The Vanishing Negative Audiobook By Aaron Mark cover art

The Vanishing Negative

 Preview

$0.00 for first 30 days

Try for $0.00
Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts.
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
Audible Plus auto-renews for $7.95/mo after 30 days. Upgrade or cancel anytime.

The Vanishing Negative

By: Aaron Mark
Narrated by: Betty Buckley
Try for $0.00

$7.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $14.95

Buy for $14.95

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

Eccentric psychic medium Celeste Fox has enjoyed a decades-long career in the public eye, coaching people through exciting and challenging times with her unique spiritual insight. Her reputation takes a significant blow after a recent public appearance results in a tragic death. To defend herself against wild accusations and sensational media coverage, Celeste books a recording studio in Manhattan where she aims to take control of her own narrative by recording an episode of a new podcast. As the episode progresses, Celeste divulges details from her past and weaves an intricate tale from which she has difficulty untangling herself, even as the stakes of her confession mount.

Playwright Aaron Mark was awarded a commission through the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, an initiative dedicated to developing innovative original plays driven by language and voice. As an Audible commissioned playwright, he received funding and creative support to develop Vanishing Negative.

Portions of this audiobook contain mature language and themes. Listener discretion is advised.

Experience this title in immersive 3D audio by setting your download quality to High within the app. Headphones recommended. For more, browse our entire collection of 3D audio listens.

©2020 Aaron Mark (P)2021 AO Media LLC Drama & Plays United States World Literature Funny Inspiring Scary Emotionally Gripping

About the Creator

Aaron Mark is a writer and director of theater, audio, film, and TV, currently based in Los Angeles by way of Houston and New York City. He is the creator, writer, and director of Gimlet Media/Spotify's hit fiction podcast The Horror of Dolores Roach (starring Daphne Rubin-Vega, Bobby Cannavale, Richard Kind, Vanessa Williams, Michael Urie, Lea DeLaria, Donnell Rawlings, and Amy Ryan, among others), currently in development for TV with Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television, with whom he is under a first-look deal. Mark has written and directed three acclaimed one-person horror plays Off-Broadway: Empanada Loca (LAByrinth Theater Company, with Rubin-Vega; three Drama Desk nominations, Outer Critics Circle nomination), Squeamish (All For One at Theatre Row, with Alison Fraser; OCC nomination), and Another Medea (All For One at the Cherry Lane and Wild Project, with Tom Hewitt), all published by Dramatists Play Service and performed internationally. Other plays include Deer, also published by DPS and recently given its Italian-language premiere. Favorite theater directing credits include Ben Rimalower's long-running, award-winning Patti Issues and Bad with Money; The Mystery of Irma Vep, and Deathtrap for Berkshire Theatre Group; and Hedwig and the Angry Inch for BC/EFA at New World Stages. Mark is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and a member of the Writers Guild of America West and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

Betty Buckley
Betty Buckley (cont.)

About the Performer

Betty Buckley is a multi-award-winning actress and singer whose career spans theater, film, television, and concert halls around the world. She is a 2012 Theater Hall of Fame for Inductee and a 2017 recipient of the Julie Harris Award from The Actors Fund for Artistic Achievement. She won a Tony Award for Cats and received her second Tony Award nomination for Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination in London for her performance in Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.
She headlined the first national tour of the new Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! from fall 2018 through August 2019.
Her other Broadway credits include 1776, Pippin, Song and Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Carrie. She starred in the London production of Dear World in 2013 and Promises, Promises (Evening Standard nomination).
Off Broadway she has starred in The Old Friends (2014 Drama Desk nomination), White’s Lies, Juno’s Swans, and Edwin Drood for New York Stage and Film, and Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road. Regional credits include The Perfectionist, Gypsy, Threepenny Opera, Camino Real, Buffalo Gal, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Grey Gardens (2016 Ovation Award nomination).
Her film credits include M. Night Shyamalan’s 2017 hit film Split, in which she costars with James McAvoy and received a Saturn Award nomination. Other film credits include Shyamalan’s The Happening, Brian de Palma’s Carrie, Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies, Roman Polanski’s Frantic, Woody Allen’s Another Woman, and Lawrence Kasden’s Wyatt Earp.
(Continued on next tab.)

Featured Article: The Best Creepy Audiobooks to Listen to at Night


Ever find yourself at the crossroad of being a horror fiend and scaredy cat? Creepy audiobooks will fill you with enough dread to satiate your longing for uneasiness. One horror-obsessed editor (and glutton for punishment) takes 10 of the spookiest stories ever recorded out for a spin. Discover classic horror novels as well as a few newer ones, and some creepy short stories perfect for finishing over a dog walk or two. They're firing on all cylinders.

Featured Article The Best Creepy Audiobooks to Listen to at Night
Unexpected Twists • Engaging Plot • Stellar Performance • Meticulously Crafted • Captivating Suspense • Masterful Acting
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
I wasn't at all sure what to expect. listening from my Audible in the car, I stayed in the car listening to the rest of this incredibly performed outrageous story. Totally UNPREDICTABLE!

This Tale Blew My Mind!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
BLB knocks this one out of the park! Worth listening to just hear her spectacular performance

WOW!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It took me a minute to get into this, but I really enjoyed this Audible Original! Betty Buckley is outstanding...

SO UNEXPECTED!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Consider this an audio performance. The story is intriguing as it unfolds and develops through the performance. Highly dramatic, twists and turns. I would highly recommend!

Performed rather than narrated-great!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I see how this emerging playwright got Ms. Betty Buckley. What a script. What a performance. I’m throwing roses.

Two Words: Betty Buckley

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
OMG! Better Buckley gives an amazing performance with a well written and entertaining storyline. Kudos to the supporting cast as well. Loved it.

Wonderful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Wow. I am blown away by the calibre of acting in this story. How is this a free option when I've paid for so many sub-par performances? Everyone needs to listen to this, just to experience Betty Buckley. The story is engaging, but it's her amazing ability to completely embody this character that makes this a superb listen.

Betty Buckley is a God

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story is cancel culture alright and a timely story but I hated it. Betty Buckley is outstanding (she always is) but she couldn’t save this story.

Betty Buckley is great but the story is not!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Worth the listen! I was a little confused at first, but I hung in there and I was so glad I did. The story is a bit dark, and there definitely is some adult content. So I wouldn’t listen while kiddos are in hearing rage. I cleaned while I listened and before I knew it my chores were done and the book was finished. So good!

Wow!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I bought this performance (not sure what to call this as it's not a book...or is it?) because the audio sample harked me back to old radio shows that allow listeners to use their imagination in ways that listening to books being narrated do not. Betty Buckley's voice and acting sucked me right in. I started listening to The Vanishing Negative and got sucked in so deeply that I couldn't tell you what I did while listening. Perhaps stood in my hallway staring into space watching Betty in that audio booth?

I LOVE how Aaron Mark started us on a story and as soon as we were onto that thread he caught up another thread and we soon found ourselves dangling from that one and then the next thread. It was like dancing with a very knowing spider. Betty Buckley seemed to hook her arm in ours and spirit us along conspiratorially as we followed the spider and as the story got juicer and darker her power and magnetism seemed to keep expanding. THE VANISHING NEGATIVE was absorbing and I want MORE! BETTY BUCKLEY is a tour de force who could and should take Audible by storm!

Refreshingly Entertaining! Delicious Story Arc!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews