The Possession

De: Ambrose Ibsen

Narrado por: Kyle Tait

A brutal murder. A seaside village drenched in fog. A vile history . . .

Aaron Andrews, a newly-minted doctor, returns to the village of Aetherton to take up his late father's practice. Hopes of easing into his new role and restoring the local clinic are dashed, however, when the disfigured body of a child is discovered in an empty flowerbed. Working closely with Evander Cochrane, the village's sole law enforcement officer, Andrews is forced to admit that the girl's death is anything but natural.

The deeper Andrews and Cochrane dive into the grisly crime, the more they learn about the village's sordid history. Though pleasant and easygoing on the surface, Aetherton's past holds many things-some of them remarkably dark. The village is soon visited by a powerful storm, leaving it without power or access to the outside world.

When the seaside village becomes entombed with fog, something begins to walk its footpaths and haunt its shores-something that should not exist . . .

The Possession is a tale of supernatural horror by Ambrose Ibsen, author of The Haunting of Beacon Hill and The House of Long Shadows.

©2024 Ambrose Ibsen (P)2024 Tantor

Narration ruined it

The story was just ok, but the narrarator was the worst I have ever heard. Every sentence sounds the same, and there is zero life or realism in the narration. It's like a robot is trying to act like a human.

for the book

loved it but it was not as good as some of his other works

terrible reader

get a different person to do the reading, the current reader is monotone and misses the pauses. there is no performance from this guy

great story horrible narrator

I cannot stand the guy who read this book. his narration is awful. it sounded like it was being read by an AI from a computer. there was no emotion no affectation period just flat boring voice. it was unsettling. if I wanted to listen to a robot I would just buy them on my Kindle and tell my Kindle to read to me. I do not like that. I will not get any other books that he narrates.

the narrator was horrible

I'm a big fan of Ambrose and this book was fairly good. the thing that ruined it for me was the narrator! I couldn't decide if he was trying to read a poem the entire time or to sound like he was AI. he pauses after
every
single
sentence.

Mannered. Florid. Not for everyone, including me.

If you like very florid, gothic prose with a heavy dollop of 19th century phrasing, this is a great book for you. Taste in writing style is subjective so I need to admit, gothic florid isn't my thing.

The performance is also a subjective thing. On the up side, you can tell that there are different speakers. On the down side, Kyle Tait is one of those male voice actors who renders female characters in droning, nasal tones. Again , this is a matter of listener taste and I am positive that many listeners find that performance style to be unobjectionable. Take my views with that in mind


So, heavily written, 20th C. story with a lot of 19th C. verbiage, and a performance that has its quirks.

If Stephen King wrote Midsommar

I love Ambrose Ibsen, I've read several of his books now. This one isn't his best but it's still really good, much better than most horror novelist who rehash the same stories. There are always unique elements in every Ibsen story. This book is almost exactly what you'd expect if Stephen King decided to rewrite the movie Midsommar. If you like horror, it's worth a read.

Creepy

This was a good creepy story wheeze I was on edge most of the time. Very visual descriptions.

Not a good listen

This book was terrible there was no mystery or thrill took me three days to listen to…

Terrible Narration

I'm a big fan of Ambrose Ibsen and have bought a lot of his audiobooks - this one I could not get through because of the terrible narration. Every single bit of narration besides the dialogue was delivered in exactly the same way, same intonation, same pitch, same everything. It got real tedious after a while and I just couldn't go on.