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A review by missbryden
The Haunted House by Charles Dickens
4.0
1: the narration reminds me of Neil Gaiman reading A Christmas Carol as Charles Dickens . Generally this audiobook narrator puts such a variety of inflection, pacing , and breath into his reading that makes it very enjoyable.
2: sweet lovely story.
3: reminiscent of [a:P.G. Wodehouse|7963|P.G. Wodehouse|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1198684105p2/7963.jpg] though this precedes him by a few decades. Overall this far seems more of comedy than spooky ghost stories.
4: a little more ghostly, reminds me of [b:The Mysteries of Udolpho|93134|The Mysteries of Udolpho|Ann Radcliffe|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1624940760l/93134._SY75_.jpg|3253891] with the setting, nuns, knights, and poetry.
Up to this point it’s been confusing where the characters narrating the ghost stories end and when their quoting of the ghosts begins.
5 sailor’s adventure with life and death.
6 a confusing lot of boys’ adventure and exoticism.
7 feels nicely typical of Gaskell (rural vs. urban, mystery, court, spiritual).
8 makes more sense of some of the confusion.
2: sweet lovely story.
3: reminiscent of [a:P.G. Wodehouse|7963|P.G. Wodehouse|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1198684105p2/7963.jpg] though this precedes him by a few decades. Overall this far seems more of comedy than spooky ghost stories.
4: a little more ghostly, reminds me of [b:The Mysteries of Udolpho|93134|The Mysteries of Udolpho|Ann Radcliffe|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1624940760l/93134._SY75_.jpg|3253891] with the setting, nuns, knights, and poetry.
Up to this point it’s been confusing where the characters narrating the ghost stories end and when their quoting of the ghosts begins.
5 sailor’s adventure with life and death.
6 a confusing lot of boys’ adventure and exoticism.
7 feels nicely typical of Gaskell (rural vs. urban, mystery, court, spiritual).
8 makes more sense of some of the confusion.