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Spine Chillers (BBC Audio) |  | Author: M. R. James
Creator: Sir Derek Jacobi
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 6139
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: BBC87737
ISBN: 1405687738
EAN: 9781405687737
Publication Date: October 9, 2008
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Product Description
Presents dramatizations of classic ghost stories. This work includes such stories as 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', 'The Tractate Middoth', 'Lost Hearts', 'The Rose Garden' and 'Number 13'.
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 You have got to try this little gem May 21, 2009
Freespirit (UK)
41 out of 41 found this review helpful
This is a series of 'radio plays' first broadcast on Radio 4 over Christmas. If you like a good old fashioned Ghost Story, told in the semi darkness while sitting by the fire on a cold winters night - you are just going to love this. I have never been a fan of 'spoken word' CDs until now. The plays are professional and the stories are genuinely chilling. What makes it so is the superb acting and the fact that your imagination is allowed to fill in the pictures. Honestly, this was a really great experience and you will be transported to another time. Well worth listening to ...but if you listen in bed...yiou won't want to turn the light out. AND DON'T LISTEN ALONE...genuinely spooky but wonderful!
Creepy stories February 1, 2009
Ms. C. R. Stillman-lowe (Reading Berks)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I had hoped Derek Jacobi would be reading these word for word, but in fact he introduces them and the stories are dramatised. However, they grew on me and I have listened to them time and again with much enjoyment.
Very Good But Short Dramatisations August 4, 2010
Richard London (Thriller Fan) (Bangkok, Thailand)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This CD comprises several of M. R. James's famous ghost stories and is generally very well done. The acting is effective, as other reviewers have noted, and the stories are intrinsically intriguing. I think Derek Jacobi's opening and closing narrations are particularly effective (his voice is perfect for his role of narrator).
However, there are a couple of negative aspects to this CD: firstly, the dramatisations are really short, so that inevitably a lot of material from the original stories gets left out; and secondly, the dramatisations significantly change some elements of the story - for example, in the dramatised version of the superb story, 'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad', Professor Parkins does not discover the whistle by himself (alone), but in the company of a rather young-sounding Colonel Wilson (this is at variance with the original story). Furthermore, the voices of the two actors who portray Parkins and Wilson respectively are confusingly similar, so that it took me two or three listenings before I could be sure which character it was who was supposed to be speaking at any given time.
On balance, I think that hearing the stories read in their entirety is preferable to these dramatisations, but the latter are certainly very fine and enjoyable as a lightweight 'back-up' to the full tales themselves.
Good story's March 15, 2010
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is not a bad audio book if you like them the story's are good and it's acting not someone reading from a book not to chilling unless you frighten easy the only thing bad i can say is the story's are not very long the cd only last a hour or just over but it is a good audio cd
 Unexciting September 6, 2010
merylsmum (Pembrokeshire UK)
Was disappointed with this as I expected more of a 'chiller'. Did not give me any idea of suspense or anticipation of any.
Derek Jacobi has a spellbinding voice but the content was unexciting.
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