Nocturnes

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

From #1 internationally bestselling author John Connolly comes Nocturnes, a dark, daring, utterly haunting shot story anthology of lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts.

Connolly’s collection of supernatural novellas and stories echoes the work of some of the masters of the genre while never losing his own distinctive voice. In "The New Daughter," a father comes to suspect that a burial mound on his land hides something very ancient, and very much alive; in "The Underbury Witches," two London detectives find themselves battling a particularly female evil in a town culled of its menfolk. And finally, private detective Charlie Parker returns in the long novella "The Reflecting Eye," in which the photograph of an unknown girl turns up in the mailbox of an abandoned house once occupied by an infamous killer. This discovery forces Parker to confront the possibility that the house is not as empty as it appears, and that something has been waiting in the darkness for its chance to kill again.

3.5 stars

3.5 some stories were really excellent other stories were ok. A fun read though. creepy.

Great story- but some suggestions

Loved this collection. As with other audible collected works though, it would be nice if the chapters often book indicated what story they are related to. If you only listen once, great, you'll never notice. But why then would you buy the book?

This version is also missing the last four stories found in the print volume.

very interesting I really enjoyed it.

really enjoyed it will Def buy more.. it held my attention . very happy I bought it

Bland

Each story is almost formulaic--a woman dies and the man is left to live his life. The deaths are really only fodder for the remaining protagonists' motivations. The first story is perhaps the most compelling, but otherwise the tales do not bring much to the genre of "horror" or neo-gothic, as it were.

short scary stories

I've always loved scary stories told around a campfire, this is a collection of a bunch of crappy scary stores that will give you some nightmares. Jeff Harding does a fantastic job.