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Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 001

by Various

A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stink of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

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Total running time: 4:26:51

mp3 and ogg files

• The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce – 00:12:51
  Source: E-text
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  [mp3@128kbps - 12.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.2MB]
  Read by: Joseph Langley
• The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe – 00:17:15
  Source: E-text
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  [mp3@128kbps - 16.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.6MB]
  Read by: Jake Endres
• Casting the Runes by M R James – 00:49:55
  Source: E-text
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  [ogg vorbis - 26MB]
  Read by: Kat Matfield
• A Cold Greeting by Ambrose Bierce – 00:05:05
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Steve Karafit
• The Dead Mother by Unknown – 00:02:39
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: woggy298
• Death and the woman by Gertrude Atherton – 00:15:48
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Joseph Finkberg
• I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger – 00:01:09
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  Read by: L0n3
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce – 00:11:44
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  Read by: G.C. Fournier
• The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe – 00:14:58
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  [ogg vorbis - 11MB]
  Read by: Glen Hallstrom
• A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby – 00:15:18
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Naf
• The Strange Orchid by H.G. Wells – 00:18:29
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  Read by: Jason Mills
• Two Military Executions by Ambrose Bierce – 00:05:04
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  [ogg vorbis - 2.2MB]
  Read by: Sean O’Hara
• The Valley of the Beasts by Algernon Blackwood – 00:51:54
  Source: E-text
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  [mp3@128kbps - 49.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 24MB]
  Read by: Mooseboy Alfonzo
• What Was It by FitzJames O’Brien – 00:32:29
  Source: E-text
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  [mp3@128kbps - 31.1MB]
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  Read by: Roger Melin
• Yuki-Onna by Lafcadio Hearn – 00:12:13
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  [ogg vorbis - 6.3MB]
  Read by: rasputin

Cataloged on January 28, 2009