Three Days in Ashford

By: Ty Tracey

Narrated by: Bobby Gaglini

Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Daniel Hallowell by all standards is a tough cookie. Despite a difficult up-bringing, growing up in a different foster home every few years and several run-ins with the authorities, he pulled himself up and put himself through college.

A few years later, he became a household name as the most wildly successful paranormal investigator the world had ever known. His success came complete with his own television show and a lucrative contract from the network that owned its rights.

With his tight-knit crew in tow, the show would take him around the world to explore and document the most haunted locations that the planet could offer. A chance encounter one evening with a stranger in a hotel bar piques Daniel's interest. He reluctantly agrees to investigate Ashford - a long abandoned town cut somewhere deep into the Ohio countryside.

Intrigued by the stranger’s desperate and terrifying synopsis into a decades-long series of unexplainable events that had taken place there, Daniel and his eclectic crew clear their schedule and embark on a trip that they would come to regret for the rest of their lives.

As they struggle to unravel the truth that lies at the heart of the disturbances that plague Ashford, they find themselves hunted from within the deep forests that surround them on every side. Hunted by a force so evil that there is no human explanation for it.

As Daniel slides deeper down the rabbit hole and watches helplessly as his mind and sanity are slowly ripped away, he and his crew must embark on a journey across Ashford, and within the deep recesses of their own souls to uncover answers they otherwise would have never cared to know. Answers that will question the very psychological, theological, and philosophical meaning of our existence as a species.

The the only way to save themselves from the unimaginably savage force that threatens the very existence of humanity, is to decipher the riddle that haunts Ashford - the town that Satan calls home.

©2018 Matt Coan (P)2021 Matt Coan

Ghost Hunters meets Alien

wasn't sure if I was reading a horror novel or a scifi book. It was okay though confusing and predictable at times. Was left open for a second book, hoping more is answered with a second book.

Fun and well performed story

Very well performed and a great story. Thrilling and at the same time thought provoking.

Where was the editor? Sexist and reductive

There are no substantial characters who are not cis, White men. What does that say about the inner life of this author and his editor?

Expect redundant, unnecessary explanations and descriptions, sexist rants about testicles, non-western religion repackaged as the author's own invention, and writing that tries too hard ("fascinatingly interesting" is used at one point). This is basically a dude-bro fever dream dressed to impress...who exactly?

It's a shame, too. Towards the beginning there are some masterfully crafted scares and compelling prose...but it derails quickly from there.

The volume of the narration varies drastically, and the performer does some distracting voices that don't make sense in the context of the writing.