Great Vampire Stories

30 Classic Victorian Tales of Vampires

De: Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce

Narrado por: Cathy Dobson

A comprehensive and varied collection of the best vampire stories from the Victorian era by the greatest Gothic writers of the time.

• 'The Horla' by Guy de Maupassant
• 'Mrs. Amworth' by E. F. Benson
• 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' by John Keats
• 'Dracula's Guest' by Bram Stoker
• 'The Bride of Corinth' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 'Will' by Vincent O'Sullivan
• 'Ken's Mystery' by Julian Hawthorne
• 'Count Magnu' by M. R. James
• 'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 'The Room in the Tower' by E. F. Benson
• 'The Death of Halpin Frayser' by Ambrose Bierce
• 'The Story of Baelbrow' by E. and F. Heron
• 'Let Loose' by Mary Cholmondeley
• 'Ligeia' by Edgar Allan Poe
• 'The Vampire' by Jan Neruda
• 'The Vampire' by Vasile Alecsandri
• 'For the Blood Is the Life' by F. Marion Crawford
• 'Marsyas in Flanders' by Vernon Lee
• 'Good Lady Ducayne' by M. E. Braddon
• 'The Old Portrait' by Hume Nisbet
• 'The Sad Story of a Vampire' by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
• 'The Stone Chamber' by H. B. Marriott-Watson
• 'The Vampire Maid' by Hume Nisbet
• 'The Hound' by H. P. Lovecraft
• 'The Lovely Lady' by D. H. Lawrence
• 'A Dead Finger' by Sabine Baring-Gould
• 'The Parasite' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 'Wailing Well' by M. R. James
• 'The Story of Chugoro' by Lafcadio Hearn
• 'Carmilla' by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Public Domain (P)2016 Red Door Audiobooks

Who speaks like this?

Great short literature in the vampire genre, but this narrator's intonation is utterly bizarre. Misses the sense of the text, let alone subtext.

Delightfully Engaging Stories

I loved the stories in this audiobook! However, the intonation (rise and fall ) of the narrator were quite distracting and almost annoying. I pressed on anyway. Certain inflections on words (especially at the ends of sentences) often distracted from what was being said. Other than that, the stories were entertaining and interesting. I noticed Cathy Dobson appears in many horror/sci-fi audiobooks. As much as I love this genre, her narrating may affect whether or not I can listen or will even try.

narrator’s mindless, repetitive inflection ruins an otherwise good collection of stories

The stories are good, but the narrator repeatedly puts emphasis on the wrong parts of sentences making it clear she’s inflecting out of habit and not paying any attention to what she’s reading. In many cases the emphasis is so far off that it’s hard to decipher what she’s trying to say and she often does it so repetitively, inflecting every sentence the exact same way without regard for the sentence structure or meaning, that it has the same affect as someone annoyingly drumming their fingers on the table next to you when you’re trying to concentrate. She made it un-listenable for me.