The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Nine
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Narrated by:
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Christina Delaine
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James Anderson Foster
About this listen
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 ninth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. 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.
©2017 Ellen Datlow (P)2017 TantorWhat listeners say about The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Nine
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- CRAIG MENZIES
- 13-12-2023
Only if it's in the Plus Catalogue
I've listened to four volumes (8, 9, 10 and 11) of this series of collections, all because they were included in the Plus Catalogue, I wanted to give this series a good chance to change my initial impressions. The narrators are the best part of this series, most of them performing the works very convincingly, conveying a range of voices, accents, pacing and intonation; all quite good. This is the only positive I can find for this series based on the volumes to which I've listened.
Maybe my expectations for writing are way above the average writer's capabilities these days, I don't honestly know (other than I'm 60 at the time of this review and I've read thousands of quality books over my lifetime). In MY opinion there are maybe 3 to 4 good to very good short stories in each of the collections out of approximately 20 stories per collection. Out of those I would classify perhaps 2 as "horror". I constantly kept asking myself "how is this story called horror"? The majority I could class as "thriller" or "suspense", if I was generous. My ad hoc estimate is that one third of the stories are preoccupied with cultural politics from the post 2010's sexual orientation and gender being sprinkled around like salad dressing but no genuine part to play in providing character motivation or development. Many stories I considered generally internally inconsistent and uninteresting with characters that were mostly one dimensional, paper thin and failed to engage me. I usually found myself unaffected and unengaged in the characters by the time I finished each story. I was genuinely surprised when I came across an interesting and absorbing story.
I won't be pursuing this series any further unless I can come across the earliest of the series in the Plus Catalogue, none of these are worth the cost of the average Audible title in my opinion. Had I purchased any of these I'd have been requesting a refund.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 09-02-2023
Mixed bag
I think the editor sandwiched the stories. Good to begin with, middle stories meh, then good ones to end it. I’m glad the end stories were good though. It left a good taste in my mouth.
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