Three Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Man is one of the best known. Though quite different from his most celebrated realistic and humorous critical novels, these ghost stories, Gothic and grotesque as they are, are of good portrayal, and worth a read/listen. Summary by Vivian Chan (2 hr 10 min)
Chapters
| 01 - The Signal-Man | 30:27 | Read by Muhammad Mussnoon |
| 02a - The Haunted-House | 43:39 | Read by Marian Brown |
| 02b - The Haunted-House | 28:09 | Read by Marian Brown |
| 03 - The Trial For Murder | 28:43 | Read by Muhammad Mussnoon |
Reviews
Beth H.
I've really enjoyed your reading so far. The one about the signal man I found very spooky and well done. I could definitely understand you and I'm a native English speaker. Enjoyable!
Well read
Vivia
I enjoyed these a lot! Thanks, LibriiVox volunteers! You rule!!
excellent!
Mary Shero
very good listen; readers were pleasant. thank you!
Patrick Henry
Readers fine, stories not so much
Your great grandfather's ghost stories
Peick
These stories were boring and not at all frightening. And I am so grateful for the volunteer readers, but when you don't know how to pronounce all the words, it spoils the exemplary language of Dickens. The reader who took the first and last chapter is foreign and didn't know how to pronounce about one word in twenty, so it was distracting. But I thank him for his service, anyway.
OK’ish
smallsteve
The signalman is a good story and worth a listen, where as the other two leave a bit to be desired, particularly the second story. The narrator’s strong accent takes a little bit of getting used to, but you don’t notice it after a short while. We are of course grateful for his efforts though.