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Equilibrium Overturned

by Anthony Rivera, Sharon Lawson, Jeff Hemenway, John Everson, JG Faherty, Rose Blackthorn, Geoffrey W. Cole, SG Larner, Martin Slag, Roger Jackson, Sean Eads, Stephen T. Vessels, Josh Vogt, Jay Caselberg, Tim Waggoner, Tony Knighton ...

The end is coming. But how will you survive? Find out in Equilibrium Overturned from Bram Stoker Award-nominated editors of acclaimed indie horror anthologies Peel Back the Skin and Dark Visions, Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson.From alien civilizations bent on human destruction, to demonic incursions from beyond the event horizon, to the dangerous malevolence that lives within us all, Equilibrium ... Read more

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The end is coming. But how will you survive? Find out in Equilibrium Overturned from Bram Stoker Award-nominated editors of acclaimed indie horror anthologies Peel Back the Skin and Dark Visions, Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson.From alien civilizations bent on human destruction, to demonic incursions from beyond the event horizon, to the dangerous malevolence that lives within us all, Equilibrium
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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
... Read more
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The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole ...

Narrated by Tony Jay ...

Unabridged

3 hours 59 min

On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstances. His calculating father, Manfred, fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son’s bride himself—despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this unlawful union, as the curse placed on Manfred’s ancestor, ... Read more

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On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstances. His calculating father, Manfred, fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son’s bride himself—despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this unlawful union, as the curse placed on Manfred’s ancestor,
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Time’s Fool

A Mystery of Shakespeare

by Leonard Tourney, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Tony Jay ...

Unabridged

10 hours 53 min

Welcome to Shakespeare’s London, a world where the stage captures the hearts of every citizen, and where darkness hides dangerous and vengeful creatures. It is in this darkness that Shakespeare finds himself the victim of treachery most foul.When Shakespeare is contacted by his dark mistress, the former love of his life, he is excited to see her again after the long separation. But to his horror, ... Read more

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Welcome to Shakespeare’s London, a world where the stage captures the hearts of every citizen, and where darkness hides dangerous and vengeful creatures. It is in this darkness that Shakespeare finds himself the victim of treachery most foul.When Shakespeare is contacted by his dark mistress, the former love of his life, he is excited to see her again after the long separation. But to his horror,
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Lowering the Boom

Critical Studies in Film Sound

by Jay Beck, Jay Beck, Tony Grajeda, John Belton, Clark Farmer, Paul Grainge, David T. Johnson, Anahid Kassabian, David Laderman0, James Lastra1, Arnt Maasø2, Matthew Malksy3, Barry Mauer4, Robert Miklitsch5, Nancy Newman6, Melissa Ragona7, Petr Szczepanik8, Paul Théberge9, Debra White-Stanley0 ...

As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom also ... Read more

$21.59 USD

As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom also
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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?
... Read more
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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:
... Read more

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Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror - Volume One

Dark Visions Series, #1

by Anthony Rivera, Sharon Lawson, Jonathan Maberry, Jay Caselberg, Sarah L. Johnson, Ray Garton, Jason S. Ridler, David A. Riley, Milo James Fowler, Jonathan Balog, Brian Fatah Steele, Sean Logan, John FD Taff, Charles Austin Muir, Grey Matter Press ...

Series Book 1 - Dark Visions Series
ENTER DARKNESS IN THIS BRAM STOKER AWARD®-NOMINATED VOLUME OF HORROR.Just beyond the veil of perception is a darkened plane where ultimate evil resides. DARK VISIONS: A COLLECTION OF MODERN HORROR - Volume One is thirteen critically acclaimed tales of terror written by some of the most visionary authors writing genre fiction today.-- A boy comes face-to-face with evil in 'the most haunted town in ... Read more

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ENTER DARKNESS IN THIS BRAM STOKER AWARD®-NOMINATED VOLUME OF HORROR.Just beyond the veil of perception is a darkened plane where ultimate evil resides. DARK VISIONS: A COLLECTION OF MODERN HORROR - Volume One is thirteen critically acclaimed tales of terror written by some of the most visionary authors writing genre fiction today.-- A boy comes face-to-face with evil in 'the most haunted town in
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Seven Classic Plays

by Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Euripedes1, Henrik Ibsen2, various authors7, Molière8, Alexandre Dumas9 ...

Narrated by Yuri Rasovsky, a full cast, John Glover, Nicholas Kepros, Barry Morse, Brian Murray0, F. Murray Abraham3, Rosemary Harris4, Lois Nettleton5, Fritz Weaver6 ...

Unabridged

11 hours 41 min

Blackstone Audio is proud to present seven great plays in a collection that illustrates the development of European drama from ancient times to the threshold of the modern theater: Medea by Euripides, The Tempest by Shakespeare, The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, Camille by Dumas, An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, Arms and the Man by Shaw, and Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.A superb repertory company with ... Read more

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Blackstone Audio is proud to present seven great plays in a collection that illustrates the development of European drama from ancient times to the threshold of the modern theater: Medea by Euripides, The Tempest by Shakespeare, The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, Camille by Dumas, An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, Arms and the Man by Shaw, and Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.A superb repertory company with
... Read more
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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

$9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
Death's Realm

by Anthony Rivera, Sharon Lawson, Stephen Graham Jones, John FD Taff, JG Faherty, Hank Schwaeble, Aaron Polson, Jay Caselberg, Gregory L. Norris, Karen Runge, Brian Fatah Steele, Martin Rose, Matthew Pegg, Simon Dewar, Jay O'Shea, Jane Brooks, Rhoads Brazos, Grey Matter Press ...

Immerse yourself in the unnerving world of the paranormal with these tales of horror curated by Bram Stoker Award-nominated Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson, editors of the #1 bestseller Peel Back the Skin and the critically acclaimed Dark Visions series.It's here in Death's Realm where the spirits of the dead and monstrosities that should never exist torment the souls of the living they've left ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Immerse yourself in the unnerving world of the paranormal with these tales of horror curated by Bram Stoker Award-nominated Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson, editors of the #1 bestseller Peel Back the Skin and the critically acclaimed Dark Visions series.It's here in Death's Realm where the spirits of the dead and monstrosities that should never exist torment the souls of the living they've left
... Read more
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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
... Read more