In the second part of this series on “The Essential Dickens Christmas”, Raconteurs narrators look at “A Cricket on the Hearth”, “The Haunted House” and “The Chimes.”

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Celebrating the ultimate triumph of good over evil, the Devi Mahatmyam is an epic poem to the Divine Mother, a song of praise that echoes through the ages.
Listen to narrator Tim Bruce reading a sample from Devi:
The Beetle is the stunning 1897 horror novel by Richard Marsh, in which a Ancient Egyptian entity seeks revenge on a British Member of Parliament. Look for this new release in the next few weeks!
In the second part of this series on “The Essential Dickens Christmas”, Raconteurs narrators look at “A Cricket on the Hearth”, “The Haunted House” and “The Chimes.”
Isn’t it extraordinary how ‘Bah Humbug!’ has entered our vocabulary? Not to mention the name of Scrooge – as the epitome of a skinflint; we echo the Cratchett family’s ‘oohs’ and ‘aaahs’ as our own Christmas pudding is served, and play Christmas party games just like the Fezziwigs.
A Christmas Carol is only one of the novellas that Dickens wrote to celebrate the festive season. In the audiobook The Essential Dickens Christmas there eight more stories that showcase the range of the author’s writing talents. In the first of this two-part series, some of the Raconteurs narrators talk about the stories in this collection that they recorded.