The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven

Best Horror of the Year Series, Book 11

De: Ellen Datlow - editor

Narrado por: Rebecca Gibel, Charlie Thurston

Duración: 18 h y 22 m

Resumen del Editor

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror fans crave. Now, with the eleventh volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night.

The Best Horror of the Year has included such illustrious writers as:

• Neil Gaiman
• Kim Newman
• Stephen King
• and many others...

With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today's most challenging and exciting writers.

©2019 Ellen Datlow (P)2019 Tantor

Some great material, but uneven overall

This collection had some great material but was unfortunately too uneven from story to story, more so than usual for this series. Between that and the mediocre narration, I can't give this one as strong of a recommendation as I'd hoped.

Stellar new collection

Absolutely love it! A few misses didn't spoil it for me and the highlights were simply amazing! Strongly recommend!

Great Road Trip Material

I found this to be the best volume I’ve listened too so far. Heartbreaking, dreadful, disturbing, but good stories, and a wide variety of themes.

50/50 down the line.

Half the stories were good / half were bad. When I mean bad I mean just blah. Typical. No imagination, the mashing of the same stories. The other half were very imaginative and entertaining. Of those, only half would be considered “horror.” Non the less, still entertaining.
The voiceovers. The voiceover artists were 2. One man one woman. I’ve heard both of them before from other stories of horror and fiction. So I had my reservations about getting this lot of horror to begin with, but needed my horror fix and I knew my trepidation would be worked through once again. I would speed through or totally skip the stories read by the woman or female or whatever doesn’t offend. It just sounds off when she (female voice actor) does men’s voices or women’s. Yet the male voice over artist, was hired to do a story with 5 different female voices and they sounded so much more on than the female voice artist or actor or whatever doesn’t offend. Each of the women’s voices were different and even the tonality was different. Good job. She, the female voice actor is fine with background or exposition but her overall voices, not entertaining. It sounds unrealistic and unrehearsed.
So, if you want 50/50, then this compilation is for you.

Blue chip horror

Datlow does it again. Best editor of modern horror working today. If you see her name on it, it's awesome. I own every audiobook shes edited on iOS and just switched to Android. Psyched to see this here 👍

Great Collection

Hours of great horror. Some exceptionally vivid romps and well worth a credit. The narration fits the stories and I found myself haunted for days after a couple of the more disturbing ones.

Pretty good

Most of the stories were good. Some stories didn't really end or make much sense. I thought the narrators were great.

Kept me focused on the story the whole time

A nice listen, broken down into easy bites and it’s got enough chills to make it worth the listen

worst entry in this series

Almost every story in this edition is boring. I normally really enjoy every installment of this collection, but I feel like Datlow must have handed off #11 to the new intern.

Utterly forgettable

I just finished this and I can honestly almost none of the stories are memorable. Most have no suspense or tension. Narrators are only ok, but it is clear after the first few stories that they really have no range for the characters. At times they come across as robotic.