A Walk in the Dark by Arthur C. Clarke - Audiobook Science Fiction/Horror short story
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- Stranded on a lonely planet, Robert Armstrong must make a perilous journey across the barren plains in complete darkness.
Audiobook adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s classic sci-fi/horror short story
Read by James Procella
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This is my first audiobook! I just do this in my spare time for fun so would really appreciate a like, comment or any feedback :)
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What a marvelous little ghost story! Arthur C. Clarke is one of my favorite authors, for good reason.
For everyone who likes this story, can I recommend Jack London’s to build a fire. It’s not science fiction though jack London is considered one of the first science fiction authors
YES U MAY!!!! I LOVE JACK LONDON!!!! FIRST BOOK I READ WAS CALL OF THE WILD!!!! BAM I W A S HOOKED!!!!
That's one of my absolute favorite short stories! I like to read it in the coldest days of winter.
Great recommendation. I loved it!
That you Joseph Geller?
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I've taught "TBaF" for fifteen years in conjunction with Panther in the Sky by James Alexander Thom. The Shawny "ice ritual entails a boy who must walk through the village naked everyday with one simple task. Starting in November he must go down to the river and jump in. The villagers thoroughly humiliate young Tecumseh on the first day as begins this trek, but he is to relinquish all self-referential thought in exchange for the immediacy of a determined focus while relying upon the breath of the divine.. His trustworthy brother advises the boy,revealing the secret that the water is warmer than the frigid air, His efforts result in a joyous surprise and the villagers share in his victory. As the winter deepens it is gradually colder; ice forms on the river...What happens on the coldest day of the year is nothing short of remarkable. The pouch or medicine bag about his neck contains the debris found at the river-bottom...but the pa-waw-ka is no small matter and rivals London's philosophy without circumventing the existential facts of Life.
Great read! Please continue doing reads of classic sci-fi stories. You have a lot of talent!
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I love this little story, read it at school (probably when I should have been doing something else) and several times since. A nice delivery thank you.
Thank you for your reading. I have just finished listening to Superiority. You have a great reading voice. l look forward to hearing even
more stories from you.
Thank you for your kind words- More is coming!
Lions tigers and bears oh my. Where ever people go, there are monsters. It's just they be us. Who knows what crazy human might be lurking in the dark.
Well told story.
Chills
If you'd be interested, Ms. Waters, I can heartily recommend you a short sci-fi/horror story of Clarke's entitled: "The Parasite" that's at least as chilling as this one, if not more so!
I think this is my third or fourth time listening to this story love it you’re narration is great.
Fantastic story! Fantastic reading! I hope you read more stories. One of my favorites is the Thing From The Barrens. It’s in public domain 😊
Well ... wow!! That is some excellent writing along with excellent narration. Thanks!!
Great story well done.
Thanks for sharing.
Amazing 🖤
Very well read
Omg. Listening to your amazing narration of this story gave me a feeling you had experienced a similar walk in the dark; experiencing similar emotional and physical distress. A+
That was fantastic. 1st class reading. Subbed
Wonderfully chilling!
Very well done, I even imagined that I was listening to a young Arthur C. Clark.
Great story. Thank your sharing
Great job. Please do more Clarke!
Interesting story. My only disagreement with the story would be to replace the references to "universe" with "galaxy" or "galactic quadrant". Anyway, a good story to visualize the distinction between the micro and macro scales of distance, and of time. SPOILER: Basically, consider if you yourself had to go for a walk, out in the wilderness, on an isolated planet, where you had walked before with complete daylight, but this time in total darkness, and your survival was at stake. James Procella has given us an excellent reading. Many thanks.
Superb reading.
Like everyone else here all I can say is, well done! You have a talent for this. I think you could build quite a channel reading science fiction.
AWESOME MATE.!!!
Thank you for doing this.!
Stay safe out there & best wishes from Scotland 🏴 🙏 ♥
Fantastic, thank you
Very good performance . Very enjoyable.
great narration 👍👍👍👍 your voice is perfect for this genre.
Nice read .. thank you !
Omg that was fucking Terrifying!!! I love you chefs kiss tytyty
I couldn't agree more, Mr. Smith. And if you enjoyed this supremely unnerving little tale, then I can heartily recommend you do yourself a profound favor & check out
another of Clarke's hauntingly otherworldly short stories entitled: "The Parasite"... It's quite possibly the single creepiest sci-fi horror story ever committed to print!
Great voice thanku sir
Excellent story until the weak ending.
Nice story. But no creature could survive and thrive on a chance availability of one odd human who would come to their planet after millions of years. So it must have had other means of living. In which case it would look at human as a mere curiosity. In fact when humans evolved that is what happened. Other innocent creatures already pre-existing didn’t have knowledge of his predatory skills and so were exterminated.
good story and narration. rather like the film pitch black
The changes in performances of the girls and I are commanded to be revealed in seismographic details.
Thank you for the upload 😊
Thought this was Terence Stamp narrating this at first.
"...excellent narration"...this should be the standard...!
The opening scene of the story contains a ritual invocation of the "fickle godess." Does anyone understand what I mean?
Clarke was an Occultist, so no surprise here.
@@sebastianvakarian9773 Bingo. The invocation of the muse. Well done.
Imagine a "fickle goddess" and she will haunt you until you go mad, or get lost in the darkness... lol.
Don't toss your torch into the dark to make a noise. (It's like clapping your hands to wake a kami.)
And never dare her with the thought, "nothing worse could happen."
Or it will...
This sounds like the great Timothy Dalton.
Imagine a "fickle goddess" and she will haunt you until you go mad, or get lost in the darkness... lol.
Don't toss your torch into the dark to make a noise. (It's like clapping your hands to wake a kami.)
And never dare her with the thought, "nothing worse could happen."
Or it will...
Yow!
I love this story, but I have to say: the distance bothers me. 4 miles!? Really not far at all.
In the dark, with no real light, no around you. Try it
you must be a good walker or runner. even walking 100 meters is 'too far' for most car drivers lol. for most people, 4 miles even in the day is unthinkable. but this guy was desperate. he wanted to get away from the planet. it had to be a relatively short distance. do-able. to tempt him. much further and the effort would have probably dissuaded him from trying.
I will know current events by the end.
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I had a few drinks at a friend's house one Saturday night and sensibly decided to walk the 3 miles home rather than drive (I was young and fit and poor so a taxi wasn't considered). I knew there was a church midway home with a dark graveyard behind an iron fence with an open gateway, iron gates hanging askew and after drinking - alone on the journey, I knew this would set the hairs raising on the back of my neck. I asked him if I text him to say I was nearing this dark gateway leading to the graveyard, would he text me a reassuring message? He readily agreed so I set off, slightly erratically, on the walk home. As I neared the church and graveyard I text him to say I was approaching the scary point and was pleased to hear my mobile receive a text from him just as I was passing the gate, every hair standing up on my neck and arms. His text? Oh, it was 'What's that big black thing looming up behind you?' Thanks, Chris!!! This was me aged about 25 walking home to Broseley in Shropshire from Madeley in Shropshire in about 1998. I admit I swore at the time...😅
I legit thought it was Terrence Stamp reading
Lovely 😍👍
What mic you used?
Blue Yeti! Thanks very much
1 of the creepiest novels out of so few ?...
In my humble opinion, 'A Walk in the Dark' is only superseded in creepiness by Clarke's other great, timeless, sci-fi/horror short story: "The Parasite".
Wrong title for this classic story ... it has been badly re-written as well ...
Fix it immediately. The hair is what I mean.
I say…yes😢 kiss me!
What's with the long music??? Don't bother with this