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    The Grim Reaper's Bedside Story Book: Tales of Gruesome and Unusual Deaths
    The Grim Reaper's Bedside Story Book: Tales of Gruesome and Unusual Deaths
    The Grim Reaper's Bedside Story Book: Tales of Gruesome and Unusual Deaths
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    The Grim Reaper's Bedside Story Book: Tales of Gruesome and Unusual Deaths

    Written by Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    A highly unsettling collection of macabre stories in which death and the dead are key themes.

    "Moon’s Gibbet", by Egerton Castle
    "A Strange Goldfield", by Guy Boothby
    "The Withered Arm", by Thomas Hardy
    "The Pistol Shot", by Alexander Pushkin
    "The Premature Burial", by Edgar Allan Poe
    "The Dead Hand", by Wilkie Collins
    "The Famous Race Between the Hearse and the Steamroller", by Sidney Keyes
    "The Masque of the Red Death", by Edgar Allan Poe
    "Nine O’Clock", by Wilkie Collins
    "The Queen of Spades", by Alexander Pushkin
    "The Other Side", by Count Eric Stenislaus Stenbock
    "The King is Dead, Long Live the King", by Mary Coleridge
    "The Restless Dead", by Lord Halifax
    "The Dumb Man", by Sherwood Anderson
    "The Idiot", by Arnold Bennett
    "The Mortal Immortal", by Mary Shelley
    "Lost in a Pyramid", by Louisa M. Alcott
    "They", by Rudyard Kipling
    "An Idyll of London", by Beatrice Harraden
    "The Monkey’s Paw", by W. W. Jacobs
    "Senility", by Sherwood Anderson
    "The Black Ferry", by John Galt
    "The Mines of Falun", by E. T. A. Hoffmann
    "The Dead", by James Joyce
    "The Cord", by Charles Baudelaire
    "The Child with the Bread Shoes", by Théophile Gautier
    "Jenny", by Victor Hugo
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJul 30, 2014
    ISBN9781467682213
    The Grim Reaper's Bedside Story Book: Tales of Gruesome and Unusual Deaths
    Author

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Born on January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe has become synonymous with writing described as mysterious and macabre. Also credited with originating the detective-fiction genre, Poe is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. A very celebrated poet, short story writer, and Gothic novelist, Poe died in 1849.

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