, picked by Roald Dahl himself....
Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring 14 classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl, these terrible tales of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering with fear as you listen.
They include such timeless and haunting stories as Sheridan Le Fanu's 'The Ghost of a Hand', Edith Wharton's 'Afterward', Cynthia Asquith's 'The Corner Shop' and Mary Treadgold's 'The Telephone'.
Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions featuring his own stories: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and War.
Full list of authors includes Rosemary Timperley, E. F. Benson, Jonas Lie, A. M. Burrage, Robert Aickman, Richard Middleton, and F. Marion Crawford.
Members Reviews:
Classic horror
Great classic horror stories from classic horror authors, read by excellent performers. I enjoyed every minute.
Goosebumps
Some genuinely creepy moments here -especially a couple of stories from the experts who knew how effective a slow build up can be. One of the things I liked best about this collection is that it features locations normally neglected in the genre - on board a ship for example - and interesting personalities, fully developed. A cold guardian and a damaged young girl are both transformed by a lengthy haunting. A loving but blinkered wife is brought to a new understanding of her husband's personality by an unexpected visitation.
And if you've seen American Werewolf in London, you'll know that dread and laughter are a dream ticket. In one story in particular, the description of the tremendous resentment demonstrated by a maid subjected to reasonable questioning by her mistress had me laughing, despite the sinister events which occasioned the interrogation.
Although most of the stories are set during the genre's golden age (the Victorian and Edwardian eras) the collection contains examples of what is still everyday contemporary horror too - as, for example, when a loved one walks through a door into the great silence, a mystery with no resolution. These authors know that leaving a certain amount up to the reader's own imagination - refusing to explain everything - is an effective way of magnifying dread. A picture on the side of a milk carton can represent the greatest horror of all, when you think about it.
Good collection of stories, well narrated
Well done, Roald Dahl for putting together this collection. A treat to find a well written and narrated set of stories with a hint of the supernatural. Not something you come across often.