Dark Shadows: Carriage of the Damned (

Dark Shadows Dramatic Readings, Audiobooks #42

by Alan Flanagan

For Sabrina Jennings, tonight may be the most important night of her life. She has climbed aboard a cross-country train to find a cure to her werewolf curse, a journey that will bring her face to face with the long-dead murderer Gerard Stiles. But when the carriage is abandoned on the tracks, leaving the passengers trapped and at each other's throats, Sabrina's well-laid plans fall to pieces. Who is trying to manifest the power of Stiles for their own ends? Will the passengers be able to escape before another train collides with their carriage? And just what is the mysterious Hallie Stokes doing on board? Cast: Lisa Richards (Sabrina Jennings), Kathleen Cody (Hallie Stokes), James Storm (Gerard Stiles), Lucy Scott (Pauline Brown), Barra Collins (Matthew Samuels), Greg Patmore (Major Crawford Jacobs), Denise Nickerson (Elspeth Gardner), Stephanie Ellyne (Amy Jennings).

Genres: Horror

Audiobook

First published April 1, 2014

Reviews

[Vincent Darlage · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was fine. I found it a little confusing, but I also listened to it in fits and starts so that is probably more my fault than the story's. I loved the return of Kathleen Cody – reprising her role of Hallie Stokes for the first time in over 40 years. I was also happily surprised by the reappearance of Lucy Scott’s Nurse Brown from "The Happier Dead."

Basically Sabrina Jennings, who is cursed with lycanthropy, dug up the head of long-dead warlock Gerard Stiles to help cure her. But Gerard Stiles wasn't Gerard back then (in the 1840s), he had been possessed by the warlock Judah Zachery, so a resurrected Gerard Stiles head isn't of much help. I thought it was interesting that Hallie Stokes remembered her murder by the evil ghost of Gerard Stiles in the negated timeline of 1970! (In the TV show, Barnabas and Julia Hoffman used the Stairway Through Time to undo the effects of Judah Zachery's possession of Stiles, and the murders his ghost caused). It's 1973 now. But Amy, Sabrina's sister-in-law, has a different agenda, and Hallie Stokes (now 19 or so) wants vengeance against Stiles for the murder-that-didn't-happen.

Everyone gets trapped in a train car, and cannot get out... and another train is coming... and the head of Gerard Stiles is possessing people... and someone in the car is a murderer...

It was a pretty entertaining story!

[Danny Welch · Rating 5 out of 5]

In fear of the resurrection of Gerald Stiles, Sabrina Jennings finds herself on a train to new york where one of the passengers is up to something but the long night will be utterly terrifying and perhaps not everyone will get out alive.

This was a fantastic claustrophobic story with the passengers being trapped on a train whilst something dark is coming back to life, the characters were very interesting and all managed to have individual personalites in only an hour and are well performed by the cast. 9/10

[Andy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liked that one a lot.

[Debra Cook · Rating 4 out of 5]

Somebody is trying to bring Gerald Stiles back from the dead.