A Dead Finger, Sabine BaringGould
A Dead Finger, Sabine BaringGould
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A Dead Finger

Author: Sabine Baring-Gould

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2016


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz on October 25, 2020

This story starts out creepily delicious; from the horrified woman in the museum to the nasty lingering feeling left on the hand that must be washed off immediately. Just imagine a finger that runs like a maggot; what gleeful malevolence. Unfortunately, the ending falls a bit flat with politics and......more

Goodreads review by Red on October 05, 2024

This was a horrible disappointment of a story that started out deliciously interesting, with a crawling ghost finger working it’s way vampirically into existence, but ended up as a nastily hypocritical piece of classism with a rich man who does not work himself declaring the unworking poor as metaph......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 06, 2018

It started off on a fairly high note, but it quickly became convoluted, throwing around many ideas for no reason. Not to mention that the title alone is a huge spoiler.......more

Goodreads review by Zanahoria on June 11, 2024

Ahhh, writing dude was REALLY against unions and unhappy workers showing their unhappiness, huh?. There is conservative bias, and then there is authoring a tale about discontented workers being a disease that should be electrocuted. No need to make it ambiguous. The writing of the body horror is exc......more