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In the aptly titled Offbeat, Richard Matheson, a modern master of strange fiction, offers 13 excursions into the unsettling and bizarre. In these stories you will encounter a major league pitcher with a horrific secret for his astonishing success; an ordinary man who wakes to find himself in a silent, empty world; a death row prisoner with an extraordinary explanation for his innocence; and a novelist whose fictional creations transcend the printed page.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer. It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone - for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Contents
- By Ralph Freaster on 06-22-16
By: Charles Beaumont
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True Crime
- The Novel
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 139
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story5 out of 5 stars 125
In the heat of the city, a man is out of time: speeding in a beat-up Ford Tempo, blasting easy-listening music. Reporter Steve Everett drinks too much, makes love to his boss' wife, and has just stumbled upon a shocking truth: A convicted killer is about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit. In the cold confines of Death Row, Frank Beachum is also out of time. Ready to say good-bye to the wife and child he loves and hello to the God he still believes in, Beachum knows he did not kill a convenience store clerk six years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping until the very last word.
- By louis alessandra on 04-10-22
By: Andrew Klavan
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A Stone for Danny Fisher
- By: Harold Robbins
- Narrated by: Charles Leggett
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Born into a family of modest means and respectability, Danny Fisher was gradually driven downward into the world of crime, racketeering and poverty. His bitterness, his homesickness over the loss of the house in Brooklyn that was given to him for his eighth birthday, and his feud with his harsh father, pulled him one way; his natural decency and his love for a sweet Italian girl, Nellie Petito, pulled him another.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My teenage read.
- By A. Mitchell on 11-11-11
By: Harold Robbins
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Hell House
- By: Richard Matheson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,933
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,193
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,190
For over 20 years, Belasco House has stood empty. Regarded as the Mt. Everest of haunted houses, its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide, or insanity.
But now, a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to Belasco House in search of the ultimate secrets of life and death. A wealthy publisher, brooding over his impending death, has paid a physicist and two mediums to establish the facts of life after death once and for all. For one night, they will investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hell House is like Hill House, but fiercer
- By Phebe on 08-13-12
By: Richard Matheson
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Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
- By: Christopher Golden - editor, Joe R. Lansdale, Scott Smith, and others
- Narrated by: Charles Constant, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. The hideous children - Want and Ignorance - beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts. Best-selling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some good, some clunkers. Some fun, none scary.
- By Max Trivial on 12-24-18
By: Christopher Golden - editor, and others
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Tea with the Black Dragon
- Black Dragon, Book 1
- By: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrated by: Megan Hayes
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 132
Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter, Elizabeth, is in trouble; she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at San Francisco's most luxurious hotel. Yet she has not tried to contact Martha since she arrived, leaving her lonely, confused, and a little bit worried. Into the story steps Mayland Long, a distinguished-looking and wealthy Chinese man who lives at the hotel and is drawn to Martha's good nature and ability to pinpoint the truth of a matter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My favorite dragon book
- By Ellenaeddy on 08-08-15
By: R. A. MacAvoy
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Perfect Nightmare
- A Novel
- By: John Saul
- Narrated by: Dick Hill, Susie Breck
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 167
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 134
Every parent's nightmare becomes a reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter, Lindsay, vanishes from her bedroom during the night. The police suspect that the girl is just another moody teenage runaway, angry over leaving behind her school and friends because her family is moving. But Lindsay's recent eerie claim - that someone invaded her room when the house was opened to prospective buyers - drives Kara to fear the worst.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A little bit predictable
- By FoCoBuzz on 04-05-11
By: John Saul
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Reunion
- By: Sharon Sala
- Narrated by: Jane Sefton
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The facts are public knowledge: five people have been murdered. Each has died from a blow to the head. And the media-dubbed Prince Charming killer has left a “calling card” with each victim. A single thornless rose. But there’s another fact...one that the police haven’t made public. Something no one, except the killer and the police, should know. But Gabriel Donner does - and he can’t figure out why. All he knows is that he’s begun hearing voices, sleepwalking and dreaming vividly of the murders...as they happen.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book....Depressing Somewhat
- By M. Davis on 08-09-13
By: Sharon Sala
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Laughter in the Dark
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Death is often the point of life's joke
- By Darwin8u on 05-19-13
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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Fear
- By: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrated by: Roddy McDowall
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4 out of 5 stars 52
Professor James Lowry didn’t believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn’t remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Best of Hubbard
- By JJ on 01-31-15
By: L. Ron Hubbard
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The Color of Light
- By: Helen Maryles Shankman
- Narrated by: Simon Slater, Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 23 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 175
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 161
At the American Academy of Classical Art, popular opinion has it that the school's handsome and mysterious founder, Raphael Sinclair, is a vampire. It is a rumor Rafe does nothing to dispel. Scholarship student Tessa Moss has long dreamed of the chance to study at Rafe's Academy. But she is floundering amidst the ups and downs of a relationship with egotistical art star Lucian Swain. Then, one of Tessa's sketches catches Rafe's attention: a drawing of a young woman in 1930s clothing who is covering the eyes of a child.
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2 out of 5 stars
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UGH... Will the Heroine Ever Grow Up?
- By Amazon Customer on 06-11-19
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The White Devil
- By: Justin Evans
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
The Harrow School is home to privileged adolescents known as much for their distinctive dress and traditions as for their arrogance and schoolboy cruelty. Seventeen-year-old American Andrew Taylor is enrolled in the esteemed British institution by his father, who hopes that the school's discipline will put some distance between his son and his troubled past in the States. But trouble - and danger - seem to follow Andrew. When one of his schoolmates and friends dies mysteriously of a severe pulmonary illness, Andrew is blamed and is soon an outcast....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Eerie tale, well read
- By MJ on 12-21-11
By: Justin Evans
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The Unseen
- A Novel
- By: Katherine Webb
- Narrated by: Clare Wille
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
A vicar with a passion for nature, the Reverend Albert Canning leads a happy existence with his naive wife, Hester, in their sleepy Berkshire village in the year 1911. But as the English summer dawns, the Cannings' lives are forever changed by two new arrivals: Cat, their new maid, a disaffected, free-spirited young woman sent down from London after entanglements with the law; and Robin Durrant, a leading expert in the occult, enticed by tales of elemental beings in the water meadows nearby.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- By Dana on 09-03-12
By: Katherine Webb
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The Vampire Diaries, Book 1
- The Awakening
- By: L. J. Smith
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mozo
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 1,888
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,388
Elena Gilbert is a high school golden girl, used to getting what she wants. And who she wants. But when the boy she's set her sights on - the handsome and haunted Stefan - isn't interested, she's confused. She could never know the real reason Stefan is struggling to resist her: Stefan is a vampire, and Elena's in danger just by being around him. What's more, Stefan's dark, dangerous vampire brother Damon has just arrived in town. And wherever Damon goes, trouble always follows.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Better Original
- By Breezybealle on 10-10-17
By: L. J. Smith
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The Talisman
- By: Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 28 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16,440
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13,329
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,289
On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: His father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Still Good
- By Bill S. on 03-24-10
By: Stephen King, and others
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Dear Amy
- By: Helen Callaghan
- Narrated by: Michelle Ford
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 38
Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, "Dear Amy", for the local newspaper. When one of Margot's students, 15-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a "Dear Amy" letter unlike any of the ones she's received before. It's a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger - a girl called Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area 20 years ago and never found.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning debut
- By Mystery Maven on 11-18-16
By: Helen Callaghan