Dorothy Scarborough has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 8 narrators. The most-rated is Humorous Ghost Stories.
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
Summary
Ghosts have always haunted literature, and it seems that they always will. Spectres seem never to wear out or to die, but renew their tissue both of person and of raiment, in extravagant fashion, so that their number increases voluminously and continuously. Today we have ghosts that haunted our ancestors, as well as our own modern revenants, and there appears to be no earthly use trying to banish or exorcise them by such a simple strategy as refusing to believe in them. Since man knows that whether or not he has seen a ghost, presently he will become one, and thus he has become fascinated with the subject. Therefore he creates ghosts, not merely in his own image, but according to his dreams of power. Contents 1. Introduction - "The Imperishable Ghost" by Dorothy Scarborough 2. "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood 3. "The Shadows on the Wall" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 4. "The Messenger" by Robert W. Chambers 5. "Lazarus" by Leonid Andreyev 6. "The Beast with Five Fingers" by W.F.Harvey 7. "The Mass of Shadows" by Anatole France 8. "What Was It?" By Fitz-James O'Brien 9. "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" by Ambrose Bierce 10. "The Shell of Sense" by Olivia Howard Dunbar 11. "The Woman at Seven Brothers" by Wilbur Daniel Steele 12. "At the Gate" by Myla Jo Glosser 13. "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe 14. "The Haunted Orchard" by Richard le Gallienne 15. "The Bowmen" by Arthur Machen 16. "A Ghost" by Guy de Maupassant
Public Domain (P)2020 Voices of Today
Humorous Ghost Stories
Summary
Collected and edited by Dorothy Scarborough Narrated by Susan Iannucci, Marty Krz, Jennifer Fournier, and John Burlinson. Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935) was an academic and author who had a particular interest in the supernatural. The following collection, first published in 1921, features stories that have a strong comical or satirical focus. In the introduction, the anthologist notes: The modern spook is possessed not only of humor but of a caustic satire as well. His jest is likely to have more than one point to it, and he can haunt so insidiously, can make himself so at home in his host's study or bedroom that a man actually welcomes a chat with him - only to find out too late that his human foibles have been mercilessly flayed. 1. Introduction: "The Humorous Ghost" by Dorothy Scarborough 2. "The Ghost-Extinguisher" by Gelett Burgess 3. "The Transferred Ghost" by Frank R. Stockton 4. "The Mummy's Foot by Théophile Gautier 5. "The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall" by John Kendrick Bangs 6. "Back from that Bourne" by Anonymous 7. "The Ghost-Ship" by Richard Middleton 8. "The Transplanted Ghost" by Wallace Irwin 9. "The Last Ghost in Harmony" by Nelson Lloyd 10. "The Ghost of Miser Brimpson" by Eden Phillpotts 11. "The Haunted Photograph" by Ruth McEnery Stuart 12. "The Ghost that Got the Button" by Will Adams 13. "The Specter Bridegroom" by Washington Irving 14. "The Specter of Tappington" by Richard Barham 15. "In the Barn" by Burges Johnson 16. "A Shady Plot" by Elsie Brown 17. "The Lady and the Ghost" by Rose Cecil O'Neill
Public Domain (P)2021 Voices of Today