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Mike Vendetti
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Philip K. Dick
About this listen
The Crawlers is a science ficion short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. Submitted under the title "Foundling Home", it was first published as The Crawlers in Imagination magazine, July 1954.
The story starts out from the point of view of a crawler constructing one of its curious hives. The crawler seems sentient and to genuinely enjoy building its odd dwelling.
The story is set in a small Midwestern town, with references later in the story to mysterious "pools" which seem to cause mutations. Certain families in the area have begun to give birth to abnormal children – "crawlers" – with long, soft, pale, elongated bodies. They have poisonous stings (one crawler stung a dog, who promptly turned black and hard, and died soon after) and pulpy exteriors, and seem to emit a kind of glue that allows them to build. The crawlers seem to love building, and a colony of survivors, crawlers who were not killed by disgusted parents, have set up a hive not far from the town. A government official proposes a plan to move the crawlers to an island, where they can be alone, unpersecuted and with the ability to build as much as they like.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 603
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 530
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Story4 out of 5 stars 528
In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, John Moore and his wife, Mim, work the land that has been in his family for generations. But from the moment the charismatic Perly Dinsmore arrives in town and starts soliciting donations for his auctions, things begin slowly and insidiously to change in Harlowe. As the auctioneer carries out his terrible, inscrutable plan, the Moores and their neighbors will find themselves gradually but inexorably stripped of their freedom, their possessions, and perhaps even their lives....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable
- By pineapple67 on 11-08-19
By: Joan Samson
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Time Is the Simplest Thing
- By: Clifford Simak
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Space travel has been abandoned in the 22nd century. It is deemed too dangerous, expensive, and inconvenient - and now the all-powerful Fishhook company holds the monopoly on interstellar exploration for commercial gain. Their secret is the use of "parries", human beings with the remarkable telepathic ability to expand their minds throughout the universe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An old SciFy story but a good one.
- By Bob Wilson on 01-26-18
By: Clifford Simak
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Big Fish
- By: Thomas Perry
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4 out of 5 stars 88
Powerfully plotted and funny, Big Fish follows dangerous and mysterious Los Angeles entrepreneur Altmeyer, and his wife Rachel, whose quiet lives in the Hollywood hills are disrupted when a multi-million-dollar gunrunning deal goes bad. Under most circumstances, Altmeyer might be mildly amused by the audacity of the double-cross. But whoever cheated Altmeyer may also be planning to destroy the world. With so much at stake, Altmeyer and Rachel and their friend, super-agent to the stars Bucky Carmichael, set off on a perilous adventure in search of the identity of the Big Fish.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A let down
- By Dr. on 09-28-18
By: Thomas Perry
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Time Out of Joint
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 477
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 409
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Story4 out of 5 stars 407
Ragle Gumm has a unique job: Every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn’t consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town, in 1959. At least, that’s what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet named Marilyn Monroe, whom he’s never heard of. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them, like "bowl of flowers" and "soft-drink stand".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mediocre Mother to Gravity's Rainbow and the Truman Show?
- By Darwin8u on 06-13-15
By: Philip K. Dick
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Into the Out Of
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Earth is being invaded by the shetani - spirit creatures so small and stealthy that only one man knows about the increasing peril. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil both in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he must recruit the help of two others: government agent Joshua Oak, and a feisty young woman named Merry Sharrow. Only the three of them can keep the shetani from destroying reality as we know it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Book by a Master Storyteller!
- By Tracy Michael Herring on 05-03-21
By: Alan Dean Foster
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Truckers
- The Bromeliad Trilogy #1
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Stephen Briggs
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 715
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 552
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 551
To the thousands of tiny nomes who live under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no outside. Things like day and night, sun and rain are just daft old legends. Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence: the Store, their whole world, is to be demolished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great fun w/an edge - classic Pratchett
- By Joan on 02-19-11
By: Terry Pratchett
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Alice Isn't Dead
- A Novel
- By: Joseph Fink
- Narrated by: Jasika Nicole
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 811
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 745
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 741
Keisha Lewis lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country. Following a line of clues, Keisha takes a job as a long-haul truck driver and begins searching for Alice.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, but conditionally recommended.
- By Hayley Lambert on 11-02-18
By: Joseph Fink
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Dr. Bloodmoney
- By: Philip K. Dick
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story4 out of 5 stars 122
What happens after the bombs drop? This is the troubling question Philip K. Dick addresses with Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb. It is the story of a world reeling from the effects of nuclear annihilation and fallout, a world where mutated humans and animals are the norm, and the scattered survivors take comfort from a disc jockey endlessly circling the globe in a broken-down satellite.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Post nuclear apocalyptic surburban middle class
- By Michael G Kurilla on 01-04-18
By: Philip K. Dick
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The Violent Bear It Away
- By: Flannery O’ Connor
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,212
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,053
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,050
The orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousin, Rayber, defy the prophecy of their dead uncle - that Tarwater will become a prophet and will baptize Rayber's young son, Bishop. A series of struggles ensue, as Tarwater fights an internal battle against his innate faith and the voices calling him to be a prophet, while Rayber tries to draw Tarwater into a more “reasonable” modern world. Both wrestle with the legacy of their dead relatives and lay claim to Bishop's soul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Biblical, American and Absolutely Brutal
- By Darwin8u on 10-22-12
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Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper
- Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper Series #1
- By: J. L. Bryan
- Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 436
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 392
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 397
Ellie Jordan's job is to catch and remove unwanted ghosts. Part detective, part paranormal exterminator, Ellie operates out of Savannah, Georgia - the most haunted city in the United States. When a family contacts her to deal with a disturbing presence in the old mansion they've recently purchased, Ellie first believes it to be a typical, by-the-book specter, a residual haunting by a restless spirit. Instead she finds herself confronting an evil that is older and more powerful than she'd ever expected.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Creepy and Compelling. Perfect Halloween reading
- By Shari on 10-25-15
By: J. L. Bryan
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Perchance to Dream
- Selected Stories
- By: Charles Beaumont
- Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer. It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone - for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Contents
- By Ralph Freaster on 06-22-16
By: Charles Beaumont
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The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- By: Jack Finney
- Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,892
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,620
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,617
On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovers an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms are taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loves, and the world as he knows it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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GOOD READ
- By Randall on 04-25-09
By: Jack Finney
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 4
- By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell, Rebecca Mitchell, Michael Healy, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 196
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 195
With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Only a few decent stories in this bunch.
- By Jerry on 12-06-14
By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, and others
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
- By: Flannery O’Connor
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Karen White, Mark Bramhall, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,298
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,112
This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pride goeth before the fall
- By Ryan on 08-14-13