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From the Depths

And Other Strange Tales of the Sea

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From the Depths

Auteur(s): Mike Ashley
Narrateur(s): Jeff Harding, Ben Onwukwe, John Telfer, David Thorpe
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From atop the choppy waves to the choking darkness of the abyss, the seas are full of mystery and rife with tales of inexplicable events and encounters with the unknown. In this anthology, we see a thrilling spread of narratives: sailors are pitched against a nightmare from the depths, invisible to the naked eye, a German U-boat commander is tormented by an impossible transmission via Morse Code, a ship ensnares itself in the kelp of the Sargasso Sea and dooms a crew of mutineers, seemingly out of revenge for her lost captain. The supernatural is set alongside the grim affairs of sailors scorned in these salt-soaked tales, recovered from obscurity for the 21st century.

©2018 Mike Ashely (Introduction and notes) (P)2022 Isis Publishing Ltd Anthologies et nouvelles Fiction de genre Horreur Surnaturels Thrillers et romans à suspense Intéressant
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There is a point where old becomes vintage, and I would argue that these stories sit on the dividing line. These tales are not scary. They are not meant to be. People in the late 19th to early 20th century were fascinated with ghosts and the unknown and seemed to pursue stories that were intriguing, unsettling, even spooky; hence, the birth of weird fiction. These were stories from the popular, and respectable, magazines. If you wanted horror, buy a penny dreadful.

The stories are original and rare, and deal with several approaches to maritime weird. I would rate the overall quality of the stories to be 'Pretty Good'. Any higher and they would be in every collection, yielding a book with no originality. That said, I am knocking the story rating down to 'It's OK' as some stories were really of a lesser quality.

The audio publisher has made a messy job of logging books into Audible. They have two publisher names (Isis and Isis Publishing Ltd), one series that only includes a segment of that series (British Library Tales of the Weird), and errors in both the titles and book numbering. Makes them hard to find.

The narration was very well performed, and using a variety of narrators is very welcome in a book of short fiction. My only complaint is the presence of the sibilant 'S' that is so common in audio books. Some books are much better, others are much worse in this regard. I think that quality of the audio could be better and reduce the score by one.

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