Emily Stoneking
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Wasteland
- The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
- De: W. Scott Poole
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 269
In the early 20th century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced. New machines of war left tens of millions killed or wounded in the most grotesque of ways. The Great War remade the world's map, created new global powers, and brought forth some of the biggest problems still facing us today. But it also birthed a new art form: the horror film, made from the fears of a generation ruined by war. From Nosferatu to Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man, the touchstones of horror can all trace their roots to the bloodshed of the First World War.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An interesting take
- De CN en 07-30-19
- Wasteland
- The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
- De: W. Scott Poole
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
Thoughtful, insightful, and empathetic
Revisado: 12-28-18
A book that is concerned with the humanity behind horror. If you have any interest in the interwar years, film history, horror, surrealism, and/or the history of fascism, you will likely enjoy this quite a bit. It is well written and academic without being stodgy. Excellently narrated as well.
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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- De: Michelle Morgan
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 206
A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era. The tales include murders and violent crimes but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Doesn’t question it’s sources enough
- De Emily Stoneking en 11-27-18
Doesn’t question it’s sources enough
Revisado: 11-27-18
On the surface, this is a delightful collection of pearl-clutching Victorian scandals, which titillate today just as they did over 100 years ago. The author writes in a way that mimics, to a degree, the breathlessness of Victorian scandal journalism, including the language that often condemned victims of domestic abuse as the authors of their own destruction. Story after story describe female homicide victims as having been promiscuous, or nags, or possibly insane, based (apparently) on the surviving testimony of their murderers (most often their husbands, boyfriends, or former such).
It ended up becoming rather tedious to listen to tale after tale of women horribly abused, presented in gossip magazine style, with little to no analysis of what any of it meant to contemporaries, nor what it means today.
On their own, each tale could easily be a bit of ghoulish fun, being so far removed from our own time. So perhaps reading a chapter here and a chapter there would be a good way to experience this book, but I can't really recommend listening to it cover to cover, as I did.
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The Horror at Red Hook
- De: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrado por: Jim Donaldson
- Duración: 1 h y 11 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 755
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 659
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 659
Lovecraft’s gothic horror masterpiece. During an investigation in Red Hook, Detective Thomas F. Malone, and discovers horrors that he never imagined. A horror classic.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just a Bit of a Warning
- De Daryl en 03-09-13
- The Horror at Red Hook
- De: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrado por: Jim Donaldson
Unlistenable in a modern world
Revisado: 07-09-17
I know that it is unfair to judge a work from the early 20th century outside of its own moral structures, but the deep, unrelenting racism of this story is simply too much to overcome, and turns what could have been a tingling story of dread into a tiresome and pointless tirade about the horrors of Asian immigrants. Utter garbage.
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Ghostland
- An American History in Haunted Places
- De: Colin Dickey
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 942
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 842
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 837
Colin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and "zombie homes", Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A fluffed-up college essay writ large.
- De Gavin en 10-13-16
- Ghostland
- An American History in Haunted Places
- De: Colin Dickey
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom
What a lovely surprise
Revisado: 01-22-17
What made the experience of listening to Ghostland the most enjoyable?
What an unexpectedly thoughtful and compassionate book this was. I began it hoping for a fun bit of fluff about American haunting, with perhaps some vaguely interesting surface history attached. But what I got instead was a keen examination of the ghost story as a cultural instrument, a means of talking about painful histories, a tool equally adept at both subverting and reinforcing the positions of the marginalized. What an excellent little gem of a book.
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