The Boy in the Iron Box

The Complete Serialized Novel

Flying dark, a plane carrying a team of mercenaries crash-lands on a remote snowy summit. When they come across a mazelike stone fortress, it’s no refuge from the wolves and the freezing wind. It’s more like a trap. What they discover can stop the heart—or worse. As terror takes a new shape, the real battle for survival begins in this unrelenting serialized novel from Academy Award–winning filmmaker and writer Guillermo del Toro.

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©2024 Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“With his gritty brogue, narrator Ralph Ineson welcomes listeners to an icy summit where a plane has just crashed.… Ineson's delivery is punctuated by an unnerving soundtrack and realistic sound effects that bring the urgency of the scenario to life. Though she has less of a presence in this six-part serial, narrator Nina Yndis delivers a powerhouse performance that falls perfectly in line with del Toro's unsettling narrative landscape. Together, the narrators' inspired delivery creates an almost cinematic experience that never ceases to entertain.” —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner

Not for everyone

I should have listened to other reviews about the narrator, while for some I can definitely see his voice enhancing the story for myself not at all his thick accent and gravel to his voice mixed with at times clearly a good amount of phlegm made it very difficult to understand and follow the story.

With that said what I could gleam of the story it's an interesting take on the vampire story that I will have to get a physical version of to fully appreciate.

Did Frankenstein's Monster narrate this?

The narration is deep and gravely and hard to understand at times. Otherwise the story itself was entertaining.

A new horror monster!

A brilliant new horror story. I can’t wait for sequels! And the narrators super deep voice, once I grew accustomed to it, was absolutely perfect for the story.

Great and entertaining

love just about everything from CH and GDT. the ancient evil draws out a primal fear in the human consciousness

Great Story

I was engaged and invested in the characters. The setting and world building was fantastic and spooky.