I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls

I Found Horror

By: Ben Farthing

Narrated by: Aaron Camacho

Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Can you tell me how to get...out alive?

Johnny awakes. A puppet looms over his bed.

He recognizes the furry monster: Grandpa was its puppeteer on the children’s television show R-City Street. But Grandpa went missing a year ago. He disappeared from this very apartment building, which was converted from the old R-City Street studio.

Desperate to see Grandpa again, Johnny follows the puppet inside the building’s walls, ever deeper into a puppet-infested labyrinth....

I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls is a horror novella from the “darkly inventive” purveyor of uncanny places and wondrous evils, Ben Farthing.

©2023 Ben Farthing (P)2023 Ben Farthing

All of it

I got this book to try something short and silly and ended up getting really into the plot of what was going to happen next. Brittany irritated me a bit but it made for a good contrast to how everybody had different reactions to the puppets wandering around. Great story

Such an enjoyable listen and story

I really enjoyed this story more than the authors other books- I enjoyed the performance as well

The twists and turns and spooks were spectacular

Wonderful read

My only wish is that it was longer. Really love setting and characters. Brought back memories of stuff like old "Are You Afraid Of The Dark" and "Goosebumps" style stories.

Just fantastic Horror!

Every second of this fantastic horror had me on the edge of my seat. If you love strange horror and puppets this is for you!

Wow.

Honestly I wasn't sure what to think going into this book. I listened to it almost straight through. I got heavily invested and I can honestly say it's very well written.

This review brought to you by the letter E. To Eat you

I was never afraid of puppets... Now I'll never look at them the same. What can I say about this book? Well it creeper me out and I've never had issues with puppets before! Very creepy concept and now I can't wait to see the puppets apocalypse!

Oh boy what was that?

This was definitely a fun listen. It's pretty straight forward and quite a ride. Well thought out and relatable charactera make this a fun and relatively quick read/listen. I'll never think of the New Zoo Revue the same.....that Freddy the Frog always seemed shifty!

Not what I expected- and that's a good thing!

Okay, with a concept like finding muppet-style puppets in the walls, you expect a horror comedy, right?
Don't.
This book is straight horror with underlying tones of grief and nostalgia. I was expecting a good laugh or two, but instead got much deeper feelings and a solid scare.
This was my first book from Ben Farthing, but I'm 100% it won't be my last.

Surprisingly scary for a puppet story

I have a lot of time on the road and I listen to a lot of audio books. This story kept my attention from start to finish. It was a lot of fun to listen to, and the story kept you wondering what was going to happen next. This book was great and I have found a new whore author to explore. Give it a try.

And now I shall not ever, ever sleep again.

Puppets being exactly like they seem to be, felt and fur and plastic and moving in that familiar puppety way (one arm not doing much most of the time and the other one moving around like it’s on a thin rod; that bounce step walk and felt formed maw flapping open in shut) has never really scared me. I adore the Muppets and most forms of plush puppetry. Now ventriloquist dummies, sure: horrifying. Absolutely all of them are out to kill us. Creepy dolls? Definitely demons. But I have always thought that out of their normal context, see inside the walls of a building or appearing in rooms of some sort of old band in place, they could be scary, even if they met you no harm. The idea of them being alive and talking, and goofing off where they shouldn’t be without the aid of a human is creepy and that’s a fun idea. That’s why I immediately grabbed up this book and gave it a listen. And (in theory) I’m glad I did. Because it combines a bit of cosmic horror and the fascinating, suffocating dread filled idea of liminal spaces. For those reasons alone, I gladly went along for the ride.

And I still love them up it’s just as much. And no, I don’t think I have a newfound fear of them. But my side of the bed has a clear view of a dark hallway in our home, and I can easily, and regretfully already have, visualize a very short, furry puppet padding, its way down the hall towards me. So thanks a lot Ben Farthing, for being a really good and imaginative and thoughtful writer. He processed a primal fear that began in childhood for you and enclosed with in it, the melancholy pain and joy of memory, nostalgia, And people felt most like home. Keep it up man. I may just have to dream of my own existential nostalgia night terror novella of my own because this one hit the spot hit the spot. You monster.