Tell Me I'm Worthless

By: Alison Rumfitt

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience.

"Nicky Endres pulls out all the stops when performing this horror story about a haunted house and the shocking trauma it inflicts on three people...This is the stuff nightmares are made of..."- AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)


"Narrator Nicky Endres narrates three distinct POVs (Alice, Ila, and the House), and her voice easily slithers between all three, demonstrating how the house dominates this story and the women’s lives." - Library Journal

"Transfeminine actor Nicky Endres’ narration is chilling throughout, as they voice the perspectives of Alice, Ila, and the house at an easy, relaxed pace. Their voice maintains a lulling and melodious sing-song quality, which acts in opposition to the horrors portrayed in the book." - Booklist

“A triumph of transgressive queer horror.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
“Easily one of the strongest horror debuts in recent memory.” —Booklist, STARRED review

Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep.

Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, to go past the KEEP OUT sign and over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, Alice knows she must go.

Together, Alice and Ila must face the horrors that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, whom the House has chosen to make its own.

Cutting, disruptive, and darkly funny, Tell Me I’m Worthless is a vital work of trans fiction that examines the devastating effects of trauma and how fascism makes us destroy ourselves and each other.

“Ambitious, brutal, and brilliant.” —Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

WOW

This audiobook was very well done; narration superb. 🤌

This was dark and very unsettling. You will need a palate cleansing afterward to get the dark out of you
(r/eyebleach or something).

This. Is. Horror. Fascism is a nightmare creeping more and more into the everyday modern world. TMIW brings it in and it feels like an illness--like a sickness that creeps inside of you and makes you doubt everything. And, there's the house! "The house is salivating... " Oh, that sentence brought a gross and unsettling visual to my mind that just stayed there.

Have you ever been online and came across a wall of text in which someone has just spilled their hate and mental illness into your eyeballs? Have you ever been part of the demographic the hate was aimed at? Whether or not you have, Alison Rumfitt will throw you into the utter helplessness of that pit of dispair, and when she's done, the feeling of relief you get when the scene is over is real.

This was heavy and great, and I will definitely be reading it again. But, in print this time... because this audio book was just sooo intense.

OMG

everything was so perfect! this story left my mouth open and the narrator did so great! 5 stars

Amazing Book

Beautifully sad representation of todays world. Could not stop listening, a must read book. Very dark and thoughtful. I absolutely loved it.

Haunting

It's horrifying, smart, brutal and it'll stick with you for days afterward. Be forewarned, the content warnings before the start are there for a reason. Do not take them lightly.

Great Narration - Wonderful Story

The narrator was fantastic and I appreciated their articulation - their voice was also wonderful to listen to.

The story was fantastic and touched on so many themes and topics of true horror and evil through fascism. I would give the story an overall 5 stars, but the beginning was slow, and seemed to really focus on the feeling the characters had around a room. After the story started to progress it was hard to stop listening.