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  • The Possession

  • By: Ambrose Ibsen
  • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
  • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
  • 3.2 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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The Possession

By: Ambrose Ibsen
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
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A brutal murder. A seaside village drenched in fog. A vile history . . .

Aaron Andrews, a newly-minted doctor, returns to the village of Aetherton to take up his late father's practice. Hopes of easing into his new role and restoring the local clinic are dashed, however, when the disfigured body of a child is discovered in an empty flowerbed. Working closely with Evander Cochrane, the village's sole law enforcement officer, Andrews is forced to admit that the girl's death is anything but natural.

The deeper Andrews and Cochrane dive into the grisly crime, the more they learn about the village's sordid history. Though pleasant and easygoing on the surface, Aetherton's past holds many things-some of them remarkably dark. The village is soon visited by a powerful storm, leaving it without power or access to the outside world.

When the seaside village becomes entombed with fog, something begins to walk its footpaths and haunt its shores-something that should not exist . . .

The Possession is a tale of supernatural horror by Ambrose Ibsen, author of The Haunting of Beacon Hill and The House of Long Shadows.

©2024 Ambrose Ibsen (P)2024 Tantor
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Narration ruined it

The story was just ok, but the narrarator was the worst I have ever heard. Every sentence sounds the same, and there is zero life or realism in the narration. It's like a robot is trying to act like a human.

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Mannered. Florid. Not for everyone, including me.

If you like very florid, gothic prose with a heavy dollop of 19th century phrasing, this is a great book for you. Taste in writing style is subjective so I need to admit, gothic florid isn't my thing.

The performance is also a subjective thing. On the up side, you can tell that there are different speakers. On the down side, Kyle Tait is one of those male voice actors who renders female characters in droning, nasal tones. Again , this is a matter of listener taste and I am positive that many listeners find that performance style to be unobjectionable. Take my views with that in mind


So, heavily written, 20th C. story with a lot of 19th C. verbiage, and a performance that has its quirks.

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If Stephen King wrote Midsommar

I love Ambrose Ibsen, I've read several of his books now. This one isn't his best but it's still really good, much better than most horror novelist who rehash the same stories. There are always unique elements in every Ibsen story. This book is almost exactly what you'd expect if Stephen King decided to rewrite the movie Midsommar. If you like horror, it's worth a read.

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Not a good listen

This book was terrible there was no mystery or thrill took me three days to listen to…

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Terrible Narration

I'm a big fan of Ambrose Ibsen and have bought a lot of his audiobooks - this one I could not get through because of the terrible narration. Every single bit of narration besides the dialogue was delivered in exactly the same way, same intonation, same pitch, same everything. It got real tedious after a while and I just couldn't go on.

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