Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
The Uncommon Prayer Book  By  cover art

The Uncommon Prayer Book

By: Montague Rhodes James
Narrated by: David Collings
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $3.82

Buy for $3.82

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.

Publisher's summary

This is an unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Uncommon Prayer Book". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Public Domain (P)2010 Craftsman Unabridged Audio

Critic reviews

"David Collings reads wonderfully well." (The Observer)

What listeners say about The Uncommon Prayer Book

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    14
  • 4 Stars
    7
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    16
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    12
  • 4 Stars
    6
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Disturbing the Prayer Books

This was a great short horror story about revenge from the grave. A gentleman is witness to an unusual occurrence in an old chapel. When an outsider decides to steal the chapel’s prayer books, he pays dearly.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

A touch of the macabre in a church..

Only M.R. James can make a visit to the local parish terrifying..
haunted hymnals? Only possible in a James' story..

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Superb!

One of M.R. James’s best ghost stories, full of the kind of expert historical detail and a subsequent verisimilitude that, when combined with just the one expertly delivered and applied supernatural brush stroke make of him second only to the great Dickens and to his Anglo-American namesake Henry James. And David Collins’ virtuoso narration, always reliable, completes the effect. Truly flawless.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!