{"product_id":"9780786132256","title":"Tales for a Stormy Night: A Pandora's Box of Classic Chillers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's midnight. Turn out the lights, cuddle with your true love, and shiver to fright-meisters Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. P. Lovecraft. Quicken your pulse with the elegant terror of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Guy de Maupassant. Chortle at the black glee of H. H. Munro and Ambrose Bierce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust in time for Halloween comes this volume of late-night listening for lovers of mischief, the macabre, and literature. These fifteen tales, plays, and poems, gleaned from cultures around the world, range from wickedly comic to deathly serious, from New England reserve to Gallic passion. We have even disinterred a previously unpublished tale of revenge by the neglected Bostonian Charlotte de Quincy, \u003ci\u003ePerfidy and Perfection\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefitting this varied fare, the presentation is a witch's brew of readings and dramatizations, seasoned tastefully, and—where appropriate—not so tastefully, with music and sound effects, under the direction of Yuri Rasovsky, Peabody and Audie Award-winning producer, and his coven of twenty-odd—some very odd—performers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Japan comes \u003ci\u003eMimi-Nashi-Hoichi\u003c\/i\u003e by Lafcadio Hearn; from France, Maupassant's \u003ci\u003eThe Horla\u003c\/i\u003e; from Eastern Europe, \u003ci\u003eBonche the Silent\u003c\/i\u003e by I. L. Peretz; from Ireland, William Butler Yeats's one-act drama \u003ci\u003ePurgatory\u003c\/i\u003e; from Scotland, Stevenson's cadaverous \u003ci\u003eThe Body Snatcher\u003c\/i\u003e; and from merry—or, in this case, morose—old England, Munro's catty \u003ci\u003eTobermori\u003c\/i\u003e, plus \u003ci\u003eSomething Lies Beyond the Scene\u003c\/i\u003e by Dame Edith Sitwell and composer William Walton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica is well represented by Poe's intoxicating \u003ci\u003eThe Cask of Amontillado\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of the House of Usher\u003c\/i\u003e; Bierce's homage to lethal entrepreneurship, \u003ci\u003eOil of Dog\u003c\/i\u003e; Lovecraft's necromantic \u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Old Man\u003c\/i\u003e; and two tales of haunted real estate, \u003ci\u003eThe Ghostly Rental\u003c\/i\u003e by James and \u003ci\u003eKerfol\u003c\/i\u003e by Wharton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShut your eyes and give your mind a listen—if you dare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47095381917936,"sku":"9780786132256","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780786132256_p0.jpg?v=1763665333","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780786132256","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}