The Haunting of Tram Car 015

By: P. Djeli Clark

Narrated by: Julian Thomas

Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

P. Djeli Clark returns to the historical fantasy universe of A Dead Djinn in Cairo, with the otherworldly adventure novella The Haunting of Tram Car 015.

Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities - handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner, Agent Onsi Youssef, are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient automatons in a race against time to protect the city from an encroaching danger that crosses the line between the magical and the mundane.

©2019 P. Djeli Clark (P)2019 Recorded Books

Steampunk Cairo

Well written and well read story. I hope that the author writes more in this world. And that Audible records them.

Wonderful story but poorly executed

I enjoyed the author’s follow-up and felt it was a nice expansion on the story of A Dead Djinn in Cairo. However, I could barely make it through the audiobook because the narration was so monotone. Rarely have I listened to a performer as dreary as this one. Even lines such as “‘Get out!’ He yelled” were delivered in the same uninterested tone as though the performer was conversing with an old acquaintance whom he did not enjoy. I won’t purchase a book with this performer again, waste of my credit.

Un-listenable!

The narrator is horrible! Poor enunciation, atrocious “Egyptian” accent. I’ll be returning this book as I couldn’t last more than 5 minutes. I’ll get it in ebook.

I assume the story is good, as I’ve enjoyed the others in the series, but this narrator is awful. Thank goodness the GOOD narrator is doing the full-length novel!!

great story

I love this author, the world the story is set in and the narrator just sealed the deal. so good!

Excellent book, reasonably well performed

The story is excellent and a great prelude to A Master of Djinn. I found the performance to be fine and I don’t understand the negative reviews of Mr. Thomas’ performance. While he reads a little slowly for my taste, this was easily resolved by playing it at 1.2X speed, and it certainly did NOT detract from the story. Don’t skip this fine and well performed book.

Great story read incredibly well

This story really surprised me. I loved the light-heartedness and the mystery/adventure.

Julian Thomas’ reading/performance was well done and really added to the fun.

Great Addition

This is a fun little side story to the author's other works in the same world. I highly recommend listening to it before going on to A Master of Djinn.

Great story, bad vocals

I enjoy this writer, but the reader in this book was monotonous. I eventually had to stop, and I'll read it instead.

Possessed public transport in a steampunk Cairo, in an alternate early 20th century

Clark's satisfying novella brings us into a deliciously rich "neo-modern" Egypt, where airships and a cablecar tramway system are but the tip of a world-altering technological iceberg, the recent legacy of a scientist-magician who has opened a portal between realities and radically altered the balance between natural and supernatural. Cairo blossoms as a true "world city," a cosmopolitan Mediterranean hub reveling in the still-vital combined heritages of Antiquity, Islam, Western Europe (including the return of old gods and spirits, such as the djinn)--but this reader can't help noticing that Clark's progressive, open-minded hybrid North African community is also a tender-hearted portrait of the real Cairo, a city of souks and cafes and deep culture and traffic jams and mind-bogglingly varied jewel-like architecture. Our lens on this world is provided by the courageous, hard-working operatives of the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, tasked with keeping the peace tactfully and creatively in the rapidly evolving city. Julian Thomas narrates with wit and a light touch, and reads Clark's vivid descriptions of places and people at just the right immersive pace, voicing the speaking characters--male and female--in a nuanced, memorable way. I love this world!

An awesome series

Can't say more than I wish I could experience anew this series of stories. Reader, hold tight. 20/10 would recommend.