The Book of Night: Poems of the Macabre
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Welcome to the world of shadows, cloaked in perpetual starlight; its denizens are a mysterious and frightening breed. And sometimes, just sometimes, their eldritch whispers and murmurs can cross the boundaries of reality and enter our darkest dreams.
Richard Groller and his troupe of dead and living poets pull back the veil in The Book of Night, revealing the terrifying denizens of the shadows.
- "Apparitions" - things seen and unseen at the edge of our vision, or embedded in the corners of our nightmares.
- "Sweet Sorrow" - the pain and poignancy of loss, love unrequited, visions from afar, the pangs of memory, or the last breaths of mortals.
- "The Autumn People" - denizens of the night welcome the Fall and its All Hallows promises.
- "Through a Glass Darkly" - peer through the gloom seeking the moment of revelation, and all becomes clear - or not.
Come, the night awaits...
- Poets - Living: Louis Agresta, Larry Atchley, Jr., Jeff Barnes, Dean M. Drinkel, Richard D. Evans, Jack William Finley, Allan Gilbreath, Richard Groller, Michael Hanson, Lori Martin, Chris Morris, Janet Morris, Kurt Newton, Jillian Perkins, Kimberly Richardson, Bill Snider, and Angel Weaver.
- Poets - Deceased: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913), Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), George Gordon (Lord) Byron (1788-1824), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Robert Frost (1874-1963), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, (Lord Dunsany) (1878-1957), Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), and Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
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- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The Arthurian legend of Camelot has been told many times, but never better than by Alfred Tennyson. Employing some of the most stirring and beautiful blank verse ever written, Tennyson crafted his version of the Knights of the Round Table over the course of nearly fifty years, completing it in 1885. Despite the length of time, Tennyson managed to maintain a high level of style and continuity throughout.
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Beautiful poetry
- By Roger on 01-15-08
By: Alfred Tennyson
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Spoon River Anthology
- By: Edgar Lee Masters
- Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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From a cemetery in a mythical small town in Illinois, the dead speak about their lives. Each free-verse monologue stands as an epitaph for the person speaking, yet the play is ultimately about life, not death. Featuring 50 performers with specially commissioned original music, this is the only audio version of this landmark classic available.
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Magnificent American poetry
- By Admiral Pike on 04-14-05
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A bird of good omen is murdered. A fickle crew is punished by supernatural, spectral beings. A skeletal ship is sighted moving against the wind and tide. The figure of Death along with a singular, gruesome companion man the fiendish craft. And as they draw closer, it becomes clear that the two play at dice for the soul of the ancient mariner. The result is nothing short of cataclysmic.
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A classic well read
- By Gary on 08-08-16
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Night’s Master
- Tales from the Flat Earth, Book One
- By: Tanith Lee
- Narrated by: Susan Duerden
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Long ago when the Earth was flat, beautiful, indifferent Gods lived in the airy Upperearth realm above; curious, passionate demons lived in the exotic Underearth realm below; and mortals were relegated to exist in the middle. Azhrarn, Lord of the Demons and the Darkness, was the one who ruled the night, and many mortal lives were changed because of his cruel whimsy. And yet, Azhrarn held inside his demon heart a profound mystery which would change the very fabric of the Flat Earth forever.
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A gothic fairytale
- By KH on 04-10-12
By: Tanith Lee
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Children of Telm: The Complete Trilogy
- By: Dean F. Wilson
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 25 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The complete epic fantasy trilogy set in the world of Iraldas, where gods and mortals mingle, collected together for a huge, immersive fantasy adventure. With the Beast, Agon, threatening to break free from his chains in the Underworld, the surviving bloodline of the dead god Telm are tasked with stopping his reign of destruction. Contains The Call of Agon, The Road to Rebirth, and The Chains of War, books 1-3 of the Children of Telm series.
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Solid Fantasy Story, Good Value
- By JollyGreenGoblin on 07-05-20
By: Dean F. Wilson
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The Gods of Pegana
- By: Lord Dunsany
- Narrated by: Ritchard Milton
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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" The Gods of Pegana" is the first book by Lord Dunsany, published in 1905. The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegana.
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Dunsany is great. This reader/performance is...
- By Advocatus Peregrini on 06-23-18
By: Lord Dunsany
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The Singer Trilogy
- A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict
- By: Calvin Miller
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The Singer quickly became a favorite of evangelists, pastors, artists, students, teachers and readers of all sorts when it was originally published in 1975. Retelling the story of Christ through an allegorical and poetic narrative of a Singer whose Song could not be silenced, Miller's work reinvigorated Christian literature and offered believers and seekers the world over a deeply personal encounter with the gospel.
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A must read for Christians
- By sleeper on 08-27-12
By: Calvin Miller
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Eugene Onegin
- A Novel in Verse
- By: Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen - translator
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.
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Pushkin and Falen are brilliant, Corkhill not bad
- By Jabba on 05-17-15
By: Alexander Pushkin, and others
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She And Allan
- By: H. Rider Haggard
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines. Its significance was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the sixth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in September 1975.
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Best of the Trilogy
- By emett holloway barfield III on 05-26-19
By: H. Rider Haggard
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Evangeline
- By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Narrated by: Leonard Wilson
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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"Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie" is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitated from Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized.
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Excellent
- By Anonymous User on 05-23-23