Night Ride, and Other Journeys, Charles Beaumont
Night Ride, and Other Journeys, Charles Beaumont
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Night Ride, and Other Journeys

Author: Charles Beaumont

Narrator: Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison

Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 04/15/2014


Synopsis

For the oddball in you, flights into the sinister and fantasticThe stories in this third collection from a master of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each is wonderfully told.Contents include The Music of the Yellow Brass A Classic Affair The New People Buck Fever The Magic Man Father, Dear Father Perchance to Dream Song for a Lady The Trigger The Guests of Chance (with Chad Oliver) The Love-Master A Death in the Country The Neighbors The Howling Man Night Ride

About Charles Beaumont

Charles Beaumont (1929–1967) was a prolific American writer of speculative fiction, including the signature collection Night Ride, and Other Journeys, also available from Blackstone and Skyboat. His stories provided the source material for over twenty classic Twilight Zone episodes.

About Susan Hanfield

Susan Hanfield was a 2017 Audie Award finalist in the Young Adult category for The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough. Her work has also been recognized with a Voice Arts Awards nomination in 2016 and as an Audie Award finalist in 2015 and 2014. She has recorded approximately seventy titles thus far, and comes from a strong classical theater background, bringing deep characterizations to all of her work. Her audiobook titles span many genres, including young adult, historical fiction, faith-based inspirational, fantasy, paranormal romance, science fiction, classics, and nonfiction. In addition to recording audiobooks, she can be seen in film, on stage, and in commercials.

About Paul Boehmer

Paul Boehmer has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, and regionally across the country. He has also worked in film and television, including The Thomas Crown Affair, three Star Trek movies, and Frasier. Paul is most proud of his award-winning unabridged recording of Moby Dick. He holds a BFA in acting from Southern Methodist University and an MFA in acting from the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile’s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card’s Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, "Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take." Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.

About Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) wrote and edited more than 120 books and more than 1,700 stories, essays, and articles, as well as dozens of screenplays and teleplays. He won the Hugo award nine times, the Nebula award three times, the Bram Stoker award six times (including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice, the Georges Méliès Fantasy Film Award twice, and was awarded the Silver Pen for Journalism by PEN, the international writer’s union. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2006.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andy

This is a review of the audiobook version of Night Ride, a collection of short stories by Charles Beaumont. It's read by several men with deep voices, and they're all very good, especially Harlan Ellison, who reads Perchance To Dream, possibly the best story, and Ellison's performance (ha) gives it......more

Goodreads review by Wally

“Night Ride and Other Journeys” is a short story anthology that was published in 1960. There are fifteen stories within this collection. Four of these stories were never previously published. As with all my short story collection reviews, I rate each story individually and then calculate the average......more

Goodreads review by Maureen

a good collection, though it does not quite have the violence of the hunger and other stories, it is quintessential beaumont, playful and disturbing sometimes. stand outs for me include: "the music of the yellow brass", "a classic affair", "the love-master", "a death in country", "the howling man",......more


Quotes

“Charles Beaumont was a genius…and one hell of a storyteller.” Dean Koontz

“The name of Charles Beaumont will be honored and recognized for generations yet to come.” Robert Bloch