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Title: The Death of Halpin Frayser

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Narrator: Roy Macready

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-16

Publisher: Spiders' House Audio

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. One of its most notable inclusions is "The Death of Halpin Frayser" a gothic tale of the murder of the fated hero by the reanimated corpse of his beloved mother.

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Title: Et mgtigt gilde [Cannery Row]

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Karsten Pharao

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-16

Publisher: Viatone

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

I Et mgtigt gilde skildrer Steinbeck forholdene i den lille californiske by Monterey. Strstedelen af romanens handling udspiller sig i gaden Cannery Row, som bl.a. huser byens store konservesfabrik, bordelejer Doras 'etablissement' og kbmand Lee Chongs butik. Fortllingens hovedperson er den snedige og manipulerende ungkarl Mack, der sammen med sine dagdrivervenner planlgger et gilde for marinebiologen Doc, som de skylder en tjeneste. Snart er alle byens beboere involverede i planlgningen af gildet, der dog ikke gr helt som planlagt. Steinbecks personbeskrivelser er bde humoristiske og gribende, og herigennem skaber han et charmerende portrt af en rkke skbner p samfundets kant.

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Critic Reviews:

"Aldrig har John Steinbeck digtet mere forelsket om den californiske natur. Aldrig har han ladet en elskeligere bande opst end Mack og hans drenge, der selvflgelig rykker ind i et tomt hus uden at betale husleje. Aldrig har han skabt en klogere mand end doktoren, som bliver deres nabo og lever af at samle frer og spindsvin til laboratorier. Og aldrig er det lykkedes Steinbeck at skildre en harmoni som den, der hersker her mellem videnskab og vagabondering ...Med denne roman har John Steinbeck filosoferet, og det har han gjort p s lyrisk og lattermild en mde, at enhver m overgive sig." (Tom Kristensen, Politiken)

"Det er en henrykkende historie, et ildhjul af humor, vittighed og hjertelig menneskeforstelse." (Jacob Paludan, Nationaltidende)

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Title: The Effigy

Author: G. Ranger Wormser

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Gwendolyn Ranger Wormser was a Victorian writer best known for her weird psychological horror stories.

'The Effigy' is the story of Genevieve Evans, a young woman in an unhappy marriage who is dominated by her unscrupulous, controlling father and belittled by her uncaring husband. Her frustration and rage, particularly at her father, whose portrait hangs over the fireplace, are extreme. But then Genevieve discovers a very strange thing about the portrait...and at once she finds she has a wicked, dangerous power at her fingertips with which she can take her terrible revenge.

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Title: Det stora kalaset [Cannery Row]

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Hkan Mohede

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-16

Publisher: Viatone

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

I Det stora kalaset skildrar Steinbeck förhllandena i den lilla kaliforniska staden Monterey. Romanens handling utspelar sig främst p gatan Cannery Row, där bl.a. stadens stora konservfabrik, bordellägaren Doras 'etablissement' och köpmannen Lee Chongs butik huserar. Berättelsens huvudperson är den finurliga och manipulerande ungkarlen Mack, som tillsammans med sina dagdrivarvänner planerar ett gille för marinbiologen Doc, som de är skyldiga en tjänst. Snart är hela stadens invnare involverade i planeringen av gillet, som dock inte gr helt enligt plan. Steinbecks personskildringar är bde humoristiska och gripande, och p s sätt skapar han ett charmerande porträtt av en rad öden p samhällets rand.

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Critic Reviews:

"Den är en av de mest underhllande och härliga böcker som du ngonsin kommer ha turen att läsa." (Chicago Sun Times)

"Allting är alltid p ngot vis invaggat i skratt ett speciellt sorts skratt med en tillfredsställelse över sin lott i livet, hur ödmjuk den än m vara, som bara John Steinbeck kan sätta ord p ... John Steinbeck ser p sina karaktärer med bde djup medkänsla och munterhet." (Chicago Sunday Tribune)

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Title: P rejse med Charley [Travelling with Charley]

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Dan Schlosser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Viatone

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

P rejse med Charley er en rejsebeskrivelse af en rundrejse i USA i 1960, som Steinbeck foretog i en autocamper sammen med sin puddelhund Charley. Steinbeck skrev, at han var drevet af et nske om at genopdage sit hjemland, eftersom han tjente til livets ophold ved at skrive om det. Han flte sig ude af berring med det moderne USA efter i tyve r at have boet i New York og rejst rundt i Europa, og han nskede bl.a. at finde ud af, hvordan den moderne amerikaner var. I sin autocamper Rosinante (opkaldt efter Don Quixotes hest) tilbagelagde den da 58-rige Steinbeck og Charley knap 16,000 km sammen langs USA's ydre grnser. Bogen er en charmerende beskrivelse af de steder og mennesker, som Steinbeck stder p undervejs samt de refleksioner, de giver anledning til - og som ofte kommer til udtryk som mentale samtaler med Charley.

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Critic Reviews:

"Efter 25 r som bermt forfatter flte John Steinbeck, at han ikke lngere kendte sit eget land. Hans beretning om genopdagelsen blev et lille mirakel af en bog med titlen P rejse med Charley ...Det er snart 50 r siden, men noget af det forunderlige ved bogen er, at den fles, som var det i gr, rejsen fandt sted ...Det er en bog, der gr én glad. Vi har en tilbjelighed til at se USA med Hollywoods jne, det hysteriske, det skabagtige, det drivende sentimentale, det overtydelige, det primitivt overfladiske. Nr vi ser det med Steinbecks, genfdes det i al sin rigdom." - Klaes Kastholm Hansen, Berlingske 2008, *****

"I en trekvart tons varevogn, ombygget til beboelse, og med sin sorte franske puddel Charley, som eneste ledsager, gennemkrte Steinbeck Amerika fra nord til syd og fra st til vest, og hvad han s, og hvad han tnkte derved, har han nedfldet i en overmde fortryllende rejsebog, som br blive denne sommers regnvejrslsning i alle caravans, sommerhuse og telte." - Marie-Louise Paludan, Sjllands Tidende 1963

"Ls Dem til glde i denne bog. Ikke det banale: ls Dem glad, men ls Dem til glde, en tilstand af glde, hvori man har det velbehagelig rart: en glde, som skaber et liftligt velvre, omtrent som en lun sommeraften ved solnedgangstid, nr en er cirklet af rreder, der slr, og fluen falder dunlet p vandet; eller som nr piben er velstoppet og trkker, som den skal, medens tankerne fr lov til at g, og ingen rgrelser plager." - Vagn Riisager, Kristeligt Dagblad 1963

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Title: Three Short Stories by Henry Chapman Mercer

Author: Henry Chapman Mercer

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) was, amongst other things, an eccentric archaologist, historian, architect, antiquarian collector and author of Gothic horror stories very much after the fashion of M. R. James.

'The Dolls' Castle' is the creepy story of a haunted house with a sinister past which uses old, rotting dolls to lure unwary children away from their parents.

'The Wolf Book' is the story of a professor who spends the summer travelling in Hungary and Romania in search of rare manuscripts. At the monastery at Jollok, he learns that the library was plundered a hundred years earlier by a sinister nobleman who was rumoured to be a werewolf.

'Castle Valley' tells the strange supernatural tale of an artist who gazes into an old crystal and sees a vision of a beautiful Gothic castle, with which he gradually becomes obsessed.

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Title: Six Short Stories by Elia W. Peattie

Author: Elia W. Peattie

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) was a prolific American author, journalist and critic. Although she left school at 14, she was enormously talented, and by her 20s she was well established as a writer of short stories.

This collection showcases six of her best tales: 'The Piano Next Door', 'On the Northern Ice', 'A Child of the Rain', 'From the Loom of the Dead', 'Story of an Obstinate Corpse' and 'Story of the Vanishing Patient'.

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Title: The Hound

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author who achieved posthumous acclaim for his outstanding and influential works of horror fiction.

'The Hound' is a terrifying story of two morbid young men who add excitement to their dull lives by robbing graves and creating a macabre museum of ghoulish trophies. But one day they open a grave containing a strange and sinister jade amulet...and once they are in possession of this artefact, terrifying events overtake them.

Members Reviews:

A fun, short read

A weird story of Lovecraft's, and in typical HP fashion the language can be a bit cumbersome, but always vivid. A fun, short read, that gives the perfect sampling of the author's ability.

Not bad, but there's better in many ways

Okay, let's just...not steal from graves. Lesson learned. Many. Many times. Because the main story element his is so common in literature. Yes, it's Lovecraft, but there's better stories among his works, and I've read better "cursed grave" type stories.

Of course, this being Lovecraft, the main characters are obsessed with eldritch horrors, and the item they take is connected. But the following torments are pretty standard.

This story is out of copyright, so you can get it free from many sources. Try Project Gutenberg, Librivox for audio, or try the version I listened to, as produced by Tales to Terrify.

Loved it

Such a cool dark story about grave robbers who get what they deserve . Lovecraft was a genius wish I would have read him a long time ago. I'm hooked.

Four Stars

Strong medicine in the horror genre.

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Title: The Death of Halpin Frayser

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914) was an American writer famous for his dark and cynical writings, which earned him the nickname Bitter Bierce. He is famous also for his mysterious demise. He wrote a letter to a friend, which he closed by saying, "As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination," and then he vanished without a trace, his disappearance becoming one of the most famous in American literary history.

The Death of Halpin Frayser is a deeply disturbing tale, written with the sense of a terrible nightmare in which a man is horribly attacked in a wood by the undead animated corpse of his dead mother.

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Title: The Piano Next Door

Author: Elia W. Peattie

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-11-16

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) was a prolific American author, journalist and critic. Although she left school at 14, she was enormously talented, and by her 20s she was well established as a writer of short stories.

'The Piano Next Door' is an eerie tale about a man who hears beautiful and inspirational music emanating from the house next door. But when he goes to find out who played it, he finds something very strange....