Dark HolidaysDark Holidays
Feeling a chill amidst the warmth of the season? Sensing a shadow lurking behind the tinsel and lights? Experience the darker visions hidden within our brightest holiday. Come listen to the water ghost s story as she spends Christmas Eve haunting Harrowby Hill. Listen as Charles Dickens examines the figure which haunts The Signalman, and Edgar Allan Poe details the secret of The Oval Portrait. You ll shiver as The Monkey s Paw twitches grimly in the cold and enjoy Mark Twain s fascinating yarn about a ghostly giant warming himself at the fireplace.
Sixteen unabridged tales of spirits to playfully darken the holidays and add chill to a winter s night:
The Traveller by R. H. Benson
The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs
The Oval Portrait and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
A Ghost Story by Mark Twain
The Wolf" by Guy de Maupassant
The Adventures of the German Student by Washington Irving
The Monkey s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
From the Tideless Sea by W. H. Hodgson
Madam Crowl s Ghost by J. S. Le Fanu
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Doctor Heidegger s Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old Nurse s Story by Mrs. Gaskell
The Black Veil and The Signalman by Charles Dickens
Selecting a Ghost by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read by Tom Casaletto, Sandra Burr, Leanor Reizen, Jim Bond, Roger Dressler, and Michael Page
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- Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p1994.
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