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Joey Collins
About this listen
It was a fire that could be seen for miles, a fire that split the community, a fire that turned families on each other, a fire that it's still hard to get a straight answer about.
A quarter of a century ago, someone held a match to Greenwood, Texas's cotton. Stephen Graham Jones was 12 that year. What he remembers best, what's stuck with him all this time, is that nobody ever came forward to claim that destruction. And nobody was ever caught. Greenwood just leaned forward into next year’s work, and the year after that, pretending that the fire had never happened. But it had. This fire, it didn't start 25 years ago. It had been smoldering for years by then. And everybody knew it. Getting them to say anything about it's another thing, though.
Now Stephen's going back. His first time back since he graduated high school, and maybe his last. For answers, for closure, for the people who can’t go back. For the ones who never got to leave.
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Every year, on her birthday, Laura gets a letter from a stranger. That stranger claims to know the whereabouts of her missing friend Bobby, but there's a catch: He'll only tell her what he knows in exchange for something...personal. So begins Laura's sordid relationship with her new pen pal, built on a foundation of quid pro quo. Her quest for closure will push her to bizarre acts of humiliation and harm, yet no matter how hard she tries, she cannot escape her correspondent's demands. The letters keep coming, and as time passes, they have a profound effect on Laura.
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A quick good listen
- By Joshua/Kendra on 03-26-25
By: Gemma Amor
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Three Miles Past
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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There are lines that probably shouldn't be crossed, doors that should stay shut, thoughts that shouldn't be considered. In these three novellas by Stephen Graham Jones, the dead talk, ancient evil opens its eyes, and that guy across the parking lot, he's watching you, and has been for a while now. Lock the door; tell yourself it's nothing; turn the radio up. It won't matter. You're already three miles past where you meant to stop.
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Strange, Dark and Unsettling
- By Char on 07-27-22
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Decorum at the Deathbed
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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With her husband barely clinging to life at home, Becka has taken to jogging. Running helps clear her head and her heart. But it's not until she discovers a free-standing confessional booth deep in the woods that she begins to clear her conscience. As the days pass, and as her husband's condition worsens, Becka returns to the booth, finding it hard to stay away. But what draws her there? Is it the clean feeling of confession? Or is it what might be listening on the other side of the grate?
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Yawn
- By Scott Loyed on 11-09-20
By: Josh Malerman
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The Last Final Girl
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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In an average suburban town in Texas, homecoming princess Lindsay barely escaped death at the hands of a brutal, sadistic murderer in a Michael Jackson mask. Up on the cliff, she was rescued by a horse and bravely defeated the killer.
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interesting idea, poor execution
- By Amazon Customer on 12-11-20
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Devil's Creek
- By: Todd Keisling
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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About 15 miles west of Stauford, Kentucky, lies Devil's Creek. According to local legend, there used to be a church out there, home to the Lord's Church of Holy Voices - a death cult where Jacob Masters preached the gospel of a nameless god. And like most legends, there's truth buried among the roots and bones.
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Cults, Monsters, Small-town Weirdoes and their Persecutors... it's Perfect
- By Aaron AuBuchon on 02-09-24
By: Todd Keisling
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Mapping the Interior
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Eric G Dove
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
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Walking through his own house at night, a 15-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew.
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Not a great listen for me
- By Alissa | wildcaughtword on 06-09-21
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The Indigo Room
- The Shivers Collection
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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When the lights go out and the slideshow begins, middle manager Jennifer has a disturbing vision: a headless colleague right across the boardroom table. Is it a trick of the light, or a vision of the future? She tries to brush it off and salvage the afternoon—but when her ex unexpectedly drops off her son at the office after school, suddenly her whole world takes an alarming turn.
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Barely made it to end
- By Stacie Kindle on 04-30-25
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The Dark Man
- Graveyard Classified, Book 1
- By: Desmond Doane
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Ford Atticus Ford, former lead ghost hunter on the hit paranormal reality show Graveyard: Classified, has more than a few regrets - especially after young Chelsea Hopper was attacked by a demon . . . on live television. Assisting police departments by conducting paranormal investigations and uncovering buried clues now provides him with an ounce of redemption, but it will never be enough. With the show cancelled and his reputation destroyed, Ford sets out to avenge little Chelsea, and save his own soul - if he can.
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could be scarier
- By Melodie Thompson on 06-18-19
By: Desmond Doane
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I Was a Teenage Slasher
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Stephen Graham Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.
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So much fun
- By Amber on 08-13-24
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Galilee
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 23 hrs and 56 mins
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The Barbarossa family’s roots are far more ancient and ethereal, but they are bound to the Gearys by a shared history of murder, insanity, and adultery. When Rachel Geary and Galilee, the seductive prince of the Barbarossa clan, fall in love, they unleash powerful enmities that could destroy both dynasties. Shorter and more conventional than some of Barker’s other work, this novel is especially rich with complex, passionate, three-dimensional characters, lush settings, and elegant language.
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An Audiophile's Dream
- By Joseph on 09-01-11
By: Clive Barker
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Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
- By: Christopher Golden - editor, Joe R. Lansdale, Scott Smith, and others
- Narrated by: Charles Constant, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. The hideous children - Want and Ignorance - beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts. Best-selling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.
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Some good, some clunkers. Some fun, none scary.
- By Max Trivial on 12-24-18
By: Christopher Golden - editor, and others
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- the Mark McKee Experience
- 02-19-24
great story
I didn't even mind the reader's lack of accent. great performance and a terrific story.
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- MamaBear
- 03-07-24
True horror in a small town
This is a hard review to write, which is apt, as I think it was also a hard book to write. My respect to Stephen Graham Jones for persevering through it. I wish he’d narrated the audio version, but I can see why he wouldn’t want to.
If you’ve appreciated Stephen Graham Jones’ fiction, as I have, you’ll appreciate this non-fiction work. It limns the landscape of his growing up so clearly, one will never feel tempted to ask him where he gets his ideas after reading it.
Simultaneously true crime, mystery, autobiography, horror, biography, and investigative journalism, Growing Up Dead in Texas gradually reveals the rot at the heart of his hometown. The number of catastrophic events that originated there are hard to contemplate. Generations of secrets, sacrifices, accidents, and losses twine away from that hidden sickness.
This book is the careful dissection of a town, a small town, in West Texas. Cotton growing country. It’s not sentimental. It’s not always clear cut, either. At the same time, it’s not without sympathy for the people who inhabit it.
These are people just like you and me, and our families, and the people we know. That’s why it’s so horrifying.
If you’re unfamiliar with modern cotton growing, as I was, I recommend a few videos on harvesting and ginning this crop. It’s got a vocabulary all its own, and it’s fascinating. That background makes it easier to follow the narrative.
Like almost all of SGJ’s writing, I highly recommend this, while being hard pressed to describe it. It’s just so well written, readable, and revealing that it simply must be read.
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- joe deshazer
- 09-18-24
This thing really pops
I listened to the book without knowing anything about it. SGJs writing style works outside of slasher/horror very well. I really enjoyed the listen.
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- Georgia
- 02-12-21
How actual stories unfold
It is a little bit of work to keep up with the story line but it's also what makes this feel like actually listening to a story being told.
Who wants a liturgy of facts?
This story unfolds in the same way as getting to know a friend, in bits and pieces shared as one can tolerate remembering them. This works well for the complex mystery in this book.
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