Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection
Selected Book Details
- Audio CD
- Edition: Unabridged
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Publisher: Caedmon
- Release Date: October 2000
- ISBN-10: 0694524190
- ISBN-13: 9780694524198
- List Price: $29.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryUniversally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe's dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre. Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe's most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant interpreters of his work ever to be recorded: Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Between them, they perform 20 of Poe's chilling stories and poems, creating an unforgettably intense listening experience. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
perfect casting
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Excellent collection. Basil Rathbone and Vincent Price are the perfect readers. Great listen on a dark and stormy night!
Could Have Been Much Better
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Yes the recordings are as good as the other reviewers say they are. However a couple of nits:
1. The recordings run into one another. Not having listened to these works for many years, several times it took me a bit to realize that one had ended and I was now listening to another masterpiece. A little breathing room between pieces or even a quick title announcement would have been appreciated.
2. There is no listing of what is on what disk on either the box or the CD holder insert. That means you have to use the paper insert to find what you want or scan the tiny silver font on green disk labels. Unfortunately my insert was missing. It would have been so much nicer to have the play list printed on the cd holder where it would be handy whenever I pulled one out.
phooey
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Audiobooks are books meant to be read aloud, enunciation and clarity are among the most important.
Using these very old recordings done for a 'dramatic appeal' has left me with a feeling of wanton waste of money.
Basil Rathbone's renditions are from a Shakespearean attempting to do Poe. If he would simply read. Alas, he acts, not reads.
All of his recordings are: Volume too low, adjust up, volume to high, adjust down, yelling, adjust down again, whispering, adjust up again, etc. etc. ad nauseum. One cannot possibly hear using one setting of volume.
It is a waste of money. Find a human who can read it and enunciate and let me do the fantasizing and imagining and conjuring. The poetry and prose should stand up alone and by itself, not acted upon. Rathbone died in 1967. The recording is over 50 years old!!
Anyone who needs it play acted is not getting the correct message. It's about the words, not the actor.
Excellent readings, but a small reservation about the disc set
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I got this CD set about six years ago. The readings themselves are excellent; there is no need for music or sound effects for today's spoiled audiences. The fact that the readings are so good is enough to keep a listener interested. Rathbone proves conclusively in this set that by being stuck playing Sherlock Holmes (which he did brilliantly), and not permitted by his Universal contract to do much else in the 1940's, he was soundly misused by Hollywood and not given a chance to prove his incredible range. He is astonishingly good here, especially frightening in the story "The Cask of Amontillado". The disappointment is Vincent Price, who reads his material well, but no better or worse than we would normally expect him to, and certainly not as well as Rathbone.
The billing on the set is misleading; it is Rathbone's readings which come first, not Price's, and the bulk of the set is devoted to Rathbone.
Now, for the problem. When I got my first copy of this set, it appeared to be defective. The Rathbone sections were just fine, but the disc began to freeze at a certain point in the Vincent Price readings. So I exchanged the set for a duplicate, and this duplicate freezes up at the same point on one of my CD players, but not on the other one. By then, I decided to keep the set, and not to exchange it a second time, lest I be given a third copy of the set and discover that it had all been for nothing. I concluded that the fault must be in the pressing of the disc. (If anyone else has had a similar problem with this, feel free to comment below.)
But if you haven't had problems with this set, or if you love Poe and great dramatic readings, by all means buy this set, especially for Rathbone. He will scare hell out of you just with his voice.
Chilling!
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Enjoyed listening to - sent chills down my spine and gave me goosebumps. Love the voices of Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.
Both gentlemen have been my idols since my youth. The actors we have now cannot hold a candle to either of these professionals. They make you feel as if you are actually in the Poe story! Don't believe anyone would be disappointed in this set.
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