Day: August 20, 2012

New Releases: Audio Realms: Ghoul by Brian Keene (read by Wayne June)

Jesse Willis

New Releases

This is the best audiobook trailer I’ve ever seen – graphics are nothing – just close your eyes and see it through your ears.

AUDIO REALMS - Ghoul by Brian KeeneGhoul
By Brian Keene; Read by Wayne June
Audible Download – Approx. 8 Hours 33 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audio Realms
Published: 2012
June 1984. Timmy Graco is looking forward to summer vacation, taking it easy and hanging out with his buddies. Instead his summer will be filled with terror and a life-and-death battle against a nightmarish creature that few will believe even exists. Timmy learns that the person who’s been unearthing fresh graves in the cemetery isn’t a person at all. It’s a thing. And it’s after Timmy and his friends. If Timmy hopes to live to see September, he’ll have to escape the … GHOUL.

Here’s a sample |MP3|.

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Recent Arrival – Cast Grabber [PODCAST SUBSCRIBING HARDWARE]

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Recent Arrivals

Cast Grabber

Every once in a while I see a piece of hardware advertized as suitable for use with podcasts. Usually it’s just a microphone. But this is the only piece of computer hardware I’ve ever seen that was specifically made for podcasts!

I bought the Cast Grabber for $10 from Princess Auto in Coquitlam, in a section dealing with aging and near obsolete hardware. It looks like it came out in 2006 or 2007, and so unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work with the iPhone, the iTouch, or the iPad.

I’ll try to find an old regular iPod to see if it’ll work.

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Thus I Refute Beezly by John Collier (read by Vincent Price and Tom O’Bedlam)

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

I’d like to track down the original publication of John Collier’s Thus I Refute Beezly. Several sources cite the Atlantic Monthly publication (the October 1940 issue), but I don’t have a scan of that – if you’ve got one, please send me an email. See there’s a 1931 copyright date for it in the Penguin paperback anthology entitled Out Of This World (edited by Julius Fast) – but it doesn’t cite the original publication source. In the meantime here are two more readings other than Jim Moon’s terrific version (available HERE).

As read by Vincent Price:

As read by Tom O’Bedlam [ABRIDGED]:

Posted by Jesse Willis