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    A Dead Finger
    A Dead Finger
    A Dead Finger
    Audiobook48 minutes

    A Dead Finger

    Written by Sabine Baring-Gould

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was a British writer, clergyman and member of the landed gentry, having inherited an estate of 3,000 acres. While a young curate, he met and fell in love with a beautiful 16-year-old mill worker. He paid for her education and married her, and they subsequently had 15 children. Their relationship formed the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, which was turned into the musical My Fair Lady.

    Baring-Gould's strangest and most enduring works are those which are based on fantastical medieval myths and folklore. 'A Dead Finger' is a strange vampire story about a parasitic dead human finger which feeds off living humans in an attempt to draw the life force out of them and thus regrow its body.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateApr 18, 2016
    ISBN9781509403905
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