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The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares

The Haunted City

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The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares

By: Jason Blum
Narrated by: full cast
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Original and terrifying fiction presented by Jason Blum, the award-winning producer behind the groundbreaking Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious, and Sinister franchises.

Jason Blum invited 16 cutting-edge collaborators, filmmakers, and writers to envision a city of their choosing, and let their demons run wild. The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares: The Haunted City brings together all-new, boundary-breaking stories from such artists as Ethan Hawke (Boyhood), Eli Roth (Hostel), Scott Derrickson (Sinister), C. Robert Cargill (Sinister), James DeMonaco (The Purge), and many others.

“Geist” by Les Bohem…

“Procedure” by James DeMonaco…

“Hellhole” by Christopher Denham…

“A Clean White Room” by Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill…

“Novel Fifteen” by Steve Faber…

“Eyes” by George Gallo…

“1987” by Ethan Hawke…

“Donations” by William Joselyn…

“The Old Jail” by Sarah Langan…

“The Darkish Man” by Nissar Modi…

“Meat Maker” by Mark Neveldine…

“Dreamland” by Michael Olson…

“Valdivia” by Eli Roth…

“Golden Hour” by Jeremy Slater…

“The Leap” by Dana Stevens…

“The Words” by Scott Stewart…

“Gentholme” by Simon Kurt Unsworth

©2015 Jason Blum (P)2015 Random House Audio Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fantasy Fiction Horror Paranormal Paranormal & Urban Scary Short Story

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Critic reviews

“Jason Blum has done it again with this collection of startlingly imaginative and remarkably potent tales. Anyone who loves a brilliant story—scary or otherwise—should read this book.”—Ryan Murphy, co-creator of American Horror Story

"Like the best horror movies, these stories begin in the real world, then slyly move you to a darker place, a nightmare world just beyond our reality. I enjoyed my visit to The Haunted City--but I am still shivering."--R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street

“I found myself double checking that my door was locked. This anthology is a compelling reminder that it does not take anything but a good story to terrify.”—M. Night Shyamalan, writer and director of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable

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Some of the stories are pretty darn good but others drag. I wouldn't buy it again.

It's okay.

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The book as a whole was lacking in a big way nothing that gave me chills or made me afraid to go to sleep as the Blum company states in the opening. A lot of the tales kind of leave you guessing without much to go on. And novel 15 jeez I thought would never end! Just endless ranting about nothing to end up being nothing at all scary. Step it up Blum.....

Ok but nothing super scary

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I enjoyed each of these stories. Only criticism, it threw me off of the story line a few times when there was female narration for a male character. Minor thing really.

just good!

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I love horror. I love(d?) Blumhouse movies. I was really looking forward to listening to this book. I’ve only made it through the first story, and the derogatory depiction of Roma as vengeful sorcerers who live in squalor, the use throughout of the G-word, and the main character’s open disdain for a Roma man who helps him save his family were just a whole lot of bigotry in one story for me. I’m really surprised this made it into print, and I’m going to return it.

Very disappointed in depiction of Roma

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first off I didn't read the reviews because I though blumhouse make pretty decent horror movies maybe it translate to audiobooks. I was so wrong! narration was awful. don't understand why they had male doing female characters and vice versa. I understand if it's just one narrator, but they clearly had both male and females doing the audio book, so it didn't make sense. the story for the most part were bad! first story OK and mah on the 2nd one but it just got worse and worse. I wouldn't was my money on it!

started off OK finished poor

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What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

if it were made more understandable and narrators had more emph when they read might b better but to keep real it was boring

Would you ever listen to anything by Jason Blum again?

no

How could the performance have been better?

dont no

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

no

sucks big time

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Entertaining, but not really scary. I thought it was going to be truely scary, but it was mediocre.

Ok

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Disappointed in content. I expected horror stories.
there was a lot of filthy language, mundane occurrences. I made myself listen to it all hoping to listen to one redeeming story...not one. Good for bedtime snoozer.

not scary

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Tried listening to ~7 or so stories, could not finish any of them.

Story 1: every young-couple-moves-in-to-a-haunted-house story rolled into one, complete with creepy kid, evil creepy foreigners, a spooky doll, etc. Badly written and, bluntly, offensive in its treatment of anyone not white American. Really leans in to the racist "Roma (although that's not the term they use) are creepy magical evil devil worshippers" trope.

Story: entitled rich guy whines a lot and dreams of living in the summer all year long, goes to Chile to hit on women 20 years younger than himself and bad stuff happens. More trope-y "fear of the exotic foreigner" themes.

and so on and so forth. The narration isn't terrible, but it's not not great and definitely not enough to make up for bad writing, bad story design, and trope-laden, outdated, boring concepts.

Bad writing, boring characters, and xenophobia

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Some of the stories were so bad that I just couldn’t listen to them.
Not worth the credit.
What a waste.

Snore...boring

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