The Dark

De: James Herbert

Narrado por: Sean Barrett

Night falls. It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. And somewhere in the night...a small girl smiled as her mother burned...asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants...in slimy tunnels once-human creatures gathered. Madness raged as the lights began to fade and humanity was attacked by an ancient, unstoppable evil.

James Herbert was one of Britain's greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction. Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages. Born in London in the forties, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975. His first novel, The Rats, was an instant best-seller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction.

Herbert went on to publish a new top ten best-seller every year until 1988. He wrote six more best-selling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall. Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69.

©1980 James Herbert (P)2013 Audible Ltd

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Herbert was by no means literary, but his work had a raw urgency. His best novels, The Rats and The Fog,

"There are few things I would like to do less than lie under a cloudy night sky while someone read aloud the more vivid passages of Moon. In the thriller genre, do recommendations come any higher?" (Andrew Postman, The New York Times Book Review)

"Herbert goes out in a blaze of glory" ( Daily Mail)

A great listen

The story grabbed me right from the start thanks to the narrator's fantastic voice and ability to make multiple characters come to life.

The ending was a bit of a let down though.

Bad Narrator

Any additional comments?

I'm 90% sure the narrator has dentures. The constant smacking noises were so distracting I kept getting lost in the story and since the book jumped from story to story I was never sure who was doing what.

GREAT SUPERNATURAL MYSTERY!

FIRST HERBERT BOOK I HAVE LISTENED TO.....WILL NOT BE THE LAST! ALTHOUGH I WOULD CLASSIFY THIS BOOK AS WEIRD, THE BOOK IS RATHER TWISTED AND MACABRE. THE STORY WAS GOOD BUT WHAT WAS AWESOME WAS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHT AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY THEORIES THAT PLAYED OUT IN THE STORY. WILL NOT GIVE AWAY TOO MUCH IN THE BOOK BUT IF I HAD TO COMPARE HERBERT'S WORK WITH ANOTHER AUTHOR IT WOULD BE STEPHEN KING. THE CHARACTER DEPTH, DIALOGUE, AND REACTIONS TO SITUATIONS WERE VERY BELIEVABLE AND SPOT ON.

THIS IS A HORROR BOOK AND NOT FOR THE WEAK OF HEART OR MODEST INDIVIDUAL. WOULD BE A GREAT BOOK THIS HALLOWEEN SEASON!

just average...

hard time finishing this one, the story felt a bit disjointed and long winded.

A 'meh' turned into a 'save me!'

The story felt dated, and old. kind of relied heavily on worn out tropes and as a whole just failed to deliver up to the standard of the authors other works. I really wanted to like it as much as I loved the fog, or the ash series. This was more a drunken muttering than a brilliant work. Then there was the reader, ee gads, took a fairly solid 2 star 'meh' and dropped it 30 stars. a more irritating, muttering accident of voice never did happen. Even pee wee herman would have been a better choice as a reader. Save yourself, read the book if you really want the story.

Not as good as I had hoped

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

If the story had kept up the quality all the way through. Sadly it starts out pretty cool but then devolves into a mess of endless action scenes, overdone splatter and a deus-ex-machina ending that doesn't even make sense.

Would you ever listen to anything by James Herbert again?

No, I don't think so.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

I like the narrators natural accent, but he also did an accent for one of the characters and I don't like that. It always sounds like mocking to me and instead of drawing me into a story it throws me right out.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment, mostly, and some disgust because there was some moral aspect to the story that seemed to me to demonise sex.

hated it. couldn't even finish

I love scary stories, especially supernatural ones. But I do not like torture porn, which is what this is.