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A Crazy Inheritance

By: Tommy Krappweis
Narrated by: Michael Braun, Marc Vietor, Jay Snyder, Dina Pearlman, Cynthia Darlow, Stephen Bel Davies, James Fouhey, Jeena Yi, Jessie Cannizzaro, Kevin T. Collins, Mateo D'Amato
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Publisher's summary

A whole-family listen for fans of Hotel Transylvania and The Addams Family.

When Tom is invited to the reading of a will of a great-uncle he’s never heard of, there’s no way to know what to expect. But on the long list of possible things to inherit, a travelling carnival ghost train is the very last on the list.

To get his full $10 million inheritance, all Tom has to do is run the antique ride until his 18th birthday. Easy. Except for a strange caped-creep he’s never met, who’s trying to con him out of the money...and the actual ghosts and ghouls who call the ride home.

Over the decades, vampire Vlarad, zombie Wombie, Hop-Tep the mummy, werewolf Welf, and ghost girl Mimi have created their own unique family, and they welcome Tom into their circle as a first-time "ghostsitter".

Keeping the spirits secret from the outside world is not easy, but with wit and ingenuity, Tom proves, time and again, that he is exactly the right person for the job.

Now available in Dolby Atmos on Audible.

©2015 Tommy Krappweis (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC
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About the Creator

Best-selling Bavarian author Tommy Krappweis rose to fame as a comedian on the German version of Saturday Night Live and has since received many awards for writing, producing, and directing numerous books, tv shows and audio plays. The movie Mara and the Firebringer, based on his books, was hailed as the best German fantasy film since The Neverending Story. He is also known as the creator of Bernhard Bread; the loaf-shaped, grumpy puppet is one of Germany’s most famous children’s television characters.

About the Performer

James Fouhey has narrated more than 200 audiobooks across a wide variety of genres, including American Prison by Shane Bauer, the upcoming Love Creekwood, a Simonverse novella by Becky Albertalli, and the beloved best selling children’s series Pete the Cat by James Dean. He is also the voice of Geoff Thomasen in the award winning sci-fi audio drama, MarsFall, and played the role of Adam in The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen, a Bright Sessions novel based on the hit podcast. On stage, James has credits both regionally and Off-Broadway, most notably originating the role of Cedric in Off-Broadway's Puffs: Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic (New World Stages). You can find more about him at jamesfouhey.com and DSRApodcast.com.

About the Performer

Jay is an actor/director who’s been fortunate enough to appear on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre and TV, and has been doing voiceovers for over ten years. He has voiced for feature films and has been heard on Nickelodeon, WB, Cartoon Network, Fox TV, the SciFi Channel, EWam, and the new CW4Kids. Best known for his work on Saturday morning cartoons like Yu-Gi-Oh! (lead), Viva Pinata (lead), Sonic X, and Pokemon, he has also worked on many other animations and can currently be heard in Gogoriki, Pat and Stan, and Chaotic. His other voiceover work includes several audiobooks, documentaries, promos, and commercials and he continues to be grateful not to have to have a "real job".

About the Performer

Marc Vietor is a writer, director and voice actor, almost never in that order. He’s narrated over 200 audiobooks, six of which were nominated for Audie awards, one of which won one. Also he is the recipient of five Earphone Excellence Awards from AudioFile Magazine, the most recent of which was 2018’s "Second Hand Curses". He is an artistic associate of The Red Bull Theater, where he has acted and directed and where he staged the award-winning production of The School For Scandal (Best Revival, Off-Broadway Alliance 2017). As an occasional actor he’s worked at The Mint Theater, HERE, Rattlestick, The Old Globe Theater, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival), The Arena, The Westport Country Playhouse, Ravinia Music Festival, The O’Neill Center, The Kennedy Center, South Coast Repertory, Prince Music Theatre, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Theatre For A New Audience, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Sundance Theatre Lab, Playwrights’ Horizons, The Roundabout, NYSF. He went to Yale and Juilliard.

About the Performer

Stephen Bel Davies has recorded over 200 audiobooks for various publishers including Audible Studios, Tantor Media, Blackstone and Macmillan. He has narrated works by several NY Times bestselling authors such as Jeffrey Toobin, RL Stein, Jennifer Roberson, Piers Anthony, Walter Kern, JA Redmerski and AG Riddle. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School Drama Division Group 36.

About the Performer

Jessie Cannizzaro is a New York-based actor, comedian, and voice over artist. She originated the role of Sally in the long-running hit off-Broadway comedy Puffs at New World Stages, which was filmed and screened for fans in movie theaters nationwide thanks to Fathom Events and is available for streaming on Amazon, iTunes, and BroadwayHD. Other New York credits include Romeo and Juliet (Lincoln Center Education), The Mysteries (The Flea), The Haunting of Ichabod Crane (Park Avenue Armory), The Events (New York Theatre Workshop), and the title role in Hamlet (American Theatre of Actors). She was last seen in the world premiere of Ken Ludwig's The Gods of Comedy at McCarter Theatre Center and The Old Globe. As a voice over artist, Jessie can be heard everywhere from national commercials to Nickelodeon cartoons. She also did narration for Selah and The Spades, an official Sundance Film Festival selection that recently premiered on Amazon. Jessie was a member of The Flea’s resident acting company "The Bats" and an apprentice at Williamstown Theatre Festival. She trained at NYC’s Upright Citizens Brigade and London’s British American Drama Academy. Jessie graduated from Swarthmore College with high honors in Theater and Political Science, where she performed on the improv and sketch comedy teams. She writes and performs comedy with Infinite Sketch at The Peoples Improv Theater.

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The story was fun and interesting, I wish the whole Ghostsitter series was in English!!!!!

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Am Awesome and fun loving book

I lived the book could not stop listening to it. wish there were more in the series available!

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loved the voices and performance

need a sequel. kids loved it and the song. kept their attention through whole story

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we need more

urgently consider making more episodes I English language great nostalgic old classic cartoon network vibes great performance the idea of full cast is always a winner for me

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Outstanding

Loved every minute of this book. From the narration which was a amazing to the story itself. Loved each and every character. I hated to see it end. I loved the music at the end of the chapters it had me tapping my toes.

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This is a fun story!

I listened first and I can't wait to share with grandkids. Such a fun ride!!

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Lots of fun but

My only complaint is that the song in between chapters is pretty long for an audiobook and while it was enjoyable (and confusing) the first time, it was already tiresome by the 2nd play through.

The story was light, quick, and zany. The characters were likable.... except of course for the bad guy.

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my daughter loves this story. Great performance.

love this story. it's spooky, and active enough to keep kids attention. my 6 year old has listened to it several times and keeps asking me to put it on again.

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Great Production of a Weak Story

Another well-produced audible where the story is weak and one of the characters (Mimi) is distractingly annoying. Mimi's cloying giggle is hard to take.

My twelve y,o. wasn't really captivated after the first chapter or so, so she found the story got away from her and she wasn't interested enough to go back to fill in the gaps. The villain wasn't particularly villainous, funny, or interesting in any way. I think she drifted when he overstayed his welcome in the story.

We listened to the end, but it was a pretty anti-climactic ending so we could've skipped this one. It was free, so I'm not mad, but we've gotten superb free listens in the past. This was meh.

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One of the best Audible offerings to date!

This story was just great in every way. The actors, the story, the music... all of it! It’s a great story for the entire family.

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