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The Haunting of Hill House
- By: Shirley Jackson
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House.
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Well written horror tale
- By C K White on 02-11-14
- The Haunting of Hill House
- By: Shirley Jackson
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Not the most compelling reader, but a perfect tale
Reviewed: 05-13-25
There's no denying that Shirley Jackson was a master of the craft of writing. She delivers the goods here, though with a subtle touch. It's definitely a book you can half-listen to or skim-- you have to immerse yourself in her brilliant writing and when you do, the eeriness begins to sink in.
I thought the reader did a decent job, but her voices for the male characters felt a little cartoonish for my taste. Regardless, this is a solid audio version of one of the greatest horror novels of all time.
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Ghost Station
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Ghost Station is a tense thriller about espionage, cryptography, and paranoia, set in the earliest days of the Berlin Wall. Can Reed trust Longshore? His boss? His lover? Can he find the truth behind the lies - or will Berlin become ground zero for a world-ending war?
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Ghost Station pulls you in from the beginning
- By Kurt Petrey on 11-08-19
- Ghost Station
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Great historical spy thriller
Reviewed: 07-14-24
A spy thriller grounded in history and more practical, real spy stuff-- code breaking. If you are interested in the early Cold War or are tired of spy stories that are all gunfights and explosions rather than actual spy craft, give this a listen. Dan is amazing writer, no matter the genre.
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Zero G
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Margaret Ying Drake, Josh Hurley, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Zero is just one of 20,000 people aboard a spaceship bound for a new planet set to be colonized. The journey is over a century long but luckily, everyone is in stasis, so they’ll be safe and sound asleep during the trip. Everyone that is, except for Zero, whose pod has malfunctioned, waking him up a hundred years early. His initial excitement in roaming the ship alone quickly turns to a heart-stopping interstellar adventure when a family of space pirates show up, trying to hijack the ship and take the colonizers hostage.
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Passengers movie with space pirates
- By Kingsley on 12-07-18
- Zero G
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Margaret Ying Drake, Josh Hurley, Eddy Lee, Jennifer Van Dyck, Allyson Johnson, David Shih, Betsy Hogg, Chelsea Spack
Great middle-grade adventure
Reviewed: 04-04-24
My whole family had fun listening, especially my 7-year-old. Fun story, good performances, appropriate for the audience.
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The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
- By: John Langan
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich heritage of weird fiction, Langan has already garnered his share of accolades. This new collection includes nine of his substantial stories.
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Forgot the Horror
- By Dylan on 10-04-18
incredible horror shorts
Reviewed: 12-10-23
Brilliant, well-written horror short stories that drew me in and didn't let go. Cannot recommend this enough.
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The Postman
- By: David Brin
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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He was a survivor - a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter’s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery. This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night
- By Ed Pegg Jr on 12-09-20
- The Postman
- By: David Brin
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
excellent post-apocalyptic novel
Reviewed: 08-18-23
Even though I'm largely burned out on post-apocalyptic stories, this one really drew me in with its optimism and warmth. Great performance from the reader, too.
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It Will Just Be Us
- By: Jo Kaplan
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Sam Wakefield's ancestral home, a decaying mansion built on the edge of a swamp, isn't a place for children. Its labyrinthine halls, built by her mad ancestors, are filled with echoes of the past: ghosts and memories knotted together as one. In the presence of phantoms, it's all Sam can do to disentangle past from present in her daily life. But when her pregnant sister Elizabeth moves in after a fight with her husband, something in the house shifts. Already navigating her tumultuous relationship with Elizabeth, Sam's even more unsettled by the appearance of a new ghost: a faceless boy.
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Repackaged Stories You are Familiar Witu
- By Jessica on 10-14-20
- It Will Just Be Us
- By: Jo Kaplan
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
A chilling twist on the haunted house story
Reviewed: 08-08-23
I love haunted house stories. I'm currently writing one myself, so it was great to pick up a well-written novel that did so many unique things with the horror sub-genre. I didn't feel like it stuck the landing as powerfully as I hoped, but otherwise I loved it.
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Dark One: Forgotten
- By: Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs, Sophie Oda, Keith Szarabajka, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved. In this six-part audio series, Christina Walsh is determined to change that. After struggling with the loss of her father, she sets out on a journey to bring the justice that has eluded her to the families of other victims. And she starts with a particularly strange case. The murder of world-renowned violinist Leona McPherson who mysteriously disappeared years ago after a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
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I expected more
- By Gavin Crenshaw on 01-16-23
A killer audio drama with a podcast format
Reviewed: 07-22-23
Look, I love the writing of Dan Wells and Brandon Sanderson, so when they began collaborating, I was stoked. When I learned they were writing a dark portal fantasy, I was even more stoked. And then they dropped an audio drama that scratches my itch for true crime podcasts and found footage-style horror that ties into that portal fantasy? And they crushed it?
I'm going to be insufferable recommending this to people for a WHILE.
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The Destroyer of Worlds
- A Return to Lovecraft Country
- By: Matt Ruff
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery, but an encounter with an old nemesis leads to a life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry is diagnosed with cancer and strikes a devil’s bargain with the ghost of Hiram Winthrop, who promises a miracle cure—but only if George brings Winthrop back from the dead.
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Matt Ruff!!!
- By ayodele higgs on 03-04-23
- The Destroyer of Worlds
- A Return to Lovecraft Country
- By: Matt Ruff
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
A strong sequel, but not quite as good
Reviewed: 04-12-23
Though I loved revisiting the world and characters of Lovecraft Country, which is one of my all-time favorite horror novels, this book didn't quite capture my imagination as well, probably largely because it had so much less horror.
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Lovecraft Country
- A Novel
- By: Matt Ruff
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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Critically acclaimed cult novelist Matt Ruff makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.
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An effective mix of influences
- By Jim N on 04-10-16
- Lovecraft Country
- A Novel
- By: Matt Ruff
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
One of the best horror novels of the last decade
Reviewed: 03-03-23
A brilliantly performed audiobook. This book delivers on horror, terror, and thrills, smartly challenging Lovecraft's nastiest legacies of racism and sexism while also bringing in elements of his most ingenious work.
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Scream Kings
- By: Scream Kings
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Three friends, two horror writers, Nathaniel Darkish and N.J. Gallegos, and an occult enthusiast, Max George, discuss horror movies, TV shows, books, and video games, creepy folklore, and the occult, plus regularly feature guests in the horror community including filmmakers and writers.
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love this podcast
- By Cody Haslem on 03-19-21
love this podcast
Reviewed: 03-19-21
A podcast that discusses horror film, literature, folklore, and the occult and always brings something interesting and fresh to the table.
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