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Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan is cursed with visions of horror committed by a savage figure he calls "Mr. X". This year, Ned's visions will become flesh and blood.
A dreadful premonition brings Ned home to find his mother on her deathbed. She reveals the never-before-disclosed name of his father and warns him of grave danger. Driven by a desperate sense of need, Ned explores his dark past and the astonishing legacy of his kin. Accused of violent crimes he has not committed and pursued by a shadowy twin, Ned enters a hidden world of ominous mysteries, where he must confront his deepest nightmares....
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- Old Man Parker
- 07-12-13
Mystery eech!
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
A better paced story... this seems to crawl and ramble nowhere in particular.
What was most disappointing about Peter Straub’s story?
That Peter Strab wrote it. I always seem to have a problem with his writing. But a friend told me this was about a character who had dealings with H. P. Lovecraft like beings...and I LOVE H. P. Lovecraft. Thought I'd give Peter one more try. But, I'm still fighting my way through Peter's weird writing style to figure out just what the heck is gong on.
Would you be willing to try another one of Luke Daniels’s performances?
The reader was very good. Very dramatic.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
I do so very much LOVE all the "Eldar Gods" mythos stuff. I dig all the under dog becomes the razor clawed leather winged destroyer of the human race.
Any additional comments?
Perhaps I will give it another try...
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Colin
- 09-10-19
This is not a horror novel.
If you're looking for compelling horror fiction, this book is not for you. This is not a horror novel. This is an incredibly boring novel about a guy trying to discover his lineage. It's filled with characters that you never come to care about, whose presence in the story only kind of matters. Anything relating to the supernatural or horror is treated as an afterthought. Do yourself a favor and pass on this one.
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ALAN ALDA WITHOUT THE SMIRK
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 04-11-15
By: Peter Straub
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If You Could See Me Now
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33
One summer night, a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to Arden, Wisconsin, in search of everything he has lost. But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he knew so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love he shared has become very, very deadly....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A decent Peter Straub novel ! Tell your friends !
- By TeddyDog on 10-25-21
By: Peter Straub
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Mystery
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 235
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 213
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Story4 out of 5 stars 212
Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near-fatal accident. During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t. Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life dealing with mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death. When a new murder disrupts their world of wealth, power, and pleasure, the two must form an unlikely partnership to confront demons from the past and the dark secrets that still haunt the present.
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2 out of 5 stars
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boring boring boring
- By Kenneth on 08-31-12
By: Peter Straub
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The Hellfire Club
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 69
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 68
They are dying, one by one. Wealthy, middle-aged women in an exclusive Connecticut suburb. Their murderer remains at large. Nora Chancel, wife of publishing scion Davey Chancel, fears she may be next. After all, her past has branded her a victim.... Then Davey tells Nora a surreal story about the Hellfire Club, where years before he met an obsessed fan of Chancel House's most successful book, Night Journey - a book that has a strange history of its own.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Is this necessary?
- By Michael on 08-07-13
By: Peter Straub
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Koko
- Blue Rose Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 335
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 303
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Story4 out of 5 stars 306
KOKO. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets — a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C., to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York.
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2 out of 5 stars
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7 hours in and I am done
- By bionichands on 01-26-12
By: Peter Straub
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The Throat
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 241
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Story4 out of 5 stars 210
Tim Underhill, now an acclaimed novelist, travels back to his home - town of Millhaven, Illinois after he gets a call from John Ransom, an old army buddy. Ransom believes there’s a copycat killer on the loose, mimicking the Blue Rose murders from decades earlier - he thinks his wife could be a potential victim. Underhill seeks out his friend Tom Pasmore, an aging hermit who has attained minor celebrity as an expert sleuth, to help him investigate. They quickly discover that Millhaven is a town plagued by horrifying secrets....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable culmination of Mystery & Koko
- By Gerald Owens on 05-16-13
By: Peter Straub
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A Dark Matter
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 112
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 110
The incomparable master of horror and suspense returns with a powerful, brilliantly terrifying novel that redefines the genre in original and unexpected ways. The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body - and the shattered souls of all who were present.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A New Vision of Hell
- By Nor Cal Reader on 02-28-10
By: Peter Straub
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Shadowland
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 297
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 266
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Story4 out of 5 stars 262
First setting: an all-male prep school in Arizona, where two sensitive freshmen form a bond based on their interest in magic tricks. Second setting: the labyrinthine house of a weird magician uncle in New England, where the two boys spend a memorable summer being trained in the art of illusion. Or is it real magic? Third setting: an alternate world where dark forces are at play - forces that first show up at the school, but intensify their power the summer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still one of my favorite books!
- By James P. on 06-28-12
By: Peter Straub
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In the Night Room
- A Novel
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 57
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 58
Willy Patrick, the author of the Caldecott-winning young-adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind again. Two weeks before her second marriage, on her way home one day, Willy is drawn into the parking lot of a warehouse. Knowing that her daughter, Holly, is being held in that building, she wants to rescue her. But what she knows is impossible, for her daughter is dead.
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4 out of 5 stars
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In the night room
- By Paul on 02-18-05
By: Peter Straub
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Julia
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 38
In a house in London, a woman starts a new life, trying to put tragedy behind her. Then a pretty blonde child runs into view, bringing with her an inexplicable suggestion of evil. Once, Julia Lofting had a husband and a daughter. But everything has changed since she bolted from her marriage, in flight from the unbearable truth of her daughter's death. For Julia, there is no escape. Another child awaits, another mother suffers, and a circle of the damned gathers around her. The haunting has begun....
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1 out of 5 stars
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WHAT JUST HAPPENED??
- By MissAmy72 on 08-03-16
By: Peter Straub
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Ghost Story
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Buck Schirner
- Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,514
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,256
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,258
For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past - and get away with murder. Peter Straub's classic best seller is a work of "superb horror" ( Washington Post Book World) that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time - and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story! The Best of Peter Straub
- By Jaimie on 07-17-12
By: Peter Straub
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Floating Dragon
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Fritz Weaver
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 23
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 23
Two monstrous evils. The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous, unstoppable creation of man's power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. And it makes the first look like child's play.
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1 out of 5 stars
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heavily abridged
- By al on 03-09-12
By: Peter Straub
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Magic Terror
- 7 Tales
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Beth MacDonald
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 33
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 33
With Magic Terror Peter Straub, best selling author of The Talisman (with Stephen King), has written one of the most imaginatively unsettling collections in years. The terrain of these extraordinary stories is marked by brutality, heartbreak, despair, wonder, and an unexpected humor that allows empathy to blossom within the most unlikely contexts.
Plus, hear Peter Straub in a recent Fresh Air interview.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Had to re-listen twice
- By FDTracy on 04-09-07
By: Peter Straub
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Houses Without Doors
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 19
These psychic and horror fictions - seven of them short-shorts - reveals Straub at his spellbinding best. Two tales (first installments of his Blue Rose trilogy), are linked to Koko and Mystery and exactingly probe the consequences of boyhood clashes with evil. Includes: "Blue Rose", "The Juniper Tree", "The Buffalo Hunter", "Mrs. God", and "A Short Guide to the City".
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1 out of 5 stars
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What was that?
- By Brad on 02-10-12
By: Peter Straub
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Sacrament
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 141
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Story4 out of 5 stars 127
Will Rabjohns, perhaps the most famous wildlife photographer in the world, has made his reputation chronicling the fates of endangered species. But after a terrible accident, Will is left in a coma. And in its depths, he revisits the wildernesses of his youth and relives his life with a mysterious couple who have influenced his life as an artist and a man. When Will awakens, he sets out on a journey of self-discovery - one where he will penetrate the ultimate mystery and finally unlock the secret of his destiny. Soaring, provocative and passionate, Sacrament is a masterwork from the pen of one of today's most acclaimed authors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Adventure, and what an ending..
- By Randy on 07-24-14
By: Clive Barker
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Behold the Void
- By: Philip Fracassi
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Behold the Void includes nine stories of terror that huddle in the dark space between cosmic horror and the modern weird, between old-school hard-edged horror of the 1980s and the stylistic prose of today's literary giants.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Philip Fracassi is not to be slept on...
- By oftenevil on 11-27-17
By: Philip Fracassi
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Nathaniel
- By: John Saul
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Brilliant summers amid golden fields. Killing winters of razorlike cold. A peaceful, neighborly village, darkened by legends of death? Who is Nathaniel? For 100 years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered the name in wonder and fear. Some say he is simply a folk tale - a legend created to frighten children on cold winter nights. Some swear he is a terrifying spirit returned to avenge the past. And soon...very soon...some will come to believe that Nathaniel lives still - darkly, horrifyingly real. Nathaniel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written. Well narrated. Suspenseful.
- By Ray on 04-10-17
By: John Saul
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Cabal
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Chet Williamson
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 568
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 523
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 525
Cabal is the story of Boone, a tortured soul haunted by the conviction that he has committed atrocious crimes. In a necropolis in the wilds of Canada, he seeks refuge and finds the last great creatures of the world - the shape-shifters known as the Nightbreed. They are possessed of unearthly powers-and so is Boone. In the hunt for Boone, they too will be hunted. Now only the courage of this strange human can save them from extinction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Monsters. Mostly.
- By Dave on 11-03-15
By: Clive Barker
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Koko
- Blue Rose Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 335
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 303
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Story4 out of 5 stars 306
KOKO. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets — a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C., to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York.
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2 out of 5 stars
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7 hours in and I am done
- By bionichands on 01-26-12
By: Peter Straub
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Crimes by Moonlight
- Mysteries from the Dark Side
- By: Charlaine Harris - author/editor, Steve Brewer, Dana Cameron, and others
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings, Natalie Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 133