Choronzon

Very Good, let down by Audible's lack of features

Reviewed: 04-01-19

Edit to add: Lovecraft had horrible racist views and it is apparent in many of the stories. Having read the books a number of times I find myself simultaneously appreciating the writing more but the racism becomes more apparent and offsets this. This isn't horrorbabbles problem, but as I give the stories a 5 star review I feel I should point that out.

The performance and quality is very good in my opinion. It is a shame audible doesn't have features to name each chapter, that makes this type of collections very hard to navigate... Also Audible, let us organise our own libraries into categories of our own choosing, I have 100's of books and it is a nightmare to find what I want to listen to.

OK here is me doing Audibles job... The contents of this Audiobook are as follows, each chapter number corresponds to these books, chapter 1 is an intro. Some of the larger books are split into separate chapters, I have labelled these as 2 3 4 etc. So Chapter 19 is The Dunwitch Horror part 5. Apologies if not spelled correctly. I am currently listening to 9: The Hound

The narrator does a good job, I think the voice matches the books well, I find it easy to listen to at night going to sleep and I have no issues with quality thus far.



2 The Colour Out of Space
3 From Beyond
4 He
5 The Rats In the Walls
6 cool Air
7 The Music Of Eric Zan
8 The Nameless City
9 The Hound
10 2
11 The Festival
12 The Call of Cthulhu
13 2
14 3
15 The Dunwitch Horror
16 2
17 3
18 4
19 5
20 6
21 7
22 8
23 9
24 10
25 The Whisperer in Darkness
26 2
27 3
28 4
29 5
30 6
31 7
32 8
33 The Dreams In The Witch House
34 At The Mountains Of Madness
35 2
36 3
37 4
38 5
39 6
40 7
41 8
42 9
43 10
44 11
45 12
46 The Shadow Over Innsmouth
47 2
48 3
49 4
50 5
51 The Shadow Out of Time
52 2
53 3
54 4
55 5
56 6
57 7
58 8
59 The Haunter of the Dark
60 The Thing on the Doorstep
61 The History of the Necronomicon
62 Fungi from Yuggoth
63 Old Bugs
64 In the Vault
65 The Curse of Yig
66 The Temple
67 The Challenge from Beyond
68 The Mound
69 2
70 3
71 4
72 5
73 6
74 7
75 The Tomb
76 The Disinterment
77 Polaris
78 The White Ship
79 The Doom that came to Sarnath
80 The Cats of Ulthar
81 Celaphais
82 Ex Oblivione
83 Nyarlathotep
84 The Quest of Irenon
85 The Other Gods
86 Azathoth
87 Hypnos
88 What the Moon Brings
89 The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
90 2
91 3
92 The Outsider
93 The Silver Key
94 The Strange High House in the Mist
95 Through the Gates of the Silver Key
96 The Horror at Red Hook
97 The Men of Stone
98 The Lurking Fear
99 Out of the Aeons
100 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
101 2
102 3
103 4
104 5
105 The Shunned House

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

137 people found this helpful

Good selection and extremely well read

Reviewed: 03-11-17

Very much enjoyed this selection of audio books. I find these early horror stories interesting and am a fan of the H P Lovecraft inspired works. Downside is it is a bit short however I wouldn't say the price is too high. I have listened to collection 7 of this series and shall go through them all of they are so good.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

Good but not quite there..

Reviewed: 01-12-13

As the story is very enjoyable and gripping I have given four stars. The characters in this book definitely stand up on their own and some I will look forward to hearing the back story or future escapades. The story is let down by some unconvincing actions that certain characters take as the story line develops being somewhat unbelievable. Another problem I personally had was the inevitability of the history of humans on spatter-jay and their attitude towards polity technology. Although there were attempts throughout the book to convince readers I feel the reasoning was pretty weak.

I would recommend the book to someone who likes Iain M Banks' books and hold high hopes for Ashers other work. All said, this is not one of my top 20 sci-fi books and I would not be using it to try and impress someone into the genre.

The performance by Gaminara is one of the best I have heard on Audible. I think that it is heavily let down by editing, there is virtually no pause to let you know that you have switched threads in the story making it hard to follow, usually this is where Gaminaras brilliant pallet of accents comes in to the rescue.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!