THE WINTER GHOSTS

In a voice filled with subtle possibility, Julian Rhind-Tutt sets the chilling atmosphere for Kate Mosse’s intelligent ghost story. Frederick Watson was hospitalized for depression after the death of his beloved brother in the Great War. Years later, while driving through the Pyrenees, a car accident sends him to a remote village whose inhabitants are dressed in medieval costume. That night he meets Fabrissa, a beautiful woman who tells him a tragic tale. With all the spookiness of a horror story told in the dark, Rhind-Tutt takes listeners through mental institutions, locked towers, dank graveyards, and ruined castles. Controlled and understated, Rhind-Tutt’s husky breathiness conjures Frederick’s heartfelt grief, an ancient mystery, and an assortment of credible fourteenth- and twentieth-century ghosts. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2011]