Saturday, 10 October 2015

Three Ghost Stories [by Charles Dickens]

As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Man is one of the best known. Though quite different from his most celebrated realistic and humorous critical novels, these ghost stories, Gothic and grotesque as they are, are of good portrayal, and worth a read/listen.

Read by Marian Brown and Muhammad Mussnoon.

link to the free audiobook
Three Ghost Stories [by Charles Dickens]

The Royal Book of Oz [by Ruth Plumly Thompson]

The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank Baum's death. Although Baum was credited as the author, it was written entirely by Thompson. The Scarecrow is upset when Professor Wogglebug tells him that he has no family, so he goes to where Dorothy Gale found him to trace his "roots." Then he vanishes from the face of Oz.  Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion mount a search for their friend, but when that is successful, they will need to become a rescue party!

link to the free audiobook
The Royal Book of Oz [by Ruth Plumly Thompson]