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  • Abbot's Keep

  • A Ghost Story
  • By: Benedict Ashforth
  • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
  • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (228 ratings)

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Abbot's Keep

By: Benedict Ashforth
Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
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Summary

"Brother, do not try to follow me once you have read this. No good can come of it..." When Clifford Fox QC receives a desperate letter from his estranged younger brother, Simon, he departs his comfortable Yorkshire home to locate him. The letter outlines the harrowing events that have led Simon to the very edge of sanity.

Following a stint at the Brentwell Rehabilitation Unit, failed architect and recovering alcoholic Simon is invited by an old school-friend to Abbot's Keep - a Tudor residence, nestled deep in remote Berkshire countryside. Soon after arriving, he is left to explore the neighboring monastery ruins and discover the house's dark history. But the more he learns, the more certain he becomes that he is not alone at Abbot's Keep, and that nothing is as it seems. But can he stop the house's medieval past repeating itself one final time? And can his brother find him before it's too late?

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Critic reviews

"Abbot’s Keep is refreshing a hell. Finally, a ghost story that reminds you why the basement is so terrifying!" (Brett McNeill of Rue Morgue Magazine)
"Ashforth does Edgar Allen Poe and Bram Stoker proud delivering a solid contribution to the literary movement. It is time that the ghost story made a comeback. With writers like Benedict Ashforth writing Abbot’s Keep, a revival just might be at hand." (Matthew J. Barbour of Horror Novel Reviews)
"A really entertaining read with a delightful frisson of fear." (Simon Ball of Horror Hothouse)

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Letters of a story

The story is good and sticks with you whilst listening to it.
I would recommend this to anyone wanting to anyone

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Brilliant

I didn't want this story to end. Riveting story line, exciting and well narated.

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Excellent!

A very spooky story which was also well read! Highly recommended for lovers of a good ghost story!

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YIKES!

Not your "run of the mill" ghost story. 😱 Well written, with a perfect narration. Excellent story for these dark autumn nights.

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Great little horror story, different, try it

normally I listen to long ghost story's based in old house's, this was a nice change, well worth your time, give it a listen

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Eerie

Brilliant short horror story. Superbly read by Ric Jerrom. Didn't want the story to end.

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Old school mystery ghost story with modern horror.

Old school mystery ghost story with modern horror. Reninscent of M.R. James' stories and storytelling qualities of a 100 years ago, with a far more modern backdrop and modern explicit body horror, but not too much of the latter.

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Scary

Harrowing story well told and wonderfully narrated. It stayed with me for a while after I had finished it, as a good story should. I thoroughly recommend it...but not at night.

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Loved it! For fans of M R James / quiet horror

Short and sweet with a satisfying pace and ending, I'm a big fan of quietly chilling British ghost stories and it's probably one for those who enjoy the same, great narration and very spooky conclusion, happy to have stumbled across this!

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great ghost stories have flaws

loved this ghost story, loved the way both the writer and narrator carried the story forward.
and it's not often we see stories with unlikable characters whom we still route for.
and Simon is a very unlikable flawed charecter

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