News, Reviews, and Commentary on all forms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror audio. Audiobooks, audio drama, podcasts; we discuss all of it here. Mystery, crime, and noir audio are also fair game.
No Score (book #1 in the Chip Harrison series) By Lawrence Block; Read by Gregory Gorton 6 Cassettes – Approx. 5 Hours 30 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Chivers Audio Published: 1999 ISBN: 0792722620 Themes: / Crime / Sex / Quest /… Read moreAural Noir review of No Score by Lawrence Block
What’s the point of The Lottery? It’s a Rorschach test. “A chilling tale of conformity gone mad.”-Kent Brockman, Channel 6 News There’s a special kind of pleasure that comes from a combination of persistence and serendipity. For years I’ve described… Read moreThe Lottery by Shirley Jackson
My good friend Julie, from the Forgotten Classics podcast, sent me an email pointing out Trueman And Riley a BBC Radio “Drama series about two bickering detectives, starring Robert Daws and Duncan Preston.” Sez Julie: “Just in case you hadn’t… Read moreBBC7 & RA.CC: Trueman And Riley
The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie is available FREE, for the month of May 2010, over on Simply Audiobooks. But, if you’re not absolutely riveted by the prospect of getting a copy for FREE, I suggest you stop… Read moreSimply Audiobooks: The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
The 1990s was full of mystery in Canada. Weekday broadcasts on CBC Radio featured more than a dozen detectives in fully dramatized mysteries. This was a result of The Mystery Project. Perhaps the most listened to series under this banner… Read moreCBC Radio’s The Mystery Project: Midnight Cab by James W. Nichol
Dimiter By William Peter Blatty; Read by William Peter Blatty 8 Hours – [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: 2010 Themes: / Thriller / Religion / Christianity / Espionage / In 1973 a nameless prisoner is being tortured in an Albanian… Read moreAural Noir Review of Dimiter by William Peter Blatty