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Best of Gothic Horror
3 Unabridged Books on 10 Cassettes • Frankenstein by Mary Shelly • The Edgar Allan Poe Collection by Edgar Allan Poe • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Best of Gothic Horror is a compilation that includes some of the most famous gothic-horror writing in history. For fans of horror, this three-title box set will be truly a cherished collector's item. As with the other titles in the Literate Listener (tm) series, we have put together books that share a common theme, and when combined together, are both high-quality and a great value.
Over 15 Hours of listening time
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly A monster is born by the hands of Dr. Frankenstein in Mary Shelly's gothic masterpiece. The tale of the monster's distress, and the mayhem that results from it, is the crux of this dark and engrossing story. Written when she was barely twenty years old, Shelly's shocking novel inspires both fear and sorrow which continues to engage and move us over a century later.
Length: 8:08
The Edgar Allen Poe Collection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe The most celebrated American gothic author of all time. Edgar Allen Poe's short stories are sure to terrify and chill all gothic-horror enthusiasts! Internationally recognized for his suspenseful and spine-tingling poems The Raven and Annabel Lee, Poe's short stories are written with the same uncanny flair that will surely make every listener cling to their bedsheets, and cringe when they hear that "bump" in the middle of the night...
This collection of Poe stories includes: 1. The Descent Into the Maelstrom 2. Ligeia 3. Selected Poems 4. The Masque of the Red Death 5. The Tell Tale Heart 6. The Black Cat 7. The Cask of Amantillado 8. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 9. The Fall of the House of Usher 10. The Oval Portrait
Length: 4:29
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in three days of mad writing. His wife found it so horrific that he burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The story is about a wealthy doctor and scientist named Dr. Jekyll who unleashes the dark monster within himself by drinking a potion that he developed. More than just a great horror novel, this classic delves into the very nature of human morality.
The Best of Gothic Horror is a compilation that includes some of the most famous gothic-horror writing in history. For fans of horror, this three-title box set will be truly a cherished collector's item. As with the other titles in the Literate Listener (tm) series, we have put together books that share a common theme, and when combined together, are both high-quality and a great value.
Over 15 Hours of listening time
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly A monster is born by the hands of Dr. Frankenstein in Mary Shelly's gothic masterpiece. The tale of the monster's distress, and the mayhem that results from it, is the crux of this dark and engrossing story. Written when she was barely twenty years old, Shelly's shocking novel inspires both fear and sorrow which continues to engage and move us over a century later.
Length: 8:08
The Edgar Allen Poe Collection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe The most celebrated American gothic author of all time. Edgar Allen Poe's short stories are sure to terrify and chill all gothic-horror enthusiasts! Internationally recognized for his suspenseful and spine-tingling poems The Raven and Annabel Lee, Poe's short stories are written with the same uncanny flair that will surely make every listener cling to their bedsheets, and cringe when they hear that "bump" in the middle of the night...
This collection of Poe stories includes: 1. The Descent Into the Maelstrom 2. Ligeia 3. Selected Poems 4. The Masque of the Red Death 5. The Tell Tale Heart 6. The Black Cat 7. The Cask of Amantillado 8. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 9. The Fall of the House of Usher 10. The Oval Portrait
Length: 4:29
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in three days of mad writing. His wife found it so horrific that he burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The story is about a wealthy doctor and scientist named Dr. Jekyll who unleashes the dark monster within himself by drinking a potion that he developed. More than just a great horror novel, this classic delves into the very nature of human morality.
15 pages, Audio Cassette
First published June 1, 2000
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About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
9,974 books28.9k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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April 16, 2008
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde... well, it's boring, but at least it's short. Not dreadful, but not very interesting either... he has a very religious/moral focus for his characters, and it gets annoying after a while
July 5, 2008
classics are just that classics.
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