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50 Classic Thriller Short Stories. Works by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Edith Nesbit... And Many More!

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Wallace, Edith Nesbit, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Joseph Linehan‎‏, Steven Collins
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Summary

This Audiobook contains the following works:

  1. The Builder [Frank L. Packard],
  2. The Man Who Didn't Count [Frank L. Packard],
  3. Red Petals [Frederick Merrick White],
  4. The Other Man's Story [Frederick Merrick White],
  5. The Shebeeners [Frederick Merrick White],
  6. The Waterwitch [Frederick Merrick White],
  7. The Brand of the Wild [G.B Lancaster],
  8. A Fair Smuggler [George Newnes],
  9. A Castaway of the South [Gilbert Parker],
  10. As Deep As the Sea [Gilbert Parker],
  11. The Gift of the Simple King [Gilbert Parker],
  12. The Treasure of Sacramento [Nick Guy Boothby],
  13. A Personal Problem [H. Bedford-Jones],
  14. Gallegher of Beaver [H. Bedford-Jones],
  15. Sun, Sand and Soap [H. Bedford-Jones],
  16. The Image of Earth [H. Bedford-Jones],
  17. Said Afzel's Elephant [H. A. Lamb],
  18. Sir Albert's Fall [H. C. Bailey],
  19. The Devil of Marston [H. C. Bailey],
  20. The Lone Hand [H. C. Bailey],
  21. The Treasure in the Forest [H. G. Wells],
  22. Through a Window [H. G. Wells],
  23. The Jungle's Accolade [Charles Haven Liebe],
  24. An Unofficial Affair [Harold Edward Bindloss],
  25. Gillatly's March [Harold Edward Bindloss],
  26. The Man Who Wouldn't Stay Put [Harold Titus],
  27. Confession [Algernon Blackwood],
  28. S. O. S. [Algernon Blackwood],
  29. B. 24 [Arthur Conan Doyle],
  30. The Spider Arthur [O. Friel],
  31. The Vulture Arthur [O. Friel],
  32. Statement of Gabriel Foot, [Highwayman Arthur Quiller-Couch],
  33. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands [Arthur Quiller-Couch],
  34. The Countess of Bellarmine [Arthur Quiller-Couch],
  35. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven [Arthur Stringer],
  36. The Wire-Tappers [Arthur Stringer],
  37. The Nth Power [Arthur Cheney Train],
  38. The Mysterious Card [Cleveland Moffett],
  39. The Mysterious Card Unveiled [Cleveland Moffett],
  40. Carnage [Compton Mackenzie],
  41. A Locomotive as a War Chariot [Cy Warman],
  42. A Wild Night at Wood River [Cy Warman],
  43. Wakalona [Cy Warman],
  44. John Charrington's Wedding [Edith Nesbit],
  45. The Man at the Wheel [Edith Nesbit],
  46. The Man Who Died Twice [Edgar Wallace],Allan Poe],,
  47. The Man Who Died Twice [Edgar Wallace]
  48. The Man Who Hated Earthworms [Edgar Wallace],
  49. The Man Who Lived at Clapham [Edgar Wallace],
  50. The Man Who Was Acquitted [Edgar Wallace].
©2019 Edgar Allan Poe (P)2019 NTMC
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Bad reading

I agree with other comment that voice sounds computerised which spoilt it,I couldn't get past first episode because the voice was annoying, if it was a real person then so sorry !

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ABYSMAL

i PAID ABOUT 78p for this but would still request my money back. Its a decent story but read so badly you cannot appreciate it. Read in a flat monotonous tone, stumbling and re-reading sentences. Just awful.

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mechanised

The narrator sounds like it is a computerised voice with poor reading and allowances for punctuation.
The word Schooner was repeatedly reader shoe-ner and therefore many strange one line repeats.
I've given up listening to it

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Atrocious

Atrocious.
No apparent editing, with some lines read 2 or 3 times by the reader. With the use of words like "negros", "darkies" etc scattered throughout, this makes for an uneasy read. I really fail to see why we are still being offered drivel like this by Audible, when there's so many superior collections of short stories that could have been offered instead.

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worst audio book I have ever downloaded.

The narration is appalling, the delivery is stilted and has an intonation which makes it difficult to follow the story, words are mispronounced and parts of sentences repeated so often it is distracting, it is as if it wasn't edited. I hope this is taken off of audible, it is not a good reflection of the service.

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poor presentation

some great stories, but the presentation sounds like the first draft was released by mistake. the first story is poory served by a rather bored sounding narrator, and has not even been edited properly. At around timestamp 13.35 he stops, has a little sign as he realises he has mispronounced a word, and then repeats the sentence, obviously assuming it would be cleaned up in the edit. surprising how something lime this can be missed.

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Needs some serious editing!!!

Well I’m only on the first story, and because of quite possibly the worst narration ever, I’m having to give up! I have no idea what’s going on with the storyline as there’s so many repeated lines, I am utterly lost. Do not bother with this until it gets looked at by an editor and fixed!!!!

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Monotonous

Terrible reader monotone with strange repetitions and a complete lack of emotion speed reading.

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Terrible narration and production

These very well be the greatest thrillers but the narration is abysmal. Best avoided in my humble opinion.

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Killing Performance

I just can't listen to this. Some of my favourite authors and stories, but I am sorry, I am sure the narrators are quite brilliant with modern text and dialogue, but here the intonation, the dead pan delivery, the pauses in the wrong places and the lack of (or misplaced) emotion in the voices absolutely murdered the stories. I didn't feel that the readers were enjoying themselves and they gave little evidence that they were following the plots as they spoke... making it difficult to listen to... Very disappointed, was looking forwards to listening to this...

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