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Start giftingThe Raven and Selected Short Stories
Length
8 hours 25 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Stefan Rudnicki & Bronson Pinchot
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Learn moreThe 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 RogāĀ¬t," and "The Purloined Letter."
Edgar Allan Poe (1809ā1848) transformed the American literary landscape with his innovations in the short story genre and his haunting lyrical poetry, and he is credited with inventing American gothic horror and detective fiction.
Stefan RudnickiĀ is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one ofĀ AudioFileās Golden Voices.
Bronson Pinchot, Audibleās Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audibleās Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and Peopleās Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.
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āThis vivid writing!āthis power which is felt!Ā āThe Ravenā has produced a sensationāa āfit horrorā here in England. Some of my friends are taken by the fear of it, and some by the music.ā
āStefan Rudnicki and Bronson Pinchot work eerily well together to bring a dozen of Edgar Allan Poeās works to life. Pinchotās pacing and timing are impeccableāfrom the frantic whispers of a tortured manās startling confession in āThe Fall of the House of Usherā to the matter-of-fact tone he gives a madman who hides a dismembered body in āThe Tell-Tale Heart.ā In āThe Raven,ā thereās a guttural, almost growling quality to Rudnickiās voice thatās as dark as the feathers of the bird itself. Throughout the production both narrators add suspenseful pauses that have just the right spine-tingling effect.ā
āA great triumph of imagination and artā¦The 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.ā
āEdgar Allan Poeās style is florid, his denouements chilling, and his mastery of the genre unchallengedā¦In tones ranging from hushed to exclamatory [Stefan Rudnicki and Bronson Pinchot] portray the authorās bizarre short stories and the title poem, emphasizing his lush, melodious language. Both narrators make Poeās more elaborate language more accessible to todayās younger readers/listeners.ā
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