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  • Darkness Prevails

  • More Dark Tales to Keep You Up at Night
  • By: Cliff Barlow
  • Narrated by: Crystal Sershen
  • Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (445 ratings)

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Darkness Prevails

By: Cliff Barlow
Narrated by: Crystal Sershen
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Publisher's summary

Darkness Prevails is a collection of 15 terrifying tales by author Cliff R. Barlow. From twisted yarns about the demons of hell to gut-wrenching stories about the unrelenting demons within, this collection pulls no punches. You have been warned. This is not for the faint of heart.

©2014 Cliff R. Barlow (P)2015 Audible Inc.
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Ok Book.

A few of these stories were good. One of them was appalling. The book was kind of enjoyable.

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Wrong Narrator for these Stories

Content was so so but generally written from male characters' perspectives so a female narrator really doesn't work for this. Also she has a very neutral tone for horror content.

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Pretty Bad

The stories are trite, hackneyed, and entirely derivative. The reader is not as completely awful as some of the other reviewers have stated, but it does have any irritating nasal quality that I could tone out after a while. But since the book is written pretty much with a male voice, she was a completely inappropriate choice for reader.

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Right up my alley!

This was a bunch of short scary stories! This is exact what I was hoping it would be. Not disappointed at all!

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Unique Stories

An amazing collection of stories, (at a great price), strung together by a recurring theme that pops up in unexpected places from beginning to end. For me, these are like no other stories I'm familiar with and I enjoyed them greatly. There is some gore and a bit of sexual content, so if those things bother you, you might want to steer clear. However, if you're looking for short stories that are genuinely terrifying, this could be your book.

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great

it is a great book mirror's the dark thoughts of the mind and nice to take a nap to 10/10 would recommend

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GOOD STORIES HORRIBLE NARRATION!

Lile I said, the stories are good some are even awesome. This narrator drives me bats*#t crazy! She sounds like a monotone robot or the digital elevator vouce announcing the floor it stopped on!????! Sample, sample sample is my mantra to all Audiable or digital book users! Because this was a "freebie" courtesy of the Audiable Plus Catalog, I didn't obey my first rule, SAMPLE! IDK man, it wasn't horrible- I think if one is prepared for this narrator that the book would be far more enjoyable! (Cliff Barlow is a excellent author of the macabre and horror as these short tales exhibit!)

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narration is not good

The narrator ruined what would have been good stories. inflections were off sometimes monotone sometimes sing song. emphasis was in the wrong places in the sentencing. I was unable to get into the stories because the narration was so irritating

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Had to slow speed down

Had to slow speed down to .9. I didn’t care how the stories ended so abruptly and went immediately on to the next one. None of scared me at all.

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good stories, worst delivery ever

the stories were chilling, but the narrator took a singular too fast, almost happy tone the whole time. I need to feel the fear in sentences like ". I'm glad I didn't see the baby's head hit the wall". she sounded like a complaining teen, and not like any character that was portrayed. I can't finish the stories.

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