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Tantor Media HALLOWEEN audiobooks (and AUDIO DRAMA) sale

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TANTOR - Halloween Deals

Tantor Media is offering 20% off their already low prices on a nightmarish set of 68 audio titles.

Many of them are just $6.99.

But the price being low doesn’t mean the quality is. This is some really great audio!

Among the collection are a Simon Vance read rendition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the must own The Horror Stories Of Robert E. Howard, all three of Dan Wells’ John Cleaver books (that’s the one that starts with I Am Not A Serial Killer), some Ray Bradbury for good measure, Nightmares on Congress Street, Part IV (that’s AUDIO DRAMA folks!), The Best Of Edgar Allan Poe as read by by a monomaniacal sounding Todd McClaren, and of course there’s also an endlessly massive horde of zombie novels and other such unmentionables.

Check it out HERE!

Posted by Jesse Willis

“Parker” movie is based on Flashfire by Richard Stark

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My buddy Trent, of the Violent World Of Parker blog, has been closely following the developments surrounding the latest Donald E. Westlake (aka Richard Stark) related film. Here’s the trailer for Parker:

Trent points out, in his post, that the movie’s plot looks like it closely follows that of Flashfire, one of the better books from near the end of the long running series. Now Flashfire was released by Books On Tape in 2001, but it is now available on Audible.com HERE. If you listen to the sample there you can compare it to the trailer.

In a Midwestern city, Parker calmly tosses a firebomb through a plate-glass window, while some newfound partners in crime take down a nearby bank. Making their getaway in the confusion, the bank robbers tell him two things: that this heist was only seed money for a much gaudier one, and that Parker has to loan them his share of the take. Now Parker is rampaging through the American South, taking on a new identity as he goes, and planning his own assault on his former partners’ next target, a spectacular jewelry heist in Palm Beach. But Parker didn’t count on one unfortunate detail. A very bad and very stupid man knows his true identity, and wants him dead.

Posted by Jesse Willis

AudioGo: YouTube trailer for Great Classic Suspense (Five Unabridged Tales)

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Do you recognize the voice of this narrator?

Perhaps you will if you were, like me, a fan of a particular Canadian TV show (that also aired on CBS in the mid 1990s).

The narrator is Geraint Wyn Davies. He was the star of Forever Knight, a terrific “Crimetime After Primetime” late night drama that promised, and delivered, an odd blend of cop show and vampire mystique.

Hmmmm… now that I think about it, Forever Knight could have been set within the same universe as True Blood (prior to the invention of Tru Blood).

The collection includes five of the greatest stories of American classic horror. The richest of language is used to create extraordinary atmosphere — gloom, darkness, solitude, despair-and the relentless feeling of impending doom.

Table of contents:
The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers
The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

Posted by Jesse Willis