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 is an Audie Award–winning narrator who comes from a strong classical theater background and loves bringing deep characterizations to all of her work. She has narrated over twenty books, including Ru Emerson’s six-book Night-Threads series. On camera, she has been seen commercially and in numerous international, national, and regional network spots. She also played the title character in Magdalene, an award-winning short film.

About Paul Boehmer

J. Paul Boehmer is an American actor best known for his numerous appearances in the Star Trek universe. Hkis audiobook narrations have garnered nine AudioFile Earphones Awards and two prestigious Audie Awards for Best Narration, besides being a finalist for the Audie Award in 2012 and 2015. Between narrations, he is active in regional theaters across the country. His television appearances include guest spots on Nip/Tuck and Numb3rs.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

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 four 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