Shingles Audio Collection Volume 1

Shingles Series, Volume 1

De: Robert Bevan, Rick Gualtieri, Steve Wetherell, Drew Hayes, John G. Hartness, Authors and Dragons

Narrado por: Cassandra Myles, Cal Wembly

Tantor Audio presents six must-listen stories from the horror comedy series Shingles.

The collection begins with "The Ghost of Hooker Alley," which introduces listeners to 10-year-old Sarah and six-year-old Tommy. After a quick bus ride into town to buy a gun, Sarah and Tommy think their problems are all but solved. That is, until a creepy weirdo follows them into an alley. But they aren't the only ones in that alley....

"The Monkey's Penis" features Chris, a teenage boy who receives a birthday gift unlike any other. In "Gary's Children," a man's quest for stress relief leads to terror, and an unexpected kidnapping takes place in "Aliens Wrecked Our Kegger."

"Zombies Ate My Homework" is set in the middle of a zombie outbreak. Todd, his brother, Andy, his best friend, Tarik, and their tomboy friend, Mikayla are forced to take shelter in the first place they can find - an adult novelty store.

In the final story, "The Legend of Jimmy Headshot," the zombie apocalypse is upon us. The dead have risen from their graves to feed upon the flesh of the living, and 12-year-old Jimmy couldn't be happier about it.

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Robert Bevan (“The Ghost of Hooker Alley”); copyright 2017 by Steve Wetherell (“The Monkey’s Penis”); copyright 2018 by Rick Gualtieri (“Gary’s Children”); copyright 2018 by Drew Hayes (“Aliens Wrecked Our Kegger”); copyright 2018 by John G. Hartness (“Zombies Ate My Homework”); copyright 2018 by Rick Gualtieri (“The Legend of Jimmy Headshot”) (P)2018 Tantor

Good collection of fun shorts if a bit raunchy

I am a fan of robert bevan and if you know his work on the critical failures series you know he can be a little raunchy in his work these stories go well past this and in more ways then you can imagine. Only exception is aliens crashed my Keger by drew hayes. This book honestly feels out of place it's good but it doesn't have any raunchy elements and does not contain the adult store that plays an element in all the stories.

So wrong...

All of these stories are the most messed up things I have ever heard amd I couldnt stop laughing. I am going to buy vol 2 as soon as I finish this post

Overall solid with one or two shortfalls.

I honestly skipped a chunk if Gary's Children as it's the kind of sci-fi/horror story that always got on my nerves back when I used to watch the Twilight Zone. Someone is cursed/goes mad for no apparent reason, or possibly an insufficiently justified one, other than a random encounter with a mysterious individual. There is no pay off, no resolution, and despite the character's best efforts to rectify the percieved moral deficiencies that led to their downfall, continues to suffer to the end of the story and beyond. These stories always leave me wondering what the goddamn point was. Sure, it's awful to imagine being subjected to torment without hope of explanation or reprieve. That's the point of Kafka's, "The Trial." But so many horror stories are essentially that, but instead of an oppressive, totalitarian regime, it's ghosts, which, due to their inexplicable nature, feels like it robs the tale of any gravity or meaning because it's magic of some kind and you can't really analyze or ask questions about it because it's goddamn magic and there's no reasoning with it by definition.

That said, I enjoyed the rest of the book overall, with "Aliens Ruined Our Kegger" (or was it "Crashed Our Kegger?") being a personal favorite. Hayes has a way of writing solid antagonists that can, in the right context, be highly sympathetic, and when the way in which that dynamic can be reframed in a moment can have a powerful impact on the listener, contextualizing previous events and undermining the reader's assumptions. I won't go into any more detail than that in order to avoid spoilers, but suffice to say I had a GREAT time listening to that story.

Bottom line, if you like any of the authors presented here, you should pick up this collection.

Good for some laughs but…

Definitely not for children. Found this series because of the Caverns and Creatures author because that series is hilarious. This is more along the lines of teenage crude humor and as long as you take it as that and not expect anything deep or thought provoking. We turn this on here and there to take breaks from more serious or educational books.

If 'Tales from the Crypt' was written by SouthPark

I really enjoyed the way the authors confronted dark themes with twisted humor. With so much of the storytelling centered on children of dysfunctional households, it's refreshingly honest about how kids cope with horrible situations in the moment. Sure, everyone needs serious therapy later, but that's just how life works when things get messy.