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Title: The Temple of Camazotz - An O. C. L. T. Novella

Author: David Niall Wilson

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-12

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Headless bodies are turning up along the Mexican border. The Mexican government blames overzealous US Border guards. The border guards blame drug runners. In a village just on the Mexican side of the border, they have other ideas. There are legends, older even than the Mayan civilization that has died away, of a God. A bat-headed vengeful demon. Someone is fanning the flames of that superstition, and the piles of bodies continue to grow.

Geoffrey Bullfinch, folklorist, dabbler in the occult, and Wendell "Mack" Macklemore, computer genius and extreme sports enthusiast, are called down to investigate. There are plenty of questions, but can they find the answers before the body count gets too high? Is it possible that they should have let sleeping gods lie? Find out in this action-packed O.C.L.T. adventure.

This novella and Brought to Light by Aaron Rosenberg, are the first introductions to the members of the O.C.L.T. team. Next will be the full-length novel The Parting, also by David Niall Wilson, and then the creation of the actual team follows in Aaron Rosenberg's Insurrection. Look for many adventures to come in this Crossroad Press original series.

Members Reviews:

Great read

Every one of the O. C. L. T. that I have read are excellent adventure/fantasy adventures. I'm now anxious for more to be released.

Great new series bursts into life

The Temple of Camazotz sees the launch of the exciting OCLT (Orphic Crisis Logistical Taskforce), detailing a loose group of experts who investigate and counter the stranger things in the world that most organisations wouldn't even know existed, and plunges us headlong into creepy goings on in Northern Mexico.

The two characters we meet; Wendell `Mack' Macklemore, a multi-skilled computer systems whizz with an eye for strange goings-on and a computer program for every eventuality, and Geoffrey Bullfinch the eccentric folklorist with a penchant for danger and tweed,, are both cleverly written and curious characters that drive the adventure along.

Exploring what seems to be the return of a particularly nasty bat-headed god, our two must battle superstition, corruption and downright terror as they search for the long-lost Temple and uncover the gruesome mystery behind the headless bodies that have turned up all over the area.

With a climax that hints at the fantastical and mysterious direction the series is likely to take, the Temple of Camazotz is a gripping Novella that will have you hungry for more in the series.

If you like this one, check out the first full-length novel in the series, written by David, The Parting, or the other currently released Novella, Brought to Light (written by Aaron Rosenberg).

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Title: Darkness Falling

Author: David Niall Wilson

Narrator: Mike Spring

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-11

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

When Klaus Von Kroft brings his band to the mountain village of Rathburg to perform a concert, a generations old tapestry of blood and darkness draws about him like a shroud. Delving into the disappearance of his parents, Klaus finds himself entranced by Rosa, a sunset-haired woman of mystery and darkness, her companions, and the eerily perfect music they play. But Rosa is far more than mysterious. She has stolen the blood and souls of men on the mountain above Rathburg for centuries. As Klaus is drawn into her web of vengeance and blood, his friends are dragged along behind. Can he unravel the mystery of the mountain and overcome the call of blood...or will they all fall to Rosa's game of hunger and revenge?

The answer lies on the mountain, but there is little time...with Darkness Falling....

Members Reviews:

Dark and gripping

This is a book for those who prefer (mostly) traditional vampires; you know, brooding but not emo, passionate but not whiny, and most definitely not sparkly!

Our dwellers of the night are, as it happens, rather fond of the High Arts, and by design a promising band makes its way to Rathburg - as the Lead singer follows his heart home for what he believes to be the performance of his band's Magnum Opus.

What unfolds is a terrible plot of long-awaited vengeance, of dark desires, power and control. The townsfolk shiver in fear, and only the band members and the local priest offer any hope of survival as they rush to save their friend.

Written with a knowing eye (or is that ear?) for the soul of music, and all the mountain-bound, secret-lair dwelling, all-begrudgingly follow the head vampire tones of a classic tale - this is a roaring read that will keep you gripped to the final chord.

Great Vampire Tale

This was a great vampire story with liberal splashes of music and vivid imagery. A story of lust, cruelty, revenge, love, rock and roll!

I recommend it to those who prefer Dracula and/or St. Germain sort of vampires over the more modern types being portrayed in fiction now a days.

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Title: The Sufferer's Song

Author: Steven Savile

Narrator: Andrew Randall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-11

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

A new techno-thriller by the International best-selling author of Silver and The Last Angel.

As a journalist, Kristy French is never going to win a Pulitzer while she's at The Newcastle Gazette covering bake sales and town fêtes. But a missing persons report could be about to change all that.

As a novelist, Ben Shelton's career's over before it's begun, he's the proverbial one hit wonder. The two of them have never met, but they're about to become the most important people in each other's lives. It isn't love. It's survival.

Johnny Lisker and his friend Alex Slater are having a beer in the local a pub after Alex's longtime girlfriend Beth broke his heart. It should be a quiet night. It isn't. Johnny stabs a man. Suddenly, he and Alex are on the run from the law and there's no going back.

Just outside of the village of Westbrooke, disgraced American doctor Brent Richards is obsessed with playing the Devil. He has manufactured a strain of virus he calls N.E.S.T., one that effects the bodies' pain threshold as well as its need for nourishment. The side effects include blisters along the mouth, rapid weight loss - and the insatiable need to feed.

Three people are missing. Murdered. And the death toll is not about to stop rising.

Small towns are meant to be sleepy. Safe. They are not meant to be meat. Within a single week, Kristy, Ben. and Westbrooke's residents have the comfortable safety of their world torn out from under them. People they have known all their lives turn on them and no-one knows what is happening, why, or how to stop it.

There's blood on the streets, and the suffering has only just begun.

Members Reviews:

Tried and tried

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The narrator's reading is flat and lacks any interesting inflection.

Any additional comments?

I have made myself listen to the first few hours of this book hoping that it would grab my interest. Unfortunately, after days of listening, I finally had to stop. I absolutely hate giving up on a book that others have reviewed as pretty good, so I may give it another attempt sometime later.

Dean Koontz-like Thriller

Where does The Sufferer's Song rank among all the audiobooks you???ve listened to so far?

This is a complex book based around a failed medical experiment - an experiment intended to help one control exactly the emotion they need at any given time - which goes wrong. The test subjects, some human, some animal, end up out of control, violent, raging - killing - and in many cases dead.

There is an array of characters lined up against the pretty much

What did you like best about this story?

The variety of characters

Which character ??? as performed by Andrew Randall ??? was your favorite?

Sort of copping out here, but the narrator's voice behind the story is my favorite.

If you could rename The Sufferer's Song, what would you call it?

Mental

Any additional comments?

An interesting, if rather long thriller. Should appeal to Stephen King and Den Koontz fans - particularly their earlier works.

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Title: The Hop-Frog

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: David Ian Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-11

Publisher: One Voice Recordings

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Edgar Allan Poe's tale of Hop-Frog, the practical-joke-loving king's crippled dwarf servant, draws upon Poe's affinity for tales of vengeance and the horrific.

The fat king and his seven ministers treat Hop-Frog and his female friend Trippetta, who is also a dwarf but beautifully proportioned, with disrespect whenever the king loses his temper. As long as the king and the likewise raucous seven are about their merriment and Hop-Frog joins them in their 'play', all is well. But beneath this lightness, the King has a dark and violent nature.

When the king forces his crippled joker/fool to drink wine, which he despises, Tripetta tries to intervene on Hop-Frog's behalf.

The king knocks her to the floor and dumps wine in her face. This angers Hop-Frog, and his plans to wreck vengeance upon the king and his court are quickly decided.

Members Reviews:

Enjoyable Poe tale

Narrator of the story is difficult to understand at times because of his pronunciation of words. However, this is an entertaining story with a surprising (albeit gruesome) ending.

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Title: Morella

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-16-10

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

An unamed narrator marries Morella, a woman who delves into mysticism. As a result of her experimentations, her soul can never die, but her physical form continues to deteriorate. She spends her time in bed and teaches her husband the black arts. Realizing her curse, her husband, the narrator, becomes frightened and wishes for his wife's death and eternal peace. She dies in childbirth but her soul passes into the new baby.

As the daughter gets older, the narrator notices she bears an uncanny resemblance to her mother, but he refuses to give the child a name. By her 10th birthday, the resemblance to Morella is frightening. Her father decides to have her baptized to release any evil from her, but this event brings the mother's soul back into her daughter. At the ceremony, the priest asks the daughter's name, to which the narrator replies, "Morella". Immediately, the daughter replies, "I am here!" and dies. The narrator himself bears her body to the tomb and finds no trace of the first Morella where he lays the second.

Members Reviews:

grows to look more and more like her mother

An interesting story, though I'm honestly not likely to remember it. The narrator's wife dies after giving a strange proclamation. Her child, a daughter, grows to look more and more like her mother. What is the reason? And is this resemblance a gift from above, or something else?

Given that this doesn't go fully into horror, I'd have liked to see a bit more of Poe's melancholy. There is a fair potential here to craft a really good tragedy by relating more about the narrator's feelings for his wife and child, but it isn't quite there.

I listened to the free audio production by Librivox. This story is in the public domain.

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Title: UR

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Holter Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-10

Publisher: Hodder Headline Limited

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

FIRST TIME ON AUDIO.... An unabridged novella unavailable in any collection!

Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology, which made Cell a number-one best seller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds.

Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: "Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams...and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares.

From vintage cars (Christine and From a Buick 8) to household appliances (Maximum Overdrive) to exercise equipment (Stationary Bike), Stephen King has mesmerized us with tales of apparently ordinary machines that take on lives of their own. UR gives this classic theme an up-to-the-minute spin, resulting in a horror masterpiece for our time and for the ages.

Critic Reviews:

"Firm, gripping, and deftly written by a craftsman at the top of his game, this is King at his crisp, clear, page-turning best." (Amazon.com review)

Members Reviews:

OK

Full of product placement for Amazon's Kindle, this short story is quite poor, and this comes from a huge King fan.

The basic premise is interesting, but it never really goes anywhere. The ending was frustrating.

I can understand this was commissioned by Amazon to promote the Kindle (you already had to own one to download it though), but I have the feeling this was rushed by King to meet a deadline. The product placement could have at least been more subtle.

Well read by Holter Graham.

Didn't grab me

This is the first Steven king book to drag. The ending just popped up at a point which could equally have been the middle.

What an intriguing premise

What an interesting and intriguing story. I really enjoyed it - and especially the range of emotions and moral dilemmas covered.

Made me wonder - what would I do?

Fascinating from a sociological and psychological perspective, as well as being a blooming good story. Thank you again SK, from another 'constant reader'

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Title: 13 Tales of Sonic Horror, Volume 4

Author: Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Edna St. Vincent Milay, Guy De Maupassant, John Gregory Betancourt, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, K. Anderson Yancy

Narrator: Lissa Lia, Kevin Yancy, Sandy J. Hotchkiss, Heather Wood, Don Hohman, Mike Klickman, K. Anderson Yancy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-22-09

Publisher: SonicMovie.net

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

In this collection:

1. "Arthur Jermyn" by H. P. Lovecraft

2. "Full Circle: The Pied Piper Returns" by K. Anderson Yancy

3. "The Little Ghost" by Edna St. Vincent Milay

4. "Shadow: A Parable" by Edgar Allan Poe

5. "Metzengerstein" by Edgar Allan Poe

6. "The Duke of Demolition Goes to Hell" by K. Anderson Yancy, adapted from the short story by John Gregory Betancourt

7. "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe

8. "The Statement of Randolph Carter" by H. P. Lovecraft

9. "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

10. "The Wedding Dress" by K. Anderson Yancy, adapted from the short story by Jacqueline Sewald

11. "Gaia - The Samurai and the Swastika: A Conspiracy Theory" by K. Anderson Yancy

12. "The Terror" by Guy De Maupassant

13. "Dagon" by H. P. Lovecraft

Members Reviews:

More Classic Poe

This series is excellent for those who like classic horror. No one does it better than Poe, in my opinion.

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Title: Appalachian Easter Outhouse Feud

Author: Weston Ochse

Narrator: Weston Ochse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-09

Publisher: Big Happy Family, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

The Hatfields and the McCoys set aside their differences to guard the gate of hell. This is one of several tales in the Smoky Mountain Horrors collection.

Scare yourself silly: listen to more

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©2009 Weston Ochse; (P)2009 Pulp Studios, LLC

Critic Reviews:

"Make way for a new powerhouse on the block. With creative brawn, brains, and balls, the guy's locked, loaded, and switched to full-auto, blazing away with his unique and original brand of modern horror, one of the few new writers, I'd say, who will help re-define the field for the future." (Edward Lee, author of City Infernal)

"It's obvious to see why Weston Ochse won a Stoker Award for his first novel." (James A. Moore, author of Harvest Moon)

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Title: The Smell of Leaves Burning in Winter

Author: Weston Ochse

Narrator: Weston Ochse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-09

Publisher: Big Happy Family, LLC

Ratings: 1.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Enter a melancholy world of Mardis Gras, sacrifice, and the death of a child. This is one of several tales in the Smoky Mountain Horrors collection.

Scare yourself silly: listen to more

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©2009 Weston Ochse; (P)2009 Pulp Studios, LLC

Critic Reviews:

"Make way for a new powerhouse on the block. With creative brawn, brains, and balls, the guy's locked, loaded, and switched to full-auto, blazing away with his unique and original brand of modern horror, one of the few new writers, I'd say, who will help re-define the field for the future." (Edward Lee, author of City Infernal)

"It's obvious to see why Weston Ochse won a Stoker Award for his first novel." (James A. Moore, author of Harvest Moon)

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Title: Dracula

Author: Bram Stoker

Narrator: Anthony Valentine

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-15-08

Publisher: CSA Word

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious 'Count' who has instructed him to purchase a property in England on his behalf.

Thus begins a series of awful events, where Harker finds himself in the midst of a nightmare, in a deadly game of cat and mouse where he himself is hunted as prey.

With a host of masterful characters including the brilliant Van Helsing, Bram Stoker's classic story has inspired countless adaptations, including numerous movies.

If it's a perfectly-crafted and chillingly read audio fright then you're after then look no further - this tale will have a listener reaching for their crucifixes and garlic bulbs!

Members Reviews:

... to read this since it is represented on many great novels lists but can't give it 4 or 5 ...

Had to read this since it is represented on many great novels lists but can't give it 4 or 5 stars; but I can give it a solid 3.5 stars. No doubt the book established the norm for Vampires and Gothic literature to which it deserves it's high standing, but is weak in it's repetitive verbiage regarding the constant praising of the main women characters of the story, Lucy and Mina. Once you endure that the story line is captivating and well worth reading. After all it is a classic and has been a favorite for many years. On a side note, I found it interesting to go to maps on my computer to locate the area where Count Dracula lived, Transylvania, and especially the mountain pass near his castle. Even though the story is fiction the places well described in the book become real when you see the surroundings and locations on a map.

The Dracula I Never Knew

On a recent trip to Romania, I decide to finally go back and read Dracula (had to get tips for how to protect myself). It's a really great story, told through a series of journal entries by all the major characters. Like many novels of its era, the plot velocity is patchy. It starts of well enough and then slows in the middle, finishing rapidly, almost in a rush. If you find yourself getting bored in the middle, force yourself to keep going. It does pay off in the end. The plot is somewhat predictable, but that's also because we've had over 100 years to absorb it. What struck me most about the original story is how much I didn't really know it. Rather, I had been indoctrinated by decades of movies and TV series that all put their own unique spin on vampires and those have so enmeshed with popular culture that nobody knows about the original. So, do yourself a favor and give this a read. It's free and the Kindle version is pretty well formatted and usable.

My favorite novel of all time

Don't know why, but I love this book. I started reading it again a few days ago. This is about the 8th time I've read it, and it never gets old. I love the romantic language and the chaste, Victorian attitudes. I love the way the horror and terror of Count Dracula is gradually revealed, the frustration and tragic pain of his pursuers, the cat-and-mouse game they play. Who is the pursued and who is the pursuer?

I've always marveled that there is no dialogue, per se, in the entire book. Every line of the book is a diary entry, journal entry, newspaper article, bill of lading, telegraph, etc.