Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Vol. 005 (Audio Book)

 

LibriVox’s Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Vol. 005 (Audio Book)

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of tears, we will have succeeded. 

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories

Language: English

Group: Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

 

CONTENTS

1. The Hidden Beast by J. D. Beresford, read by Wes Kingston 00:06:15
2. An Old Woman's Tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by RK Wilcox 00:24:39
3. The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Ryan Traub 00:06:05 
4. The Phantom Coach by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, read by Nick Gisburne 00:30:39 
5. The Ring of Thoth by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Clive Catterall 00:44:36 
6. The Silver Mirror by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Alex C. Telander 00:18:36 
7. Staley Fleming's Hallucination by Ambrose Bierce, read by gregnkim 00:05:05 
8. The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost by H. G. Wells, read by Toby Paradis 00:27:19 
9. The Tale of the Mysterious Mirror by Sir Walter Scott, read by Alex C. Telander 00:47:13 
10. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, read by Michelle Sullivan 00:32:07
    

Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Vol. 004 (Audio Book)

 

LibriVox’s Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Vol. 004 (Audio Book)

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of tears, we will have succeeded. 

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories

Language: English

Group: Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

 

CONTENTS

1. The 9.30 Up Train by Sabine Baring-Gould, read by Adrian Praetzellis 00:31:53
2. Clairvoyance by Algernon Blackwood, read by Susan Goble 00:15:46 
3. Green Tea, part 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, read by hosmer_angel 00:41:29 
4. Green Tea, part 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, read by hosmer_angel 00:33:59 
5. A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf, read by Howard Dratch 00:05:07 
6. The Haunted Orchard by Richard le Gallienne, read by Jessica AC Snyder 00:24:30 
7. Letter to Sura Pliny the Younger read by Claric 00:08:07 
8. The Mystery of the Semi-detached by E. Nesbit, read by Adrian Praetzellis 00:09:05 
9. The Signalman by  Charles Dickens , read by Howard Dratch 00:29:27 
10. The Silver Mirror by  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Cody Logan 00:20:44 
11. A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal Daniel Defoe, read by BoltOfTash 00:25:24
    

Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Vol. 003 (Audio Book)

 

LibriVox’s Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Vol. 003 (Audio Book)

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of tears, we will have succeeded. 

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories

Language: English

Group: Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

 

CONTENTS

1. Elia  Wilkinson  Peattie,  An  Astral  Onion read  by  Betsie  Bush  00:16:31 
2. Ellis  Parker  Butler,  The  Chromatic  Ghost  of  Thomas  read  by  Denny  Sayers  00:26:52 
3. Elliott  O'Donnell,  Glamis  Castle  read  by  Peter  Yearsley  00:34:36 
4. Richard  Le  Gallienne,  The  Haunted  Orchard read  by  Peter  Yearsley 00:21:17 
5. Elia  Wilkinson  Peattie,  On  the  Northern  Ice  read  by  Betsie  Bush  00:10:33 
6. Arnold  Bennett,  Phantom  read  by  Bill  Coon  00:28:28 
7. Rudyard  Kipling,  The  Return  oflmray    read  by  Moira  Fogarty  00:25:52 
8. Elizabeth  Stuart  Phelps,  Since  I  Died    read  by  Charlene  Harris  00:19:19 
9. Thomas  Hardy,  The  Withered  Arm     read  by  Beth  Peat  00.59:25 
10. Charlotte  Perkins  Gilman,  The  Yellow  Wallpaper read  byjaggO  00:41:20
    

Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Vol. 002 (Audio Book)

 

LibriVox’s Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Vol. 002 (Audio Book)

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of tears, we will have succeeded. 

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories

Language: English

Group: Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

 

CONTENTS

1. H.  P.  Lovecraft, The  Beast in the Cave read by BroBry  00:15:44 
2. Gertrude Atherton, The Bell in the Fog read by John  Taylor  01:00:18 
3. E. Nesbit,  The Ebony Frame read by Cori  Samuel   00:31 :49 
4. John Kendrick Bangs, The Ghost Club read by John Taylor 00:42:07 
5. Mark Twain,  A Ghost Story read by Esther  00:13:33 
6. John Kendrick Bangs,  A Midnight  Visitor read by John Taylor  00:31 :31
7. John Kendrick  Bangs,  A Psychical  Prank read by John Taylor  00:17:18
8. John  Kendrick  Bangs,  A Quicksilver  Cassandra read  by John Taylor  00:11:38 
9. H. G. Wells, The  Red  Room read  by William Coon  00:22:44 
10. John Kendrick Bangs, The Water Ghost of Harrow by Hall read  by John Taylor 00:22:19
    

Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Vol. 001 (Audio Book)

 

LibriVox’s Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Vol. 001 (Audio Book)

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of tears, we will have succeeded. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories

Language: English

Group: Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

 

CONTENTS 

1. Algernon Blackwood, The Empty House read by William Coon 00:40:11
2. Bram Stoker, The Judge's House read by William Coon 00:44:04
3. Saki, Laura read by Peter Eastman 00:12:22 
4. E. Nesbitt, Man-size in Marble read by Andy Minter 00:31 :39
5. Lewis Carroll, Phantasmagoria read by dorian. gray 00:28:56 
6. J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Schalken the Painter read by Glen Elmensdorp 00:50:27 
7. Mary  Wilkins  Freeman,  The  Shadows  on  the  Wall  read  by  Betsie  Bush  00:26:12 
8. Anonymous,  Tales  of  Treasure read  by  Ben  Douglas  00:06:25 
9. Charles  Dickens,  The  Trial  for  Murder    read  by  Christiane  Levesque  00:29:14 
10. E.  Nesbit,  Uncle  Abraham's  Romance     read  by  Peter  Yearsley  00:08:45

The Short Story in English by Henry Seidel Canby, 1878-1961

 

The Short Story in English 

by Henry Seidel Canby

1878-1961

A HISTORY which has for its subject literary type invites criticism and risks dulness. For the excellence of such a work must depend not so much upon the facts included as upon the author's interpretation of them, and it will be interesting only so far as be succeeds in relating an abstraction, his chosen literary type, to the concrete life of the race which found expressions by means of it. Instead of pleasant personalities, with gossip and idiosyncrasies pertaining to them, he must deal with theoretical matters; discourse often of definidons instead of love affairs, of technique when the beauty of subject or style would be more agreeable. In the attempt, he risks aggravating the critic, and boring the reader, than which dangers none in the world of authorship are to be more prayerfully avoided.

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Our Short Story Writers by Blanche Colton Williams, 1879-1944

Our Short Story Writers 

 

by Blanche Colton Williams

 

1879-1944

 

CONTENTS

Alice Brown.--James Branch Cabell.--Dorothy Canfield.--Robert W. Chambers.--Irving Shrewsbury Cobb.--James Brendan Connolly.--Richard Harding Davis.--Margaret Wade Deland.--Edna Ferber.--Mary Wilkins Freeman.--Hamlin Garland.--William Sydney Porter ("O, Henry")--Joseph Hergesheimer.--Fannie Hurst.--Jack London.--James Brander Matthews.--Melville Davisson Post.--Mary Roberts Rinehart.--Booth Tarkington.--Edith Wharton.--Maxwell Struthers Burt.--Wilbur Daniel Steele

 

AT the risk of supererogation I desire to state emphatically that these twenty authors are only representative of our short story writers. I labor tinder no delusion that they are all we have of high rank, rather am I inclined to suspect that the first prospective reader will find his favorite story teller missing. Some of my own preferred stylists are conspicuously absent; and, although for the most part I have included those whom within prescribed limits I place first, I regretfully record the absentees. The short story is the literary medium that supersedes all others in America; one small volume is a container too exiguous for even its chief authors.

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