Tales of the Supernatural

By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was born in Dublin, Ireland and is acknowledged as an influential writer in the genre of gothic and supernatural fiction of the 19th century. Many of his short stories were originally published in various magazines. Here are six of them: “The White Cat of Drumgonnial”, “Dickon the Devil”, “The Drunkard's Dream”, “The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts”, “The Vision of Tom Chuff”, and “An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House”.

Public Domain (P)2018 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

Absolutely Breathtaking Command of The English Language.

I was so incredibly pleased to have found this offering,.. I would be hard pressed to find a more erudite rendering of gothic ghost shorties,... and the choice of narrator was superb.
BRAVO..!!

Terrific

Le Fanu is great and the narrator is fabulous, but the selection of stories is odd. Two of them, The Drunkard’s Dream and The Vision of Tom Chuff, are essentially the same story, with Irish and English settings, respectively, and different details. Both stories are creepy and mesmerizing but it was a strange editorial choice to include them both in such a short collection.