Cassandra Morrison

TERRIBLE

Revisado: 10-11-20

WISH THERE WERE SOME WAY TO DELETE THIS!! I HAVE NEVER HEARD SUCJ A TERRIBLE READING OF A BOOK IN MY LIFE!!!!!

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I Truly Enjoyed This!

Revisado: 08-30-20

I love the work of Mervyn Peake! Gormenghast has always been my home away from home in the imaginary sense, It and the Castle of Lord Juss in Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros. The stories and poems contained herein as the smallest sample...the merest soupcon of this genius' wide ranging work and the readings are by his sons. You can't get closer to having the Master tell you his tales and sing you his songs than THAT!!!

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TERRIBLE ASWELL!!!

Revisado: 05-18-20

WISH THERE WERE SOME WAY TO DELETE THIS!! I HAVE NEVER HEARD SUCH A TERRIBLE READING OF A BOOK IN MY LIFE!!!!!

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The Late Sir Christopher Lee Reminds Us

Revisado: 10-06-19

What it is like to listen to a great story told by a great storyteller. M. R,. James could write Ghost Stories the way Lord Dunsany could write Fantasy. Both could take words and fashion them into stories that are glittering gems of prose. And these are four of James' Best. And Sir Christopher is the best narrator they could have gotten. Once his voice starts in you KNOW you're in for a blood chillingly ghoulishly good time.

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Another of James's Best!!!

Revisado: 03-15-19

This tale leads us into a place of imagined horror that I am sure ANY pet owner can identify with. How would it be if, like the owner pf Mr. Poynter's Diary you found yourself petting...? Again Mr. David Collings ably ushers us into the ghostly realms so well charted by this amazing storyteller!!! A MUST HAVE for any fan of shuddery stories!

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Simply a Great Story!

Revisado: 11-30-18

And one that inspired some scenes in Colin Wilson's modern vampire novel called LIFE FORCE (in some editions) and THE SPACE VAMPIRES originally. M. R. James Legacy is continuing well into the 20th and 21st Centuries and David Collings' performance as the famous Don of Midnight Shivers is, as is that of the late Sir Christopher Lee on television, to be treasured by all Connoisseurs of Chills.

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Fine Rendition of a Classic Tale of Terror!

Revisado: 11-18-18

This classic Machen Tale which was the main inspiration for the Serpent Men of Valusia in Robert E, Howard's tales of King Kull (and some of his Lovecraftian Horror stories as well) receives a surprisingly good reading by Mr. Herriot. Either he's getting better as he goes on. or the recording was edited better, or he just really liked the story, or a combination of all three but in this performance the accent is softened, the feel of the narrator's being actually involved with the events he is relating are, by turns, both fascinating and occasionally even heighten the sense of the outré and horrifying that Mr. Machen knew so well how to evoke. Let's call it 4 and a half stars out of five!

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Mr. Herriot Struggles a Bit

Revisado: 11-15-18

Mr. Herriot (not the Vet, the Narrator) has some problems with this one. The first one being that he is an Australian Narrator trying to read a Welsh author. Now, he can't help being Australian, poor chap, but the accent is going to be off and he doesn't do dialect well. Or at all, actually. So characters all sound the same (and Australian) in a story written, as I said, by a Welshman and set (primarily) in London and Wales. Also, his performance contains what should have been out-takes. H mispronounces words and place names and inverts the word order a couple of times. The story is one of the classics of horror and well worth your time. If you've never read or heard it (and, especially have never read the novel of which it forms one chapter...THE THREE IMPOSTERS...then you have some real chills ahead in the IMPLICATIONS of this story which, together with his story THE SHINING PYRAMID will have you wondering about the Welsh Countryside a LOT 😵 Again, Mr. Herriot stumbled a bit on this one but if you can ignore that (as we are used to ignoring typos in print media for the sake of a good yarn) then you can still enjoy Mr., Machen's tale of Terror.

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Wonderful!

Revisado: 09-25-18

M. R. James' humor to the forefront. Ah, the Twilight Zone owed his heirs and assigns some shekels I fear.

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Not Dracula But...Not Bad, Either.

Revisado: 05-01-18

Tim Dalgleish presents a very well read version of this famous (in certain circles, anyway) missing chapter pf Bram Stoker's most famous novel DRACULA. Of course, other of his tales have been filmed which makes their names, if not the books themselves, familiar to fans of supernatural fiction. The Lair of the White Worm which starred Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi and The Jewel of the Seven Stars (Stoker's tale about a wicked Egyptian Witch-Queen's plans for resurrection has been filmed half a dozen times at least...the one with Charlton Heston and a very young Stephanie Zimbalist being, perhaps, the best known today). At any rate Dracula's Guest helped inspire a few other vampire stories J. Sheridan Le Fanu's (despite his French name a fellow Irishman to Stoker) CARMILLA being the best known of these and both drawing on the real-life story of Countess Elizabet Bathory (herself a cousin to Vlad the Impaler) after whom the abattoir (slaughterhouse) got its name. It means, literally, "blood-bath" and the Countess used to bathe in the blood of young virgins in order to retain her youth. Good version, Good narration, great mood-setting music. Worth twice what they are charging for it.

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