Ghost Stories

THE ANATOMY OF GHOSTS

by Andrew Taylor

read by John Telfer

running time 14hrs

London, 1786: John Holdsworth has nothing to lose. His wife and son are dead. His business is in ruins. Known to many for his sceptical views about ghosts, John is approached by a wealthy widow and offered a reward to cure her son of a terrible delusion.

BONE CHINA

by Laura Purcell

read by Pamela Todd

running time 12hrs

On the Cornish coast, Morvoren House plays host to two young women who - forty years apart - are both faced with sinister tales of fairy possession. Are these merely stories told by the superstitious and ill-educated or is there something dark lurking beneath Morvoren House?

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

by Oscar Wilde

read by Paul Connell

running time 2hrs 30mins

There is no peace for the malevolent Canterville ghost when an unruly American family takes over his ancestral home.

DARK ENTRIES

by Robert Aickman

read by Kate Bonner

running time 7hrs

Six eerie tales of love, life and the supernatural which will haunt and intrigue you.

ECHOES IN THE AIR

by Jack Currie

read by Jim Swingler

running time 4hrs 30mins

A collection of aviation ghost stories.

FIRESIDE GOTHIC

by Andrew Taylor

read by Miscellaneous

running time 7hrs

A collection of three wonderfully atmospheric gothic novellas - spine tinglers that cry out to be read in the flickering light of a wood fire…

THE GHOST HUNTERS

by Neil Spring

read by Ann Stutz

running time 15hrs 30mins

The year is 1926 and Sarah Grey has landed herself an unlikely new job - personal assistant to Harry Price, London's most infamous ghost hunter. When Harry and Sarah are invited to Borley Rectory - a house so haunted that objects frequently fly through the air unbidden they're sure that this case will be just like any other...

THE HAUNTED HOTEL: A MYSTERY OF MODERN VENICE

by Wilkie Collins

read by Bob Rollett

running time 7hrs 45mins

An enigmatic countess with a wicked past, a terrible crime, a shadowy Venetian palazzo and a grisly apparition demanding vengeance - all the ingredients for a vintage Gothic horror tale. Also includes the short story 'The Dream Woman'.

IN A GLASS DARKLY

by Sheridan Le Fanu

read by Bob Rollett

running time 12hrs 10mins

Le Fanu draws on Gothic conventions, such as ghosts and vampires, to examine the results of supernatural experience on the psyche. The book, containing five tales, purports to be the casebook of Dr Hesselius, a pioneer psychologist.

THE LITTLE STRANGER

by Sarah Waters

read by Simon Vance

running time 16hrs

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline. But are the Ayres haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

THE MAGDALENA CURSE

by F G Cottam

read by David Rintoul

running time 10hrs 45mins

It only takes a couple of visits to convince Dr Elizabeth Bancroft that Adam Hunter is not just having bad dreams. He's a child possessed. His father leaves the Scottish Highlands to beg help from a mysterious woman, leaving his son in the care of Elizabeth - who is about to discover there are equally dark secrets on their own doorstep.

ROALD DAHL'S BOOK OF GHOST STORIES

by Roald Dahl (editor)

read by Terrence Hardiman

running time 9hrs 30mins

Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories.

THE SENDING

by Geoffrey Household

read by Richard Simpson

running time 7hrs

An aristocratic British painter receives a tame polecat as a bequest and shortly afterwards finds himself the subject of a concentrated psychic attack. What follows is a skilful manhunt narrative with a supernatural twist.

TALES FROM THE DEAD OF NIGHT: THIRTEEN CLASSIC GHOST STORIES

by Miscellaneous authors

read by Patricia Knight-Webb

running time 8hrs

From rural England to colonial India, in murky haunted mansions and under modern electric lighting, these master storytellers - some of the best writers in the English language - unfold spine-tinglers which pull back the veil of everyday life to reveal the nightmares which lurk just out of sight.

THE WAITING ROOM

by F G Cottam

read by David Rintoul

running time 10hrs 30mins

The waiting room stands on a crumbling railway platform at the edge of a retired rock star's vast estate. Isolated by a moat of thorny wilderness, it used to be a playground for his children. Until strange music and the terrifying spectre of a leering soldier frightened them away.