A Whisper in the Dark, Louisa May Alcott
A Whisper in the Dark, Louisa May Alcott
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A Whisper in the Dark
Turbulent Tales from Louisa May Alcott

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Narrator: various narrators, Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki, Nicholas Guy Smith, Susan Hanfield

Unabridged: 10 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 12/16/2014

Synopsis

From the author of Little Women comes a collection of gothic, romantic, and spellbinding tales guaranteed to surprise and delight.This collection represents the best of Alcott's adult oeuvre. The stories in this volume display dramatic intensity and thrilling, suspenseful plots that show Alcott to be a complex and passionate writer. Listeners will discover within this maelstrom of murder, deceit, obsessive desire, treachery, duplicity, and betrayal that love and honor can still conquer all.The book takes its title from the tale "A Whisper in the Dark," arguably Alcott's gothic masterpiece, a story of imperiled innocence. Also featured are "The Mysterious Key and What It Opened," "The Abbot's Ghost; or, Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story," "La Jeune; or, Actress and Woman," "Ariel: A Legend of the Lighthouse," and "The Skeleton in the Closet."

About Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) won international renown with the publishing of Little Women and its sequel, Good Wives. Her works include An Old Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins and Jack and Jill. Alcott grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, where her family befriended such literary greats as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

About Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, and Long Day’s Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen’s birthday honors for services to drama.

About Cassandra Campbell

Read by Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Richard Gilliland, Jamye Grant, Stephen Hoye, Alex Hyde-White, Sunil Malhotra, Arthur Morey, P. J. Ochlan, and Stefan Rudnicki

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card’s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier’s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Earphones Award.  She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices. 

About Nicholas Guy Smith

Nicholas Guy Smith is an award-winning audiobook narrator and a much sought-after voice actor for film trailers, commercials, and documentaries. He has voiced characters for Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, and the Cartoon Network. A postgraduate of Cambridge University, he resides in Los Angeles.

About Susan Hanfield

Susan Hanfield is an Audie Award–winning narrator who comes from a strong classical theater background and loves bringing deep characterizations to all of her work. She has narrated over twenty books, including Ru Emerson’s six-book Night-Threads series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by June on October 24, 2015

Feels perilously like we're peaking inside Jo's portfolio of "blood and thunder" stories...the ones she's always submitting to magazines. Love.......more

Goodreads review by Phil on October 28, 2016

Having previously read and reviewed four of the “Twelve Thrilling Tales”, I just read the eight from this collection that were new to me. “Modern Magic” proved interesting at times, but also boring in places. I like the concept more than the creation. 2 stars. “Only an Actress!” felt more like a dram......more

Goodreads review by Marilyn on April 29, 2018

A Whisper in the Dark is twelve short stories (two are novellas) by Louisa May Alcott. They contrast strongly with her famous Little Women stories--maybe they are the sensational stories Jo wrote to make money. At first I didn't think I would finish all the stories, but eventually I found some that......more

Goodreads review by Janet on August 02, 2009

This was initially a hard book to get through as I did not enjoy the first story - A Modern Mephistopheles - at all. It was dark and confusing. Some other stories that I did enjoy however were "Ariel: A Legend of the Lighthouse" which had a Hunchback of Notre Dame flavor to it, slightly. And I also......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on December 18, 2007

It's not difficult to discern the hallmarks of Alcott's style when reading these stories--these tales are Louisa May through and through. Her favorite phraseology appears over and over, along with a few dozen of her favorite heroines: impossibly lovely young things, blessed with grace, virtue, and c......more

Quotes

“This story collection is composed of twelve gothic dramas delivered by five narrators. Their accomplished portrayals capture the straitlaced manners and mores of the Victorian era…Cassandra Campbell’s polished portrayal of Bedford, the stately butler in ‘The Mysterious Key,’ is also memorable. The mature and spirited portrayal of Maurice’s rehabilitation in ‘The Abbot’s Ghost,’ a Christmas tale of intrigue, is especially engaging. Together, the accomplished narrators invoke intrigue, suspense, and provocative themes, none of which are what most listeners expect in the work of Alcott.” AudioFile

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