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Tales for a Stormy Night: a Pandora's Box of Classic Chillers.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)

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From: Kliatt
Date: 20040501
Author:Klein, Miles

TALES FOR A STORMY NIGHT: A PANDORA'S BOX OF CLASSIC CHILLERS. Compiled by Yuri Rasovky. 2003. Various readers. 6 tapes. 8 hrs. Blackstone Audio-books. #3159. 0-7861-2552-7. $44.95. Vinyl; content notes. SA

While this collection of spooky stories from Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.P. Lovecraft, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Guy de Maupassant, H.H. Monroe and Ambrose Bierce may not give you nightmares, it will most certainly provide wickedly good listening. Poe's classics "The Fall Of The House Of Usher" and "The Cask Of Amontillado" may raise a hackle or two.

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