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Beowulf

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Anonymous ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

2 hours 47 min

The earliest extant heroic epic in any European vernacular, Beowulf is considered the most important poem in Old English. The title character is a warrior of superhuman strength who accomplishes glorious deeds to honor his king. He also represents the ideal lord and vassal, generous to his own men while fulfilling all the forms of courtesy at court. The narrative itself falls into two parts: ... Read more

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The earliest extant heroic epic in any European vernacular, Beowulf is considered the most important poem in Old English. The title character is a warrior of superhuman strength who accomplishes glorious deeds to honor his king. He also represents the ideal lord and vassal, generous to his own men while fulfilling all the forms of courtesy at court. The narrative itself falls into two parts:
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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An)

An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Chinese Detective Novel

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver, Stefan Rudnicki ...

Unabridged

7 hours 47 min

Long before Western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese had developed a long tradition of literary works that chronicled the cases of important district magistrates. One of the most celebrated of these was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century AD.This book, written anonymously in the eighteenth century, interweaves three of Judge Dee’s most baffling ... Read more

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Long before Western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese had developed a long tradition of literary works that chronicled the cases of important district magistrates. One of the most celebrated of these was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century AD.This book, written anonymously in the eighteenth century, interweaves three of Judge Dee’s most baffling
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Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls

An Audio Melodrama in Three Despicable Acts

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, John Baker, Steven Ovitsky, Tony Barrand, John Roberts ...

Narrated by a full cast, Robertson Dean, Martin Jarvis, Moira Quirk0, Simon Templeman1, Phil Proctor2, Rosalind Ayres3, W. Morgan Sheppard4 ...

Unabridged

2 hours 20 min

The insidious Fleet Street barber slit his first throat in an 1846 "penny dreadful," one of those gaudy serialized novels that gleefully offered thrills and gore to sensation-hungry Victorians. TitledThe String of Pearls, it told of Sweeney Todd, whose shop stood next to St. Dunstan's Church, just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of ... Read more

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The insidious Fleet Street barber slit his first throat in an 1846 "penny dreadful," one of those gaudy serialized novels that gleefully offered thrills and gore to sensation-hungry Victorians. TitledThe String of Pearls, it told of Sweeney Todd, whose shop stood next to St. Dunstan's Church, just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of
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The Oresteia

by Aeschylus, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by a full cast ...

Unabridged

3 hours 38 min

The only complete trilogy to survive from ancient Greek theater is presented here in this sound recording of all three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides.In the Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. Action begins when King Agamemnon returns victorious from the Trojan War but is treacherously slain by his wife. It ends with the ... Read more

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The only complete trilogy to survive from ancient Greek theater is presented here in this sound recording of all three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides.In the Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. Action begins when King Agamemnon returns victorious from the Trojan War but is treacherously slain by his wife. It ends with the
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The Dybbuk

by S. Ansky, S. Ansky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Edward Asner, Theodore Bikel0, Ashley Gardner1, Carl Reiner2, Richard Kind3, Kenneth Mars4, Marian Mercer5, Robertson Dean6, Barbara Rosenblat7, Kristoffer Tabori8, Janet Borrus9, Harlan Ellison0, Amanda Karr1, James Otis2, Alan Miller3, Lorna Raver4, Stefan Rudnicki5, Shelly Hanson6, Steven Ovitsky7 ...

Narrated by a full cast ...

Unabridged

1 hour 35 min

In the folklore of Eastern European Jewry, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to rest in the body of a living person. In this case, the dybbuk is an impoverished student that possesses a young bride on her wedding day. She is taken to a great Chassidic rabbi for exorcism. But before he can expel the spirit, the sage must discover who the dybbuk was in life, why he has possessed the maiden, ... Read more

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In the folklore of Eastern European Jewry, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to rest in the body of a living person. In this case, the dybbuk is an impoverished student that possesses a young bride on her wedding day. She is taken to a great Chassidic rabbi for exorcism. But before he can expel the spirit, the sage must discover who the dybbuk was in life, why he has possessed the maiden,
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, John de Lancie, Tony Jay, Robertson Dean, Kaitlyn Hopkins, Lorna Raver, James Otis0, Jane Carr1, Ed Gilbert2 ...

Narrated by a full cast ...

Unabridged

1 hour 10 min

Inspired by the classic silent film of 1919, this original audio play won the Independent Publishers Award in 1998 for best direct-to-audio production. John de Lancie stars as a young poet who visits a fair one night with his friend and girlfriend. Entering Dr. Caligari’s tent, they meet the mysterious Cesare, a kind of zombie, who is neither alive nor dead—and who forecasts doom for our high ... Read more

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Inspired by the classic silent film of 1919, this original audio play won the Independent Publishers Award in 1998 for best direct-to-audio production. John de Lancie stars as a young poet who visits a fair one night with his friend and girlfriend. Entering Dr. Caligari’s tent, they meet the mysterious Cesare, a kind of zombie, who is neither alive nor dead—and who forecasts doom for our high
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Sherlock Holmes Theatre

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William Gillette, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Martin Jarvis, Kristoffer Tabori, a full cast ...

Unabridged

4 hours 37 min

Blackstone is pleased to present the first ever audio recordings of the only two Holmes plays written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This specially commissioned production by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear is a unique, must-have audio for all Sherlockians.In Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarity, the Napoleon of crime, plots with would-be blackmailers to have Holmes killed. And the normally love ... Read more

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Blackstone is pleased to present the first ever audio recordings of the only two Holmes plays written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This specially commissioned production by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear is a unique, must-have audio for all Sherlockians.In Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarity, the Napoleon of crime, plots with would-be blackmailers to have Holmes killed. And the normally love
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Tales for a Stormy Night

A Pandora’s Box of Classic Chillers

by various authors, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Warren Dewey, Henry James, others, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton0 ...

Narrated by a full cast ...

Unabridged

7 hours 53 min

It’s midnight. Turn out the lights, cuddle with your true love, and shiver to fright-meisters Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. P. Lovecraft.Quicken your pulse with the elegant terror of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Guy de Maupassant. Chortle at the black glee of H. H. Munro and Ambrose Bierce.These fourteen tales, plays, and poems, gleaned from cultures around the world, range ... Read more

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It’s midnight. Turn out the lights, cuddle with your true love, and shiver to fright-meisters Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. P. Lovecraft.Quicken your pulse with the elegant terror of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Guy de Maupassant. Chortle at the black glee of H. H. Munro and Ambrose Bierce.These fourteen tales, plays, and poems, gleaned from cultures around the world, range
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Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!

A Very Grimm Tale

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Laura Sims, Josh Stanton8, Becca Tripp9, the Hollywood Theater of the Ear0 ...

Narrated by Sandra Oh, Simon Helberg, Kate Burton, a full cast, Laura Sims, Barry Creyton, Robin Sachs0, Armin Shimerman1, Ned Schmidtke2, Melinda Peterson3, Keith Szarabajka4, Kitty Swink5, Meshach Taylor6, Phil Proctor7 ...

Unabridged

2 hours 5 min

With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast exposé of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves’ cottage? ... Read more

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With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast exposé of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves’ cottage?
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Hour of the Cat

by Peter Quinn, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Ned Schmidtke ...

Unabridged

14 hours 39 min

On the eve of World War II, a murder in New York City draws two vastly different men, an American detective and a German intelligence officer, into the gathering storm.The death of a spinster nurse killed in her apartment was one of hundreds of simple homicides, indistinguishable from any other in 1938. A suspect was caught and convicted. Then Private Investigator Fintan Dunne is lured in to the ... Read more

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On the eve of World War II, a murder in New York City draws two vastly different men, an American detective and a German intelligence officer, into the gathering storm.The death of a spinster nurse killed in her apartment was one of hundreds of simple homicides, indistinguishable from any other in 1938. A suspect was caught and convicted. Then Private Investigator Fintan Dunne is lured in to the
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A Grown-Up’s Halloween

Fantasies and Fables for the Philosophically Fiendish

by various authors, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, John Baker ...

Narrated by a full cast, Tom Towles, Mark Bramhall, Ira Burton, Robertson Dean0, Bo Foxworth1, Jane Jacobs2, James Otis3, Lorna Raver4, Stefan Rudnicki5, Tom Alderman6, Annabel Armour7, Carolyn Brenner8, Viola Berwick9, Hamilton Camp0, David Chadderdon1, James Deuter2, John Doremus3, Michelle M. Faith4, Gary Gears5, Joe Greco6, Melissa Greenspan7, Richard Kind8, Glenn Kovacevich9, Sonja Lanzener0, Stephen Markle1, David Mink2, Roger Mueller3, William Munchow4, Brian Murray5, Phil Proctor6, David Rasche7, Avery Schreiber8, Pat Terry9 ...

Unabridged

6 hours 29 min

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?This collection includes "In a Grove," upon which Akira Kurosawa based his classic film, Rashomon; an adult fairy tale by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh; the real story (honest!) behind Edgar Rice ... Read more

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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?This collection includes "In a Grove," upon which Akira Kurosawa based his classic film, Rashomon; an adult fairy tale by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh; the real story (honest!) behind Edgar Rice
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Craven Street

Ben Franklin in London

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Montgomery, George Grizzard, Sir Nigel Hawthorne, a distinguished cast ...

Unabridged

4 hours 14 min

Originally broadcast nationwide in 1993, this meticulously researched five-part historical drama is being published by Blackstone to commemorate Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthdayThis production reveals the multifaceted, complex Franklin’s little-known adventures in London before the Revolution. For fifteen years, he lived on Craven Street off the Thames, where he established a surrogate family, ... Read more

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Originally broadcast nationwide in 1993, this meticulously researched five-part historical drama is being published by Blackstone to commemorate Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthdayThis production reveals the multifaceted, complex Franklin’s little-known adventures in London before the Revolution. For fifteen years, he lived on Craven Street off the Thames, where he established a surrogate family,
... Read more

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