Celia Fremlin Audio Books - Celia Fremlin

Category: Anthology, Horror, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: Celia Fremlin Chaptered Collection Crime NLS Thriller

Written by Celia Fremlin
Read by Mary Jane Higby, Beth Chalmers, Janis Gray
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

Celia Fremlin Audio Books

With only three books I could hardly call this a collection but I still feel that the should be shared. Years ago, someone shared Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark with me and I got really into the writing while splitting the stories. I recently acquired the other two here and I’m looking forward to them.

Stories:

1970 - Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark
—(Read by Mary Jane Higby) 32k [04:31:47] {66.7mb}
01) The Quiet Game
02) The Betrayal
03) The New House
04) Last Day of Spring
05) The Special Gift
06) Old Daniel’s Treasure
07) For Ever Fair
08) The Irony of Fate
09) The Baby-Sitter
10) The Hated House
11) Angel-Face
12) The Fated Interview
13) The Locked Room

1975 - The Long Shadow
—(Read by Beth Chalmers) 48k 06:43:48 {148mb}

1984 - A Lovely Day to Die and Other Stories
(Read by Janis Gray) 64k [05.46.01] {161mb}
01) A Lovely Day to Die
02) Dangerous Sport
03) High Dive
04) A Strong Shoulder to Weep On
05) The Luck of the Devil
06) The Post-Graduate Thesis
07) The Holiday
08) The Bonus Years
09) A Case of Maximum Need
10) Etiquette for Dying
11) The Woman Who Had Everything
12) Test Case
13) The Miracle

From Wikipedia:

Life
Celia was born in Kingsbury, now part of London, England. She was the daughter of Heaver Fremlin and Margaret Addiscott. Her older brother, John H. Fremlin, later became a nuclear physicist.
Fremlin studied Classics at Somerville College, University of Oxford. From 1942 to 2000 she lived in Hampstead, London. In 1942 she married Elia Goller, with whom she had three children; he died in 1968. In 1985, Fremlin married Leslie Minchin, who died in 1999. Her many crime novels and stories helped modernize the sensation novel tradition by introducing criminal and (rarely) supernatural elements into domestic settings. Her 1958 novel The Hours Before Dawn won the Edgar Award in 1960.
Fremlin was involved in Mass-Observation during the war, and published War Factory with Tom Harrisson in 1943.
With Jeffrey Barnard, she was co-presenter of a BBC2 documentary, Night and Day, describing diurnal and nocturnal London, broadcast on 23 January 1987.
Fremlin was an advocate of assisted suicide and euthanasia. In a newspaper interview she admitted to assisting four people to die. In 1983 civil proceedings were brought against her as one of the five members of the EXIT Executive committee which had published A Guide to Self Deliverance, but the court refused to declare the booklet unlawful.
She was also involved with the Progressive League.
Writing
Lucy Lethbridge has written of Fremlin’s work that “almost all her novels centring round the home as the harbour of a particularly horrible, intimate, terror”.
Some of her novels have been reissued since her death.
Death
She died on 16 June 2009 in Bournemouth.