John Landis Presents: The Library of Horror - Haunted Houses
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Narrated by:
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Roger May
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Hillary Maclean
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By:
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John Landis
About this listen
Classic haunted house ghost stories curated by world-renowned filmmaker and horror genre authority John Landis.
This beautifully presented, highly collectible anthology features ghost stories that have enthralled, terrified and inspired, decade after decade. Some are relatively well known; others are long-lost treasures, awaiting rediscovery.
The selection includes tales of terror by Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft and Percival Landon; studies of creeping dread by Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James; short, sharp shockers by Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James and Lafcadio Hearn; and comedic masterpieces by Oscar Wilde and Saki.
Mr. Landis' own introduction explores each tale's fascinating impact on the contemporary horror genre.
Step inside these ghost-ridden repositories of supernatural evil, if you dare....
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." (H. P. Lovecraft)
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- Windy Dryden
- 07-10-21
Excellent
An excellent collection, well written and also well-read. I recommend this collection wholeheartedly and suggest you purchase forthwith.
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- Mrs Mayer
- 02-10-20
Perfect Autumn Ghost Story Compilation
A satisfying and well-narrated compilation of classic haunting tales that blur the lines between supernatural and psychological. These stories, originally published between 1839 and 1937, aren’t what I’d consider incredibly scary, but I found each interesting and, in an odd way, comforting. (Perhaps this is just me, but I find there’s something nice about having a classic spooky tale read to me, especially on a chill autumn afternoon or evening... and maybe this year, when modern life is even more stressful than usual, this was even more the case.)
I’d listen to Roger May before and knew I enjoyed his narrations, but Hillary Maclean was new to me; happily I found her voice easy to listen to and thought her a very skilled reader. I dislike cast recordings or multiple narrators in one story, so was happy each story was individually narrated and found that the collection had a nice balance of stories read by each narrator.
I would’ve appreciated it had a story list been included in the description, as there was not, I’ll included it below for others who would like the same.
One small word of advice, if you want to go into the stories with no spoilers at all, I’d skip the introduction; there aren’t any story-ruining spoilers, but I still felt it gave more away than I’d have liked.
Stories in order of play:
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulward-Lytton
The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood
The Red Room by H. G. Wells
The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft
The Spook House by Ambrose Bierce
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman
The Haunted Dolls’ House by M. R. James
La Horla by Guy de Maupassant
The Reconciliation by Lafcadio Hearn
The Open Window by Saki
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