CHILLING GHOST STORIES

Getting scared around the campfire is the archetypal chilling experience. Listening to an audiobook doesn’t offer quite the same ambiance, but at least you get a more evocative reading than you would from a bunk mate. In this case, you also get some less-familiar stories. We may all know Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven," but the five other pieces here—by Poe, M.R. James, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, and Charles Dickens—will be new to most listeners. Liner notes include brief biographies of the authors, and the publishers have used music, rather than sound effects, to heighten the drama. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2009]