Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

De: John Langan

Narrado por: Matt Godfrey

A family's Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man's effigy of a movie monster becomes instrumental in his defense against a bully; a family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember what changed; a father explores a mysterious tower, and the monster imprisoned within; a man mourning the death of his father travels to his father's hometown, seeking closure, but finds himself beset by dreams of mythic bargains and a primeval, corpse-eating titan.

John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with ten new tales of cosmic horror in Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of twenty-first century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the unfathomably distant to the intimate.

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Good, but not enough stories really hit for me

I really enjoyed this author, especially his collection, the wide carnivorous sky. But I think this collection, while good, felt a little flat for me. Some of the stories are great, but overall they tend to rely on a lot of exposition, or significant backstory conveyed through dialogue. There is definitely a time and a place for that, but in so many of the stories consecutively, it can bog them down a little bit. Overall, though, it’s worth listening to, especially if you like John Langan.

A wonderful collection of short stories

I have to read (listen to) a collection of good short stories after finishing a great novel or series. I need time to mourn the loss of those characters before I move onto a new book. This book was perfect for that. There are several great shorts that were spooky and interesting and the narrator were wonderful.

Solid collection of short horror

I am a big fan of John Langan’s work & this title did not disappoint. Excellent narration that really captured the author’s vulnerability throughout the personal narratives of these stories.

Great storytelling, horror not so much

This is well written and well narrated. And I did thoroughly enjoy the Corpsemouth story itself, oh yes and Mirror Fishing. But too often this title felt like the Family Channel, and that is not what I signed up for. I got a little bit of horror but not nearly enough.And to this day I am still no fan of Lovecraft’s works by and large. So when I see that a story leans into the world of Lovecraft I know not to expect too much. If this book had been bilked as as anything other than horror, I could have given it four stars overall. But I feel that I got shafted on the horror element.

Distracting narrator

The narrator pronounces of as , awv and woman as woe man it doesn’t sound terrible on the surface, but it is , when every character in every story has the same weird affect , it really detracts from an otherwise excellent collection.