Edgar Allan Poe Audio Books

     13 SonicMovies, produced by SonicMovie.  SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies, hence, SonicMovies:

     1. The Picture In The House - by Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( H. P. Lovecraft ) - A genealogist conducting research in the backwoods of Massachusetts, trapped in a rainstorm, seeks shelter in a home he initially believes abandoned.  Inside, he discovers it’s furnished with items predating the American Revolutionary War of 1776, that the home is not abandoned, and its owner’s terrifying secret of longevity.

     2. Annabel Lee - by Edgar Allan Poe - An uncommon love in a kingdom by the sea, with an uncommon end.

     3. Sympathy For Wolves - by K. Anderson Yancy, Adapted from the short story by John Gregory Betancourt - On a cold night, a conflicted man finds himself trapped between his humanity and his wolfhood.

     4. The Bells - by Edgar Allan Poe - The arc of a love affair is told in the ringing of 4 distinct bells.

     5.In The Overgrown Swamplands Of Love & Persistence - A Tale Of Love & Horror - by K. Anderson Yancy, Adapted from the short story by Michael Hemmingson - One night, while dumping a corpse in a secluded swamp, a serial killer unexpectedly discovers love and horror.

     6. A War Of The Worlds - Live - by K. Anderson Yancy - A news crew documents an alien invasion as it occurs against present day Earth and our defenses against it. This version differs from the one in 13 Tales of SonicHorror - Volume 1 in that it has the music track removed and is divided into 16 segments giving it a LIVE - "You Are Here News Broadcast Feel".

     7. The Hell-Bound Train - by Unknown - A drunken cowboy passes out on a barroom floor and to his horror finds he’s on the Hell-Bound Train.

     8. The Hound - by Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( H. P. Lovecraft ) - Two men, only able to find pleasure in the extreme, turn to defiling crypts and keeping the souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions, creating a morbid museum in the basement of their secluded home, a private exhibition, consisting of headstones; preserved bodies; skulls of adults and children; and several heads in different phases of decomposition; frightful paintings; and a locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin.

     When in Holland they break into a mighty sepulcher and steal from a 500 years dead grave robber, a potent amulet mentioned in the dreaded and forbidden “Necronomicon” of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred”, the dead grave robber comes back for it and more.

     Please Note: For The Lovecraft Lovers: “The Hound” contains the first mention of one of Lovecraft's most famous literary creations - the dreaded and forbidden “Necronomicon” of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred. Lovecraft mentioned its author a year earlier, in "The Nameless City", but here for the first time named the book. Referring to an amulet found on a grave-robbing expedition.

     9. The Masque Of The Red Death - by Edgar Allan Poe - When a prince deserts his loyal subjects amidst a ravaging plague to live in secluded opulence with a thousand of his loyal followers, death incarnate comes looking for him.

     10. The Murderer - by O. Henry - A murderer’s fears haunt him amidst the day light hours . . . but at night.

     11. The Open Window - by Saki ( Hector Hugh Munro ) -- Unknowingly, a man arrives on the anniversary of the “Great Tragedy” that led to his host having her large French window wide open on to the lawn on an October afternoon in the vain hope that her husband and brothers, whom he learns have been dead three years, will return through it, and to his horror, the man shares in the terrors of the day.

     12. The Oval Portrait - by Edgar Allan Poe - To his shock a man discovers the painting of a woman is much, much more than life-like.

     13. The Fall Of The House Of Usher - by Edgar Allan Poe -- During a visit to her dying friend, a woman discovers to her horror that his family and his home are one.

     Presented by Wollcott & Sheridan / SonicMovie & K. Anderson Yancy.