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Narrated by:
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Christopher Ragland
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Katherine Fenton
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By:
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Catriona Ward
About this listen
“If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here’s your next obsession.”—Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog
From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story.
In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write.
It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives.
But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. He starts to see things that can’t be real–notes hidden in the cabin, from an old friend now dead; a woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help; entire chapters he doesn’t recall typing, appearing overnight. Who, or what, is haunting Wilder?
No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.
“An origami puzzle of a book, the mystery so beautifully crafted you don’t see the folds, with edges sharp as a paper cut.”—Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.
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“An evocative, bone-chilling read, exploring grief, storytelling, and the dark forces of obsession. Ward’s writing is complex, challenging, and beautiful in equal measure. A tale to savor.”—Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium
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Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean 11 years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid.
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bizarre and interesting.
- By Sadie on 03-11-21
By: Samantha Hunt, and others
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- By: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, and others
- Narrated by: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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Something for Everyone
- By Nicole on 05-24-17
By: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, and others
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Bad Karma
- By: Douglas Clegg
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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At Darden State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, psychopath Agnes' rage is triggered when her psychiatrist Trey leaves town for a family vacation. She'll ensure his vacation is anything but restful in this twisted thriller. "A sleek, smooth, and constantly surprising page-turner..." Bad Karma is a fast-paced, full-length suspense thriller of heart-pounding terror and reincarnation from critically-acclaimed, award-winning novelist, Douglas Clegg. Book #1 in the Criminally Insane series.
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Don't waste your time...
- By shelley on 01-12-18
By: Douglas Clegg
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The Hour Before the Dark
- By: Douglas Clegg
- Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
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There are rules to every game. You must never play the Dark Game after sunset - it becomes real then. It takes you over... The Hour Before Dark is a riveting gothic suspense novel of supernatural horror from best-selling and award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg - author of The Children's Hour and Halloween Man. When his father is murdered in one of the most vicious killings of recent years, Nemo Raglan must return to the New England island he thought he'd escaped for good...and the shadowy home called Hawthorn.
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Great story, original!
- By justin on 07-30-18
By: Douglas Clegg
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The Secret Hour
- By: Luanne Rice
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
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Beneath his controlled demeanor, attorney John O’Rourke is a man in turmoil. Since the death of his wife, he has been juggling the rigors of a controversial capital murder case and the demands of raising two children. As 11-year-old Maggie and 14-year-old Teddy long for the past, they must also contend with the hostility that swirls around them since their father took on the defense of a despised killer - including a brick through their window one autumn morning.
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It's a Fairy Tale...eventually
- By Bette on 03-18-13
By: Luanne Rice
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Surrender Bay
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- By: Denise Hunter
- Narrated by: Kathryn Lynhurst
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Samantha Owens' estranged stepfather has died, leaving her his cottage in Nantucket - a place she fled years ago, never planning to return. As a single mom, Samantha can't afford to pass up a financial windfall like oceanfront property. So she travels home to fix up the house and sell it...never suspecting that Landon Reed still lives two doors down. As their long-dormant romance begins to bud again, Samantha must face a past that separated her from the God of her childhood. And she must tell Landon why she fled the island in the first place - a secret that could tear them apart.
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Disappointing
- By Cody Wheeler on 04-28-20
By: Denise Hunter
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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
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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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The Invisible Circus
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
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In Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith's lost generation.
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Too bad zero was not a choice...
- By IVAL on 04-28-13
By: Jennifer Egan
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The Lightness
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- By: Emily Temple
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One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother - a woman as grounded as her father is mercurial - Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as “Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls”.
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Perfect combination
- By Lauren yett on 06-22-20
By: Emily Temple
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The Arsonist
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In this offering from Morris Award finalist Stephanie Oakes, three riveting points of view are woven together in a story that's part historical mystery, part contemporary coming-of-age, and completely unputdownable. When Molly gets a package leading her to Pepper, they're tasked with solving a decades-old mystery: find out who killed Ava back in 1989. Using Ava's diary for clues, Molly and Pepper realize there's more to her life - and death - than meets the eye. Someone is lying to them. And someone out there is guiding them along, desperate for answers.
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Thrilling with wonderful characters
- By Emily Schneider on 11-29-20
By: Stephanie Oakes
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Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors
- By: Various
- Narrated by: Seth Podowitz
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Fifteen of the biggest names in weird literature come together to pay tribute to Hellboy and the characters of Mike Mignola’s award-winning line of books! Assembled by Joe Golem and Baltimore co-writer Christopher Golden, this anthology boasts 15 original stories by the best in horror, fantasy, and science fiction, including Seanan McGuire (October Daye series), Chelsea Cain (Heartsick), Jonathan Maberry (Joe Ledger series), and more! The new writer of Hellboy and the BPRD, iZombie co-creator Chris Roberson, pitches in as well!
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An assortment of good times.
- By Chris E. on 02-28-20
By: Various
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Dead Set
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- By: Richard Kadrey
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
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After her father's funeral, Zoe moved to the big city with her mother to start over. But change always brings trials, and life in the city is not so easy. Money is tight, and Zoe's only escape, as has always been the case, is in her dreams - a world apart from her troubled real life where she can spend time with her closest companion: her lost brother, Valentine.
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Cool idea that wanders around.
- By Caseym on 04-03-16
By: Richard Kadrey
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Mira's Return: The Complete Series: A Mermaid Fantasy Adventure & Prequel to the Elemental Origins Series
- By: A.L. Knorr
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
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Mira is a mermaid on a mission. It’s time to leave the ocean. Mira Belshaw has been at sea for...well, she doesn’t know how many years. It’s hard to keep track of time when you live in the ocean. But after enough time, the salt water triggers the desire to procreate, and her time is up. Finding a mate is the most important thing to her right now, and to do that, she has to return to the place where she was last human - the coastal city of Saltford.
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Mermaid Mira
- By Shoe Monger on 04-10-20
By: A.L. Knorr
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- Heather
- 03-07-24
Go in blind
Before I read this book, I was told that the less you know, the better and it definitely ended up that way. I started off very into the story and as things progressed, it got weird and I could see why some wouldn't want to stick with it but I advise that you should. I'm also not saying the pay off is mind blowing but I was pleased when I finished it and you can't say that about every book.
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- Mary J.
- 03-09-24
Super weird...
I'm not sure what I just listened to... but I think I enjoyed it...? It's convoluted meta fiction, hard to follow at times, and I don't know if I even understood all of it, and yet I kinda liked it. This author's imagination always surprises me. None of her books ever surpass Last House on Needless Street for me, but they always leave me glad I read them. Had to speed up the narration a bit, other than that it was decent.
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- MP
- 06-21-24
Good Start & Confused End
I thought that the first part of this book was interesting. The second half was completely confusing. It is fine to have a twist ending, but 7 twist endings in one book just doesn't work. It is like Marvel relying so hard on the multiverse, there are no emotional stakes.
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- Barbara S
- 08-19-23
meta fiction on steroids
“Looking Glass Sound” is a very ambitious meta-meta-meta-fiction. Author Catriona Ward has written a thriller that combines brutal murders, witchcraft, ghosts, and the immortality of novels.
For me, the story started slowly. I questioned whether I wanted to continue. Suddenly it went from a 2-star read to a 4+ star read. I was engaged and creeped out (we all have novel goals). The story which takes place on the Maine coast, with Wilder Harlow beginning his summer vacation with his parents. He meets Nat and Harper and the trio discover a disturbing secret. Now is when this becomes a scary story. I was reminded of my teenaged self, intentionally reading scary books and loving it!
Wilder decides to write about the tragic summer. But when he finds full chapters that he doesn’t remember writing, the meta fiction begins.
It’s difficult to describe the structure of the story without giving away the plot. It’s the structure that’s part of the plot. This is not for the average reader! The story lost me in many places, but I kept on, figuring that the pieces will eventually come together. They do. However, it’s a lot of work (to me) for minimal enjoyment. I don’t think meta-thriller-fiction is my genre.
I listened to the audio narrated by Christopher Ragland and Katherine Fenton. It was Ragland’s voice at the beginning that I wasn’t a fan of. However, after listening for an hour or more, I got used to him. He does have great narrating range. I got bored at the 2/3rds mark. Kept listening and then it all came together and made some sense.
This is an interesting novel in that while I was immersed, I was not that impressed. After listening to 13 hours, and thinking about it, I see what she was doing. It’s impressive. I like it more now that I’m done! Glean from that what you want…..
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- Matt and Sarah
- 01-24-24
Intense!
Couldn’t stop listening! Can’t stop thinking about the ending. Wasn’t crazy about the narration in the beginning but grew to like it.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-17-24
ready for it to end
honestly, the ending made it feel a little cheap. i wanted it to be more about the dagger man but it all ended up being very much about romance and relationships, which wasn’t what i was coming to this book for.
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- Tali
- 04-14-24
Perfect
Catriona Ward does it again! Every book is a thrilling adventure and I am always incapable of putting them down until I reveal the twist at the end!
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- Francisco Hidalgo
- 08-29-23
Not my favorite Ward book.
Honestly disappointed. The best parts of the book were the first few chapters and the last 10 minutes of the book. I could have done without the rest. It dragged and felt complex in a very pretentious way. Meh.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-21-24
A lot going on!
I loved the stories within stories. You get to know each character. It wasn’t a typical horror, but showed the fears and demons people experience. Great book!
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- X
- 06-09-24
Intriguing Story That Never Figures Out What It Needs To Be
While the overall story is really interesting from the start, especially the nostalgia ridden beginning, it feels like Ward never quite decides what she wants the story to be.
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