A great collection of 12 classic stories about ghosts and the supernatural. Included are stories by Thomas Hardy, Fitz-James O'Brien, and Margaret Oliphant. Recommended for fans of classic ghost stories of yesteryear. ( Phyllis Vincelli)
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Genres for the project: Short Stories/Anthologies; Fantastic Fiction/Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: ghost stories, supernatural, anthology
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Sections 0 - 3 now ready. I'll be uploading each story as it's completed.
Larry, I welcome any advice/suggestions/critiques as I try this new type of reading for me. Hopefully the voices are distinct enough. I also am trying a new windscreen on my mic, which is resulting in my recording levels being quite low and I'm having to amplify them quite a bit in Audacity. If it's making the audio muddy or distorted, let me know. Thanks so much - and Happy New Year.
PhyllisV wrote: ↑January 10th, 2021, 10:39 am
4 and 5 now ready
These are both PL OK.
Just one suggestion, however.
When you record the first part of the stories, you do include the author's name for that particular story, but not in the subsequent parts. I would suggest that you do. Otherwise it sounds as if the story is by French. I wonder even if might not be better to say "edited by . . . French" to make it clear that he is not the actual author.
I did ask Jo about this and she had suggested including the authors name in the intro of the first part and the outro of the last part of each story, which I think I now have done (I sent you a pm about correcting my outros). It does seem like I should say ‘selected’ or ‘edited’ by French, but I also ran that by Jo as this kind of format is all new to me.
PhyllisV wrote: ↑January 12th, 2021, 11:56 am
I did ask Jo about this and she had suggested including the authors name in the intro of the first part and the outro of the last part of each story, which I think I now have done (I sent you a pm about correcting my outros). It does seem like I should say ‘selected’ or ‘edited’ by French, but I also ran that by Jo as this kind of format is all new to me.
Certainly there are different approaches to this, and so my suggestion is just that and you're fine with what you have. So, no worries.
