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Strange Company

By: Roan Parrish, Timmi Meskers - music
Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans, Michael Crouch, Vikas Adam, Ellen Archer
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Publisher's summary

A queer horror collection that blends music and prose to bring its haunted worlds to life.

Prepare for a chilling journey from a ruined church in Philadelphia, where the spirit that lurks is far from benign to a Prohibition-era New Orleans jazz club, where a young man finds the love of his life - if he can live through the night; from a Detroit cemetery, where teenaged rituals have unforeseen consequences to a deserted beach in an unknown place, where two sisters let the ocean decide their fate; from the Jersey Shore, where the magic of a wistful summer could tear reality apart; to a Michigan high school, where a teenager finds the mystery man of his dreams who’s with him everywhere - and forever.

Written by Roan Parrish and with original music by Timmi Meskers inspired equally by the baroque and by 1980s horror movie soundtracks, Strange Company explores the places where the ordinary world breaks down into the inexplicable, the maddening, the dreadful.

Strange Company is a wonderfully creepy and endlessly inventive collection of dark tales! Roan Parrish conjures real darkness here. Highly recommended!” (Jonathan Maberry, NY Times best-selling author of Ink and V-Wars)

"These are the queer horror stories I've been waiting for." (Kirsty Logan, author of The Things We Say in the Dark and The Sound at the End)

©2021 Roan Parrish; Original music 2021 Timmi Meskers (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLC.

About the Creator

Roan Parrish lives in Philadelphia, where she is gradually attempting to write stories in every genre. When not writing, she can usually be found cutting her friends’ hair, meandering through whatever city she’s in while listening to torch songs and melodic death metal, or cooking overly elaborate meals. She loves bonfires, winter beaches, minor chord harmonies, and self-tattooing. One time she may or may not have baked a six-layer chocolate cake and then thrown it out the window in a fit of pique.

About the Composer

Timmi Meskers, a multimedia artist best known for her musical projects Garden Gate and Brown Recluse, is an internationally distributed music publisher with recorded works featured in television, advertising, and audiobooks. A novice bird-watcher and autumn enthusiast, Meskers lives in West Philadelphia with her cat, Jasper, and enjoys the tarot and cemetery picnics.

About the Performer

Born in British Columbia, Vikas Adam lived in various parts of the US and Canada, as well as India, before his family settled in Texas. He graduated from Syracuse University before returning to Dallas where he began his theater and TV career, which later took him to LA. Though relatively speaking, Adam is still early in his career as a narrator, he is already making an impact on the industry and beyond. Besides his work as an actor, producer, director, and narrator, Adam is a lecturer in the Department of Theater, Film & Television at UCLA. He has also used his theater skills in numerous social outreach programs dealing with sexual assault awareness and was one of the founding members of the Dallas County Sexual Assault Coalition.

About the Performer

Ellen Archer is a 2007 Audie Award winner for her narration of ...For the Love of a Dog; a 2018 Audie Award finalist for The Chemist; and a 2011 Audie Award finalist for her narration of The Penny and the multicast recording of Room. She is also recognized in AudioFile’s "Best of" lists for 2016 and 2017 and a winner of several Earphones and Publishers Weekly Awards. Ellen has performed more than 175 titles—many of them New York Times best sellers—and a number of wonderful series, including the Green Rider series by Kristen Britain.

About the Performer

Michael Crouch is a New York City-based actor specializing in voiceover. His audiobook narration has earned Audie Awards, multiple Earphones Awards, YALSA and ALSC honors, and Best of the Year listings from Audible, Booklist, Slate, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and AudioFile. He can also be heard on national commercials, cartoons, video games, industrials, and the animé series Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon.

About the Performer

"She is strong, sharp, and achingly real." - Audiofile Magazine. Elizabeth Evans is an accomplished voice-over actress and award-winning audiobook narrator with over 200 recorded titles, including the international best-selling young adult series Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. In addition to her audiobook work, her voice can be heard in numerous commercial campaigns, video games, and animated projects. She is a recent graduate of NYU's Graduate Acting Program and received her MFA in Spring 2019.

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Twisted and haunting.

Very twisted and haunting collection of stories- reminiscent of old Twilight Zone episodes.
The narrators were excellent, definitely made this worth a listen. I didn't even really mind the music, it was very atmospheric and felt right with this type of audiobook.

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True to it’s title!!

This was definitely a wild ride!! Great originality and unique stories!! Loved the background music!! Definitely a “re-listen”!!

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Some meh… some good

I have to admit the female centric stories left me puzzled. The writing is decent but story-lines… not so much. The only 2 stories I really like were the New Orleans & the MI high school vamp stories. The Philly church story came close but left me bereft at the end.
Narration on the male stories was good, the female ones… not. And it pains me to say that.
And though I appreciate good musical score-For me it’s distracting while listening to a story. I really wish Audible would stop with music background. I find it disruptive and, again distracting.

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Beautiful and Unsettling

Between the incredibly descriptive and intelligent writing and the outstanding music I found this listen undeniably good. The music sets a perfect tone and the writing leaves you wanting more. So many questions lingered in my mind about each story for hours after I listened. Sea legs in particular was a high point. I thoroughly enjoyed this and if you are looking for something entertaining, creepy, smart and all around beautifully written (story and music) then I highly recommend.

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Wonderful

Absolutely wonderful all around, stories, performances, loved the music aspect!
Listened on my 500 mile journey home from vacation and it made the drive very enjoyable.

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🤭 ALERT!: These stories are very LGBTQ.

That being stated, I'm a fool. I didn't read the story details or else I'd have known it right? 1 story written in my old haunt in Detroit " CITY CLUB ", Cass & Bagley & u have 2 b guided 2 the entrance by another patron else the door is almost a secret. Not all these r un Detroit, a shame, liked them. Alterations 2 the story, I felt the heavy sex scenes herein pretty heated! I feel 1 story is more like prose & mat leave some folks a bit displeased. Actors weren't all folks I'd seek out 4 more of the same sad to say. Thanks 🧙🏻‍♀️🐈🐾🐾🐾🐾

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Sea Legs

I didn't want to leave a review for this short story collection. The only reason not to leave a review is the exact reason I am leaving a review. The short story called Sea Legs tore me completely apart. And I was pissed about it. I took a few moments and realized that having a short story tear me so wide open deserves a nod. Well written and perfectly performed. Yes, I didn't like how I felt, but that is exactly what stories are supposed to do. They are made to take us places we have never been. Like it or not! Great job!

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Good Horror Stories

Interesting stories, love the LGBTQ represenation. It gets better after Mayfair, the other stories are good and keep you listening.

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Not my cup of tea

The storyline just wasnt for me, I wont leave a negative review because I'm sure it's not the book. its just me. :)

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Caliente!

The reason for the "caliente" title, the first few story were, well, HOT and nicely erotic. Granted, I loved the whole audio book, but those first few were superb. I'll let everyone else draw their own conclusions about the stories. Enjoy!

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