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Narrated by:
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Tim Gerard Reynolds
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Colm Tóibín
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In Ireland, a man of reason is drawn to a true mystery older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge in this enthralling story about ethereal secrets by New York Times best-selling author Colm Tóibín.
During the winter solstice, on the shortest day and longest night of the year, the ancient burial chamber at Newgrange is empowered. Its mystifying source is a haunting tale told by locals.
Professor O’Kelly believes an archaeologist’s job is to make known only what can be proved. He is undeterred by ghost stories, idle speculation, and caution. Much to the chagrin of the living souls in County Meath. As well as those entombed in the sacred darkness of Newgrange itself. They’re determined to protect the secret of the light, guarded for more than 5,000 years. And they know O’Kelly is coming for it.
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- By Steve on 07-12-20
By: Ben Ehrenreich
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Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life’s unfulfilled potential; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent novel
- By ALG on 11-09-21
By: Damon Galgut
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The Color Out of Space
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
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This is one of Lovecraft's most beautifully written and frightening stories. It is written from the perspective of a surveyor, who, while surveying a rural area that is to be flooded near the town of Arkham, comes across a mysterious, abandoned farmstead, which is completely devoid of all life. At the center of the farmstead is an old well. The site fills him with an unnatural sense of dread, and, as it turns out, there is good reason for that feeling.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WARNING! Bad narrator.....
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By: H. P. Lovecraft
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The Hopkins Manuscript
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Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride is winning poultry-breeding contests. When not meticulously caring for his Bantam, Edgar is an active member of the British Lunar Society. Thanks to that affiliation, Edgar becomes one of the first people to learn that the moon is on a collision course with the earth. Members of the society are sworn to secrecy, but eventually the moon begins to loom so large in the sky that the truth can no longer be denied.
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4 out of 5 stars
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1939 or present?
- By TimePresentTimePast on 01-23-23
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- Narrated by: Sidney Lanier
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- Abridged
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The Seven Storey Mountain is the extraordinary spiritual testament of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), a man who experienced life to its fullest in the world before entering a Trappist monastery. By the end of his life, he had become one of the 20th century's best-known and beloved Christian voices. This autobiography deals...not with what happens to a man, but what happens inside his soul.
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Letter to Audible
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By: Thomas Merton
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Small Graces
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- Narrated by: Kent Nerburn
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Small Graces is a journey into the sacred moments that illuminate our everyday lives. In 20 elegant pieces, writer, sculptor, and theologian Kent Nerburn celebrates the daily rituals that reveal our deeper truths. Through the exploration of simple acts, Small Graces reminds us to chart a course each day that nourishes the soul, honors the body, and engages the mind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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worth every minute spent listening
- By Jory on 02-25-18
By: Kent Nerburn
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The Unsettled Dust
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- Narrated by: Reece Shearsmith
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories in which strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged, but all have the same thing in common: they are brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is. 'The Unsettled Dust', 'The House of the Russians', 'No Stronger Than a Flower', 'The Cicerones' and 'Ravissante' first appeared in the Sub Rosa collection in 1968, but the stories were published together as The Unsettled Dust in 1990.
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5 out of 5 stars
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By: Robert Aickman
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The Whisperer in Darkness
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When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Albert Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings. However it isn’t until he receives communication from Henry Wentworth Akeley that he is offered the proof he requires.
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Blasphemous
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
When Paula D'Arcy lost her husband and baby in a car crash, she began an inner search for a faith that was stronger than fear. In Gift of the Red Bird she shares her remarkable spiritual adventure. Grief, she shows us, is an ongoing, never-completed process, one that becomes woven into the fabric of the grieving person's spiritual life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relatable story
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By: Paula D'Arcy
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E.F. Benson's Ghost Stories
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- By: E. F. Benson
- Narrated by: Mark Gatiss
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 177
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 177
Mark Gatiss ( Sherlock, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones) reads chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story: E. F. Benson. There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy train platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little caterpillar. And a telephone, what could be scary about that? Don't be frightened of the dark corners of your room. Don't be alarmed by a sudden inexplicable chill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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E.F. Benson Classics Excellently Read by Gatiss
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By: E. F. Benson
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The Dream House
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- Narrated by: Terry Lloyd-Roberts
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
A farmhouse is being reproduced a dozen times, with slight variations, throughout a valley. Three small graves have been dug in the front garden, the middle one lying empty. A woman in a wheelchair sorts through boxes while her husband clambers around the old demolished buildings, wondering where the animals have gone. A young woman – called ‘the barren one’ behind her back – dreams of love, while an ageing headmaster contemplates the end of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant Dream House Narration
- By Simon Griffiths on 05-05-21
By: Craig Higginson
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What You Have Heard Is True
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- By: Carolyn Forché
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 329
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 290
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Story5 out of 5 stars 290
What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation, this is the story of a woman’s radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story
- By Norhilda on 05-09-19
By: Carolyn Forché
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Helena
- By: Evelyn Waugh
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftan who is suddenly betrothed to the warrior who becomes the Roman emperor Constantius. She spends her life seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient world. This she eventually finds in Christianity-and literally in the Cross of Christ.The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine and built churches at Bethlehem and Olivet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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And There Alone is Hope
- By John on 04-19-19
By: Evelyn Waugh
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The Prophet
- By: Khalil Gibrán
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
World-famous 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer. It was originally published in 1923. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Literally the best book!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-25-20
By: Khalil Gibrán
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Dreamwalker
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- By: J.D. Oswald
- Narrated by: Wayne Forester
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Story4 out of 5 stars 120
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Ballad of Sir Benfro: Dreamwalker, the first installment in the new fantasy series from JD Oswald, read by Wayne Forester. Miles from the great cities of the Twin Kingdoms, a young boy called Errol tries to find his way in the world. He's an outsider, and no one, not even himself, has any knowledge of his true lineage. Deep in the forest, Benfro, the young male dragon begins his training in the subtle arts.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining, albeit predictable
- By Marilyn C on 02-05-15
By: J.D. Oswald
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The Great God Pan
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- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 146
Machen's novella The Great God Pan is often cited as one of Lovecraft's most notable influences. In it, Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan". After much study of the human mind, he devises an experiment that involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakens she is terrified and mentally crippled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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classic horror
- By Shantee on 05-04-16
By: Arthur Machen
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Sanshiro
- Penguin Classics
- By: Natsume Soseki, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
- Narrated by: Andrew Koji
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This story had no point.
- By icelandicponies on 12-30-21
By: Natsume Soseki, and others
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- By: Anne Michaels
- Narrated by: Anne Michaels
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures
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Love is foremost.
- By Sandie on 11-06-24
By: Anne Michaels
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- Miss M
- 06-10-24
Beautifully written story and Great Narration
Beautiful story that was so well written. And the narration is perfect for it. A thought provoking short piece.
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- CaroSully, Denver
- 01-11-21
Mystical realism
Science and shamanism, darkness and slivers of light swirl in this story on the winter solstice in a place beyond and squarely time.
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- Natasha Phillips
- 01-25-23
other than knowledge
great things about the book. I was intrigued with the story and how it works.
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- L. Roach
- 11-30-20
Some things should remain a Mystery!
I loved this story of the ancient voices of those buried at Newgrange, and the archaeologist who has spent a lifetime studying it. While I was glad that the ancients were able to share this great mystery of the shortest day without losing its beneficent, life-giving power, I finished the story worried about what the world would do to this most ancient and sacred place when it learned of the mystery of the shortest day.
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- Serenity
- 09-07-23
A Lesson
Let this be a lesson on how a short story should be written and performed.
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- Howard Williams
- 07-28-21
Shortest Day , and book
just when I started getting into the story, it ended. bummer. needs fleshing out or some more good Irish ghosts.
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- S.Dane Shelton
- 04-18-22
A beautiful story that goes nowhere
So many loose ends left untied. So many avenues left unexplored. So many parallels left unconnected.
Too many. Was left wholly unsatisfied, resolved or even really edified. It was rich yet unrolling and therefore unsatisfying.
The writer should put this through one more edit and tie a few things up.
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- katie garlock
- 12-13-23
Past and present day intertwining
A lovely story, adding depth and dimension to memories of walking down that narrow passage on our Newgrange visit.
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- Love to Read
- 07-28-22
A lovely Christmas ghost story
I love this little story and the narator! I just looked it up.. it is a real place! And this really happens every winter!
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- Phyllis MacIntyre
- 01-19-23
Beautiful
Tobin is exceptional ; the story and performance are done well and presented wonderfully ; a memorable, captivating performance
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