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Best New Horror
- A Short Story from '20th Century Ghosts'
- Narrated by: David LeDoux
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 10-16-07
- Language: English
- Publisher: HarperAudio
Regular price: $2.27
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- Rocio
- Fresno, CA, United States
- 04-13-15
Disturbing and great!
I actually listened to this audio book for the first time a few years back. At the time I didn't know who Joe Hill was and I didn't really listen to audiobooks. I accidentally downloaded from iTunes and fell in love with it immediately! It was so dark and creepy I loved it, I started doing audiobooks because of this book! After a year or so I lost it on my iTunes account, this happened to all the books I bought through iTunes actually (thank you Audible for existing!) but this story stayed with me for years after. Then I bought Horns by Joe and was pleasantly surprised when I found out he wrote Best new Horror too!!! I love all of Joe's books and have not been disappointed yet! This is a short story but a great one!
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- Matthew S. Hill
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- 11-28-16
I absolutely loved this story!!!
This is true original horror at its best.
Great background story on all the characters.