Demon Theory

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

Acclaimed author Stephen Graham Jones delivers an extraordinary tale of postmodern terror. The novelization of a fictional film trilogy, Demon Theory details the horrifying events set in motion by a tragic childhood incident. When a medical student is called home by his ailing mother on Halloween night, he and a group of friends become trapped in an inescapable cycle of violence.

©2006 Stephen Graham Jones (P)2007 Recorded Books

I STG, this is a prequel for his later works

This is a swell collection of meta novellas telling an overarching story as well as speaking to how each person can take away something different from a narrative as well as how the way in which we frame to story of our life drives the direction of it.

I recently listened to SGJ’s interview with Talking Scared Pod EP 54, Stephen Graham Jones and Dancing With the Slasher, and he mentioned that originally Demon Theory was loaded with footnoted miscellany, but he pulled it after House of Leaves dropped and he felt it was (or could be) perceived as jumping on a trend. I would read the heck out of a footnoted version of this book.

Movie or book?

I was thrown off by the writing style and annoyed by the frequent use of “POV”. Would have been better as a movie because of this. I made it to book 3, then it started skipping a lot and I was unable to finish it.

Too confusing

I like his other books, but this was hard for me keep straight. I’m sure it was well written though. My mind kept wandering.

Don't do it!!Written as a movie script frustrating

Written as a movie script. Really frustrating to listen to. Could not get into this book, even though I like the story concept. No idea why they wrote it this way!

couldn't finish it

The plot line was good, but it got muddled with the movie script style

Terrible

I could not finish this. It is to hard to understand who’s who and what’s going on. It’s more of a movie script than a novel. I like this author but this is a no.

mindless

I am a customer of audible and only receive 1 credit per month so I try and use them wisely. This book was a new listing and didn't have any reviews. I was in the mood for a horror/scary book and thought I'd give this a try. Oh what a waste. The format of this story is written as a script to a movie, or 3 movies it seems. I just couldn't get into it. Occasionally I could visualize the story and thought Ah ha! Now it's going to get better. But unfortunately those moments were fleeting. I had to start and restart the novel several times and found that I would zone out I was so bored and have to relisten. I only made it about 1/3 of the way through this aubible book before I couldn't take it anymore. The story had interesting parts and if written in a different form may have succeeded. And it might make a good scary movie but as an audio book it was awful, spare your credit and choose something else

I really enjoyed this book

I personally enjoyed the movie script style. I played it in my head like a movie as I listened. Perhaps I am more appreciative or forgiving or other third thing as I very much enjoy SGJ, He gets the genre and obviously has a deep love of horror movies, good and bad, big budget and B and indie. I found this writing style novel as a novel (ha!).

I anxiously await more from this brilliant novelist. I'm always up for a good scare at 3AM, figuratively and literally. I have extreme insomnia.