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Title: Desperation

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Stephen King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-16

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to Desperation.

Once a thriving copper-mining town in the middle of the Nevada desert, Desperation is now eerily abandoned. It's the last place that travellers like the Carver family, bound for vacation, and writer Johnny Marinville, astride his Harley, would expect to be stopped and charged. But Desperation still has a local cop - a unique regulator who patrols the wilderness highway.

The secrets buried in Desperation are as terrifying as the forces summoned to encounter them. A terrifying transformation is taking place, and the travellers will soon discover the true meaning of desperation....

Members Reviews:

Great read by the horror and supernatural master!

Great Stephen King novel. Sometimes predictable but enough suspense and twists to keep you listening. I've been a King fan since I picked up my first, and this did not disappoint. Really enjoyed listening to it narrated by the author himself as it seems to add another aspect to the book. You really get the impression that the author has enjoyed reading his work as much as writing it.

Just a gentle road trip!!?

What a fantastic tale. The interwoven spiritual theme intertwined with the violence that unfolds is absolutely brilliant. It makes you shudder but unable to resist the next passage.

God is cruel.

This was the second time I tried to read this book, the first time I found it to violent and relentless in its gore and suffering; it still is but compared to the news we read every day it has lost some of the horror and that is a very sad reflection on our times.

The plot is a kind of revelation come commentary on environmental issues and racist abuse, but do not worry it just plows all that under a ton of bodies and blood , the characters are well drawn and the evil ones are also well described and put to some horrific use, this is the period where King was talking a lot about alcoholism and probably confronting his mortality, lots of references to middle age aches and pains, also his confusing religious expositions, still a very Christian mix of ideas ( unlike in his last books where god is closer to a god from the Necronomicon).

I can not describe it as fun but it certainly kept me interested and worried for the people in the story.

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Usually love Stephen King novels, this one was a snooze feature. Narration added nothing to experience.

gripping tale

intriguing story of an epic struggle between good and evil..... the familiar foundation of many a good yarn. Very enjoyable listen.

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Title: North Carolina Ghosts and Legends

Author: Nancy Roberts

Narrator: Fleet Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

This collection of tales was originally published as An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts and Mysterious Occurrences in the Old North State. To her group of classic stories, Mrs. Roberts has added three new tales about the Carolina coastal areas. The mountains, Piedmont, Eastern Carolina, and the Outer Banks all provide settings for the unique and haunting accounts found in this book. Six of the stories take place in the Outer Banks - a particularly inspiring location and the perfect place to meet the ghost on Blackbeard's last voyage.

Critic Reviews:

"Fleet Cooper's spirited performance brings out the history and hauntings of the Carolinas. Cooper's narration is unhurried as he paints the variety of settings in these 19 stories. His assortment of animated voices and accents invokes the myriad characters, who include distressed sailors, Southern ladies, and a menacing pirate who rolls his 'r's with a gruff growl. Cooper's storytelling adds drama to the suspense while his thoughtful presentation of backstory augments the eerie atmosphere of each tale. Though spookiness abounds, there's no gore, making this a fun listen for children as well as adults." (AudioFile magazine)

Members Reviews:

Good, Not Great

Nancy Roberts is a great storyteller, usually putting the reader into the story through the eyes of its participants. While her normal eye for detail is there, I found many of the stories to be a bit below her usual standard. Granted, her classic "Ghosts of the Carolinas" is a tough act to follow, but I'd still have to recommend that book over this one.

I enjoyed this book

I enjoyed this book. Each chapter is just a few pages, perfect for dipping in for a moment or so. Some tales I had heard, but others were totally new to me.

Contents:

The Ghost Comes for Blackbeard, Ocracoke

The General's Ghost, For Fisher

The Whaler's Return, Shackleford Banks

The Unearthly Music of Roan Mountain

Lifesaver of the Outer Banks

The Lovely Apparition, near High Point

Run of the Ghost Train, Warsaw

The Mysterious Hoofprints at Bath

The Fairy Cross, western North Carolina mountains

Music by the Ghost Organ, Kadesh

Bummer's End, Smithfield

The Little Red Man, Old Salem

The Thing at the Bridge, Smithfield

Devil's Tramping Ground, Siler City

The Light at Maco Station, Wilmington

Dromgoole, Chapel Hill

Ghost of the Old Mine, Gold Hill

The Battle of the Dead, Bentonville

The Ghost on the Stairs, Fayetteville

This book is well worth reading if you like gentle horror or ghost stories. Nothing is too scary and all are well told.

If you enjoy paranormal stories or North Carolina legends and history, then I think you would enjoy this book.

North Carolina Ghosts & Legends

Enjoy a good ghost story or legend? Then this is the book for you. Especially if you also have an interest in North Carolina. North Carolina Ghosts & Legends, as the title indicates, covers many old ghost stories and legends from the mountains to the coast. Stories include "The Ghost Comes for Blackbeard", "The Unearthly Music of Roan Mountain", "The Mysterious Hoofprints at Bath", "The Little Red Man", "Devil's Tramping Ground" and "The Battle of the Dead".

I found the stories to be very interesting. Nancy Roberts' writing style draws you in and makes you feel like you're there.

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Title: Christine

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Holter Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-16

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Christine was eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious. Christine, blood red, fat, and finned, was 20. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, she was Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished.

There was still power in her - a frightening power that leaked like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corroded the mind and turned ownership into possession.

Members Reviews:

My favourite

This story has been one of my favourite every since I first saw the movie. The movie is fantastic, the book is amazing and now the audio book is mind blowing. Great job

A wonderful book brought to life

This is one of my favourite King novels and Holter Graham did not disappoint as the narrator. The character's were fully realized and just as I imagined them to be. Very impressed

never gets stale

I read this book for the first time when I was about sixteen. It was my first Stephen king. I loved it. I've 're read it a few times over the years, and most of Stephen kings other books, and in my opinion it is one of his best. His earlier books had a strong continuity and commitment that I think some of his later books lacked. This is the first time I've listened to Christine as an audio book, the narrator is excellent in every way. His voice has a youth full yet wise tone, he was a perfect choice. His voices were so good especially Arnie who's voice changes, subtlety at first. I'm now much much older than sixteen and this audio book stood the test of time for me

Totally gripping.

A hard to put down book, tense & brilliant through out. Loved it, no disappointment .

Christine Review...

If you could sum up Christine in three words, what would they be?

Sinister,

Gripping,

Epic

What other book might you compare Christine to, and why?

The shining, as I loved that book also

What does Holter Graham bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?

Atmosphere

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I found it neither, I did find it scary!

Any additional comments?

Nope

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Title: Insomnia

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Eli Wallach

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-16

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

You'll lose a lot of sleep.... Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death.

That's when Ralph begins to lose a lot more than sleep. When he begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend, Ed, is getting out of control - dangerously so. And why his hometown is about to become the new Armageddon....

Members Reviews:

Great story and narration. God awful music.

Great story, rivetting. Eli Wallach's voice is a joy to listen to. The only thing was the music, it was terrible and inappropriate. Marred an otherwise excellent read of a great book.

Too much music

What three words best describe Eli Wallachs voice?

Talented voice artist and very easy to listen to.

Any additional comments?

There is terrible music all through the performance. I assume it is between chapters. It is distracting, detracts from the performance and ruins it. It is also far too loud for the voice of Eli Wallach to be heard clearly. There should be a warning that there is music introduced to the book.

brilliant

really gripoing all the way through the kind of book i could listen to again

Great story, great reading - dreadful music

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

It's a lengthy and enjoyable reading which in my opinion makes this purchase money well spent

What was one of the most memorable moments of Insomnia?

Sadly the memorable moments are the most frustrating (see comments below).

Which scene did you most enjoy?

When a certain character got his comeuppance.

Could you see Insomnia being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?

Definitely, as with a gazillion other Stephen King books. All the actors that spring to mind for Ralph are too old (or dead) - Jimmy Stewart would have been super.

Any additional comments?

Insomnia is a favourite of mine and I've read it a couple of times. Finding it here and read by Eli Wallach - a 'proper' Hollywood actor of a classic era - made its purchase a no brainer. And it's just as enjoyable to listen to as to read ... except for the incredibly intrusive incidental music that cruelly punctuates the reading at far too frequent and inopportune moments. It's discordant and unnecessarily loud and it's driving me up the wall. And yes, I realise that's the point - the lead character is functioning on increasingly fewer and fewer hours' sleep, the music is no doubt meant to mirror his frazzled nerves - but whoever thought this ear drum-jangling cacophony was a good idea and would compliment the actor's reading - it damn well doesn't!

Music Spoils the Book

What did you like best about Insomnia? What did you like least?

Music during the chapters drowned the narration and was pointless. A shame.

If youve listened to books by Stephen King before, how does this one compare?

Had to give up because of the music intervention.

What didnt you like about Eli Wallachs performance?

Eli was fab, music drowned him out.

Did Insomnia inspire you to do anything?

Write a petition not to use music on audiobooks.

Any additional comments?

I hope this is not a new trend, as i will not be buying. Returned.

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Title: Bottom Feeder

Author: Deborah LeBlanc

Narrator: Norma Jean Strickland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-16

Publisher: Ravenpheat Productions, LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Nina thinks she's escaping a nightmare the night she runs away from home and her mother's latest boy-toy, who preferred 17-year-old girls to 40-year-old drunks. Bu the nightmare has only begun.

She hitches a ride with a trucker, who eventually dumps her in the middle of nowhere, Louisiana, when Nina refuses to repay his act of kindness with sexual favors. Penniless, half-starved, and too frightened to accept another ride, she walks for what seems like hours until she happens upon a small town and the horror that lives there.

Nina soon learns the true definition of nightmare. And the only escape from this one - is death.

- From the best-selling author of Water Witch and A House Divided.

Members Reviews:

Good book

I like this author and these books.

Creepy!

LOVED the creep factor in this book! Deborah LeBlanc writes the stuff bad dreams are made of. Gets you hooked in right from the beginning & keeps you there til the story is finished.

Ugh!

Wow! I wish I Hadn't wasted my time and money on this. I have read LeBlanc's works before and have enjoyed them; but this was over the top, disgusting-wise, and not up to the level I have previously experienced from her.

Love her short stories!

I just love the creative craziness of Deborah LeBlanc's short stories like this one. I have read a lot of her novels, and they are all pretty good, some better than others. These are just fun and fast for an entertaining evening, and sometimes that is what a person needs!

Love this!

It was so descriptive, I wanted to put it down, but couldn't. I love her books and highly recommend her.

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Title: The Bank of the River

Author: Michael Richan

Narrator: Steven Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-16

Publisher: Dantull

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Steven is anticipating a quiet sabbatical at a new home. Instead, knockings and grisly apparitions begin to haunt him, relentlessly tormenting him at night. With a recent divorce and a son in college, he is left alone to deal with the ghosts lurking in the shadows of his house.

Steven is determined to find a rational explanation. His father Roy offers to help, and soon Steven discovers Roy has dormant supernatural skills. Steven's natural skepticism clashes with Roy's "gift", but soon Steven finds himself assisting Roy as he battles the forces inside his home. Together they unearth something much more sinister and evil than either expected.

The Bank of the River is a fast-paced and thrilling horror novel that explores supernatural gifts, a father's rediscovery of those gifts, and a son's destiny to accept them.

Members Reviews:

Bank of the River

Any additional comments?

Decent book. The scene in the cave of kind of creepy. I like the father/son team. The narrator's performance was good. I look forward to listening to other books in this series. I received this audiobook for free through Audiobook for my unbiased review.

Great suspense!

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

I did not want to stop listening. On two separate occasions my wife found me in my truck in the driveway listening to this book.

What does Steven Cooper bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Good solid read. Believable character separation and representation. Fit like an old pair of comfortable shoes.

Any additional comments?

Michael Richan has scored big! good for connecting with a teen, young adult, or old adult. Nice job Michael!

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Title: Shoot the Dead

Author: Steven Wetherell

Narrator: Luke Thompson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-16

Publisher: steve wetherell

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

For career criminals Jack and Billy Thatcher, ripping off London's most notorious gangster seems like a sure fire way to kick off their retirement plans. Unfortunately they don't bank on their bosses' underworld connections going a lot deeper than expected.

Now finding themselves on the run from undead monsters and chainsaw-wielding freaks, the Thatcher boys will have to employ every dirty trick they know if they want to live to see another dawn.

Members Reviews:

Entertaining!

This book was great. It was funny and had a good story line. I loved all the characters and want to know what happens to them. Definitely invested. The plot was a little unexpected and definitely interesting. It is also fantastically British in a very American-accessible way. The narrator was really great. The characters sound exactly how I heard them in my head when I read it in the print version. I am really pleased I spent a credit on this. For a good time pick up Shoot the Dead.

For more Steve Wetherell and other comedic fantasy writers, tune into their podcast, Authors and Dragons. It's hilarious. You're welcome.

London's Culling!

Don't hold the Clash pun against it, this audio book is awesome! Luke Thompson's narration takes great, and makes it near perfection. I found myself being oddly reminded of Terry Pratchett's "City Watch" books by the whole thing.

Classic East End thugs, Jack and Billie Thatcher vs zombies would not have gone over half so well with me. There's just been too much of that. This is more East End thugs versus voodoo yardies, vampires, zombies, the police, and an ancient demon skull thing. Jack and Billie are villains and no attempt is made to redeem them and their all the more likable for it.

Luke Thompson's narration only really misfires in a few places. Jock's accent seems to fall apart when he leaves comedy Scot to make serious threats. Leon's accent wobbles a bit too. Neither thing really takes away from the story, but it needs mentioning.

This wasn't the first of Steve Wetherell's books I was hoping would make it to Audible, but having read it, I'm even more determined to get the rest as they become available.

A badass bad guy you cant help cheering for

I first encountered Steve Wetherell, (AKA Brandon Thighmaster) through his work on the podcast Authors and Dragons. The premise of the podcast is that several authors of comedic fiction play a game of D&D. I dont listen to podcasts, Ive never played D&D or even met someone who played (at least, no one who admits to it) but I am a fan of Robert Kroese, Drew Hayes, Rick Gualtieri and, especially, Robert Bevan. Wetherell steals the show among these well known authors and, often, is responsible for the biggest laugh of the show.

All of that to say, I had high expectations for this book; I was blown away. While you can see inexperience in Wetherells writing, the compelling story, creative descriptions, unique similes, and a great narrator made this one of my favorite books of the year.

There is a ton of action, violence, and gore in this one that keep the story moving.

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Title: Higgins' Ghost

Author: Jessica Barksdale Inclán

Narrator: Caroline Shaffer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

After running away from her drug kingpin boyfriend (and turning him in to the cops), pregnant Amber hides away in her friend Higgins' house. Higgins works at a convalescent facility and writes morbid short stories, but she feels safe - until both her body and Higgins start to change on her. On Halloween night, it becomes clear who is wearing a disguise and why.

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Title: The Incurables

Author: Jon Bassoff

Narrator: Richard Rieman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-16

Publisher: Jon Bassoff

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 1953. Disgraced in the psychiatric hospital where he'd practiced for nearly 30 years, Dr. Walter Freeman has taken to traversing the country and proselyting about a very new kind of salvation: the transorbitol lobotomy. With an ice pick and a hammer, Freeman promises to cure depression and catatonia, delusions and psychosis, with a procedure as simple and safe as curing a toothache.

When he enters the backwater Oklahoma town of Burnwood, however, his own sanity will be tested. Around him swirls a degenerate and delusional cast of characters: a preacher who believes his son to be the Messiah, a demented and violent young prostitute, and a trio of machete-wielding brothers, all weaved into a grotesque narrative that reveals how blind faith in anything can lead to destruction.

Members Reviews:

If you like your horror fiction dark and hopeless

Doctor Freeman is a pioneer in the field of psychiatric medicine in the early 1950s, unfortunately it is for his work in lobotomizing homicidal patients. The hospital has decided the surgery is too dangerous and asks him to stop his work or leave the hospital. He chooses to leave. Distraught and depressed that his work will be lost to time, he forges out to share his work with the world.

In a parallel story, the town of Burnwood seems to be overcrowded with the evil and the insane. A preacher has declared his son to be the second coming of Christ, insisting that he can cure the ill and ultimately raise the dead. A teenage girl obsessed with her mothers hidden treasure has turned to prostitution and murder until she can get the money and free herself from squalor and humiliation.

The characters collide in a world of insanity and depravity. There are glimmers of hope, but darkness pervades. They are all desperate to feel better about their downward spiraling lives, but continue doing the truly awful with predicable results.

The Incurables is a horror story about depraved people. The only redeemable character seems to be the preachers son, Durango, whose father has mostly destroyed any chance of happiness in his humiliating life.

It is an interesting premise, and generally entertaining, but the story fumbles in its believability. A doctor who can perform thousands of lobotomies on willing participants is a stretch at best. Everyone in the story is either purely evil or utterly heartless, giving them a two-dimensional feel.

Richard Rieman performs the story well. His voice is pleasant and his characters well defined. There is a folksy quality to his reading that lends well with the mid-20th Century setting. A good performance overall.

If you like your horror fiction dark and hopeless, this may be a good listen. There is an otherworldly feel to the story, that maybe someone will be saved by the supernatural. But darkness pervades and evil ultimately has its way.

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Not bad, but not great

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

This book is well written and thought provoking, and I did listen to it to the end. I didn't dislike this book, but at the same time it did not make my favourites list.

I did enjoy the various bleak themes in this book.

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Title: Security

Author: Gina Wohlsdorf

Narrator: Zach Villa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-16

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 50 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

When the gleaming new Manderley Resort opens in 24 hours, Santa Barbara's exclusive beachfront hotel will offer its patrons the ultimate in luxury and high-tech security. No indulgence has been ignored, no detail overlooked. But all the money in the world can't guarantee safety.

As hotel manager Tessa and her employees ready the hotel for its invitation-only grand opening, a killer is in their midst. One by one staff are picked off with ruthless precision. And before the night is over, as Tessa desperately struggles to survive, it will become clear that the strangest and most terrible truth at Manderley is simply this: Someone is watching.

With stunning ingenuity, Gina Wohlsdorf puts listeners front and center as the elite resort becomes a house of horrors. Riveting to the final sentence, Security is fierce, wry, and impossible to turn off. With a deep bow to the literary tradition of Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Daphne du Maurier, Wohlsdorf's razor-wire prose blitzes listeners with quick twists, sharp turns, and gasp-inducing terror. Security is at once a shocking thriller, a brilliant narrative puzzle, and a moving, multifaceted love story unlike any other.

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