Creator: Michael Gould
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1997-04-30
Dewey code: 792.102908
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.15
Review Dracula (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: David Collings
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-04-16
RRP: £42.24
Price: £42.24
Review The Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James (Volume One): 1 / Craftsman Audio Books:
Publication date: 2008-08-14
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.57
Review Frankenstein (Classic Radio Sci-Fi) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1996-09-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.27
Review Doctor Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (Classic Fiction) (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Rupert Degas
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-06-04
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.49
Review Blood Beast (The Demonata) / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Rupert Degas
Publication date: 2005-11-21
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.20
Review Tunnels of Blood: Complete & Unabridged (Saga of Darren Shan) / Collins Audio:Coming hot and bloodily on the heels the two opening Darren Shan sagas, Cirque du Freak and The Vampire's Assistant, this third episode in the life of a vampire-to-be is reassuringly gut-wrenching and still as addictive. Shan again makes no bones about his new life as a half-vampire in the shadow of his full-vampire master, Mr Crepsley. It's brutal and gory, but also fascinating and compelling. Darren's life is different from those around him and he's plagued by feelings of rejection. He's fit and energetic, with superb sensory perception-and he's growing stronger every day. Yet, he is tormented by the human life he has left behind. He can't make normal friends and has no family except the strange and unearthly collection of hobos who inhabit his usual home-the touring circus-of-horrors that is the Cirque du Freak. In Tunnels of Blood, Shan and the snake-boy Evra-who seems hell-bent on tracking down a rogue vampire on the loose-visit a nameless city on the coat-tails of Crepsley. Vampire law, such that as is, has been violated and a particularly foul and loathsome creature of the night is killing humans in a distinctly uncivilised way. But the monster has picked Crepsley's home town in which to wreak havoc and he must be stopped. [+]Darren, however, has suspicions about Crepsley's motives and his intervention at a crucial point in the hunt threatens dire consequences for all concerned. Throughout, Shan is debunking myths of the undead by the page-load and then creating a fair few of his own too. Garlic and a fear of the cross is hokum it seems, but Vampire Generals and Vampaneze are fair game. Despite the story being a bit thinner than in the previous two books, it's still inventive and original, with page-turning action and cliffhanging chapters galore. Shan is trying very hard to entertain and he's getting away with it. -John McLay.
Creator: Paul McGann
Publication date: 2008-05-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £6.37
Review Fluke / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.21
Review Classic Ghost Stories / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Paul Ansdell
Publication date: 2005-11-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.59
Review The Woman in Black (Longbarn Listening) / Long Barn Books:
Creator: Rupert Degas
Publication date: 2005-07-18
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.83
Review Lord Loss: Complete & Unabridged (The Demonata) / Collins Audio:
Publication date: 2007-10-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.91
Review Ghost Stories: v. 1 (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: James Frain
Publication date: 2008-09-19
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £9.10
Review Moon / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Creator: Rupert Degas
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05-01
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.55
Review Demon Apocalypse (The Demonata) / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 2006-11-02
RRP: £29.99
Price: £5.24
Review Misery / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2007-02-05
RRP: £11.98
Price: £7.60
Review The Unholy Grail (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Authors
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1994-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.19
Review Frankenstein (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: David Collings
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-01-30
RRP: £42.24
Price: £25.22
Review The Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James (Volume Two): v. 2 / Craftsman Audio Books:
Creator: Steven Pacey
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-08-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £4.99
Review The Rats / Macmillan Audio Books:
Publication date: 2006-11-02
RRP: £39.99
Price: £11.23
Review Insomnia / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2006-08-10
RRP: £39.99
Price: £1.79
Review Hearts in Atlantis / Hodder & Stoughton:Stephen King's collection of five stories about '60s kids reads like a novel. The best is "Low Men in Yellow Coats," about Bobby Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th birthday. But his widowed mum is impoverished and so bitter that she barely loves him. King is as good as Spielberg or Steven Millhauser at depicting an enchanted kid's-eye view of the world, and his Harwich is realistically luminous to the tiniest detail: kids bashing caps with a smoke-blackened rock; a car grille "like the sneery mouth of a chrome catfish"; a Wild Mouse carnival ride that makes kids "simultaneously sure they were going to live forever and die immediately. " Bobby's mum takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books such as Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men-monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mum's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier. [+]" Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are criss-crossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. -Tim Appelo.
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