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Hillary Huber
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T. Kingfisher
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When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that comes across like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show.
When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?
Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more - Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants...until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.
Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face-to-face with a series of impossible terrors - because sometimes, the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head-on, she might not survive to tell the tale.
From Hugo Award-winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night - from both fear and anticipation of what happens next.
©2019 T. Kingfisher (P)2019 Simon & Schuster AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different....
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In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
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I can only listen in 1-2 hour segments!
- By Brenda on 10-04-21
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The Creepypasta Collection
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A terrifying, thrilling collection of must-listen horror stories chock-full of nightmarish supernatural beings and the murderously disturbed that are sure to keep you up all night long.
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creepy definitely
- By Danh on 01-16-22
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If You See Her
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The house on Old Mill Road has stood in an open field for longer than Jesse Wells has been alive, its crooked windows and jutting turret tormenting the kids of Warsaw, Michigan the way only a haunted house knows how. Everyone imagines that something terrible lurks within the house’s abandoned rooms - especially Jesse and his two closest friends, Casey and Reed. But when Reed chooses the house as a backdrop for his own suicide, childhood ghost stories are transformed into a nightmare that sends Jesse into a downward spiral of grief.
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DNF. Quit halfway through. A slog.
- By Smart, AZ on 07-10-22
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Call Down the Hawk (The Dreamer Trilogy, Book 1)
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Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it. Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer...and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed....
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Unlistenable
- By Nathan Parker on 11-24-19
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Hellboy: Oddest Jobs
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Longtime contributor to the Hellboy mythos Christopher Golden brings together a crew of luminaries including Joe R. Lansdale and China Miéville, cross-genre sensation Barbara Hambly, celebrated mystery writer Ken Bruen, best-selling science-fiction and fantasy novelist Tad Williams, and a bevy of other skilled storytellers eager to spin a tale or two about the world's greatest paranormal detective. Some of the biggest names in horror, mystery, and fantasy come together to pay homage to Mike Mignola's Hellboy!
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could go with more authors that know Source materi
- By bEnemy on 07-25-23
By: Author Various
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- Angela Burr
- 10-27-19
Spooky
This was fantastic! I have to say, the ending left a bit to be desired, but I thought the writing really made this book. It slowly begins to get spooky, and before you know it, it’s terrifying.
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- K R Palmateer
- 05-18-22
Loved this story!
A really charming mix of weird fiction, horror and humor. Loved this story and the characters in it. It teases a rich mythology without getting lost in the weeds. Fun, compelling listen for folk horror fans.
Great performance by Hillary Huber. The narration has a lot of personality without being distracting or irritating, which is a tough line to toe.
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- T. Ladd
- 01-01-21
Great horror story
I don't know if people who narrate read these reviews, but for a few exceptions, this was an awesome story with exceptional narration.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-10-21
great beginning snore fest middle
the author set up a great slow burn in the beginning and it was spine tingling. then went on and on describing and explaining the horror. sometimes the best horror is left in a shroud of mystery.
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- LeahMac
- 08-21-21
Give it time
The first third of the book was a little tedious for me but I stuck with it because she loved her dog and a I always give dog lovers a break. But once she went back in the story was pretty good and something totally different;;;;; I appreciated that.
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- Kara
- 08-18-21
A fantastic and spine-tingling read!
This book was breathtaking in its visuals! Highly detailed, with memorable and entirely lovable characters. I can’t say enough good things about this story! Spoilers below!
The way the strange creatures and environments beyond the “regular world” are described is so intriguing, it makes me want to see it made into art or maybe a movie/animation. It’s so eerie and haunting, the way only things we do not understand can be. This took the fae-like creatures to another, terrifying level and the lurking horror was palpable.
The main character was entirely relatable, especially since I also happen to be a 30-something year old woman woman who gets easily caught up in physical memories whilst trying to clean. The characters in this are all very easy to like, including the minor and dead ones. I found myself angry every time I was interrupted while trying to finish this book, because it was so enthralling!
Please give this a try. I don’t want to spoil too much, but it really is worth checking out.
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- Kevin Smith
- 03-13-22
Good Story
My wife and I enjoyed the story. It gets a little hard to follow at the end but still is a good story.
The author uses a lot of profanity so be aware of that when purchasing. I don't recommend this for younger people.
Parts of this story is loosely reminiscent of Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising. Very loosely mind you. If you like that kind of story you'd like this one.
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- A
- 09-26-20
Promising first 4-5 hours
I chose this book because it appeared on several lists of the ‘scariest horror ever’ type.
I felt like the first half was pretty spooky, but then it sort of dropped the plot partway through; I found the resolution disappointing, though I know others seemed to find it quite satisfying.
My biggest critique is that it felt like it turned from a horror book to a grand adventure LOTR type-book partway through — to the point it started to feel like kind of a corny caricature of itself, and the reveals left me finishing the book mostly in hopes that the end might recapture some of the creepiness of the first part. For me it didn’t, but I’d totally give the author another shot based on the parts I did enjoy.
Major pro was the character development and personality of Foxy, a side-character that was just super enjoyable. Her dialogue made me laugh out loud at several points. The narration was also phenomenal.
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- Kris W.
- 03-29-22
Very enjoyable
Good atmospheric horror with a touch of Lovecraftian dread. Narrator want as bad as some say, just dragged a bit. Bump the speed up to 1.1 or 1.15 and it flows much better.
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- Rose Fairfax
- 05-24-22
The ending moves it away from horror
I genuinely really enjoyed this book and the narration up until the final parts. It took what was this very uncanny, creepy story and just.. explained it all. And the explanation was creepy in the same way stories of the fae are creepy--it is sort of removed from being something most of us will ever experience and leans on the idea of another, dangerous world instead of something dangerous in our own world.
I'm personally more of a fan of horror where everything isn't explained and you're left wondering "why? how?" because the unease of not knowing and what your mind fills in makes it all the more scary. If you like otherworldly horror where everything is spelled out for you, you will probably enjoy this book! I personally had to put it down because I felt the ending deflated the tension the whole book had built.
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