-
Perchance to Dream
- Selected Stories
- Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Alex Hyde-White, Arthur Morey, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki, full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $16.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
The Best of Richard Matheson
- By: Richard Matheson, Victor LaValle - editor/introduction
- Narrated by: Donald Corren, Peter Berkrot, Richard Powers, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his 16 Twilight Zone episodes, Matheson truly shines in his chilling, masterful short stories. Since his first story appeared in 1950, virtually every major writer of science fiction and fantasy has fallen under his influence, including Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, and Joe Hill, as well as filmmakers like Stephen Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.
-
-
Rich and thrilling storytelling
- By Arthur on 10-24-17
By: Richard Matheson, and others
-
Night Ride, and Other Journeys
- By: Charles Beaumont
- Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For the oddball in you, flights into the sinister and fantastic The stories in this third collection from a master of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each is wonderfully told.
By: Charles Beaumont
-
The October Country
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: "The Small Assassin": a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true - or her nightmare.... "The Emissary": the faithful dog was the sick boy's only connection with the world outside - and beyond.... "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone": a most remarkable case of murder - the deceased was delighted! And more!
-
-
Fantastic writing studded with a few empty plots
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-19
By: Ray Bradbury
-
The Hunger and Other Stories
- By: Charles Beaumont
- Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A collection of horror stories by the iconic Charles Beaumont. When The Hunger and Other Stories first appeared in 1957, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont as an important and highly original new voice in American fiction. Although he is best known today for his scripts for television and film, including several classic episodes of The Twilight Zone, Beaumont is being rediscovered as a master of weird tales, and this, his first published collection, contains some of his best.
By: Charles Beaumont
-
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream and Other Works
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The following books are included: Paingod and Other Delusions, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, and From the Land of Fear.
-
-
Conservatives beware
- By Amazon Customer on 05-12-22
By: Harlan Ellison
-
Dark Tales
- By: Shirley Jackson, Ottessa Moshfegh - foreword
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Kimberly Farr, Karissa Vacker, and others
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides listeners with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the “The Possibility of Evil” and “The Summer People”.
-
-
Spoilerific Foreword
- By Erik N on 10-29-21
By: Shirley Jackson, and others
-
The Best of Richard Matheson
- By: Richard Matheson, Victor LaValle - editor/introduction
- Narrated by: Donald Corren, Peter Berkrot, Richard Powers, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his 16 Twilight Zone episodes, Matheson truly shines in his chilling, masterful short stories. Since his first story appeared in 1950, virtually every major writer of science fiction and fantasy has fallen under his influence, including Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, and Joe Hill, as well as filmmakers like Stephen Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.
-
-
Rich and thrilling storytelling
- By Arthur on 10-24-17
By: Richard Matheson, and others
-
Night Ride, and Other Journeys
- By: Charles Beaumont
- Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For the oddball in you, flights into the sinister and fantastic The stories in this third collection from a master of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each is wonderfully told.
By: Charles Beaumont
-
The October Country
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: "The Small Assassin": a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true - or her nightmare.... "The Emissary": the faithful dog was the sick boy's only connection with the world outside - and beyond.... "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone": a most remarkable case of murder - the deceased was delighted! And more!
-
-
Fantastic writing studded with a few empty plots
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-19
By: Ray Bradbury
-
The Hunger and Other Stories
- By: Charles Beaumont
- Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A collection of horror stories by the iconic Charles Beaumont. When The Hunger and Other Stories first appeared in 1957, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont as an important and highly original new voice in American fiction. Although he is best known today for his scripts for television and film, including several classic episodes of The Twilight Zone, Beaumont is being rediscovered as a master of weird tales, and this, his first published collection, contains some of his best.
By: Charles Beaumont
-
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream and Other Works
- By: Harlan Ellison
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The following books are included: Paingod and Other Delusions, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, and From the Land of Fear.
-
-
Conservatives beware
- By Amazon Customer on 05-12-22
By: Harlan Ellison
-
Dark Tales
- By: Shirley Jackson, Ottessa Moshfegh - foreword
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Kimberly Farr, Karissa Vacker, and others
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides listeners with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the “The Possibility of Evil” and “The Summer People”.
-
-
Spoilerific Foreword
- By Erik N on 10-29-21
By: Shirley Jackson, and others
-
Nightmares and Geezenstacks
- By: Fredric Brown
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of the great pulp writers, Fredric Brown (1906-1972) combined a flair for the horrific, a quirky sense of humor, and a wild imagination, and published many classic novels in the mystery and science fiction genres. But he was also a master of the "short-short story", tales only a page or two in length, but hard-hitting and with a wicked twist at the end.
-
-
The stories are fun and quick
- By Midwestbonsai on 04-01-18
By: Fredric Brown
-
When Things Get Dark
- Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson
- By: Ellen Datlow - editor
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Cassandra Campbell, Erin Moon, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A chilling anthology in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant, and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and listeners. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, brings together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.
-
-
Come for the Oates, stay for the rest!
- By Rebecca Rowland, author on 12-23-21
-
Nightfall and Other Stories
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A collection of 20 classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of “Nightfall”.
-
-
Happily surprised
- By Marcell Alzate on 08-22-21
By: Isaac Asimov
-
It Came from the Trailer Park: Volume 1
- By: Bill Oberst Jr., Sara Brooke, Mel Todd, and others
- Narrated by: Talon Beeson
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Do you love sparkly vampires? Well, too bad, because you won’t find a single one of those fancy-dancy bloodsuckers anywhere in this collection! It Came from the Trailer Park began as a fun idea to revisit the classic horror and old-school creature feature genres, with a hefty helping of B-rate tropes thrown in for good measure. Who doesn’t love a good Bruce Cambell or classic Vincent Price flick on a dark and dreary night? Emmy award winner Bill Oberst, Jr. opens the collection and sets the stage for the stories to come.
By: Bill Oberst Jr., and others
-
It
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Steven Weber
- Length: 44 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children.
-
-
You’ll go deaf
- By Laurie on 07-25-20
By: Stephen King
-
Something Wicked This Way Comes
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery.
-
-
Fun, Frightfully Fun
- By Andre on 10-23-15
By: Ray Bradbury
-
Pet Sematary
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Michael C. Hall
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic, rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Yet despite Ludlow's tranquility, there's an undercurrent of danger that lingers...like the graveyard in the woods near the Creeds' home, where generations of children have buried their beloved pets.
-
-
Damn scary elevated by Hall's narration!
- By Eric Mochnacz on 04-27-18
By: Stephen King
-
The Stand
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 47 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.
-
-
A Masterpiece
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 06-16-20
By: Stephen King
-
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
- By: John Langan
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich heritage of weird fiction, Langan has already garnered his share of accolades. This new collection includes nine of his substantial stories.
-
-
Great stories!
- By Caleb Cotton on 06-08-18
By: John Langan
-
Who Goes There?
- The Novella That Formed the Basis of 'THE THING'
- By: John W. Campbell
- Narrated by: Steve Cooper
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Who Goes There?, the novella that formed the basis of the film The Thing, is the John W. Campbell classic about an antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient body of a crash-landed alien.
-
-
Astounding ... Incredible ...
- By Old Hippy on 10-03-16
By: John W. Campbell
-
Salem's Lot
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Stephen King
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control.
-
-
You can't go home again...
- By David S. Mathew on 10-12-16
By: Stephen King
-
Everything's Eventual
- 14 Dark Tales
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, John Cullum, Boyd Gaines, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet", King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.
-
-
This is a vehicle for listening. We don’t need music
- By J-me on 07-31-19
By: Stephen King
Publisher's Summary
The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer.
It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone - for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension.
Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes. Beaumont dreamed up fantasies so vast and varied, they burst through the walls of whatever box might contain them. Supernatural, horror, noir, science fiction, fantasy, pulp, and more - all were equally at home in his wondrous mind. These are stories where lions stalk the plains, classic cars rove the streets, and spacecraft hover just overhead. Here roam musicians, magicians, vampires, monsters, toreros, extraterrestrials, androids, and perhaps even the devil himself. With dizzying feats of master storytelling and joyously eccentric humor, Beaumont transformed his nightmares and reveries into impeccably crafted stories that leave themselves indelibly stamped upon the walls of the mind. In Beaumont's hands, nothing is impossible; it all seems plausible, even likely.
More from the same
Narrator
What listeners say about Perchance to Dream
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Ralph Freaster
- 06-22-16
Contents
Any additional comments?
Foreword: Beaumont Remembered by Ray Bradbury
Perchance to Dream
The Jungle
Sorcerer's Moon
You Can't Have Them All
Fritzchen
Father, Dear Father
The Howling Man
A Classic Affair
Place of Meeting
Song for a Lady
Blood Brother
In His Image
The Monster Show
The Beautiful People
Free Dirt
The Magic Man
Last Rites
The Music of the Yellow Brass
The New People
A Death in the Country
Traumerei
Night Ride
The New Sound
Afterword by William Shatner
20 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Jeff G
- 01-06-20
Excellent Read
I had heard of Charles Beaumont especially through the twilight zone stories. The stories are much better than the show depicted. It is well worth the credit to get this fine collection.
2 people found this helpful