Black Flame

De: Gretchen Felker-Martin

Narrado por: Dana Aronowitz

One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the USA Today bestselling author of Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin.

A cursed film.

A haunted past.

A deadly secret.

The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer—deeply closeted and pathologically repressed—begins restoring the hedonistic movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her.

As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real, and is happening to her—and that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world. Her life quickly begins to spiral out of control.

Until it all fades to black, and all that remains is a voice asking a question Ellen can’t answer but can’t get out of her mind.

Do you want it?

More than anything?

Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:

Manhunt

Cuckoo

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

©2025 Gretchen Felker-Martin (P)2025 Macmillan Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Nasty, erotic, kinky, vicious, suspenseful....Felker-Martin uses the trope of the cursed movie and creates something utterly unique that manages to horrify, beguile, and empower in equal measure. If you are going to listen one horror audiobook this year, make it this one."—JOHANNA VAN VEEN, author of My Darling Dreadful Thing

"Black Flame is a literary razor blade raked right over the reader's eyeballs, Un Chien Adalouing the shit out us with nearly every page. Gretchen Felker-Martin is ready for her close-up, and this book further testifies to her blood red reign as horror's enfant terrible."—CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

"Felker-Martin’s stunning prose is equal parts grotesque and lyrical as she turns an unflinching gaze on the extremes of compulsion and desire on the way to a truly devastating climax. The story threads the difficult needle of presenting unsympathetic characters and complicated relationships without compromising its vision, and the results are spectacular."—Publishers Weekly (STARRED review)

Like the Baroness, this gripped me and wouldn't let go

The descriptions of everything was so intense in the best way possible. There was no point where I was bored or wanted to skip ahead. The mixture of history, gay culture, and horror was perfection.

I wish the narrator spoke German.

Wonderful, satisfying book. Titillating and strange and inescapable. A good quick listen with a lot of punch.