Creator: Frances Sternhagen
Publication date: 1997-02-27
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £15.99
Price: £22.53
Review Selections from "Skeleton Crew": "The Raft", "Mrs.Todd's Shortcut", "The Monkey" & "Gramma" (Penguin audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:In the introduction to Skeleton Crew, his second collection of stories, King pokes fun at his penchant for "literary elephantiasis," makes scatological jokes about his muse, confesses how much money he makes (gross and net), and tells a story about getting arrested once when he was "suffused with the sort of towering, righteous rage that only drunk undergraduates can feel. " He winds up with an invitation to a scary voyage: "Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. " And he certainly does. Skeleton Crew contains a superb novella ("The Mist") that alone is worth the price of admission, plus two forgettable poems and 20 short stories on such themes as an evil toy monkey, a human-eating water slick, a machine that avenges murder, and unnatural creatures that inhabit the thick woods near Castle Rock, Maine. The short tales range from simply enjoyable to surprisingly good. In addition to "The Mist," the real standout is "The Reach," a beautifully subtle story about a great-grandmother who was born on a small island off the coast of Maine and has lived there her whole life. She has never been across "the Reach," the body of water between island and mainland. This is the story that King fans give to their friends who don't read horror in order to show them how literate, how charming a storyteller he can be. [+]Don't miss it. -Fiona Webster.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-08-31
Price: £52.95
Review Desperation / ISIS Audio Books:
Publication date: 2006-01-01
RRP: £41.95
Price: £43.94
Review Domain / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Dorothy McGuire
Publication date: 1996-04-01
Price: £9.99
Review Screen Directors' Playhouse: Starring Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Ray Miland and Dorothy McGuire Vol 2 (Golden Days of Radio) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Judy Bennett
Publication date: 1999-11-30
Price: £11.00
Review The Demon Headmaster Takes Over: Complete & Unabridged / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Rupert Graves
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-12-31
Price: £5.95
Review The Picture of Dorian Gray / CSA WORD:
Publication date: 1998-05-20
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.98
Review Classic Ghost Stories / Music Collection International:
Creator: Rosalind Russell
Publication date: 1996-06-07
Price: £9.99
Review Suspense Theatre: Classic Spine-Chillers from Leading Ladies v. 3 (Golden Days of Radio) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Brian Cant
Edition: Library Ed
Publication date: 1995-05-31
Price: £9.00
Review Vlad the Drac Vampire: Complete & Unabridged (Cavalcade Story Cassettes) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Claire Trevor
Publication date: 1996-01-04
Price: £9.99
Review Suspense Theatre: Starring James Mason, Richard Widmark, Herbert Marshall and Claire Trevor Vol 1 (Golden Days of Radio) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Andrew Sachs
Publication date: 1995-03-30
RRP: £6.80
Price: £49.11
Review The Fall of the House of Usher (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Mark Little
Publication date: 2000-06-04
Price: £7.99
Review Unseen!: Unabridged (Puffin Audiobooks) / Penguin Children's Audiobooks:In Australia, Paul Jennings has sold millions of books and won stacks of awards. His acclaimed collections of immensely readable and addictive short stories with a twist in the tale are his trademark. Unseen! is his ninth such book and, reassuringly, it has exactly the same appeal and that slightly subversive and supernatural bent as his first, Unreal!. Uniformly strong, all eight stories feature an inspiring central character and young readers will certainly not need any encouragement to dip into them once discovered. Each alternates between hilarity, poignancy, triumph over wrongdoing, the eerily spooky and often the plain bizarre. "One-Finger Salute" is about a boy who develops a very handy skill of being able to grow extra fingers-but sometimes in places he wish they wouldn't. "Squawk Talk" features a parrot that won't go away and is determined to teach a bully a thing or two about manners. "Seeshell" stars a very strange crustacean that won't stop predicting doom and gloom to its owner. There are more too-each one defined by an originality and with a clear message of good intention that makes them adored by children and adults alike. The short sentences, quick-fire plot and pay-off scenarios have encouraged thousands of young readers to respond so positively to these mini-masterpieces. [+]Unseen! is a must-have book for reluctant readers and lovers of the unusual-hopefully not the last from Jennings' pen and extraordinarily creative mind. (Age 8 and over) -John McLay.
Publication date: 1999-06-17
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £9.99
Price: £12.75
Review Stephen King Live / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Patricia Hodge
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1992-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.00
Review Virago Book of Ghost Stories (Virago Collection) / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2003-01-01
RRP: £4.98
Price: £3.74
Review The Creature in the Dark / Bolinda Audio Books,Australia:
Authors
- Paul Jennings
- Morris Gleitzman
RRP: £4.98
Price: £4.49
Review Wicked!: Bk. 6 / Bolinda Audio Books,Australia:
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:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1991-12-31
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £54.00
Price: £90.28
Review Cold Fire / The Reader's Chair:
Publication date: 1996-01
Price: £4.00
Review Servant of the Bones / Books on Tape:
Creator: John Glover
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1994-06-06
Price: £5.11
Review Gray Matter and Four Other Stories from "Night Shift" (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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Selections from "Skeleton Crew": "The Raft", "Mrs.Todd's Shortcut", "The Monkey" & "Gramma" (Penguin audiobooks), Desperation, Domain, Screen Directors' Playhouse: Starring Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Ray Miland and Dorothy McGuire Vol 2 (Golden Days of Radio), The Demon Headmaster Takes Over: Complete & Unabridged, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Classic Ghost Stories, Suspense Theatre: Classic Spine-Chillers from Leading Ladies v. 3 (Golden Days of Radio), Vlad the Drac Vampire: Complete & Unabridged (Cavalcade Story Cassettes), Suspense Theatre: Starring James Mason, Richard Widmark, Herbert Marshall and Claire Trevor Vol 1 (Golden Days of Radio), The Fall of the House of Usher (Penguin Audiobooks), Unseen!: Unabridged (Puffin Audiobooks), Stephen King Live, Virago Book of Ghost Stories (Virago Collection), The Creature in the Dark, Wicked!: Bk. 6, Frankenstein (Classic audios), Cold Fire, Servant of the Bones, Gray Matter and Four Other Stories from "Night Shift" (BBC Radio Collection) |
