October 14th, 2007 by vanessa
It’s getting close to that time of year again: Halloween, and for those young and old that like to be scared what could be better than sitting in a darkened room and listening to a Halloween story?
Here’s just some of the great scary audio stories available:
1. The Best Halloween Ever
The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disaster. Every year, these six kids - the worst in the history of Woodrow Wilson School and possibly even the world - wreak havoc on the whole town. They steal candy, spray-paint kids, and take anything that’s not nailed down…
Category: Humor
2. A Grown-Up’s Halloween
Blackstone Audio presents an eclectic mix of stories, plays and sketches dedicated to the thinking paranoiac. Gore, sex, horror, literature and edifying morals. What more could you want from an audiobook?…
Category: Fiction
3. Cell, By Stephen King
‘Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.’ The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world…
Category:Technological
4. The Night Country
At midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three who died come back on a last chilling mission among the living…
For more audio Halloween/horror stories check out the Audio Book Store
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October 5th, 2007 by vanessa
Recently I discovered that Stephen King and DreamWorks are working on a TV mini series of “The Talisman” for release in 2008. I had to reach back way into my memory to remember what this book was about. I was quickly reunited with this terrific story while listening to the audio book version.
The Talisman, as written by Stephen King and Peter Straub, takes us through the fantastic journey of Jack Sawyer. He is a young man that faces a momentous task of helping save his mother from the grips of cancer. A mysterious artifact known as The Talisman holds the power to help his mother, but it lies in a parallel universe on the opposite side of the United States. The Talisman chronicles Jack’s adventures through the dark, yet sensational alternate universe envisioned by King and Straub.
Although not a typical horror story in the traditional manner of Stephen King or Peter Straub, it is still a gripping tale of adventure and suspense. Much of the story takes place mostly within the “Territories” of Jack Sawyer’s alternate world. Troubles and triumphs are constantly found between both worlds, which keep this fantasy tale intriguing.
Although I enjoy them sometime, I am not big fan of movies made from novels. Partially this is due from the question of how do you condense a 400+ page book into a two hour show or three part mini series. Usually these watered down versions leave one disappointed or frustrated with the adaptation.
A perfect example of this is the adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Stand”. This mini series condensed a monstrous novel into a two or three night television story. Many of the characters were either combined or put in places or situations that they never were to begin with. Even though King himself wrote the television version, so many wonderful characters were not able to stand out and completely flesh the story.
Before you miss out on a large part of the story why not listen to The Talisman on audio? The great thing about audio books is that you can listen almost anywhere. The second best thing about audio books is that you can usually listen while doing other things like driving, exercising, or relaxing. With the great availability of audio books these days, you no longer have the excuse of not being able to read a great book.
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July 11th, 2007 by vanessa
When you buy audio books online your option depends only on your own necessities and desires. It is advisable to join a club that provides you with all the details that you should be aware of before actually buying the book.
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July 11th, 2007 by vanessa
During the last decades, the rate of reading traditional books has obviously decreased. Instead, people prefer to buy audio books online and listen to the content of the printed text whenever and wherever they want or can.
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July 11th, 2007 by vanessa
I guess anyone can imagine what audio books are. Standards definitions refer to them as recordings of a written piece of work that are read aloud. But if you think of all the benefits it brings they can be more than that.
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