Nosferatu
A Symphony of Horror
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Nosferatu
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Narrated by:
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Abe Goldfarb
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By:
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Jonathan Miller
About this listen
Enter the haunting world of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, a gothic masterpiece brought to life in this chilling audiobook adaptation. Inspired by the legendary 1922 silent film, this immersive experience plunges listeners into a tale of creeping dread, supernatural terror, and the darkness that lurks at the edge of human understanding.
When Thomas Hutter embarks on a journey to the distant Carpathian Mountains, he believes he is merely fulfilling a business obligation. But deep within the walls of a crumbling castle, he finds himself in the presence of something ancient, something unnatural—Count Orlok. As whispers of plague and death spread across Wisborg, Thomas’s beloved Ellen begins to sense an otherworldly presence drawing closer, her fate entwined with the growing shadows.
©2025 Maple & Quill Publishers LLC (P)2025 Jonathon KelleyWhat you actually get is an awful lot of repetition, and not the whole story. The novelisation glosses over the sub-plot of Knock’s secretive occult practices and mental collapse, and instead focuses on the emotional spiralling of Thomas Hutter and his wife Ellen. The supposed origin of Orlok as the get of Belial isn’t mentioned at all, and the whole thing gets rather tedious. It’s entertaining up to a point, but at one stage I was checking the remaining running time and found myself dismayed that there was an hour and a half left! In short, not much plot, lots and lots of padding.
I was surprised and disappointed by the omissions in the story, and bored by the constant repetition. The author clearly enjoys certain phrases, which are repeated several times throughout the story. I found myself able to predict entire paragraphs by the end of the tale. Were I a suspicious person, I’d think chunks of this were written by AI.
The narrator does his best with the material, but his attempts to make it sound portentous found me speeding up the narration in order to get through it quicker.
The whole thing is a huge missed opportunity. In the hands of a more skilled writer, this could have been great. Orlok is reduced from an inhuman undead monster with vast occult power to a leering pervert, and Thomas Hutter is a moron who apparently wouldn’t know a clue if it was nailed to his forehead. The only person who gets decent treatment by the author is Ellen, and even she comes across as a little dim.
Explore this as a curio if you’re a fan of the original movie, but don’t expect to be riveted. It’s nothing special.
Interesting, but repetitive and overlong
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