
Goblin
A Novel in Six Novellas
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Dominic Hoffman
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Josh Malerman
About this listen
From the New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Malorie comes a chilling story that revolves around a mysterious small town, revealing its sinister secrets one by one.
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal • “Must-read horror.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
Goblin seems like any other ordinary small town. But with the master storyteller Josh Malerman as your tour guide, you’ll discover the secrets that hide behind its closed doors. These six novellas tell the story of a place where the rain is always falling, nighttime is always near, and your darkest fears and desires await. Welcome to Goblin....
A Man in Slices: A man proves his “legendary love” to his girlfriend with a sacrifice even more daring than Vincent van Gogh’s — and sends her more than his heart.
Kamp: Walter Kamp is afraid of everything, but most afraid of being scared to death. As he sets traps around his home to catch the ghosts that haunt him, he learns that nothing is more terrifying than fear itself.
Happy Birthday, Hunter!: A famed big-game hunter is determined to capture — and kill — the ultimate prey: the mythic Great Owl who lives in Goblin’s dark forests. But this mysterious creature is not the only secret the woods are keeping.
Presto: All Peter wants is to be like his hero, Roman Emperor, the greatest magician in the world. When the famous magician comes to Goblin, Peter discovers that not all magic is just an illusion.
A Mix-Up at the Zoo: The new zookeeper feels a mysterious kinship with the animals in his care...and finds that his work is freeing dark forces inside him.
The Hedges: When his wife dies, a man builds a hedge maze so elaborate no one ever solves it — until a little girl resolves to be the first to find the mysteries that wait at its heart.
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Critic reviews
“Goblin seems like any other ordinary small town. But with the master storyteller Josh Malerman as your tour guide, you’ll discover the secrets that hide behind its closed doors. These six novellas tell the story of a place where the rain is always falling, nighttime is always near, and your darkest fears and desires await. Welcome to Goblin.” (Tor online)
“The mythology of Goblin’s history is richly drawn within these stories, and connects them with a style that keeps the reader turning pages. Malerman has created a town which may even be darker than King’s, Grant’s, and Bradbury’s nightmares. Goblin is all Malerman and should be listed on every horror reader’s itinerary of places to visit, with the lights turned low and the night breeze creeping into the room.” (Monster Librarian)
“[A] masterpiece.... This book, comprised of a sextet of short novellas, takes the small town motif and shreds it, molding it into something which fills the reader with uneasy pleasure from cover to cover.... Malerman has created a town which may even be darker than King, Grant, and Bradbury’s nightmares. Goblin is all Malerman and should be listed on every horror reader’s itinerary of places to visit, with the lights turned low and the night breeze creeping into the room.” (Cemetery Dance Online)
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J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only 26 students, all of whom think of the school’s enigmatic founder as their father. J’s peers are the only family he has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know - and all they are allowed to know. But J suspects that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and he’s beginning to ask questions. What is the real purpose of this place?
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Written about pre-teens for pre-teens...
- By Getshotzi on 05-25-19
By: Josh Malerman
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Bird Box
- A Novel
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, Malorie has long dreamed of fleeing to a place where her family might be safe. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: 20 miles downriver in a rowboat blindfolded with nothing to rely on but Malorie's wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them....
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Don't look!
- By Lesley on 05-22-14
By: Josh Malerman
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Incidents Around the House
- A Novel
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrated by: Delanie Nicole Gill
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: “Can I go inside your heart?” When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay. Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents’ marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel.
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Child’s voice narrates the ENTIRE novel.
- By NorthernNV on 08-06-24
By: Josh Malerman
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A House at the Bottom of a Lake
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrated by: Taylor Meskimen, Ozzie Rodriguez
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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The story begins: Young lovers, anxious to connect, agree to a first date, thinking outside of the box. At 17 years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary. But they didn’t expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake. The house is cold and dark, but it’s also their own.
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Mediocre
- By Taja on 06-08-21
By: Josh Malerman
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We Spread
- By: Iain Reid
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny finds herself after one too many “incidents”.
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when your mind becomes faulty....
- By Barbara S on 10-31-22
By: Iain Reid
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Edenville
- A Novel
- By: Sam Rebelein
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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After publishing his debut novel, The Shattered Man, to disappointing sales and reviews, Campbell P. Marion is struggling to find inspiration for a follow-up. When Edenville College invites him to join as a writer-in-residence, he’s convinced that his bad luck has finally taken a turn. His girlfriend Quinn isn’t so sure—she grew up near Edenville and has good reasons for not wanting to move back. Cam disregards her skepticism and accepts the job, with Quinn reluctantly following along.
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the voices he played
- By Shelby on 11-14-24
By: Sam Rebelein
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Old Country
- By: Matt Query, Harrison Query
- Narrated by: Juliette Goglia, Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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It’s the house of their dreams. Former marine Harry and his wife, Sasha, have packed up their life and their golden retriever, Dash, and fled the corporate rat race to live off the land in rural Idaho. Their breathtaking new home sits on more than forty acres of meadow, aspen trees, and pine forest in the Teton Valley. Even if their friends and family think it’s a strange choice for an up-and-coming pair of urban professionals, Harry and Sasha couldn’t be happier about the future they’re building, all by their lonesome.
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I really liked it!
- By Kasey on 04-22-23
By: Matt Query, and others
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Demonic Foes
- My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal
- By: Richard Gallagher
- Narrated by: Kevin Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Successful New York psychiatrist Richard Gallagher was skeptical yet intrigued when a hard-nosed, no-nonsense Catholic priest asked him to examine a woman for a possible exorcism. Meeting her, Gallagher was astonished. The woman’s behavior defied logic. This remarkable case was the first of many that Gallagher would encounter. Sought after today by leaders of all faiths—ministers, priests, rabbis and imams, Gallagher has spent a quarter-century studying demonic activity and exorcisms throughout history and has witnessed more cases than any other psychiatrist in the world today.
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An Exceptional Book for Reference and Debate
- By SecretOktober on 10-15-20
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Don’t Turn Out the Lights
- A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
- By: Jonathan Maberry - editor, Amy Lukavics, Barry Lyga, and others
- Narrated by: Adam Verner, Hillary Huber
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Featuring stories from R.L. Stine and Madeleine Roux, this middle-grade horror anthology, curated by New York Times best-selling author and master of macabre Jonathan Maberry, is a chilling tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Flesh-hungry ogres? Brains full of spiders? Haunted houses you can’t escape? This collection of 35 terrifying stories from the Horror Writers Association has it all, including ghastly illustrations from Iris Compiet that will absolutely chill listeners to the bone.
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A Nice Change From the Heavier Stuff
- By John Rinaldi on 10-23-20
By: Jonathan Maberry - editor, and others
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The Good House
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
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Tananarive Due, author of The Living Blood won the American Book Award and is praised as Stephen King's equal by Publishers Weekly. In The Good House, Due sets a story of ancient powers and modern retribution in a small Pacific Northwest town. When a young woman returns to her grandmother's empty mansion, she is pitted against demonic forces that have poisoned her family for generations.
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Deeply Satisfying
- By Lee on 05-08-08
By: Tananarive Due
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Creature Feature
- Spooky Tales to Keep You Up All Night
- By: Joe Hill, Grady Hendrix, Josh Malerman, and others
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Michael Crouch, Lauren Ezzo, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Gather round as today’s most diabolically clever authors twist simple moments into otherworldly horrors. An empty baby stroller. A scratching underneath the bed. A farmhouse in the moonlight. With an unnerving sense of the macabre, these stories transform our greatest fears into bone-chilling realities.
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Seriously?
- By Audio Dave on 03-10-25
By: Joe Hill, and others
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Leech
- By: Hiron Ennes
- Narrated by: Abigail Thorn
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed.
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Pretentious and Rambling
- By Kara on 11-15-22
By: Hiron Ennes
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Cara Gee
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life.
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struggle with keeping up with the whole book
- By Suzanne Davis on 09-19-21
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- Jeff Ruffner
- 11-22-21
A little let down
I understand it’s 6 stories but the closure on some of the stories seams weak or lazy. I I wonder if there was a time crunch or something that prevented the endings to carry substance. Maybe I just missed the mark on this one and you should give it a shot for yourself, but I fear I didn’t.
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- Gunther LeCroix
- 04-13-24
literary horror
what I liked:
-very atmospheric
-little to no cliché horror monsters /ghosts/demons etc... yet very much a horror novel.
-excellent world building reminiscent of Michael McDowell's "Blackwater" saga
-slow burn yet engaging
what I wish was different:
-its a little light on suspense; not the "page turner" that some one like Stephen King would write
- I wanted more; would love this to be expanded into a series. I feel like it wetted my appetite for the world of Goblin but didn't quite satisfy.
-I was looking for the "novellas" to intertwine a bit more than they did.
Conclusion;
-we need a follow and/or expand version.
- I really enjoyed this book.
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- Krp
- 08-12-24
Good variety
I enjoyed each of the stories they were all tied together but different. Very well narrated as well.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-05-24
Rambled at times
I gathered it was a Edgar Allen Poe like series of stories- but I felt the themes were a little conflicting at times.
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- Tawny
- 12-21-22
Eh
Well, I enjoyed the prologue and epilogue, and the first and last story. I really don’t know what I was expecting and usually that can be fun. I really wanted to enjoy this but it just didn’t work for me. It is what it is and there’s probably a few people out there that will really enjoy these stories and will probably read them again, but I won’t be one of them. I don’t say that in any mean spirited away, it’s just a book I won’t revisit.
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- Shawn Kass
- 03-30-23
Good collection
Not scary for me, but each story was good, and they loosely linked together to give you a feel for the town as a whole.
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- joseph rusyn
- 06-04-24
Eerie
The Hedges was my favorite story, but 5 of 6 were interesting which is way above par for most story collections. Josh Malerman's style is subtle, eerie and undeniably unique, though not for everyone. Some stories have pretty understated or ambiguous endings.
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- Skye
- 10-11-24
Interesting and weird?
Classic malerman works but it’s for sure a good read! I think it’s best to go in knowing very little
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- J. Nickey
- 10-02-21
Fell flat
A novel in 6 novellas, but actually 7 if you include the wrap around prologue and epilogue, which is actually the best story. I went into this so excited. Halloween approaching, cool creepy cover art, a prologue that gripped me immediately, the first novella was pretty good..... then it went south from there. 2 of the novellas were good, 2 were flat out awful, and the other 3 had a good build up with a flat ending. I loved Bird Box, but this novel did very little for me.
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- Lisa Beyer
- 08-05-21
Great narrator!
I liked the stories (sort of like grown-up Goosebumps), but a couple could have been shorter.
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