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Dean Gallagher
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By:
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Bryan Smith
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The Flaherty Brothers Traveling Carnivale and Freakshow has come to the quiet town of Pleasant Hills, Tennessee. But this is no ordinary sideshow and these are not the usual "freaks" on display. As the unsuspecting townsfolk gather for an evening of strange spectacle, the slaughter is set to begin...
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The abandoned house at the end of Millhaven Road stands on blighted and barren ground, as if nature itself shuns this tainted place. It is known simply as Dead End House, and unspeakably terrible things happened there long ago.
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Splatterpunk at its finest
- By timj26 on 09-25-23
By: Bryan Smith
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The Killing Kind
- By: Bryan Smith
- Narrated by: Blair Dade
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Rob Scott finds himself helplessly drawn into the tattooed and insanely sexy goth girl’s world of blood and mayhem. As Roxie and Rob cut a bloody trail across the country, a group of college students arrive at a beach house in Myrtle Beach for spring break. The young friends are blissfully unaware of the danger bearing down on them as they enjoy the sun and surf.
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A Bonnie and Clyde style ride of darkness and sexuality
- By Mary Karowski on 01-04-21
By: Bryan Smith
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The Late Night Horror Show
- By: Bryan Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Paige
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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The TV ads promised a festival of cheap and bloody fright films, all of them thinly disguised knockoffs of well-known movies with much better pedigrees. One film features a family of chainsaw maniacs, another a zombie uprising. In yet another, a cult of vampires lives in a creepy old mansion. The whole thing is hosted by the mysterious Dr. Ominous.
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Pretty OK but….
- By Anonymous User on 07-07-23
By: Bryan Smith
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Catchers
- By: Ben Rock, Bob DeRosa
- Narrated by: Billy Gardell, Herizen Guardiola, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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In Buck Lake, Colorado, the resident dog catcher, Collins, is on the verge of retirement. But something strange lurks in the woods, about to ruin his plans.... After 30 years, Collins is ready to be done with small-town animal control. His replacement, Blair, is a Gen Z vet student who hates mansplaining; they don’t get along. But on the eve of his retirement, Collins gets a call that changes everything. There’s been a report of a vicious wild dog on the loose.
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I want more!
- By alex wolf on 10-28-22
By: Ben Rock, and others
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Kill for Satan!
- By: Bryan Smith
- Narrated by: Sean Duregger
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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On the night before Halloween, a Satanic mass is held deep in the woods outside a small American town. Followers of the dark faith are assigned a mission in a message delivered by the devil himself. On Halloween, they must deliver a bounty of pure souls to their dark master. By killing virgins. As Halloween begins, so does the all-day horror movie marathon hosted by Count Victor von Gravemore on Channel 39. Many will be watching as real horror invades their lives and screams ring out all over town.
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Loved it
- By timj26 on 11-04-20
By: Bryan Smith
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Depraved
- By: Bryan Smith
- Narrated by: Angela Rysk
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Welcome to Hopkins Bend, the remote little Tennessee town where the backwoods inhabitants are cannibals and the local law operates a sex-trafficking ring. Unlucky travelers are frequently ensnared in the town’s sinister web. Some are held captive and tortured while others face even more gruesome fates. And beneath it all is the town’s darkest secret, the curse of the depraved and mutated Kincher clan.
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Great Story, Great Narration
- By M. A. Mitchell on 05-12-21
By: Bryan Smith
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Dead End House
- By: Bryan Smith
- Narrated by: Lizzie Canyon
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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The abandoned house at the end of Millhaven Road stands on blighted and barren ground, as if nature itself shuns this tainted place. It is known simply as Dead End House, and unspeakably terrible things happened there long ago.
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Splatterpunk at its finest
- By timj26 on 09-25-23
By: Bryan Smith
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The Killing Kind
- By: Bryan Smith
- Narrated by: Blair Dade
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Rob Scott finds himself helplessly drawn into the tattooed and insanely sexy goth girl’s world of blood and mayhem. As Roxie and Rob cut a bloody trail across the country, a group of college students arrive at a beach house in Myrtle Beach for spring break. The young friends are blissfully unaware of the danger bearing down on them as they enjoy the sun and surf.
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A Bonnie and Clyde style ride of darkness and sexuality
- By Mary Karowski on 01-04-21
By: Bryan Smith
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The Late Night Horror Show
- By: Bryan Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Paige
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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The TV ads promised a festival of cheap and bloody fright films, all of them thinly disguised knockoffs of well-known movies with much better pedigrees. One film features a family of chainsaw maniacs, another a zombie uprising. In yet another, a cult of vampires lives in a creepy old mansion. The whole thing is hosted by the mysterious Dr. Ominous.
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Pretty OK but….
- By Anonymous User on 07-07-23
By: Bryan Smith
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Catchers
- By: Ben Rock, Bob DeRosa
- Narrated by: Billy Gardell, Herizen Guardiola, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Original Recording
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In Buck Lake, Colorado, the resident dog catcher, Collins, is on the verge of retirement. But something strange lurks in the woods, about to ruin his plans.... After 30 years, Collins is ready to be done with small-town animal control. His replacement, Blair, is a Gen Z vet student who hates mansplaining; they don’t get along. But on the eve of his retirement, Collins gets a call that changes everything. There’s been a report of a vicious wild dog on the loose.
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I want more!
- By alex wolf on 10-28-22
By: Ben Rock, and others
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Kill for Satan!
- By: Bryan Smith
- Narrated by: Sean Duregger
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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On the night before Halloween, a Satanic mass is held deep in the woods outside a small American town. Followers of the dark faith are assigned a mission in a message delivered by the devil himself. On Halloween, they must deliver a bounty of pure souls to their dark master. By killing virgins. As Halloween begins, so does the all-day horror movie marathon hosted by Count Victor von Gravemore on Channel 39. Many will be watching as real horror invades their lives and screams ring out all over town.
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Loved it
- By timj26 on 11-04-20
By: Bryan Smith
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The Night Stockers
- By: Kristopher Triana, Ryan Harding
- Narrated by: Chuck Brugee
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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The employees of the Freshway grocery store aren’t too happy about having to do an overnight shift, but they’re about to be even unhappier. Their rival store, Devil’s Food, is about to lay siege upon them with extreme prejudice. This is no ordinary grocery chain. Devil’s Food is run by a cult of murderous Satanists committed to killing the competition - literally.
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A little to rapey
- By mason on 05-02-24
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Suburban Gothic
- By: Brian Keene, Bryan Smith
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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The Westgate Galleria Mall was once a sprawling, shining monument to American consumerism and suburban growth. Now, it is a crumbling reminder of how both have fallen - an architectural ghost, haunting the outskirts of society. That makes it the perfect filming location for a YouTube channel devoted to the exploration of abandoned places. But the mall isn't as empty as it seems, and the residents have sinister obscene plans for them. Now, with the daylight still hours away, both the hunters and the hunted will fight to stay alive...and desperately try to make it home.
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Gothic? Not quite.
- By mzwinter on 01-05-22
By: Brian Keene, and others
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The Dark Ones
- By: Bryan Smith
- Narrated by: Monty Lewis Sauerwein
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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A group of misfit teens who call themselves "The Dark Ones" make an abandoned house their hangout. But the demon they've inadvertently awakened possesses them one by one, using them to create a reign of unholy terror.
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Not too bad
- By Hunnee on 09-20-14
By: Bryan Smith
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The Summer I Died
- The Roger Huntington Saga, Book 1
- By: Ryan C. Thomas
- Narrated by: John Andrews
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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When Roger Huntington comes home from college for the summer and is met by his best friend, Tooth, he knows they're going to have a good time. A summer full of beer, comic books, movies, laughs, and maybe even girls. The sun is high and the sky is clear as Roger and Tooth set out to shoot beer cans at Bobcat Mountain. Just two friends catching up on lost time, two friends thinking about their futures. . . two friends suddenly thrust into the middle of a nightmare.
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Very anti-religious. Annoyingly so.
- By Tabatha Whitfield on 11-20-24
By: Ryan C. Thomas
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Off Season
- By: Jack Ketchum
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River - off season - awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall.
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Wow!
- By Barry S. Sharpnack on 11-22-09
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The Black Farm
- By: Elias Witherow
- Narrated by: Tom Jordan
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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After the loss of a child along with a slew of agonizing misfortunes, Nick and Jess decide to end their lives. Unable to cope with the misery that fills their days, they commit one last act together and die in loving relief. But when Nick wakes up, he soon realizes that death isn't the gentle darkness he expected. Panicked and horrified, he struggles to understand the twisted abominations and hellish world he's now trapped in.
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Disturbing but I couldn’t stop listening.
- By Amazon Customer on 03-17-24
By: Elias Witherow
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- Michael C
- 01-18-22
Loved it! What a fun story
The performance and the story the characters and everything were great. If you are looking for a very interesting and twisted story look no further.
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- Mike Kazmierczak
- 01-09-22
Fast moving, Freaky clown, Complex characters
Wow. There was no lead up on this book as Smith jumps us straight into the action. Character introduction happens along with death and mayhem. Personally I liked it; a little more effort to figure out the story threads in my head but also nice because there's a higher likelihood that anyone could die. In other words, the main protagonist that most likely survives the book is not yet set.
The story focuses on The Flaherty Brothers Traveling Circus and Freakshow which goes around to small towns across the country. A strange, mysterious beckoning would bring almost the whole town to the festival. However, this circus and freakshow has a deadlier purpose than entertainment as people are consumed and stolen by the real freaks of the show.
In a normal fashion for Smith's books, there is a lot happening. There are multiple story threads following different groups of people as they survive the chaos they've fallen into. One of the fun things is while the events in one thread will appear and affect other threads, the characters won't necessarily meet. Kind of like real life where someone's actions might affect you despite you never meeting that person. The only other thing I wanted to point out was that I liked how some of the characters were hard to figure out. Were they "good" people? Did they want to help the different people or out for themselves? It kept things slightly off-kilter. Not too much more to say. A good book that I would recommend if you like people trying to survive crazy freaks doing a bunch of weird stuff.
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- Dominique
- 01-26-22
Not memorable, kind of boring
The book was ok, doesn't stand out much. Some moments were cool but overall it was kind of boring.
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- Dave Young
- 09-18-21
C movie style horror.
this is a Troma style book. good but not great. Definitely a late night horror movie style.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-19-23
Sexual Violence and Some Spoilers!
I'm not sure if there was a warning somewhere and I missed it, but I felt compelled to try and warn people about the gratuitous xenophilia rape scene in Chapter 19. If you are triggered by rape, please be cautious of that chapter.
Truthfully, I haven't finished the book by the point I'm writing this, might bring myself to finish but not sure yet. That rape scene was...wow...it was a lot outta nowhere!
Very sexual! My man Brian loves using ladies and their bodies and the act of exhibitionism. His gore, attention to detail, and believable dialogue, that's all good. The Villains are pretty good, nothing to write home about, I mostly felt bad for the people in this book. I give it a solid 3 outta 5 since I got quite a bit of enjoyment from the characters, dialogue, and well-illustrated descriptions of the freaks!
I'm a guy, if that means anything, I don't much care for gratuitous sex, not for me. However, rape, I feel should be expressly noted before the story begins. Also, if it did and I just didn't notice then I apologize. 💚
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- mzwinter
- 04-13-21
Extreme horror paints a bloody picture
For fans of movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Dead Alive, this book brings together extreme gore and mind-bending absurdity in an entertaining ride. An exploitation film in book form, filled with the most vile characters and horrible, violent abuse that brings to mind splatter cinema from an earlier era.
Dean Gallagher as the narrator brings each character alive and enriches the text with nuance and energy. Dean masters the pace and ratchets up the tension and horror with every chapter. Each character is distinct and expertly portrayed.
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- Parker Smith
- 09-01-21
great story
I usually don't like the otherworldly type of horror but Smith did it so well I actually loved it. I usually only go for realistic horror but when the writing is this good it feels realistic enough and very enjoyable.
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-02-21
Worth Your Time!
Loved it! Nice departure from the expected. Well worth the credit. Definitely original, highly recommend 👌.
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- Dan McCarney
- 10-08-21
bryan you're
you need therapy man. what did i just read? pretty entertaining but man never has a book ever wanted to make me gag like this did. im disgusted but intrigued and im probably gonna check out bryan smiths other books in the future
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- Vanessa Martinez
- 07-19-21
gorry and shocking
storyline was great and satisfyingly disturbing. The reader also did a great job of telling the story
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