2007 Audie® Award Finalist - Short Stories/Collections
A Grown-up’s Halloween: Fantasies and Fables for the Philosophically Fiendish is an eclectic mix of stories, plays, and sketches dedicated to the thinking paranoiac. Selections include "In a Grove," upon which Akira Kurosawa based his classic film, Rashomon; an adult fairy tale by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh; the real story (honest!) behind Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel The Moon Maid; and cautionary and scary tales from Dostoevsky, Kafka, Mark Twain, and others. Gore, sex, horror, literature, and edifying morals — what more could you want from an audiobook?
This collection includes:
"In a Grove" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
"The Garbage Man and the Noble Lady of Baghdad" and "The Sultan and the Wazir's Wife" from The Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice
"The Grand Inquisitor" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Josephine, the Mouse Singer" by Franz Kafka
"An Interview in a V.A. Hospital" by Yuri Rasovsky
The Ugly Duckling by A.A. Milne
The Moon Maid: The True Story by Emmett Loverde
Fables by Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce
The Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw
Why Support for Public Radio Must Increase and It Came from Outer Pinsk by A. Fiend
Expect everything but a typical delivery from the Hollywood Theater of the Ear's cast in A GROWN-UP'S HALLOWEEN, adapted and directed by Yuri Rasovsky. There are 14 stories in the collection, each brought to shrieking, howling, door-banging life. Some tales seem too long, others too short, but none are boring. Most are funny; a couple are more whimsical than anything else. The actors rarely use a "normal" voice, opting for affected voices that sometimes sound like a record played on the wrong speed. Anyone familiar with The Firesign Theater will recognize the work of former member Phil Proctor and others who follow his style. Each member of the Hollywood Theater brings something to this collection of adult tales. M.S. 2007 Audies Award Finalist (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
