Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Short Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Bob Thomley

Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

Here are all of Edgar Allan Poe’s great short stories in one 16-hour collection. Also includes "The Raven". Stories included are:

• "The Angel of The Odd"
• "Berenice"
• "The Black Cat"
• "The Cask of Amontillado"
• "The Maelstrom"
• "Eleanora"
• "The Facts in the Case Of M. Valdemar"
• "The House of Usher"
• "Hop Frog"
• "Imp of the Perverse"
• "Island of the Fay"
• "Ligiea"
• "Man of the Crowd"
• "Message in a Bottle"
• "The Masque of the Red Death"
• "Mesmeric Revelation"
• "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
• "Never Be the Devil Your Head"
• "The Oval Portrait"
• "The Pit and the Pendulum"
• "The Premature Burial"
• "The Purloined Letter"
• "Silence - A Fable"
• "Some Words with a Mummy"
• "The Spectacles"
• "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather"
• "The Tell Tale Heart"
• "William Wilson"
• "The Raven"

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Public Domain (P)2011 Trout Lake Media

Fan of Poes, not of the narrator

I am a longtime fan of Poe, and this is a great collection of his stories. Bob Thomley's narration is decent. I don't think it was as atrocious as some other reviewers have said, but his upbeat voice often seemed at odds with the dark tone of the stories. But for $3.00, I can't complain.

GREAT READER!

The reader was the saving grace on this one. Very good reader. I didn't enjoy several of the stories but some were surprisingly good!

an amazing writer and a great read

easy read the narrator does a great job in reading this back to the audience

love Poe not Bob

love the book, not the narrator, they could have had a better narrator, his characters sounded far too similar and his voice is too nasally. But the structure and the stories were great

Not pleased

Would you try another book from Edgar Allan Poe and/or Bob Thomley?

Edgar yes, Bob no. The narration was hard to follow and he lost me. The language in these stories needs someone who doesn't race through and mispronounce words.

How could the performance have been better?

Pronunciations were poor, and he went far too fast. I found myself losing interest in the story simply because of the narration. The man's voice is fine and pleasant enough, but the flow just did not work for me.

awesome

the only thing i don't like is that the chapters aren't titled so i can't just skip to the stories i want to hear

Enjoyable and not overwrought

The narration was excellent and I do so enjoy Poe. I find it pleasant to listen to Poe while cycling (it does so take ones mind off the hills.)

What I do not like is that the stories are uselessly labeled as Chapter 1, Chapter 2 etc. This makes it quite tedious to find a particular story.

Also, some of my favorite Poe Stories are not included (e.g. "The Gold-Bug" and "Landor's Cottage").

Still, I like it

There is oh so much crammed into this one.

This is one of the first collections that I have found the most of Poe's works. The Narrator did a good job but at times it felt like everything bled together. Probably a good idea to listen to one story at a time to break up the tracks.

Review

This speaker was sort of don’t know and people would say that that’s part of the experience but I would’ve liked him to be more into it but otherwise the stories were great.

Edgar Allan Poe

First, the reader, Bob Thomley is excellent. Second, Poe is strange. If one is not familiar with Poe other than some of his popular works like The Pit and the Pendulum, then you will find these stories weird, crazy and some are hilarious like Toby Dammit. Bob Thomley makes it all work.