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Title: Nocturne

Subtitle: And Other Unabridged Twisted Stories

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Narrator: Bobby Carnavale, Boyd Gaines, Michele Pawk, Frederick Weller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-04

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

This standout collection from Twisted includes "Gone Fishing", in which a daughter begs her father not to go fishing in an area where there have been a series of brutal killings; a contemporary of the playwright William Shakespeare vows to avenge his family's ruin in "All the World's a Stage"; in "The Kneeling Soldier", a father's love turns deadly when he protects his only daughter from a stalker; and in the bonus story, "Interrogation", a detective grills a cold-blooded murderer as to why he killed a perfect stranger.

Diverse, provocative, eerie, and inspired, this collection exhibits the amazing range and signature plot twists that have earned Deaver the title "master of ticking-bomb suspense" by People.

Critic Reviews:

"Jeffrey Deaver emerges as a master of the classic short story, bolstered by a bevy of ace readers in this collection of 'twisted tales'....High production values and committed, gifted actors make this an audiobook sure to remain in your collection." (AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

Intriguing shorts, like Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Not a bad collection of shorts, one or two nothing special but the rest quite good. "Gone Fishing" was particularly Hitchcockian ... I never saw it coming! Enjoy!

Not as original as

I really liked "Twisted", so I jumped at the chance to buy this. I was disappointed. It was like the stories that the editor cut out of the first book, made it into this one.

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Title: Paycheck

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Keir Dullea

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-03

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 107 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Electronic mechanic Jennings wakes up with no memory of the past two years of his life, except that he had agreed to work for Retherick Construction. Payment for his services, now completed, is a bag of seemingly worthless objects: a code key, a ticket stub, a receipt, a length of wire, half a poker chip, a piece of green cloth, and a bus token. But when he is confronted by the Special Police, who seem to be investigating Retherick for their own reasons, Jennings finds himself running for his life, realizing that the "worthless" objects are the key to unlocking his recent past, and ensuring that he has a future.

Paycheck is also contained in the short story collection

, by Philip K. Dick.

©1987 The Estate of Philip K. Dick; ©2003 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc.; (P)2001 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"Narrator Dullea does a fine job of evoking the story's tension as well as Jennings' puzzlement over his situation." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Typical Philip K. Dick story

My DH says we saw the movie, but I don't remember it. The same goes for this story, it is a typical Philip K. Dick story. Short and stunted. Some of his short stories are very good, but most try and trick you. Maybe in the 60's, but now they are just pre-dick-able.

Not as good as the movie.

So far everything that I have by Philip K Dick isn't as good as their filmatic counterpart. Nearly all the storied of his that i have read or listened to see like very interesting ideas that needed minor tweaking or fleshing out to be great.

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Title: Selected Stories from May There Be a Road

Author: Louis L'Amour

Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-03-01

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In his extraordinary career Louis L'Amour captured the spirit of America as few writers ever have. A storyteller whose universal themes of bravery, pride, adventure, and self-reliance have echoed across generations, L'Amour set a standard that has yet to be matched.

In the title story, "May There Be a Road", L'Amour weaves a powerful tale of a young Tibetan khan who leads a small band of horsemen on a daring escape with his betrothed across a treacherous mountain landscape of granite and ice. On their trail is a ruthless Chinese colonel and the might of the Red Army. At stake is the survival of a people and an ancient way of life.

A welcome addition to the libraries of his many avid fans or a spectacular introduction to the work of America's greatest storyteller, Selected Stories from May There Be a Road exhibits the unbridled passion, the unsurpassed range, and the sheer genius of a true master working at the peak of his creative power.

Members Reviews:

Mediocre at best

Nothing special here. Seems like L'Amour's family wanted to make a few extra

bucks so they went through the masters trash can and dug out this stuff.....read some

of his other short story collections and then tell me L'Amour would have ever allowed

this book to be published.

Five Stars

Ilove Louis LAmour

He seamed pleased.

Big Louis LâAmour fan, have read this book at least twice. But this purchase was not for me. A friend mentioned that this book was all he needed to complete his LâAmour collection so, I purchased it for him. He seamed pleased.

Good product

Good

Three Stars

All his books are good

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Title: A Martian Romance

Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrator: Brian Corrigan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-24-01

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 61 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

This bittersweet story takes us to a bleak and wintry Red Planet, where the terraforming effort has gone terribly wrong. A group of original colonists set sail in an iceboat across the frozen seas of Mars, many years after their first epic journey, hoping to relive their past and to touch the sky one last time.

Executive Producer: Dan Zitt

©1999 Dell Magazines

(P)2001 Random House, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Nice mini Addition to the Mars volumes

Nice mini Addition to the Mars volumes

This took me about 4 minutes to get back to KSR's Mars .

A reminder of The Greens and The Reds arguments .

I wish it was longer .

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Title: I Smell Esther Williams

Author: Mark Leyner

Narrator: Mark Leyner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"Isn't so and so a snob?" he asks. "She won't even admit she liked Grease." Looking for an author who ponders the imponderable, expresses the inexpressible, describes the indescribable, and leaves no burning issue of American popular culture or world concern unexamined? Well, you'll find him in Mark Leyner. On this recording, Leyner, one of the most gifted and original young American writers around, reads 6 prose pieces from his first published book.

Copyright ©1983 Mark Leyner; Copyright (P)1991 by Dove Audio

Members Reviews:

Yuck

If this is one of our best nyoung writers...I am scared. It is gobbledygook and not even interesting nonsense at that. Skip it, even if its free. Your ears will thank you.

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Title: Winesburg, Ohio

Author: Sherwood Anderson

Narrator: Terry Bregy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-99

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of stories set in a fictitious town in the 1890s, has long been considered Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece. This groundbreaking work set the stage for a new era in writing, greatly influencing Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck, among many others. Anderson wrote simply, brilliantly crafting a work that dared to examine the darker impulses of human nature. Considered by many at the time of publication (1919) to be a scandalous work, Winesburg, Ohio has nonetheless survived through the decades as one of the forerunners of modern fiction. Haunting and powerful, it draws readers into the streets and houses of Winesburg - and into the darkly complex lives of each of Anderson's unforgettable "grotesques."

Cover art: Variable Skies - Medina, Ohio ©1992 Charles Basham; (P)1995 Audio Bookshelf

Critic Reviews:

"...a panorama, with souls instead of trees, with minds instead of houses." (Chicago Daily News, 1919)

Members Reviews:

Unacceptable audio quality!

The audio quality is simply unacceptable in this recording and there are no chapter divisions!

Listener from Sweden

Forgotten Author

For all the help he gave Hemingway in getting started in Paris the first book Hemingway wrote was "Torrents of Spring," a biting, although not particularly good, sartire of Anderson. Hemingway wrote it in a few weeks. The fact it is a rarity doesn't mean it's worth tracking down. Anderson, like Sinclair Lewis, was not one of the fashionable writers after the "lost generation" took center stage in 20th century American literature. Perhaps their topics were too simple, with common place characters. They struggle but few of them bleed or die as the other writers would have them. No, this isn't a great novel but in the history of the budding American novel of the early 20th century novel it is still worth reading, my rating not withstanding.

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Title: Spr i snön [Tracks in the Snow]

Author: Jonas Karlsson

Narrator: Jonas Karlsson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-13

Publisher: Novellix

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Spr i snön är en laddad novell om utanförskap och hämndbegär, men ocks om att hitta tillbaka till livet och förlika sig med det förflutna. Handlingen kretsar kring Martin och Barbro som flyttar frn Stockholm till ett litet svenskt samhälle där de försöker hitta en egen plats trots lokalinvnarnas misstänksamhet. Flytten leder till en händelseförveckling som innebär att ingenting ngonsin kommer bli sig likt.

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Title: Trouble Chaser

Subtitle: A Classic Hard-Boiled Tale from the Original Black Mask

Author: Paul Cain

Narrator: Anthony Heald, Burt Ross, Grover Gardner, Lorna Raver, Malcolm Hillgartner, Bill Hughes, Christine Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A starlet's plot to blackmail a film-studio executive results in her murder. Only the "trouble chaser" can clear her volatile lover and solve the crime.

©1962 Keith Alan Deutsch (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Nostalgia thriller

Nostalgia thriller with modern amenities . great music fit the atmosphere. The storyline keep your Attention.

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Title: Great Tales of Mystery

Author: Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe, G. K. Chesterton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-08

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

The unabridged stories presented here include "The Mystery of Marie Roget" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Queer Feet" and "The Invisible Man" by G. K. Chesterton (not H. G. Wells' Invisible Man, but rather part of Chesterton's "Father Brown" mystery series), "The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, "The Fated Five Hundred" by Robert Barr, "The Aluminum Dagger" by R. Austen Freeman, "The Redhill Sisterhood" by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, "The Mystery of Room 666" by Jacques Futrelle, "The Trailer Murder Mystery" by Abraham Lincoln (yes, that Abraham Lincoln), and "The Sherrif of Gullmore" by Melville Davidson Post.

Members Reviews:

Good Stories

Good stories, well read. Not sure why it has so few stars except I gave it a five and for some reason it seems to have registered as a one. Very strange.

terrible

Don't purchase this. It's boring and I wish I could get a credit back. I never would have if I knew they told the story in monotone. egh!

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Title: Faces of Bigfoot 2

Subtitle: Short Stories About the Human Side of the Sasquatch Phenomenon

Author: Lisa A. Shiel

Narrator: Beverly Van Pelt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-14

Publisher: Lisa A. Shiel

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

What lurks in the wilderness?

April is lost in the woods, but she's not alone...

Roger has an intruder in his barn, but not of the variety he thinks...

Evan is looking for excitement, but he gets more than he bargained for...

At the heart of every mystery lies a solution, but sometimes the answer proves even more baffling than the mystery itself. In this collection of short fiction, explore an often-ignored aspect of the Sasquatch phenomenon - the humanlike behavior of Bigfoot - as seen through eyes of three everyday humans. They will each encounter a legend - and see firsthand the many faces of Bigfoot.