Creator: Brian Glover
Publication date: 1997-05-06
Price: £10.00
Review An American Werewolf in London (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-09-21
Dewey code: 813
Price: £9.99
Review The Magic Cottage / Macmillan Audio Books:
Edition: Microsoft Reader
Publication date: 2001-10-02
Price: £13.99
Review Coldheart Canyon / PerfectBound:
Creator: Ioan Gruffudd
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1998-07-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £55.09
Review Hornblower and the "Atropos" / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Michael Horden
Publication date: 1994-08
Price: £7.99
Review The Ghost Stories / Argo:
Creator: Willem Dafoe
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-03-27
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £27.90
Review One Past Midnight: The Langoliers (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Authors
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1994-09
Dewey code: 813
Price: £8.99
Review Frankenstein (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 330.0207
Price: £13.84
Review Eat the Rich / Random House US Audio:A conservative, prosperous American journalist gadding around the world laughing at all the ways less successful nations screw up their economy-this might not sound like the recipe for a great read, unless you're Rush Limbaugh, but if that journalist is P. J. O'Rourke you can be sure that you'll enjoy the ride even if you don't agree with the politics. Although Eat the Rich is subtitled A Treatise on Economics, O'Rourke spends relatively few pages tackling the complexities of monetary theory. He's much happier when flying from Sweden to Hong Kong, then on to Tanzania and Moscow, gleefully recording every economic goof he can find. When he visits post-Soviet Russia and finds a country that is as messed up by capitalism as it was by communism, O'Rourke mixes jokes about black-market shoes with disturbing insights into a nation on the verge of collapse. P. J. O'Rourke is more than a humourist, he's an experienced international journalist with a lot of frequent-flyer miles and this gives even his funniest riffs on the world's problems a startling ring of truth.
Creator: Vanessa Maroney
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-06
Dewey code: 813.0873808
RRP: £23.49
Price: £19.92
Review Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (Adrenaline) / Listen & Live Audio:
Publication date: 1994-05-01
Price: £11.15
Review Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar All / Modern Library Inc:
Creator: Eric Conger
Publication date: 1994-10-27
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.95
Review I Shudder at Your Touch: Four Tales of Sex and Horror v. 1 (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Edition: Pap/Cas
Publication date: 2001-03-01
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.39
Review Scary, Scary Halloween / Houghton Mifflin (Trade):
Creator: Andrew Sachs
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1995-10-26
Price: £7.99
Review Penguin Book of Horror Stories (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Robert Powell
Price: £7.99
Review The Rats / Listen for Pleasure:
Creator: Denica Fairman
Publication date: 2000-11-30
RRP: £11.00
Price: £39.99
Review True Horror Stories: Complete & Unabridged (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-09-21
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.38
Review Once / Macmillan Audio Books:Once is the latest in the welcome new phase of James Herbert's career after he distanced himself from the straightforward "horror" tag afforded to him by earlier novels such as the Rats trilogy and cannily reinvented himself as a writer with considerably more psychological insight and elegance of style. Trading on a grotesque reinvention of fairy stories, Herbert has his protagonist Thorn Kindred encountering witches, goblins and demons, and being obliged to turn to some very strange sources to save his soul. The new ambitiousness of Herbert's writing may be found in the underpinning of the narrative here: this is a grim and persuasively realised spin on Nietzsche's epigram: "When fighting monsters, beware of becoming one yourself. " But long-time readers needn't worry about a lack of grisly chills: Herbert is too fine a writer not to keep us permanently on the edge of our proverbial seats. And he's better than ever at orchestrating his fear-filled climaxes, so that there is a carefully worked out structure to the book that never has the stop-and-start jerkiness of the early novels. Rather in the nature of Sondheim's musical Into the Woods, fairy tale motifs are exploded and reconstituted in this dark and erotic fable. After reading Once, fairy tales will never seem the same again. -Barry Forshaw.
Edition: Cass Unab
Publication date: 1992-11
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: £20.17
Review Dolores Claiborne / Penguin Highbridge (Aud):More of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savour King's leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense. The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did not kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan-notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don't you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good woman-or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility. [+]Dolores Claiborne is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a sceptical newcomer-put off by King's reputation for outright terror-to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who's an old favourite. -Patrick O'Kelley.
Publication date: 1998-05-20
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.98
Review Classic Ghost Stories / Music Collection International:
Authors
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-12-08
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.99
Review Frankenstein (Classic audios) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Michael Williams
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-10-13
Dewey code: 813
Price: £9.99
Review Classic Ghost Stories / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
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