About this book
Grim Tales by Edith Nesbit invites listeners into a quietly chilling world where ordinary homes and polite streets conceal the uncanny. This collection of classic horror and ghost stories blends Nesbit’s gift for domestic detail with supernatural melancholy, offering short fiction that creeps rather than screams.
Set against a late-Victorian/Edwardian backdrop, the stories explore love, loss, and the persistence of memory, revealing how small acts of kindness and mischief can reverberate beyond the grave. Nesbit’s prose moves from gentle humor to suspenseful hush, favoring psychological eeriness and moral nuance over shock—perfect for listeners who enjoy atmospheric ghost tales and Gothic restraint. Themes of compassion, justice, and the thin boundary between life and death recur across haunting vignettes, each shaped by period detail and plainspoken narrative that influenced later supernatural writers.
Ideal for fans of classic ghost stories, historical horror, or anyone seeking subtle, old-fashioned chills, Grim Tales is a superb audiobook for autumn evenings, late-night listening, or anyone who prefers elegant, thought-provoking fright to gore.
