The Raven and Selected Short Stories
- Author Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrator Stefan Rudnicki, Bronson Pinchot
- Publisher Craig Black
- Publish Date 2 April 2012
- Run Time 8 hours and 26 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Short stories, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
The title work in this collection of twelve short stories and poems is widely regarded as the most famous of Edgar Allan Poe's writings. This unsettling tale in verse tells of a man's slow descent into madness as he mourns the loss of his lover. The mysterious visit of a talking raven that utters only one word sparks the man's steady decline.
Now the inspiration for a major motion picture starring John Cusack, these tales of mystery and terror are here brought vividly to life by Blackstone Audio. Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story, was an expert at weaving suspense and horror into tales that thrill and chill. Included in this collection are "The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Black Cat," "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," "Hop-Frog," "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt," and "The Purloined Letter."
Critics Review
u201cThis vivid writing!u2014this power which is felt!u00a0u2018The Ravenu2019 has produced a sensationu2014a u2018fit horroru2019 here in England. Some of my friends are taken by the fear of it, and some by the music.u201d
u201cStefannRudnicki and Bronson Pinchot work eerily well together to bring a dozen ofnEdgar Allan Poeu2019s works to life. Pinchotu2019s pacing and timing are impeccableu2014fromnthe frantic whispers of a tortured manu2019s startling confession in u201cThe Fall ofnthe House of Usheru201d to the matter-of-fact tone he gives a madman who hides andismembered body in u201cThe Tell-Tale Heart.u201d In u201cThe Raven,u201d thereu2019s a guttural,nalmost growling quality to Rudnickiu2019s voice thatu2019s as dark as the feathers ofnthe bird itself. Throughout the production both narrators add suspensefulnpauses that have just the right spine-tingling effect.u201d
u201cA great triumph of imagination and artu2026The rhythm of the poem is exquisite, its phraseology is in the highest degree musical and apt, the tone of the whole is wonderfully sustained and appropriate to the subject, which, full as it is of a wild and tender melancholy, is admirably well chosen.u201d
nu201cEdgar Allan Poeu2019snstyle is florid, his denouements chilling, and his mastery of the genre unchallengedu2026Inntones ranging from hushed to exclamatory [Stefan Rudnicki and Bronson Pinchot] portraynthe authoru2019s bizarre short stories and the title poem, emphasizing his lush,nmelodious language. Both narrators make Poeu2019s more elaborate language morenaccessible to todayu2019s younger readers/listeners.u201d
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