Audiobooks narrated by Yuri Rasovsky

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories

One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories have already entered into popular culture, including the title story, which became a landmark episode of The Twilight Zone, and 'Duel,' the nail-biting tale of man versus machines that inspired Steven Spielberg's first film. Other stories include 'First Anniversary,' 'Dress of White Silk,' 'Witch War,' 'Dance of the Dead,' 'Mad House,' 'Prey,' 'Blood Son,' 'Crickets,' 'Wet Straw,' 'The Children of Noah,' 'Through Channels,' 'Old Haunts,' 'Disappearing Act,' 'The Holiday Man,' 'Legion of Plotters,' 'The Distributor,' 'Long Distance Call,' 'Slaughter House,' and 'The Likeness of Julie.' Find out why Stephen King (who writes the introduction) has called Matheson one of his favorite writers.

Richard Matheson (Author), Arte Johnson, Christine Williams, Conrad John Shuck, Jay Karnes, Julia Campbell, Lawrence Pressman, Lorna Raver, Malcolm Hillgartner, Ned Schmidtke, Ray Porter, Richard Powers, Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee

Long before Western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese had developed a long tradition of literary works that chronicled the cases of important district magistrates. One of the most celebrated of these was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century a.d. This book, written anonymously in the eighteenth century, interweaves three of Judge Dee's most baffling cases: a double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, and the suspicious death of a shop keeper with a beautiful wife. The crimes take him up and down the great silk routes, into ancient graveyards where he consults the spirits of the dead, and through all levels of society, leading him to some brilliant detective work.

Robert Van Gulik, Yuri Rasovsky (Author), Lorna Raver, Mark Bramhall, Stefan Rudnicki, Various Artists, Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

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Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left

Ronald Radosh's earliest memory is of being trundled off to a May Day demonstration by his Communist parents. Radosh grew up in the parallel universe of American Communism. When he entered the University of Wisconsin in the late 1950s, he became a founding father of the New Left and was on the center stage during the sixties.But if Commies is an intimate social history of the American Left over the past half-century, it is also a compelling story of a crisis of radical faith. In the early eighties, Radosh wrote the groundbreaking work The Rosenberg File, intending to prove the martyrs were innocent. But after examining government files, he became convinced of the Rosenbergs' guilt. As the publication of his book provoked attacks and blacklisting from his former friends in the Left, Radosh began to question his past allegiances.

Ronald Radosh (Author), Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

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I Am Legend, and Other Stories

In Matheson's vampire classic I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and transformed the unfortunate survivors into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires? This recording also includes a sampling of other horror stories by Richard Matheson, some comic, all scary: "Buried Talents," "The Near Departed," "Prey," "Witch War," "Dance of the Dead," "Dress of White Silk," "Mad House," "The Funeral," "From Shadowed Places," and "Person to Person."

Richard Matheson (Author), Robertson Dean, Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

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The Incredible Shrinking Man

Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants, the family cat becomes a predatory menace, and Scott must struggle to survive in a world that seems to be growing ever larger and more perilous - until he faces the ultimate limits of fear and existence.

Richard Matheson (Author), Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

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Songs on Bronze: The Greek Myths Made Real

Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century, a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths, which are recognized now more than ever as stories without equal. In Spivey's bold, sensuous prose, these stories are revealed anew as outsize tales of love and strife, of secret compacts and open rivalries.

Nigel Spivey (Author), Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

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Paris Stories

Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. This collection of fifteen of Gallant's best stories comprise a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, offering a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.

Mavis Gallant (Author), Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

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Seven Classic Plays

Blackstone Audio is proud to present seven great plays in a collection that illustrates the development of European drama from ancient times to the threshold of the modern theater: Medea by Euripides, The Tempest by Shakespeare, The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, Camille by Dumas, An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, Arms and the Man by Shaw, and Uncle Vanya by Chekhov. A superb repertory company with distinguished guest artists has been assembled here, under the direction of veteran producer Yuri Rasovsky, who has won both an Audie Award for book production and the George Foster Peabody Award for broadcasting. These full performances use all the resources of audio to full advantage while keeping the substance of the works intact, resulting in both greater intimacy and lively theatrics.

Alexandre Dumas, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, William Shakespeare (Author), A Full Cast, Barry Morse, Brian Murray, F. Murray Abraham, Fritz Weaver, John Glover, Lois Nettleton, Nicholas Kepros, Rosemary Harris, Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

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The Sibyl

The Sibyl is a profound exploration of divine and human love in the form of a conversation between the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend and a sibyl of Delphi, written by a Nobel Prize-winning author. "This is a remarkable book...Lagerkvist has written a disturbing and fearful fable about human and divine love, and about the glories and disasters of both."-Paul Engle, ChicagoTribune

PÃ¤r Lagerkvist (Author), Kristoffer Tabori, Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

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36 Yalta Boulevard

"State Security Officer Brano Sev is the secretive member of the Ministry for State Security. No one else quite trusts him, but it is part of his job to do what the authorities ask, no matter what. So when he gets an order to travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector, he goes. When a man turns up dead shortly after he arrives and Brano is framed for the murder, he assumes this is part of the plan and allows it to run its course. But when the plan leads him into exile in Vienna, he finally begins to ask questions. In fact, Comrade Brano Sev learns that loyalty to the cause might be the biggest crime of all.

Olen Steinhauer (Author), Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Yuri Rasovsky