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.
Naxos Audiobooks, is offering a couple of free audiobook downloads this month! Here’s part of the description of the first one: Bierce’s ghost stories are not among the best-written but they are unusual and distinctly ‘modern’ in their definition of… Read moreNaxos Audiobooks: 2 FREE Horror tales, The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce and The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Free, for a limited time, from the new Naxos Audiobook entitled The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories comes this unabridged reading of Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft! It’s read by the talented William Roberts. Cha-ching! Dagon By H.P. Lovecraft; Read… Read moreNaxos Audiobooks: Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft
I’ve just started listening to Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond, a biography by Andrew Lycett, (available from Blackstone Audio). Here’s an interesting bit from early on: “On Sunday evenings all the boys would gather in the hall of… Read moreIan Fleming’s favourite novels (as a kid)
Speaking of Sir Walter Scott and Ivanhoe… I’ve been much into Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe over the last six months. I’ve watched three different video adaptations. One was a theatrical version from the 1950s, one was a TV movie from… Read moreCommentary: Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe
Naxos Audiobooks, in partnership with AudioFile Magazine, is offering three unabridged Sherlock Holmes short stories FREE for download until December 29th, 2009! The first of these had already been made available, but the other two are definitely new to my… Read moreNaxos Audiobooks: 3 FREE Sherlock Holmes short stories
In lecture #4 of The Teaching Company’s Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature’s Most Fantastic Works professor Eric S. Rabkin argues: “The writing of Edgar Allan Poe has too often been dismissed for reasons that do not hold up under… Read moreNaxos Audiobooks: The Fall Of The House Of Usher, The Pit And The Pendulum & Other Tales Of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe