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When a yacht being used to smuggle drugs sinks, the six smugglers must seek refuge the only place they can - an abandoned oil rig in the middle of the sea. But there's something strange about this oil rig. For one thing, it looks more like a scientific research facility. And for another, there are no people - only piles of clothes with no bodies in them. It soon becomes clear that something is loose on the rig. Something deadly. It's stalking them, one by one, but it's not just a horrible death they have to fear - it's what comes after.
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Suffer the Children presents a terrifying tale of apocalyptic fiction, as listeners are introduced to Herod's Syndrome, a devastating illness that suddenly and swiftly kills all young children across the globe. Soon, they return from the grave, and ask for blood. And with blood, they stop being dead. They continue to remain the children they once were, but only for a short time, as they need more blood to live. The average human body holds 10 pints of blood, so the inevitable question for parents everywhere becomes: How far would you go to bring your child back?
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Brilliant, Well Done!!!!!
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When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world.
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Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now, she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.
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Few in sleepy Sumner’s Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass. A man had killed his wife and two young daughters there, a shocking, gruesome crime that the sleepy upstate New York town tried to bury. One summer night, an emboldened fourteen-year-old Clare and her best friend, Abby, ventured into the Octagon House. Clare came out, but a piece of Abby never did. Twenty years later, Clare receives word that Abby has attempted suicide at the Octagon House and now lies in a coma.
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In Iain Reid’s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Henrietta won't have a chance to miss him, because she won't be left alone - not even for a moment.
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The “Foe” and fake reviews
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When Chris' son dies in a tragic car crash, her world is devastated. The walls of grief close in on Chris' life until, one day, a small cut on her finger changes everything. A drop of blood falls from Chris' hand onto her son's roadside memorial, and, later that night, Chris thinks she sees his ghost outside her window. Only, is it really her son's ghost, or is it something else - something evil? Soon Chris is playing a dangerous game with forces beyond her control in a bid to see her son, Trey, alive once again.
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Fired at almost the same time as her son, Clark, is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, former film critic turned teacher Lois Cairns is caught in a depressive downward spiral, convinced she's a failure who's spent half her adult life writing about other people's dreams without ever seeing any of her own come true.
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Smartly done and well written.
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Christopher Golden's Ararat is the heart-pounding tale of an adventure that goes wrong - on a biblical scale. When an earthquake reveals a secret cave hidden inside Mount Ararat in Turkey, a daring, newly engaged couple are determined to be the first ones inside...and what they discover will change everything. The cave is actually a buried ancient ship that many quickly come to believe is Noah's Ark. When a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses.
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Chilling then dragged on too long.....
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Thirteen Storeys
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A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are strangers - even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building. None of them know why they were selected to receive his invitation. Besides a postcode, they share only one thing in common - they've all experienced an unsettling occurrence within the building's walls. By the end of the night, their host is dead, and none of the guests will say what happened. His death remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries - until now.
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Good story, mostly boring writing
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-23-16
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My expectations were entirely different: horror was the genre touted, yet it was a literary work. I loved it, I loved that it was, more than anything, character-driven. And characters they were, unique and alive. This is a novel that lets you consider your own circumstances in the world, that not-so-subtly reminds you to appreciate the aesthetics of the natural world and art. A novel well worth donating your time to.
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- Shawn
- 03-13-19
This is a drama, I wanted a thriller/horror.
This is a drama, but I was looking for thriller/horror. A credit wasted on poor categorization.
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- gldfngrz
- 01-03-22
A fine reboot of Cuckoo's Nest w/ monsters..
Decent story!! I would like to have seen more of a development of Pepper's and Dori's characters. I found it easy to follow the nicknames given to the other characters, it helped the story along. The timeline could have been explained a little bit more. Overall I give it a "MEH++" I would recommend it to a friend that I liked.
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- Kenya
- 11-16-22
satisfying, entertaining
still not sure if this is a book about paranormal activity or if everything was about perception and misunderstandings. all in all, very entertaining and kept my interest for the couple of days I listened to it
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- LovLaLa
- 03-19-19
A Syfy lovers very good read
I really enjoyed this book. I am a true lover of sci-fi and horror. But I like my stories to have realistic rooms such that it makes the story almost believable. This is one of those stories and I really enjoyed the characters and felt for them. I read it this book off for only because I felt it went too far into the story of Van Gogh. Although it has inspired me to plan a trip to Amsterdam next summer.
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- amy
- 02-21-21
I am hooked
The is the second story I have listened to by LaValle. I love both stories and I love his reading of them.
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- Elizabeth
- 10-01-12
intriquing premise, so-so plotline
Is there anything you would change about this book?
Certainly it's a challenge to write a book that takes place in one setting alone. I got a little bored in there.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Premise is compelling - guy gets arrested and thrown into a mental hospital even though it seems everyone, himself, cops, doctors, knows he's not sick.The main conflict flatlines - man/beast patient terrorizes other patients.
Did Victor LaValle do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
Yes, very much so. It's an interesting story how he drew his characters, which LaValle speaks to in his acknowledgments and also talked about to Terry Gross on NPR.
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- Cy Hy
- 07-20-19
Just beautiful
Such a perfect reality of the human condition in all its glory and warts. You will find true love inside this book.
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- Mr. & Mrs. V
- 09-23-20
Fantastic
I read more than I listen to audiobooks, so I am not drawing on a sample of thousands, but this is one of my top 3 audiobooks so far. LaValle does a spectacular job reading and the story somehow feels more complete heard in the author's spoken voice. The story itself is both a tense, is-there-a-monster-locked-in-this-space-with-us, horror novel and a takedown of some of the bureaucracies in the world that make horrifically flawed systems with tragic human costs. We made the systems, we could alter, remove, or replace them. But we instead all feel resigned to live by them. And yet for all that, LaValle highlights the power of human hope, perseverance, and small kindnesses. Read or listened to, this novel is a joy.
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- Stormy
- 11-27-23
Powerful
When I read something so powerful and haunting that it will stay with me the rest of my life, I have to give it five stars. The Devil in Silver is such a book.
It’s billed as a horror novel, but I don’t think that’s the right category for it. Readers who go in expecting thrills and spine tingles will probably feel misled. That said, much of the content of this novel chilled me to the core, but not because of the Devil character, although he is very scary and murders people.
The real terrifying element of this book is the abuse of patients on a psychiatric wing of an underfunded and understaffed public city hospital. I have no doubt that many of the things that happen to the characters in this book—such as being tied to a bed for weeks and being medicated into a comatose state for months on end without seeing a Doctor—are factual.
I heard a fascinating interview with the author on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, in which he said that he’s visited relatives and friends in mental hospitals many times. One of the patients in the book is based on a woman profiled in the New York Times, and I looked up and read that article too.
If you have any interest in mental illness or psychiatric treatment, I recommend this novel very highly.
If you are looking to read something that’s just a scary monster story, you might want to pass on this one.
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