Ghost Anthology

Francis is unhappy. Francis is picked on. Francis doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and all of Calliphora, Nevada, will shudder to hear him sing.

Bobby Conroy's made a lot of mistakes - the biggest, perhaps, when he let Harriet Rutherford slip away from him. And now the two of them � and Harriet's young son � are all extras on the set of Dawn of the Dead, and Bobby has the chance to see what could have been.

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Wyatt can't help it: he screws things up, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose. But taking a shortcut home one day, he finds himself caught in the middle of a bizarre, dangerous situation, with one chance � maybe � to save a life.

Come visit Dr. Alinger in his Museum of Silence, where every breath could be your last.

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Max van Helsing's father - infamous, angry, brilliant - is a man haunted by the darkest of secrets...secrets which he will, one cold night just after the turn of the century, unfold at last to his oldest son.

"The Signal Man" is a magnificent, tightly focused ghost story. Dickens' charm pervades this mysterious and ominous tale. Various grim events occur but feel somewhat calm - not bloody or appalling, but enthralling and other worldly. Dickens invests the signal-man with education beyond his station. This adds to the credibility of the story as well as impressing the narrator. A must-listen for Dickens fans. An American voice at the request of our listeners.

Lost in the snow on a bleak, wide moor in Northern England, a newlywed husband begins to despair he will ever see his wife again. He finds refuge with a pair of mysterious strangers, who direct him to a remote crossroads where the night mail coach is due to pass by. Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831-1892) was a prolific journalist, traveler, and Egyptologist, as well as a hugely popular English novelist of the Victorian era.

“The Thing Invisible” is a story featuring Thomas Carnacki, a detective who investigates cases of an occult or supernatural nature. It is one of five tales of Carnacki's ghost hunting exploits that first appeared serially in The Idler magazine in 1910 and were published together with one more as a collection Carnacki the Ghost-Finder in 1913. After a good dinner, Mr. Carnacki relates his experiences of ghost-finding to his limited circle of four friends whom he has summoned to his home in Chelsea.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Reader Stephen Critchelow has spent a lifetime collecting and reading works like these and, with carefully chosen music, brings a strong sense of atmosphere to this recording. "The Signalman" provides a great listening experience for dark autumn evenings.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "A School Story". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Ash-tree". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Martin's Close". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "Casting The Runes". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged recording of M R James' excellent story "Canon Alberic's Scrap-book". Read by David Collings it is sure to scare and delight in equal measure!

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Mezzotint". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Weigall remembers talking with Wyatt about the soul and afterlife. Wyatt states, 'If I had my way, I should stay inside my bones until the coffin had gone into its niche, that I might obviate for my poor old comrade the tragic impersonality of death.' The characters wonder about death and the destination of the human soul when it occurs. Weigall does not believe that the marshy bog, the Strid, has taken his friend, but when he sees a hand raised above the surface of the water, he knows it must be him and he desperately and quickly saves him.