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Other Kingdoms

by Richard Matheson
Bronson Pinchot
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For over half a century, Richard Matheson has enthralled and terrified readers with such timeless classics as I Am Legend, Somewhere in Time, and What Dreams May Come. Now the grand master returns with a bewitching tale of erotic suspense and enchantment.

The year is 1918. Alex White, a young American soldier recently wounded in the Great War, comes to Gatford to escape his troubled past. The pastoral English village seems the perfect spot to heal his wounded body and soul, but the neighboring woods are said to be haunted by capricious, even malevolent, spirits. He is warned to steer clear of the woods and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love, danger, and wonders that will forever change his view of the world.

Other Kingdoms casts a magical spell, as conjured by a truly legendary storyteller.

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  • Release date

    March 1, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481570763
      • File size: 244208 KB
      • Duration: 08:28:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Bronson Pinchot keeps this fantasy grounded with his perfect rendition of the protagonist's Brooklyn accent. Alex White is an 80-something author whose "memoir" focuses primarily on his late teens, when he retreats to England after being wounded in WWI. There he is caught between his enchantment with a middle-aged witch and his attraction to a young faerie, each of whom brings out the sexual fantasies of the young soldier. Pinchot makes the most of the formal style of the author to portray White's restrained frustration when he talks about his father and the undertone of sexual tension he carries. Pinchot also tosses off the story's many asides, augmenting but not distracting from the plot. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 17, 2011
      Genre veteran Matheson (I Am Legend) frames this bittersweet blend of fantasy and romantic suspense as the "true" reminiscences of 82-year-old Alex White, the author of such novels as Midnight Blood Thirst and Midnight Flesh Hunger under the name Alex Black. In the spring of 1918, the then 18-year-old Alex, a wounded soldier who's been discharged from the American Army, settles in the isolated English town of Gatford, where he soon finds himself caught between two supernaturally empowered women: Magda, an alluring witch, and Ruthana, a charming faerie. Alex, himself powerless, is willing to make great sacrifices to be with his one true love, whichever one she might be, but their different natures and disapproving relatives may doom the relationship. Which of the two women Alex will choose is never really in doubt; the loser is clearly unsuitable and conveniently malicious in defeat. The self-pitying Alex may ramble in telling his straightforward tale, but Matheson remains as ever a competent craftsman.

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