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Chad Ryan
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Some places have a history so dark it stains the soil.
Orphan Rock is one of them.
For years, the Northamm family has served the Crooked Woman. Bound by sinister magic, they commit unspeakable acts to save themselves and the ones they love from something wicked that’s stirring beneath the dirt.
Harpies in the hills. Demons in the dark. Lonely girls who command giant earthworms that tunnel between worlds.... Anything goes in this twisted tale of monsters, mayhem, and revenge. A contemporary dark fantasy with elements of horror, Chad Ryan’s Ghost River is a gritty and desolate journey into the peaks and gulches of the human spirit.
Advisory: Ghost River explores sensitive subject matter, including graphic violence/death, disturbing imagery, misogyny, domestic abuse, child abuse, racism, kidnapping, and sexual assault. Listen with caution.
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- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Ever since being part of the pot in a high-stakes poker game, elfin outcast Kai Gracen figures he used up his good karma when Dempsey, a human Stalker, won the hand and took him in. Following the violent merge of Earth and Underhill, the human and elfin races are left with a messy, monster-ridden world, and Stalkers are the only cavalry willing to ride to someone's rescue when something shadowy appears.
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Not the story for me.
- By Heather K (Dentist in my Spare Time) on 06-08-15
By: Rhys Ford
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The Earthling
- Soldiers of Earthrise, Book 1
- By: Daniel Arenson
- Narrated by: Henry Kramer
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Jon Taylor is an Earthling. He doesn't care much about space. At least until his brother dies on Bahay, a war-torn planet many light-years away. After the funeral, Jon joins the army. He learns to kill. And he flies to Bahay, sworn to avenge his brother. Centuries ago, Filipino colonists arrived on Bahay to build a utopia. But this world has become a nightmare. Jon finds himself in a dizzying dreamscape, a world of dark jungles and neon slums, of ruthless guerrillas and intoxicating bargirls, of blood-soaked battlefields and glittering brothels.
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You better love a cliffhanger
- By Kindle Customer on 11-30-20
By: Daniel Arenson
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A Phoenix First Must Burn
- Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope
- By: Patrice Caldwell - editor
- Narrated by: York Whitaker
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Evoking Beyoncé’s Lemonade for a teen audience, these authors who are truly Octavia Butler’s heirs have woven worlds to create a stunning narrative that puts Black women and gender-nonconforming individuals at its center. A Phoenix First Must Burn will take you on a journey from folktales retold to futuristic societies and everything in between. Filled with stories of love and betrayal, strength and resistance, this collection contains an array of complex and true-to-life characters through which you cannot help but see yourself reflected.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Ruthi on 03-11-20
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Unfettered
- Tales By Masters of Fantasy
- By: Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss, Robert Jordan, and others
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Marc Vietor, Bronson Pinchot, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins
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You define life or it defines you. In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both. Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author Terry Brooks offered to donate a short story that Shawn could sell to help alleviate those bills—and suggested he ask the same of his other writer friends. Unfettered is the result: An anthology built in order to relieve that debt, featuring short stories by some of the best fantasy writers in the genre.
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A TRULY BAD COLLECTION OF DOGS
- By Randall on 12-21-18
By: Terry Brooks, and others
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Vampires Never Get Old
- Tales with Fresh Bite
- By: Zoraida Cordova - editor, Natalie C. Parker - editor
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Frankie Corzo, MW Cartozian Wilson, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Thirsty for fresh blood? Sink your teeth into vampire stories from young adult fiction's leading voices. In this delicious new collection edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker, you’ll find stories about the lurking vampires of social media, the rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, the eager vampires coming out - and going out for their first kill - and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night.
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Breezy vamp fun
- By jc on 01-26-23
By: Zoraida Cordova - editor, and others
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The Necromancer's House
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Andrew Ranulf Blankenship is a handsome, stylish nonconformist with wry wit, a classic Mustang, and a massive library. He is also a recovering alcoholic and a practicing warlock, able to speak with the dead through film. His house is a maze of sorcerous booby traps and escape tunnels, as yours might be if you were sitting on a treasury of Russian magic stolen from the Soviet Union thirty years ago.
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Finally - Magic / Fantasy Novel for adults.
- By David on 04-23-14
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 4
- By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell, Rebecca Mitchell, Michael Healy, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
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With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.
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Only a few decent stories in this bunch.
- By Jerry on 12-06-14
By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, and others
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Undertaker's Moon
- By: Ronald Kelly
- Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
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The rural town of Old Hickory. Tennessee was a quiet, picturesque community...until the O'Sheas came to town. Becoming the new proprietors of the town's only funeral parlor, with the help of their charming patriarch, Square McManus, the Irish family was wholeheartedly accepted by the local town folk. The thing began to happen. Strange things...horrible, unspeakable things...in the dead of night. The sighting of wolfish beasts congregating around an open grave in the town cemetery.
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good story but
- By simon lucas on 02-19-20
By: Ronald Kelly
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The Reapers Are the Angels
- By: Alden Bell
- Narrated by: Tai Sammons
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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For 25 years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can’t remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her off on her personal journey toward redemption.
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Literary Limbo-ing
- By Mel on 04-25-13
By: Alden Bell
What listeners say about Ghost River
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- Jayson
- 08-31-24
Horrific, fantastic.
A true horror in every sense of the word. A dark fantasy of the southwest sprall.
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- DrNebulon
- 07-01-23
Twisted and macabre
This isn’t a book for the squeamish. It’s heavy on the gore, sexuality and violence. But the scope and the stakes of the tale under it all grows bigger with every “page.” Has strong Clive Barker vibes (particularly Weaveworld).
At times, it was a tough listen, but Andrew’s narration is phenomenal. His tone is just right and he play characters immaculately.
If you’re into dark fantasy/horror, I recommend giving this a listen.
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- Char
- 04-05-23
Wildly Original
Wildly original, warped, and creepy as hell!
There is a lot to unpack here and I'm not sure I'm able to describe it in such a way as to get your attention. First things first, though, if you have any triggers this may not be the book for you. It's brutally violent, with wild ideas, places and creations. If you think you might have a problem with it, you probably will and it's really best that you stay away.
Now, picture a family living in a small desert town. Next, throw out any ideas you might about that family and enter the world of Ghost River. A world where ancient promises and vows are still upheld to this day. A world where people and children become...transformed. A world where the corruption goes all the way down, deep into the dirt. Now, the scene has been set and I will add nothing more to spoil the story for you.
Focusing on how this book made me feel-it was a full range of emotion. At times I was happy for Minister and Ester, (not sure how it's spelled, since I listened to this on audio), and at other times I pitied them, and yet at other times, I loathed them. The coyote and the snake. The Pig Father. Spider girl and the boy wrapped in barbed wire. The sisters of sorrow. The boy king. Machado the sheriff. All of which had my emotions changing from one moment to the next.
Ghost River features an old world trying to stand fast against the approaching modern world. Bad as that old world was, I still am not sure that the new world will be any better. As I mentioned, I experienced a full range of emotions while reading and I know I will be thinking about this world for a long time. Even though it took a bit of patience to stay with this, I trusted in the author's ability to make it all clear, and he eventually did. It's astonishing to me that this is the author's debut novel. I am excited to see what he does next!
The narrator, Andrew Gibson, is new to me, but he did a terrific job with this. I'll be keeping an eye out for his name on Audible, because I was truly impressed.
Highly recommended, but please heed my warning above, and the author's warning at the beginning of the book. Then, prepare to be blown away!
*Thanks to the author for the Audible download in exchange for my honest feedback. This is it!
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- Seth Williams
- 09-17-23
It’s all in there
This is a ride for horror fans, it packs in everything that you would expect for the genre and the narration is on point. As far as the story goes it was good though there was something missing that I couldn’t put my finger on. Great performance, decent story. Give it a shot.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-11-24
Like nothing else
Ghost River is a wild, horrifying, fantastical story set in the Arizona desert. Absolutely excellent narration!
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- Aundrea McNutt
- 02-03-24
Definitely Dark Fantasy
This is a very dark book. It doesn't even stray into extreme horror, with super detailed descriptions of outlandish and terrible things, but it does have a lot of real life awful mixed in to its fantastical group of characters. Less of a warning and more of a heads up, its dark but not cartoonishly so.
The next point is that there aren't really any good guys. We have the protagonists and that antagonists, but sometimes its really hard to root for the main characters. I love antiheroes in general, and I don't expect every story to have a paragon of virtue as the main character, but, for me at least, it did put a damper on my overall enthusiasm for the book.
The sum total though works, it tells a good and complete story, it makes sense, flows, and had an interesting cast. It's not my top 10 of 2024, but I will say that based on the strength of this book I will preorder whatever book Chad Ryan writes next.
I give this book an 8/10, and I will probably read it again a few years from now when the details have faded.
Closing note - I did get this audiobook version free as a review copy, but I had already purchased a physical copy and its worth a purchase for sure.
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