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Tree of Souls: A Collection of Dark Tales
- De: Brett McKay
- Narrado por: James Scott Smith
- Duración: 5 h y 8 m
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Eleven stories of horror, dark fiction, and fantasy that will take the listener into worlds where a centuries old hanging tree feeds on the living, and a lovecraft inspired tale of a mad genius opens a portal to another world filled with hideous creatures, and a pretentious travelling salesman is haunted by ghosts who have come to make him pay for the sins of his past.
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Tree of souls
- De Karen sebeika en 01-14-21
- Tree of Souls: A Collection of Dark Tales
- De: Brett McKay
- Narrado por: James Scott Smith
For fans of Supernatural
Revisado: 10-25-20
Brett is a fine story teller. This book would be entertaining for fans of Supernatural.
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The End of Summer
- Thirteen Tales of Halloween
- De: J. Tonzelli
- Narrado por: Jay B. Scott
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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The world's oldest celebration comes to life in The End of Summer: Thirteen Tales of Halloween, an anthology that honors the darkest and strangest night of the year. Each story is designed to be intrinsically and intimately about Halloween - its traditions, its myths, and its effects - and they run the gamut from horrifying to heartbreaking. Demons are faced, death is defied, and love is tested. And not everyone makes it out alive. The End of Summer has arrived.
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Spooky Halloween Fun!
- De CLOregon en 07-07-15
- The End of Summer
- Thirteen Tales of Halloween
- De: J. Tonzelli
- Narrado por: Jay B. Scott
Thppppppppp!
Revisado: 10-18-18
Life is too short and there are too many good books to waste your time finishing a bad one. I love horror and this is cheap boring repetitive horror. Pick this one up because I heard it was like the movie Trick R Treat as a book. And there are moments where this assessment might be true, but over all this collection sucks. I never give this kind of review either. Not finishing it. moving on.
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Speaking in Tongues
- Tales from Beyond the Pale: Season 4
- De: Glenn McQuaid, April Snellings
- Narrado por: Larry Fessenden, Tessa J Brown, Alex Goldrich, y otros
- Duración: 34 m
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One night in Montreal, an ageless man hires a young female translator to help settle mysterious debts with an array of desperate characters.
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Reminded me of Neil Gaiman
- De David F Burke en 08-06-18
- Speaking in Tongues
- Tales from Beyond the Pale: Season 4
- De: Glenn McQuaid, April Snellings
- Narrado por: Larry Fessenden, Tessa J Brown, Alex Goldrich, Izzy Lee, George Mougias
Reminded me of Neil Gaiman
Revisado: 08-06-18
This interesting little supernatural horror story reminded me of Neil Gaiman. Indeed, if someone creates a "North American Gods" anthology in tribute to American Gods, I could easily see this story going in it. One of the better shows this season.
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The Areas of My Expertise
- An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order
- De: John Hodgman
- Narrado por: John Hodgman
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
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In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although best sellers such as Poor Richard's Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly valuable, they also were largely true.
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Wow!
- De Margot Vigeant en 09-20-06
- The Areas of My Expertise
- An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order
- De: John Hodgman
- Narrado por: John Hodgman
Judge John Hodgeman
Revisado: 08-06-18
I love John Hodgeman, and I fully expected to love not one, not two, but 3 audiobooks by the host of the always delightful Judge John Hodgman podcast. That is why I bought this one, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All. I'm not saying that there are returns in my future, this first volume was not everything I'd hoped it was. It is largely an audio program about malarky, and though Hodgeman is very up-front about this, I find that the list format of this book allows certain jokes to grow old quickly. There are a lot of great bits of absurdism and alternate history that almost reminded me of of Welcome to Night Vale in places, but they were often delivered with such dry monotone that I found myself rewinding just to catch jokes that were not nearly as well delivered as they were written. Part of the fun of a comedy book is that you don't need to follow-much because the voice is so personal and the format so anecdotal (typically). I will say that the banter between Hodgman and his audiobook theme music provider, Jonathan Coulton, is one of the extra enjoyable bits that I expect one can only experience in this format. Indeed, even with quick wit and an absurdist imagination, Hodgeman works best when he has a Jesse Thorn or Jonathan Coulton to banter with. I sure hope I enjoy the next two books more than I enjoyed this one:).
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Monster 1983
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Ivar Leon Menger, Anette Strohmeyer, Raimon Weber
- Narrado por: Marc Warren, Callum Blue, Anastasia Griffith, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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Oregon, summer 1983. A series of mysterious deaths shakes the coastal town of Harmony Bay from its peaceful sleep. Shortly after the death of his wife, Sheriff Cody is called upon to investigate numerous murders which all exhibit strange puncture wounds. Cody and his team expect the murders are committed by a serial killer, but it soon becomes clear something more sinister lurks behind this idyllic town, which becomes his worst nightmare.
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A bit amateurish
- De Mel en 10-15-16
- Monster 1983
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Ivar Leon Menger, Anette Strohmeyer, Raimon Weber
- Narrado por: Marc Warren, Callum Blue, Anastasia Griffith, Lorelei King, Stuart Milligan
I don't know what everyone's problem is...
Revisado: 08-17-17
I honestly don't know why this one was so poorly reviewed. I enjoyed it. It's no masterpiece, but it's fun and the soundscapes are extremely well produced. Story too much like Stranger Things? Only in that it takes place in the '80's in a small town where strange things happen, and it that regard, even Stranger Things steals from the actual '80's. Actors sound melodramatic? I would say no. No more than X-Files: Cold Cases, or even Alien: Out of the Shadows. Audio dramas are like that. They are essentially graphic novels for your ears, and so the dialogue is going to be expository and big to make up for a lack of visual queues. Some actors have German accent? Yes, because it was originally a German audio play. Roll with it. Most sound just fine, especially the leads. This is not like the heavily accented Mark Petrie from the BBC's 'Salem's Lot. I really did enjoy Monster 1983. I don't know if I will pony of to buy the sequel whenever that comes out (if it comes out in English), but I would recommend it to another Audible user, especially if you like their other productions such as the ones described above. The performances and production were the best part. The story was okay, enjoyable. I have a feeling the lack of success of this release might have been the beginning of the end of a focus on genre-oriented material at Audible, which is a shame, because this was really a lot better than I had expected.
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Bad Moon Rising
- The Pine Deep Trilogy, Book 3
- De: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 17 h y 43 m
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Each year, the residents of Pine Deep host the Halloween Festival, drawing tourists and celebrities from across the country to enjoy the deliciously creepy fun. Those who visit the small Pennsylvania town are out for a good time, but those who live there are desperately trying to survive. For a monstrous evil lives among them, a savage presence whose malicious power has grown too powerful even for death to hold it back.
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It all comes together in Book 3!
- De Steven en 07-01-12
- Bad Moon Rising
- The Pine Deep Trilogy, Book 3
- De: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
Zombies and Vampires and Werewolves (oh my)
Revisado: 07-02-17
Lot's of fun. The whole trilogy is a monster-madness dream with interesting insights into they creature mythology, straying from Hollywood tropes, and Maberry was definitely stretching his action/adventure muscles throughout much of these stories. Would not have worked as a single, IT sized volume, so that's good, but this 3rd novel is definitely the payoff, the reason you read the other two.
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'Salem's Lot
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty, Stephen King
- Duración: 17 h y 36 m
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Writer Ben Mears has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot with the hope that moving into a delapidated mansion, long the subject of town lore, might help him get a handle on his life and provide inspiration for a new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work.
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A Great Performance of an Excellent Story
- De Tami en 10-02-12
- 'Salem's Lot
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty, Stephen King
The Scariest Ride
Revisado: 06-15-17
This novel has loomed over me since my childhood like certain "upside down" roller coasters at Six Flags did for years when I was young. After watching F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" on PBS at age 10, I wondered what could possibly be more frightening than the ghastly, wide-eyed, long clawed Count Orlock? (I still wonder if "In the Shadow of the Vampire" was more on the nose than we care to admit about the legitimacy of Max Schreck's appearance and performance). The answer, of course, came in the form of Reggie Nalder as a far more intense and feral Nosferatu, Kurt Barlow, in Tobe Hooper's 1979 mini-series adaptation of Salem's Lot. I have since seen every version of this story with the exception of the novel itself until now. I am very happy and excited for 1975 Stephen King. This story of small-town horror warms, sours and chills. It warms in the way that King's baby-boomer Americana usually does. For those of us under 40, this was maybe not our world, but it was the world of our parents, and its familiarity and simplicity contrast well with the all too familiar small-town ghost story: the house no one goes near; the woods no one walks through at night. This is the fun part of being afraid, and it too warms. The novel then sours, showing us the flaws, imperfection and sometimes downright treachery of the people living in that world. And finally, it chills. King's Barlow is basically Dracula, and let's face it: Dracula may be a formidable villain, but he's hardly a figure of terror (more of frustration) and it's really no wonder Hooper decided to turn his Barlow into a mute, grunting, yet keenly intelligent monster. It is a shame that they could not have somehow allowed Nalder to look like himself and speak Barlow's dialogue, but then transform into the demon when attacking, ala Jerry Dandridge. What was most effective about King's story was the gradual transformation of the town into a wasps nest, seemingly benign yet pulsing with malice, filled with the truly scary type of vampire which the whole of the town became. King's symbolism of society not being far off from these monsters already is all too apparent, yet no less true. Their pack-like behavior, their appearance inspired more by EC horror comics than Bela Lugosi...these bastards are the real deal, and the notion of their still haunting the town and the New England countryside makes the end of the story all the more fun. My favorite character, indeed the most timeless, is that of Father Callahan. He stands unhappily with one foot set in world of old traditions, and the other in the considerably less satisfying and more bleak "real world", and his character raises a lot of questions about the nature of faith, not in a Jewish man-God from 2000 years ago, but that of elemental good and elemental evil, the kind that our oldest ancestors might have understood. As an audiobook which I mostly read along with in a paperback, this was an easy listen (I could crank the speed up to 1.5 without much jumbling) and the actor, Ron McLarty, is a gifted storyteller that brings you in and connects you to the mood and characters. Loved it!
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Frozen Frights, Volume 1
- De: Icebox Radio Theater
- Duración: 4 h y 45 m
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"You never think to look at the weather when you ice fish." So begins one man's amazing journey onto frozen lakes of Minnesota. Trapped by a vicious storm, a fisherman holds on against the horrifying thing that comes for him out of the storm.
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Great Frozen Tales
- De Ann Reeves en 08-10-12
A Prairie Horror Companion
Revisado: 06-09-17
If the Coen Brothers made a spook anthology I could see it having the same feel as this audio book. Some of the stories were genuinely creepy and rather smart. I have listened to a lot of audio horror narration and drama, and stories like "the thing on the ice" have a timelessness to them, almost a creepypasta feel, without having to painstakingly describe what it's like to be eviscerated or recreate the sound of a head being caved in. The first story especially works to generate a feeling of isolation and paranoia distinct to the upper mid-west, with a stinging revelation of exactly what it is that you would not want to see (yet still look for) out your window into the cold, dark storm. The stories are also smart and have real themes and emotions attached to their characters and plots. That said, stories like "Wolf House" and "The Dunes" are a little hokey, and the acting varies from solid to melodramatic to flat, but this is basically public radio spook theater, so I found all of it at least fun. I really liked "The Thing on the Ice", "The Diary", "The Wendigo" (though the audio croaked on that one a bit), "catnip", and oddly enough, "The Bats". I say odd because the premise seems 1950's SciFi, but the story itself melts into some old-school weird fiction.
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Yes Please
- De: Amy Poehler
- Narrado por: Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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Amy Poehler is hosting a dinner party and you're invited! Welcome to the audiobook edition of Amy Poehler's Yes Please. The guest list is star-studded with vocal appearances from Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Michael Schur, Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner, and even Amy’s parents - Yes Please is the ultimate audiobook extravaganza.
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Listen to this book for sure
- De S.F. en 10-31-14
- Yes Please
- De: Amy Poehler
- Narrado por: Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Eileen Poehler, William Poehler, Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner
Yes & Knope
Revisado: 06-06-17
As if you really needed another reason to admire Amy Poehler, but this very candid and easy listen is equal parts entertaining, informational, and motivational. A lot of Leslie Knope's best traits come from a very real place in the author and the people who helped bring UCB, SNL, and Parks & Rec to life. Needless to say, very funny also! Like laugh out loud and get funny looks from strangers and family funny.
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It
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Steven Weber
- Duración: 44 h y 55 m
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Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children.
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A Classic with a Top-Notch Performance!
- De Nicole - Audible en 06-19-17
- It
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Steven Weber
"The rest is darkness..."
Revisado: 04-20-17
There is so much to say, and truthfully, I am still digesting this one, but I think this novel more than earns the dignity which is due to the weirdly horrible tale as the Lovecraft "..Oldest human emotion.." quote goes. This is an example of the best of horror, not because of the darkest moments, but because of the inclusion of light, human moments...even very funny and very sad moments that make the story that much more frightening and surreal when the fearful moments come. As the ending says, "the rest is darkness". Again, there is so much to talk about with others that have also read IT, and I hope to add onto this review as the most meaningful takeaways surface, but this is truly one of my favorite books, and Steven Weber did an excellent job of narrating over 40 hours of story. He really brought the whole thing alive, and if I had to recommend an audio book to a newbie audio book listener, this is a great one.
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