Letters From The Looney Bin (Book 1)

De: Thatcher C. Nalley

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

LETTERS FROM THE LOONEY BIN is a #1 Amazon Bestseller

What if the only survivors of a vanished asylum were their words?

In the late 1970s, the Emerson Rose Asylum emptied in a single breath—patients, doctors, orderlies—all gone. No bodies. No evidence. No answers.

Decades later, before the demolition of the asylum, a bundled stack of letters is found—every one addressed to the mysterious pseudonym Dr. Quill.
What spills out is a chilling collection of confessions and pleas penned by the forgotten, each voice carrying its own fracture and fire. As the patients recount childhood wounds and quiet mercies, a darker pattern presses at the edges—strange experiments, vanishing names, and a plan whispered through the vents.

Piece by piece, their notes map the asylum’s final months. Haunting yet human, grim yet hope-lit, these letters usher you room by room toward the night Emerson Rose went silent. What remains untouched is the raw pulse of their human spirit—challenge, corruption, salvation—and the dangerous tenderness of believing escape is possible.

Their journey will become your journey as the patients chronicle their final months in these, Letters from the Looney Bin.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thatcher C. Nalley is the author of the psychological fictional series, Letters From The Looney Bin, filled with stories that explore the human condition and blend raw empathy with haunting realism.
She has worked, researched, and trained for over two decades in the fields of mental health and mindset. The Letters from the Looney Bin fictional series was born from a lifelong fascination with human behavior.


The story continues…
Book 2 in the series - Dear Santa: Letters from the Looney Bin - is now available for eBook pre-order. The novel (eBook & Paperback) will release on October 29, 2025.

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The AI/virtual voice narration was horrible

The story itself was so moving. As an audiobook, this would have been far more powerful with human narration. It honestly required more inflection, emotion and personalized voice to each individual story/letter. In fact, it would be a perfect "Audible Production" with several voices. If you can get past the AI narration, the actual story will stun you and leave you begging for book 2. With a HUMAN voice.

This

This book should be better known than it is. I would like to hear it read by a human being, I feel it lacked the necessary emotion needed to express some of the emotion expressed in the story. However very nice and interesting stories.

letters from the looney bin

interesting for those who enjoy personal human stories, but I wish for real audio readers

Ai voice

couldnt tell the difference between characters other then that God read ready for book 2

AI narration ruins the listening experience

It’s such a shame that the narration was virtual. This is such a powerful collection of testimonies from one of the most vulnerable sectors of society. The use of AI to narrate their stories robs them of their humanity, much like the oppressors they endured in real life.

just the truth of it all

I liked the individual eye whiteness accounts and the life stories of these individuals.

Never judge a book by it's cover

Not a fan of virtual voice, but since this is in an English dialect, I forgot that it wasn't most of the time. Stories kept me engaged.

Great book, needs better narration

Loved the book, but AI doesn’t sell the story. Passion is lost from the loss of inflections.

Funny Letters

Twelve letters, written by patients at an 'insane asylum ' given to the new Dr in charge. Some letters are heartbreaking and some funny (not the illness). Introspection into how the mentally disabled were treated in the 60's and 70''s - Thankfully we've come a long way since then.

great story, poorly ai read

these stories where amazing but the ai makes it a hard listen, get a real reader and this would be 5 star every way