Fear

By: Roald Dahl - editor, Cynthia Asquith, Mary Treadgold, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Wharton, L. P. Hartley

Narrated by: Rory Kinnear, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Tom Felton, Kevin Eldon

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Fear by Roald Dahl, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kevin Eldon, Tom Felton and Rory Kinnear.

Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl, these terrible tales of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering with fear as you turn the pages.

They include such timeless and haunting stories as Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone.

©2017 Roald Dahl (P)2017 Penguin Audio

kinda nice

but basically the stories are not as good as roald dahl's own weird or uncanny stories. dahl became the children's books author whose books thrilled kids in books and equally excited kids when they were made into fims -- "matilda" and "the witches" and many more. he also wrote enjoyable memoirs basically aimed at an adult readership. and the "tales of the unexpected" of his earlier career. so he must have seemed like the perfect editor for a compilation of writers in a similar vein. there actually were quite a few writers of pretty similar and similarly good stories as dahl's own who were contemporaries of his in the 50s and 60s. dahl seems to have completely neglected every one of those writers, and instead opted for a previous generation of writers -- who produved writing that would have required a good deal of editorial work, of cropping and shortening to make it palatable for today's readers. penguin books in england once printed a massively shortened version of sheridan le fanu's "uncle silas" which was infinitely superior to the original novel in its unwieldy shape. much the same could be said for le fanu's "short" stories, and most of the authors gathered here. it was a job dahl left undone. so his editorship feels a little vacuous, fluttering like a flag -- a slightly "false" flag -- over this collection. dahl's collections of his own stories offer a much more rewarding experience, althouph perhaps not of "fear". unsettling, yes. pleasurably weird, that too....

Classic horror

Great classic horror stories from classic horror authors, read by excellent performers. I enjoyed every minute.