Audiobook50 minutes
A Terribly Strange Bed
Written by Wilkie Collins
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
A winning streak at a downmarket gambling den in Paris leads to a lavish drinking spree. The offer of coffee to help sober up is not all that it first seems. Our protagonist finds himself in a strange bed for the night in a house of thieves and murderers. And it turns out to be a very strange bed indeed... a bed cunningly designed with murder in mind. A spine-chilling tale... especially if you listen at bedtime.
Author
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824-September 23, 1889) was the author of thirty novels, more than sixty short stories, fourteen plays (including an adaptation of The Moonstone), and more than one hundred nonfiction pieces. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There's more than a little of Edgar Allen Poe about this early piece from Wilkie Collins. Specifically "The Pit and the Pendulum" or "The Cask of Amontillado"; the short story as set piece horror, the 19th century equivalent of Saw or Captivity. In playing on the uncanny nature of an unfamiliar bedroom there's also a degree to which it calls forward to MR James's "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad" – and given that's one of the scariest short stories ever written, it's a very good thing to put me in mind of.Short and satisfying. Unsettling rather than outright terrifying, but in some ways that's harder to achieve. The cold prickle on the back of your neck, the sense of things not quite being as safe as you'd assumed, stays with you a lot longer than a jump scare or body horror.