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Title: Deadbeat Dad

Author: J. R. Rain, Rod Kierkegaard Jr.

Narrator: Ilyana Kadushin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 36 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Hard-boiled police detective Richelle Dadd is back. And in a whole world of fresh trouble. Still...well, dead as the result of a Gypsy curse, she must now face life as a single mom. Not only does Richelle have to worry about all the usual stuff - her baby's health and well-being and keeping a roof over their heads by working a precarious dead-end job - there's also her homicidal ex-boyfriend to fear, the father of her child, stalking them both day and night with the avowed intent of kidnapping baby Tamara.

Not to mention a mysterious Russian agent hell-bent on "recruiting" Richelle into a suspiciously perfect overseas job, plus there's a vicious Ripper-style killing to investigate, one that ties in with the Black Rose Murders that terrorized the city nearly 90 years ago. Throw in the increasingly bizarre behavior of Richelle's ex-husband, Devon, and the fact that somebody's bugged every inch of Richelle's house - and it all adds up to a recipe for disaster....

But once again, just as in The Dead Detective, the first book in the series, some very offbeat characters come to her aid. There's her lovesick ex-detective partner, Malena Ayon, for one, and the long-dead ghost cop Bull McGuinness for another. And Richelle's equally dead new boyfriend, a dreamy World War I vet cut down in the prime of his youth. Last but hardly least is the roguish old Irish Traveler and scam artist Dicky Dadd, who claims to be Richelle's vanished father but who may be something else entirely: a half-Gypsy wizard sent to watch over her by the kriss, or Romani High Council.

On the eve of a second Ripper murder at a nearby theme park, Richelle and Malena must race to save an innocent victim's life - along with that of Tamara - while battling shadowy forces both real and supernatural as the story builds to a shattering and unexpected climax.

Members Reviews:

Gypsies, Scamps, and KGBs

The more I read of this series, the more I like it. It always takes a while to get used to a new narrator, but

I'm definitely loving the whole package now.

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Title: Bloodstone

Author: Nate Kenyon

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

A recovering alcoholic on the run from his past, all Billy Smith wants is to be left alone. But commanded by the voices in his head to commit acts of violence he does not understand, he kidnaps a prostitute known only as Angel and heads north to a bucolic little New England town called White Falls. Something monstrous has taken root in White Falls, and has waited centuries for the right time to awaken. Psyches begin to unravel and violence erupts. The fate of the living ultimately rests on the back of one man. For the dead are watching....

Members Reviews:

Great book, great price

This book as such a good find. I will be getting some more of his books, that is a guarantee. This was scarry, and some times tender and always had me guessing.

Get it. You won't be sorry.

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Title: Ash Wednesday

Author: Chet Williamson

Narrator: Chet Williamson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-16

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

In Merridale, semi-transparent blue apparitions have appeared. These aren't ghosts, exactly. They are visions of the dead in their final moments - the last seconds of their lives portrayed for all to see. They don't move, and they don't speak.

Ash Wednesday is a thoughtful horror story about what happens to people when they are forced to gaze into the face of death and, specifically, the face of their own personal dead: their friends and family, those they believed to be dead and gone. Murders are revealed, rapes, and other crimes. People despair, and try to create new lives out of the wreckage. Two of these are Bradley Meyers, a vet already driven half-crazy by his experiences in Vietnam, confronted by the sight of his dead son, and now barely capable of containing his rage, and Jim Callender, whose son has died in the same accident, for which he is partly responsible. As Callender sinks into guilt, Meyers moves toward murder.

This edition of Ash Wednesday contains a final portion that was not included with the book when it was first published. It was removed due to an editorial decision to which I acquiesced. After the book appeared, the last chapter was published in Bill Munster's excellent small press magazine, Footsteps. The entire book as originally written appears here, and in the accompanying audiobook, for the first time.

Members Reviews:

A look at a supernatural event from an entirely different viewpoint!

ASH WEDNESDAY, by Chet Williamson, is not what I consider to be a "horror novel" on its own--rather more "psychological", with some horror elements. The small town of Merridale wakes one morning to find glowing blue "shades" of ghosts all around them. Wherever they died, in whatever manner, these apparitions appear as they did in their final moments. While they don't "do" anything other than simply be visible to those around them, the implications of this phenomenon are what really make this story so unique.

". . . It was not the fear of the outward appearances of the dead returned so much as the fear of what had brought them back . . . "

The ramifications are numerous. These non-substantial visions are--by simply appearing where they died--showing the entire town "how" and "where" they died. Murders are revealed, and deaths whose cause could only be guessed at once, are now able to be confirmed merely by sight. Guilt weighs on some, fear for others, and madness still more.

The characters in this novel are what really make the story come alive. Williamson goes through great measures to give the reader a complete feel for each of the main people in the town. He doesn't simply "dump" the information on us all at once, but rather reveals it throughout the course of the entire story as it unfolds. Characters that at first sight seem hateful, you may come to feel for. Others that seem to be above reproach, later turn into something much worse than you would have ever thought. The "why" of the occurrence is what drives this novel mentally, leaving a flurry of speculation in its wake.

". . . I think everybody thinks about death a lot, . . . but now we think about it more. We're reminded of it constantly, of our own mortality. . . "

Although the ghosts are the "main event" at first sight, the real story is the reaction, actions, and even inactions of those that LIVE in Merridale.

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Title: Balak

Subtitle: A Cthulhu Mythos Tale

Author: Stephen Mark Rainey

Narrator: Erik Synnesvedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-16

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

From dreams filled with strange, beautiful images and haunting music, Claire Challis woke to the repulsive sound of a nasal, falsetto voice scratching its way through her closed bedroom window - the kind of voice adults reserve for speaking to pets or very small children. A particularly annoying case of the latter, she decided, for the voice was crooning, "My, don't we look fine in our Sunday best! Are you going to church, young man?"

From her second-floor apartment, she could hear only an indistinct, mumbled response, but she thought it came from little Paul Hernandez, who lived next door. A momentary silence ensued, and then she heard, "Are you going with your parents?"

Claire couldn't help but shudder at the dry, coarse quality of the voice. The speaker sounded like an elderly man, but the intentional distortion of his speech impressed her as vaguely sinister. Little Paul must have answered in the affirmative, for the speaker continued, "You look so cute. How would you like to go with me to myyy church?"

From the author, Mark Rainey:

"Balak, like much of my fiction, is a part of a multilayered, interconnected universe that draws heavily from the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft while using the most modern of settings and characters. Many of the settings for Balak are very real places in Chicago, which I attempted to capture and cast in a somewhat different light than they - at least probably - appear in real life."

Members Reviews:

Excellent mythos novel

Balak is a novel by Stephen Mark Rainey published in 2000 by Wildside Press. I've had my copy sitting around forever; cover price is $16.95 US. The cover painting is a stylized image

vaguely suggestive of a sinister entity, very effective. I couldn't figure out who the artist was, even after looking through the entire book. Production qualities are good. Again, however, my copy is already showing some yellowing from aging. Of course I don't keep my books in plastic wrap, but this still seems a bit early for this effect, although it is not as severe as The Gardens of Lucullus (2001), which is not as bad as Dead But Dreaming (2002). Interestingly, Dagon by Chappell in the LSU Press edition has a little blurb on the title page about the book meeting standards from some sort of book longevity society; more power to 'em. Page count is 236, a nice substantial book.

Briefly, this is an excellent novel and is highly recommeded to all fans of mythos fiction, all the more so because it is a novel in a genre that better lends itself to the format of a short story. This is what all us fans expect of Stephen Mark Rainey, well known for his many stories in various anthologies.

Now spoilers will follow - you have been warned.

First of all, I had picked this novel up a few years ago, and could not get into it. The reason was that the protagonist, Claire Challis, had a 4 yr old son kidnapped. I'm a father of 2 young boys and while I don't find generally horror fiction revolving around children personally offensive or off putting, the description that he was allowed to run away from his mommy, a responsible parent, in a busy grocery store in big city struck

me as absolutely grossly unbelievable (OK, this from a guy who is reading about giant alien entities....).

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Title: Fellside

Author: M. R. Carey

Narrator: Finty Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Jess Moulson is convicted of murder. But it's a murder she can't remember committing. Nothing is quite clear from the drug-fuelled night when a blaze set in Jess' apartment killed the little boy upstairs. But when the media brands her a child killer, she starts to believe it herself.

Now she's on her way to Fellside, the biggest, most formidable women's prison in Europe, standing in the bleak Yorkshire moors.

But Jess won't be alone in her prison cell. Lurking in the shadows is an unexpected visitor...the ghost of the 10-year-old boy she killed. He says he needs her help - and he won't take no for an answer.

Critic Reviews:

"Haunting, heartbreaking." (Vogue on The Girl with All the Gifts)

"As fresh as it is terrifying." (Joss Whedon on The Girl with All the Gifts)

"A masterpiece." (Sun on The Girl with All the Gifts)

"Scary, tense and fast-paced...but with a heart-warming tenderness." (Marie Claire on The Girl with All the Gifts)

"If you only read one novel this year, make sure it's this one, it's amazing." (Martina Cole on The Girl with All the Gifts)

Reviews for M. R. Carey: "Original, thrilling and powerful." (Guardian)

"Haunting, heartbreaking." (Vogue)

"A great read that takes hold of you and doesnt let go." (John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of Let the Right One In)

Members Reviews:

Took me a while to get into it...

...but once it gripped, Fellside never let go again. This is one of those books that you simply can't forget.

Definitely not more of The Girl with all the Gifts, even though Fellside shares a narrator with that book. But more than enough thought-provoking ideas. The characters are vivid, without being too detailed, and overall the book felt like a truly satisfying story.

Finty Williams is superb

I originally got this book because the collaboration of Williams and M R Carey in The Girl with All the Gifts was fantastic. The suspense made me stop whatever I was doing.

In Fellside Williams's voice was equally captivating. My mind wandered at some of the "dark side" descriptions that just seemed to go on... but overall the story was fascinating and I loved all the characters.

Genre-Hopping Mystery Drama

With Fellside M R Carey has attempted something very ambitious. The story genre-hops considerably before settling very much into a paranormal mystery. Imagine Prison Break as a setting for Luke Smitherds Physics of the Dead with some meaty courtroom drama popping up along the way and then a full paranormal mystery drama emerging. The plot becomes much more subtle than it first appears which requires considerable scene setting before the momentum builds towards a quite gripping ending.

Given where the majority of the book is set its no surprise that the violence is hard and uncompromising. Its made even starker by the fact that much of it involves women as either the perpetrators or victims or indeed both!

I dont think everyone will be entirely convinced that the whole thing works. There did seem to be an incongruence between some facets of the story. The "fresh" innocence of the ghost did not feel genuinely convincing to me when set against the bleak backdrop of tough characters and their desperate plight.

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Title: The Shadow from the Steeple

Author: Robert Bloch

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-16

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti takes us to Providence, Rhode Island, where the cult of the Church of Starry Wisdom used an ancient artifact known as the Shining Trapezohedron to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space.

After the death of Robert Blake, who came to grief after discovering the Shining Trapezohedron and deciphering texts about it from ancient evil cults, the artifact was removed from the black windowless temple where it was found by a Dr. Dexter and thrown into the deepest channel of Narragansett Bay. It was expected to remain there, under the eternal light of the stars, forever; yet Robert Bloch's sequel, The Shadow from the Steeple, proved that Nyarlathotep had cheated Dexter, forcing him to peer into the stone and actually throw the stone into the bay, where the eternal darkness of the depths gave the Haunter the power to remain perpetually free; it used this power to merge with Dr. Dexter and make him one of the world's leading nuclear scientists in charge of atomic investigation for warfare.

Members Reviews:

Good story, needs a better narator.

While i enjoyed the story the narrators frequent mispronouncings and mistakes while being rather monotone create some diffuculty immersing yourself in it.

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Title: Terms of Surrender

Subtitle: The Revanche Cycle, Book 3

Author: Craig Schaefer

Narrator: Susannah Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-16

Publisher: Demimonde Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Felix Rossini is a man with a thousand enemies. Framed for murder, hunted by Mirenze's protectors as well as the criminal underworld, he struggles to survive and fight back against the conspiracy that has marked him for death. A conspiracy of another kind is brewing across the ocean, as the corrupt aristocracy draws Livia Serafini's oldest friends into a plot to destroy her. If she can't find a way to overcome the occult infection spreading through her veins, they may not have to.

And in the shadows, the Owl prepares to wage bloody war against the most dangerous foe of all - her own coven - as she leads her disciples in a quest to recover a deadly relic. It's a showdown that will end where it all began: in the frozen hell of Winter's Reach, under a rain of fire.

From a rebel uprising in the west, to a broken crusade in the east, the dominoes fall one by one. Where they land will determine the fate of an empire.

Members Reviews:

We get all the masterful from Craig!

Would you listen to Terms of Surrender again? Why?

Absolutely! Between Craig's writing and Susannah's talent in vocalizing the writing, I know I could pick up more with each listen!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Terms of Surrender?

Each character has huge moments that were memorable for me.

These characters each have their own agenda in life, their own person they are looking to unseat or kill. By this book, they all have dark agendas they are fighting for. It's a beautiful thing! All their lives interlace with one another and actions against one affects many more, whether for good or bad is yet to be determined.

We get deeper into the witch life with Nessa. We see an ages old tradition of a Coven Knight brought back and how the coven works, or I should say is working and should be working in Nessa's eyes. We see rituals performed and the witch side of the story come to light here. I am surprised to see (and dare I think) Nessa growing fond of Mari and who she's created her to be.

Livia, I want to applaud her and say, You go girl! She's learned a lot and some of it dire, but she's a strong woman and will do well for all while she's around.

There is trouble stewing with the crusade in the desert, and crusaders trying to get there. All ties back to Lodovico Marchetti and what his plans are. These plans affect so many people, and people are starting to get a glimpse of what he's doing. But what is his end game? What is Lodovico really working toward?

Felix is reminded what he's fighting for. Love. For his love and safety of his love, Renata. He works to remain the man he is for Renata, but life pushes in other ways the longer he stays in Mirenze. Renata has found a new strength in herself. Renata fights through physical battles in the previous book and this one. But now, she sees she can fight for what she wants. And she's ready to do just that.

The biggest thing I've been waiting for, what's in the alum mines at Winter's Reach that the witches have been hiding. Yes. We learn what it is! What I learn of it does not let down. It's told in a way that it's as terrible as I had hoped.

The growth and fall of all these characters, WOW! There was so much thought put into this world, characters, internal and external battles and it shows.

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Title: The Glittering World

Author: Robert Levy

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-16

Publisher: Pretty Good Year Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

*RECIPIENT OF AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE'S EARPHONES AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL AUDIO*

*SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE*

*LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST*

Narrated by Audie Award Winner Edoardo Ballerini (BEAUTIFUL RUINS, MY STRUGGLE)

Directed by Grammy Award Winner David Rapkin (THE HARRY POTTER SERIES)

"In this supernatural thriller, Robert Levy creates a mystical, magical, haunting other world. Edoardo Ballerini provides the tense, suspenseful narration--including some commendable musical numbers--that raises goose bumps on listeners' flesh." (AudioFile Magazine)

"As imaginative and frightening as a whole gallery of surrealist paintings come luridly to life." (John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)

"Well crafted and atmospheric, this will attract readers who enjoy Neil Gaiman and Mark Z. Danielewski." (Library Journal)

When Michael "Blue" Whitley -- a former party boy turned up-and-coming Brooklyn chef -- returns with three friends to the remote Canadian commune of his birth, he discovers that his entire life has been a carefully orchestrated lie. He is in fact someone else altogether, a replacement for a local child who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. He is something not quite human.

Only now it's Blue's turn to vanish, leaving his friends to unravel the mystery of his abduction. Soon, psychology and skepticism collide with old-world folklore and superstition, revealing the secret history of the commune as well as that of an ancient race of beings that inhabits the hidden corners of the land.

Set among the artisans, burnouts, and New Age mystics of rural Cape Breton, The Glittering World is a dark and modern fairy tale, a novel of self-identity and supernatural suspense.

Critic Reviews:

"In this supernatural thriller, Robert Levy creates a mystical, magical, haunting other world. Edoardo Ballerini provides the tense, suspenseful narration - including some commendable musical numbers - that raises goose bumps on listeners' flesh." (

AudioFile Magazine)

"As imaginative and frightening as a whole gallery of surrealist paintings come luridly to life." (John Berendt, author of

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)

"Well crafted and atmospheric, this will attract readers who enjoy Neil Gaiman and Mark Z. Danielewski." (

Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Disappointing

Any additional comments?

I liked parts of this book quite a bit but as a whole this book didn't work for me. It wasn't a book that I really looked forward to listening to and I found it really easy to set aside. In most cases, I would be able to listen to an audiobook of this length in about a week. This one took me about three times as long. I skipped days of listening while working on this audiobook and actually started it over several times because the story just never grabbed me.

When I first read the blurb, I was really excited to read this book. Ancient beings, modern day fairy tale...what's not to love? I did like the overall concept of the story but the way that everything came together just fell a bit flat to me. The story is told from four different perspectives. Each voices tells a section of the book and once their part is over the story moves on to another perspective. I would really start to feel comfortable with a character narrating the story and then we would move on to someone else.

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Title: Beckoning Souls

Subtitle: A Psychological Thriller

Author: J.R. Tate

Narrator: Aaron Clawitter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-16

Publisher: J Tate Publications

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Nathan Gallagher doesn't believe in ghosts. As a fireman, he's seen his share of dead people, but they never spoke to him before - until now. His marriage is great, and his relationship with his son is strong, but Nathan is sure that if he tells his family that he's seeing ghosts, it is a quick ticket to a padded room and a straightjacket.

When the ghosts become violent and attack Nathan, his secret is revealed - except his wife doesn't believe his claim about the supernatural. She demands he seek professional help. He knows he's not crazy, but with no proof that the ghosts are real, he's committed to a mental hospital against his will. The ghosts follow him, pushing him farther into a terrifying world he can't find his way out of.

With his marriage, his sanity and even his very life at stake, Nathan needs to find out why the ghosts are haunting him before it's too late.

Members Reviews:

Almost quit reading the narrator was so poor

Any additional comments?

This book was an incredible story, but the narration ruined it for me. I almost just bought the book and quit the narration it was so poor. Absolutely no vocal character, very sing-song and boring. I have never given a poor review based on the narration, but this was simply awful! This is a narrator I will never, never, purchase again!!

Not a Great Book

I couldn't get into this book. The writing was stilted, and the dialogue was unnatural. The editing was poor. This story could benefit from a good copy editor.

The narration was difficult to listen too I suggest to download a sample before you buy it. There was little differentiation between the character voices, and the narrator's voice was much too old for the main character.

I can't recommend this book.

It was alright

It seems the writing is by someone that was probably new and young. I kept reading it because I wanted to find out what happened but I have read a lot better

Most Ridiculous Ending Ever

The book was good until the last few chapters. Seemed like the writer fizzled out and couldn't finish.

The narrator wasn't much better. Couldn't get a good rhythm and had to stop for a good while because we just couldn't get into the book the way the narrator was reading it.

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Title: The 8th: A Tale of Horror and Revenge

Author: Matt Shaw

Narrator: Julian Seager

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: Matt Shaw Publications

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

Moving from school to school is never easy. You're constantly struggling to catch up to the level of the other students. You're forever meeting new friends just to have to leave them and establish new colleagues at the new schools. You always find yourself lost in the never-ending maze of corridors as you battle to get to grips with where everything is....

But it's worse when the more unfriendly students decide to take an instant dislike to you. Tormenting you each day...pushing you to see how long it is before you're going to snap...wondering what you're going to do in retaliation to their harsh words and cruel pranks. Are you going to stand up to them, or are you going to be yet another pupil who goes out of their way to avoid them while crying yourself to sleep until you feel as though you can't take the suffering anymore?

You're going to stand up to them, of course. You're going to turn the tables on them. You're going to be the teacher to a very special class. A class where the lessons will be heard throughout the world...lessons that will never be forgotten.

This is your classroom now, and lessons will be learned.

Members Reviews:

Grabs you from the beginning

Worth listening to. Wish it was longer felt rushed towards the end. Good read though!

One of his best ever!!

Matt has done it again! This was a totally different type of storytelling than anything else I've read and WHAT a story it is! Matt's ability to create believable, interesting characters is virtually unmatched by any other authors I've read. I was completely engrossed in the storyline, being so much in the news. Made me really think about our students' daily battles in school halls. This book grabs the reader by the throat and forces the bullying problem in front of our eyes.

Worth every penny and far more! Loved it Matt! You keep writing them and I'll keep buying them!!