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Book at Bedtime: Algernon Blackwood's Ghost Stories: The Land of Green Ginger

Algernon Blackwood's Ghost Stories

The Land of Green Ginger

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Algernon Blackwood's Ghost Stories, The Land of Green Ginger

A novelist recounts a bizarre encounter in a shop that set him on a writing career.

A famous novelist recounts a bizarre and murderous encounter in a shop that set him on a writing career. Read by Matthew Marsh.

Elderly novelist Mr Adam has been asked to describe what made him start to write. He recalls an inexplicably bizarre and murderous encounter in an old furniture shop.


Stories abridged by Robin Brooks

Read by Matthew Marsh


Producer: Clive Brill
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Book at Bedtime: Algernon Blackwood's Ghost Stories

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Supernatural tales by the English short story writer, abridged by Robin Brooks

Supernatural tales by English short story writer Algernon Blackwood, abridged by Robin Brooks

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