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Title: Pickman's Model

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

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

"Pickman's Model" is the story of a bizarre painter who has an uncanny genius for painting terrifying, hellish creatures which are extraordinarily lifelike. Indeed, the rendition is so amazing that it seems inconceivable that they could have been painted from anything but a real-life model. But of course that could never be...surely....

Members Reviews:

Great for the Nick Blinko fan!

If you're a die hard Nick Blinko fan, this is definitely a must buy. Unfortunately, this only seems to be available on Crna Hronika's Facebook page or on eBay for an overly inflated price, so I'm lucky I got this on Amazon when I did. The illustrations are beautiful, but this isn't "written" or drawn in a traditional story book manner...it's basically a bunch of illustrations inspired by the story. This will make a great collector's item and coffee book.

Five Stars

great

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Title: The Book

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer acclaimed for his outstanding and highly influential works of horror fiction.

"The Book" tells the story of a man who finds an old handwritten volume of incantations and spells which unlock the gateway to new and frightening worlds.

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Title: The Evil Clergyman

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-15

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 writer who was acclaimed posthumously for his brilliant and influential works of horror fiction.

"The Evil Clergyman" is a strange tale of a long-dead, malevolent cleric who still has the power to reach into the present time and cause untold dreadful harm to people of today.

Members Reviews:

Which is not a good sign, in the least

PLEASE NOTE: This work is in the Public Domain. I listened to a free audio production from Librivox.

I kept getting distracted when listening to this audiobook. Which is not a good sign, in the least. So distracted, in fact, that I had to go to Wikipedia to remind myself of everything about this story but the end!

I've read plenty of Lovecraft, but this one just can not keep me focused. Normally, Lovecraft sort of straddles old Victorian-era horror and modern horror, but this felt all Victorian. As in, perhaps the idea was original once, but it's been done so many times since, and pretty much always better.

Go for other Lovecraft, if you're looking for an intro to the man.

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Title: The Terrible Old Man

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror fiction who achieved posthumous fame as one of the most influential writers of his day.

"The Terrible Old Man" is the gruesome story of three robbers who set out to steal from a mysterious and reclusive retired sea captain who has a circle of strange stones in his garden and conducts even stranger rituals in his house.

Members Reviews:

Quick, eerie, and wonderful.

The narrator does a fine job or of establishing the mysterious and creepy atmosphere of the short story.

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Title: From Beyond

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-15

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 fame after his death for his groundbreaking works of horror fiction.

In "From Beyond", a maniacal scientist develops an extraordinary machine which enables humans to tap in to a range of additional senses which allow him to perceive whole new dimensions of the cosmos.

But that ability brings with it a vulnerability to unknown and malignant forces which exist 'beyond' but which now equally have access to our world. As the monsters 'from beyond' close in, there is only one way to escape....

Members Reviews:

Great selection of Lovecraft stories

An excellent gathering of three Lovecraft short stories--three of his most accessible and enjoyable tales.

Chilling...

Though short, I highly enjoyed it. This was my introduction to Lovecraft and I know I'll be back for more. Read for a paranoid and claustrophobic horror

Four Stars

Yes

One Star

BORING.

After following this wasted specter of a man up the stairs by candlelight ...

Hail to those visionaries of the 19th century and early 20th century who invented highly sophisticated machines propelling them to a time or space beyond the boundaries of everyday experience. For such explorers, science and technology were a kind of primordial fire lighting the way to unlock the mysteries of the universe.

And where do we find these bold, eccentric adventurers? Why, of course â in books! For example, we have the English scientist in H.G. Wellsâs The Time Machine who ventures into the future, the French madman in Jean Richepinâs The Metaphysical Machine exploring cosmic truth via excruciating pain, and, not to be outdone, in H.P. Lovecraftâs 1920 tale From Beyond, we have American philosophic mad-scientist, Crawford Tillinghast.

Lovecraftâs gothic tale of horror is told by an unnamed first-person narrator, a friend of Crawford Tillinghast. And the narrator begins by telling us while paying a visit to his friendâs laboratory, Tillinghast bemoaned the constricting limitations of our meager five senses and went on to say how he was on the verge of a breakthrough. What kind of breakthrough, we might ask? Tillinghast explains how he has constructed a wave-generating machine that will awaken dormant human capacities to gaze at the full range of the cosmos. Sound crazy? It is crazy! And the narrator tells his friend what he thinks of such a project. Tillinghast responds by kicking him out.

Ten weeks later, when a desire to share his discoveries overcame his bitterness, Tillinghast invites the narrator to return. Upon entering the house, the narrator discovers his much-transformed friend: Tillinghast has a shaky, ghoul-like frame, a squeaky, high-pitched voice and is forever muttering to himself. After following this wasted specter of a man up the stairs by candlelight (Tillinghast tells him having the electricity on would create too much of a disturbance) and entering the laboratory, he is directed by his bony friend to take a seat next to the glowing machine. Meanwhile, Tillinghast sits directly opposite, face-to-face and uncomfortably close.

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Title: Preface DA

Author: John Cheever

Narrator: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever, Peter Gallagher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-15

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Here are 12 magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates - with unequaled grace and tenderness - the deepest feelings we have.

As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat."

John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1978 The Stories of John Cheever won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Shortly before his death, in 1982, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Benjamin Cheever is the author of The Plagiarist, The Parisian and Famous after Death.

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Title: The War Prayer

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti narrates "The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, a scathing indictment of war and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war.

The structure of the work is simple: An unnamed country goes to war, and patriotic citizens attend a church service for soldiers who have been called up. The people call upon their God to grant them victory and protect their troops. Suddenly an "aged stranger" appears and announces that he is God's messenger. He explains to them that he is there to speak aloud the second part of their prayer for victory, the part they have implicitly wished for but have not spoken aloud themselves: the prayer for the suffering and destruction of their enemies. What follows is a grisly depiction of hardships inflicted on war-torn nations by their conquerors. The story ends with the man being ignored.

Members Reviews:

Brilliant writing! Brilliant reading!

Would you consider the audio edition of The War Prayer to be better than the print version?

Very well read but this work will always stand out.

What does Mike Vendetti bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

A ringing tone which reverberates throughout the piece with conviction.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Absolutely.

Any additional comments?

This is one of the hidden gems among Twain's works. The last line truly marks this as Twain at his most cantankerous.

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Title: The Fiddle

Author: Shalom Aleichem

Narrator: David Ian Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-15

Publisher: One Voice Recordings

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem.

The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions, as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives. He must cope both with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters, who wish to marry for love - each one's choice of a husband moves further away from the customs of his faith - and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village.

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Title: Europe: or Up and Down with Schreiber and Baggish

Author: Richard Stern

Narrator: P. J. Ochlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Cultures and egos clash in this hilarious tale of two American men trying to start over again in Europe.

For Max Schreiber, World War II was an idyll. It is the return home to Connecticut that feels like entering a combat zone. Ridiculed by his wife and daughter, bored by his legal practice, Schreiber spends his evenings drinking and eating alone, hoping that when he goes to sleep he will dream of France and Micheline, the beautiful young woman who may have broken his heart but at least made him feel alive. When at last he works up the courage to end his stultifying marriage and set out on his own, Schreiber knows exactly where he wants to go: across the Atlantic.

Theodore Baggish has spent years planning and saving for his escape from New England. When the time is finally right, he gleefully gets himself fired from his job as a dry goods clerk and sets sail for postwar Europe, the land of opportunity. Nothing will stand in the way of his success, and he will use anyone who can help him achieve his goals, whether they like it or not.

Naive, amoral, and unrelentingly eager, Baggish may have been too young to storm the beaches of Normandy, but he is bound and determined to conquer the Continent all by himself. When Schreiber and Baggish meet at an awkward dinner party in the university town of Heidelberg, one them is on the way up, the other on the way down.

Are their futures set in stone, or is there still time to change course? Stylish, witty, and profound, Europe is an insightful examination of the intersection of character and circumstance and a laugh-out-loud portrayal of the conflict between the Old World and the New.

Members Reviews:

No heroes, more than one louche character

I had has the feeling of being involved and wonders why the protaganist is naive and blind to his situation.

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Title: Tales of the Jazz Age - Selected Stories

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Flo Gibson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-04-14

Publisher: Audio Book Contractors

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"The Jelly Bean", "The Camel's Back", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Mayday", and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" comprise this collection of humorous, strange, and sometimes terrifying tales.