Unexciting
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.


Very Good But Short Dramatisations
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
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

Spine Chillers by M R James

Sometimes better to listen to a ghost story than
watch a film version. Great in the car

spine chillers audio cd
The CD is okay. You need to be sitting quietly though to get to grips with the stories properly.

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