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Ian Gordon
About this listen
This collection comprises another 40 stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction.
From White's seminal body-shocker, Lukundoo, through to Howard's dastardly Pigeons from Hell, and Benson's nightmarish The Room in The Tower. Time immemorial; worlds unimaginable.
Contents:
- Lukundoo (E. L. White)
- Sredni Vashtar (Saki)
- The Oval Portrait (E. A. Poe)
- The Vampire Maid (H. Nisbet)
- The People of the Pit (A. Merritt)
- The Red God Laughed (T. McClusky)
- The Shining Pyramid (A. Machen)
- The Shunned House (H. P. Lovecraft)
- The Horror in the Museum (H. P. Lovecraft)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (H. P. Lovecraft)
- The Hounds of Tindalos (F. B. Long)
- The Red One (J. London)
- I, the Vampire (H. Kuttner)
- The Shattered Timbrel (W. J. Knapp)
- The Wailing Well (M. R. James)
- A School Story (M. R. James)
- The Haunted Dolls' House (M. R. James)
- Pigeons from Hell (R. E. Howard)
- Dig Me No Grave (R. E. Howard)
- The Black Stone (R. E. Howard)
- The Whistling Room (W. H. Hodgson)
- The House Among the Laurels (W. H. Hodgson)
- Demons of the Sea (W. H. Hodgson)
- Old Rambling House (F. Herbert)
- They've Got a Killer View (I. Gordon)
- Pieter Craft - Model Citizen (I. Gordon)
- The Day They All Forgot (I. Gordon)
- The Horror of the Heights (A. C. Doyle)
- The Eyes Have It (Dick)
- The Screaming Skull (F. M. Crawford)
- The White Villa (R. A. Cram)
- The Ocean Ogre (D. Carroll)
- The Shadow from the Steeple (R. Bloch)
- The Night They Crashed the Party (R. Bloch)
- Catnip (R. Bloch)
- Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp (A. Blackwood)
- The Dance of Death (A. Blackwood)
- A Case of Eavesdropping (A. Blackwood)
- The Death of Halpin Frayser (A. Bierce)
- The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson)
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As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
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Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.
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Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.
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A dream come true
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What listeners say about HorrorBabble's Ultimate Weird Tales Collection, Volume II
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- Customer
- 01-26-24
A perfect narration as usual
Sir Gordon is the perfect reader for such stories. Sure you can get them on YouTube but buying them helps contribute to this awesome work.
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- KyJimmy
- 07-17-21
Ian is amazing.
Ian is an amazing storyteller and I love these collections. one of my all time favorite orators.
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- Melody Weckel
- 01-20-23
Good, though the first was better.
I found this one contained a few too many ordinary ghost stories, but over all I had a pretty fun time.
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- Adam Thompson
- 04-27-23
fantastic from Ian, once again.
Great narrator, great stories all in one place. great for sleep or a long drive.
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- Jimmie B
- 10-23-19
A Buffet of Creepy Weirdness
HorrorBabble's second collection of Ultimate Weird Tales is every bit as enjoyable as Volume I. The great advantage here is that you can pick and choose which stories you like best and not feel cheated for skipping the ones you don't. HorrorBabble has done us the benefit of, mostly, keeping each story to a single chapter so that it's never particularly difficult to find the story you want from the contents in the summary of the audiobook. If you've listened to a few story collections, you'll know how frustrating it can be when a publisher runs the stories together and puts the chapter breaks all willy-nilly. It seems a small benefit, but it's a big deal and I'm grateful HorrorBabble puts in the extra work. It means you can jump over chapters to get past a story that isn't your favorite -- and rest assured, there will be stories in a collection of this size that just aren't your cup of tea -- and get on to the ones you love.
Now, let's talk about the stories. HorrorBabble has done quite a job of building a large but interesting selection. You will, of course, find Lovecraft and Howard and Doyle, but also lesser-known works by William Hope Hodgson and Abraham Merritt. As well, when the collection touches such luminaries as M.R. James, you will find yourself listening to a story you might not have heard before, such as "The Haunted Dolls' House" or Robert Bloch's "The Night they Crashed the Party".
Finally, let us turn to the matter of the narrator. Ian Gordon is terrific. His narration is perfectly-suited for these kinds of horror stories -- atmospheric, tinged with fright and apprehension, and very British indeed. That's not to say he can't handle strong emotion or throw a great fight into you. Oh, he certainly can and does! You will find a couple additional treats in the collection from Mr. Gordon in the form of three of his own stories, which are most definitely at home among the rest.
In short, buy this collection. Listen to the stories you like and skip over the ones you don't. You will get excellent value and a whole bunch of great stories, performed very well.
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- Sab
- 06-09-23
Really great short stories
I really enjoyed listening to these short stories and found the narrator did a great job for each short story.
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- alisha randall
- 10-26-23
Perfect Spooky Season Listening
It’s really difficult to find a compilation like this that is so solid. A lot of these authors I had never heard of, and those I had such as Blackwood, Poe, PKD, Lovecraft, and Bierce I do enjoy. So I knew I would at least be interested in those stories (probably). I will say this hooked me right away. The first 5 stories are very solid. I did have to skip over some instances of in a story that discussed killing an animal, but that did not make the tale bad, only that I was not interested in hearing the details. I am very happy with my purchase and will be going onto the 3rd book now.
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- Navigator
- 11-06-19
Once more unto the weird dear friends
HorrorBabble did it again! Ian and Jen have delivered another healthy helping of the weird in this second collection of tales. Among the usual suspects like Blackwood, Hodgson, James and Lovecraft we get a wonderful assortment of other authors and lesser known works that really make this collection, like it's predecessor, shine that uncanny light that those of us with tastes for this kind of literature embrace and let wash over us.
Ian's discretion in the tales he chooses and his ability in reading are the keys to the collections being so magical. Tales from Lovecraft's friends like Howard's “The Black Stone” and Long's extraordinary “The Hounds of Tindalos” are standout tales from the expanded Cthulhu mythos. We get a few gems from Lovecraft's protégé Robert Bloch as well. Ian includes some more modern tales including a dystopian story from Frank Herbert and a humorous dip into the paranoia that you'd expect PKD to conjure up.
Another great collection from HorrorBabble that brings out the Great Old Ones as well as more obscure but equally wonderful tales of the weird, including a few more contributions from Ian himself. This assortment of tales has something for everyone and the reading makes the tales all the more enjoyable. Bravo!!
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- Donnie
- 04-19-20
Excellent collection of older Weird Tales!
Update: I contacted the publisher, HorrorBabble about the lack of chapter titles. Their response makes sense and I wanted to update my review accordingly. Here was their response "I'll explain a little bit about the chapter titles. If you look at our latest releases, you'll notice that chapter titles are included (Ultimate Weird Tales 3, for example). Unfortunately, it's only in the last 6 months or so that Audible have added a feature that allows us to enter chapter titles. Frustratingly, they won't allow us to update any release prior to these changes. I'm sure you can appreciate how frustrating it is to be receiving negative reviews due to something Audible won't allow us to update."
I have also increased my rating from 4 to 5 starts, since the chapter title problem is not their fault, but rather Audible's. I don't think it's fair to penalize them for something they aren't allowed to do anything about.
I really enjoy these older tales, and HorrorBabble's Collections are a fantastic way to get them.
My favorite way to enjoy these is either laying in bed at night before I go to sleep, or in my little book nook where I'll follow along in a print book, if I happen to have the story in print. These are all older stories and out of copyright, so you can find them online or sometimes you can find a print book with many of them.
The reason I gave this 4 stars instead of 5 is because the individual chapters are not titled in Audible. When viewing them in the app, for instance, instead of seeing 1. Introduction, 2. Lukundoo (E. L. White), 3. Sredni Vashtar (Saki), etc., you just see Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, etc.
This is a real pain when you are looking for a specific story. I honestly don't understand where the disconnect is with including the chapter titles. I have other audiobooks that do title the chapters, so it's certainly something that can be done. I am always a little saddened when I get an audiobook that is a collection of stories but the titles to the stories weren't entered. It's very frustrating and makes the enjoyment less. Most audiobooks like this, where it's a collection of stories, you don't really listen to it from beginning to end - you pick and choose stories. When it's not labeled, it's frustrating. Thankfully, they do mention the name of the story immediately in the chapter, and each story has only one chapter. I had another audiobook (different publisher) that contained 47 stories broken up into 229 chapters, none of which were titled. It was impossible to find anything and I returned it. This is not nearly as bad.
Yes, can you see titling the chapters means a lot to me? :-)
I enjoy HorrorBabble's stuff. They put out quite a lot of content and it's very good. I appreciate how they are faithful to the original stories - they don't change anything or interpret anything - what you hear is how it was written. Ian Gordon, the narrator, does a good job - you can tell he's familiar with the stories.
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- Lee
- 10-31-19
A worthy addition!
Horrorbabble's Ultimate Weird Tales Volume II takes the reader into odd jungles, colonial outposts, hunting adventures, and the edge of insanity. A great mix of pulp and genre classics, this volume leaves me excited about what the next will look like. It is great to see these canonical and all-but-lost stories brought to life with Ian's fantastic narrative style.
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