Spider Kiss Audiobook By Harlan Ellison cover art

Spider Kiss

Preview
Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Spider Kiss

By: Harlan Ellison
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $13.97

Buy for $13.97

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

From one of the most highly celebrated and dynamic American writers of our time comes Spider Kiss, Harlan Ellison's electrifying novel of the early years of rock and roll.

If you think the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit, or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll will turn you around at least three times. No spaceships, no robots, just a nice kid from Louisville named Stag Preston with a voice like an angel, seductive moves like the devil, and an invisible monkey named Success riding him straight to hell.

©2014 Harlan Ellison (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Skyboat Media. Inc.
Coming of Age Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense World Literature Psychological Suspense
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup
Most relevant  
Stefan Rudnicki brings to life a story full of raw edges and conflict; smoothly and with gravitas.

Tug at your heart strings while simultaneously being filled with disgust over the human condition. within us are contained the seeds of our own destruction.

Harlan Ellison speaks in introduction to a work of Truth about humanity, in a story that never happened, but that is based on a true story. The story of human beings clawing for their moment in the sun is a quest for an end to personal suffering.

Harlan at his most Analystic

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

phenomenal, never read a book like this. picked the right narrator. this book reaches into your soul

one word...amazing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I don’t always like everything he writes.

Excellent work.. Ellison really surprise’s an excellent journey

Excellent work.. Ellison really surprise’s

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

If your looking for a story that’s cut and dry aka a Hollywood style story you won’t find it here. It’s dirty it’s nasty it’s ugly and it’s great.

My current favorite line from the book is currently “she had the heart of a popsicle”

This is a fable

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I want to listen but cannot get past the narrator's voice. Too deep, almost scary. He would be a good character voice but not the narrator of an hours-long book. myvrating for the story would better be described as NA because as noted, I can't listen to it.

I cant listen to this voice

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Any additional comments?

I'm a big fan of Ellison's speculative fiction, and this ended up disappointing. It's a pretty standard raise to fame/fall from grace story, and I didn't get much out of it.

Mostly, I just wish Audible would get the rights to the Voice from the Edge collections.

Not My Favorite of Ellison's Work

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.