Monstronomicon

I really wanted to like this.

I really tried to like this collection. Out of the 100 stories maybe 20 were ok. Most of them felt unfinished and half-baked. A good workshop would have turned most of these into great reads. I will give the narrator, and the 4 voices he used, props for sticking it out.

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Ummm...WTF

I guess that I should start off with the only positive critique I can offer. A few of the stories (7 to be exact) were fairly decent. Some even managed to be somewhat creepy.
Now that we have that out of the way...
In the interest of time, I'll stick to my top 3 complaints about "Monstronomicon"
1. Fire the editor! The book runs a little over 26 hours. Of that, about a hour is repeated passages ( I'm almost not exaggerating).
2. If you are going with 1 narrator to read all 100 stories, then go wirh someone who can at vary the tone and pitch of his voice. By about the fifth story I felt like I was listening to a bee hive rather than a man reading a scary story.
3. Almost all of the stories were terrible. Imagine reading something written by an especially underwhelming seventh grader and you'll be in the ballpark.

good stories narration could use some work

for the most part the stories were engaging and if Taney however I found some of the narration off-putting. the narrator tins to use goofy voice to distinguish one character from another and it doesn't seem all that necessary.

HERE THERE INDEED BE MONSTERS!

So far I'm maybe 1/4 of the way through and I am really enjoying these tales. The story of Granny Decay is my favorite so far. I can actually picture the demented beast in my mind!

not good

as far as horror short stories I have listen to mich better can't say I cared to much for this book

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