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The Sound of His Horn by John William Wall
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The Sound of His Horn

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Narrator Stefan Rudnicki

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Length 4 hours
Language English
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A horrifying masterpiece of science fiction

The Sound of His Horn is a classic novel of the uncanny. Alan Querdilion becomes a prisoner of war during World War II and then awakes, only to find himself in an alternative future in which the Nazis have won the war. Against a sylvan backdrop, the legend of the wild huntsman is revived and genetic experiments have created strange hybrids. Humans are hunted for game, haunted by the sound of the huntsmanโ€™s horn.

Sarbanย (1910โ€“1989) was a pseudonym for John William Wall, a British writer and diplomat. He wrote several works of speculative fiction, including The Sound of His Hornย and The Doll Maker.

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFileโ€™s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Cardโ€™s Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, "Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take." Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.

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Reviews

โ€œ[For] devotees of Poe and Tennessee Williamsโ€ฆHis book is a stunning tour de force, a horror-thriller with depth.โ€

โ€œNo outline of mine can possibly convey the skill with which old man Sarban maintains suspense and builds up imagined fears upon unimagined horrors.โ€

โ€œI frankly confess myself scared. Who โ€˜Sarbanโ€™ is I do not know, but I should not wish to take his imagination to bed with me. [It] would be indescribable, if only the author did not describe it with such conviction.โ€

โ€œDonโ€™t miss The Sound of His Hornโ€ฆAn imagination like that of Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stokerโ€ฆThe quality of the writing is magnificent.โ€

โ€œHere is no straightforward piece of make-believe. It is terrifying, horrible, something that runs athwart the processes of human nature and fills the reader with a dreadful wonder.โ€

โ€œThe forests are alive with terror, and the story never loses its grip, despite its fantastic material.โ€

โ€œI have never read anything more completely terrifyingโ€ฆA fine piece of imaginative writing.โ€

โ€œExtravagantly imaginative mystery and terror. Genuine Cold shivers. The book has a queer power to horrify in an inexplicable way.โ€

โ€œWritten with skill and energy.โ€

โ€œPersuasive.โ€

โ€œA horrifying masterpiece of science fictionโ€ฆa classic novel of the uncanny.โ€

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