Technically, the first person to hear Neil Gaiman’s new novel, THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE, was his wife, musician Amanda Palmer. Gaiman handwrote the first draft of the novel while Palmer was far away in Australia.
MURDER MYSTERIES begins in Los Angeles--the city of Angels--where a young Englishman (played by Michael Emerson) is on a stopover. At a park bench he shares a cigarette with a drifter, played by Brian Dennehy, who reveals himself to be Zephkiel, angel of vengeance, and unveils a story of murder set in heaven prior to the creation. Dennehy’s narration of the... Read More
The remarkable thing about this tape is that, from the first lines, it gives one a strong impression of darkness and dread. It’s a novel based on a British TV series--a suspenseful and funny adventure tale of a nebbishy Londoner caught up in a nightmarish, magic world below ground. Neither the premise nor the plot is all that new and compelling. But the execution! First,... Read More