• Decorum at the Deathbed

  • By: Josh Malerman
  • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
  • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (591 ratings)

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Decorum at the Deathbed

By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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About the Performer

Award-winning narrator Hillary Huber has recorded hundreds of titles spanning many genres. Hillary has a BA in English Literature and is a voracious reader and listener of audiobooks. Being raised in conservative Connecticut and hippy Hawaii has given her a unique perspective, straddling two very different worlds. She now splits her time between California and New York. Most of that time is spent in a small 4x4 padded cell. Um...booth.

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Yawn

If you are looking for a book about a self absorbed woman droning on and on about how selfish insincere Bitch she is you’ll love it

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hmmmm...

interesting premise. I would have liked to have a little more explanation or detail as the story was winding down. also, if she believes she's a sociopath then she would have no guilt.

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Get to the point

This took too long to get around to it. 1/2 of it is describing a box in the woods. Geez.

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A woman wanting her husband dead....

I have chosen 2 Audible originals in a row of a woman wanting her husband dead. Don't read...this is a spoiler alert. If you are interested in a short dark story go ahead and listen in. She confesses her guilt to this booth and feels better. I looked at it as the booth was supposed to have a religious content of a confession booth yet she was confessing this to Satan...and when she did she felt better. The end left you wondering...did her husband survive????

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Very well written and read

I am so pleasantly surprised to have stumbled on this short story. I really enjoyed it..

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Nice performance, story original but left wanting

The story was definitely an original interesting tale of a psychopath and I was riveted for most of it but the ending was a bit flat. I liked it and I recommend it but it’s not my kind of short story. I thought the end was about to explode, instead it left me wanting something more clever. Narration very good.

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Disappointed

A short start and I was glad when it was over. Creepy and very weird.

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Definitely interesting

A good little story, fast paced and disconcerting. I enjoyed the way it felt more and more frantic as the story progressed.

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great!

great little short thriller. nice twist. well-written narrative. compelling, I definitely would love to read more from this author, and didn't want this story to end!

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Wordy and Dull

I didn’t care for this one. Wordy and somewhat dull. A woman who is a sociopath runs in the woods and finds a booth and is driven to confess. Can’t get back the time wasted on this.

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  • Ross Jeffery
  • 08-05-23

Confess Confess Confess

I really enjoyed this audiobook but the narration spoiled the full enjoyment - there wasn’t enough inflection in her voice and it took me a moment to realise it was a woman narrating it and not an AI program - but the story is there, the story is good, the concept the idea… as always original and crazy like the best of Josh Malerman’s shorter work!

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  • Sebrina Autumn Calkins
  • 09-03-23

I Confess I Have Mixed Feelings

I struggle to get my head around how I feel about this short story. The prose and some of the ideas are of a high quality, but I can't help feeling uncomfortable by the portrayal of mental health and the misogynistic tropes protagonist falls into. I struggle to really put my finger on it, but comparing this to gothic horror that uses many of the same conceits and imagery feels different. I think the explicit discussion of real mental health conditions and the melodramatic comparison of the 'hateful wife' and the 'innocent dying husband' just give me the ick. Like, I get that this is written to be titillating, in a similar vein to extreme horror and other potentially problematic media, and the doing it to do it and the enjoyment of it is not an issue, maybe this just isn't for me.

I did enjoy the writing style and performance, so I might give Birdbox a read at some point as I did enjoy the film.

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  • Linda D.
  • 07-07-23

Very good

From a different point of view, how clever of the author.

I found it is a very good short story It could’ve gone on longer. I’d look forward to hearing more. Very clever. Very interesting.

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