Ghostly Terror!

How would you like to be tormented by the embalmed hand of your deceased uncle? If that piques your interest, then check out Steven Pacey’s reading of W.F. Harvey’s 1928 short-story The Beast with Five Fingers, in the recently released Ghostly Terror! anthology.

Ghostly Terror! is one of a duo of horror anthologies released on 17 October. The other is Vampire Horror!. Steven’s narration is only featured in Ghostly Terror!, but it is the entire second disk of the set. All together, Ghostly Terror! is 2 hours 16 minutes and features three stories:

Three classic tales from the golden age of the ghost story. For the protagonists of these three supernatural stories, ghostly terror lurks beneath the surface of ordinary life, and reality can all too easily fray at the seams….

1. Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook by M.R. James, read by Andrew Sachs.
A collector of antiquities acquires a priceless ancient book only to find that something evil hides within its pages.

2. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, read by Laurel Lefkow.
A young wife becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in the room of her holiday home.

3. The Beast with Five Fingers by W.F. Harvey, read by Steven Pacey.
A man is tormented by the embalmed hand of his deceased uncle.

Evocatively read by three of our finest actors, and with atmospheric music, these eerie, enthralling tales are perfect listening for dark winter nights.

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Reviews

Steven Pacey fans will have one big complaint: they misspelt Steven’s name in the cover art!

“The plum of the collection, though, is the second disc, on which Steven Pacey reads The Beast With Five Fingers … Pacey captures the escalating terror”

Paul Simpson, Sci-Fi Bulletin

“you can readily believe the near hysteria of one of the characters – convincingly portrayed by Pacey”

Ty Power, Sci-Fi Online

“Stephen [sic] Pacey handles the gloriously nasty tale of the severed crawling hand expertly, especially in the dialogue sequences. It is no easy job in an audio reading to differentiate between two characters when there are no guidelines such as ‘X said’ or ‘Y replied’, without resorting to accents or exaggerated voices. Pacey succeeds without gimmicks, and I was never confused as to who was supposed to be speaking.”

Customer reviews, amazon.co.uk