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Joe Hempel
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John Durgin
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It has been 20 years since the serial killer known as The Black Heart Killer terrorized the town of Newport in 1979. Life mostly returned to normal after the killer was captured. All the townspeople have to do is stay out of the woods where the bodies were abandoned—their chests ripped open, and their hearts torn out....
Howie Burke and his friends decide rules are meant to be broken. That’s what 15-year-old kids do. On a beautiful fall day when they decide to go out in the woods to film a horror movie, they stumble across a mysterious grave. What they don’t know is that they are about to release an evil on the town unlike anything in their home-made movies. They will soon uncover the secrets of the Black Heart Killer, and what it truly means to be cursed.
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In a secluded mansion hidden away from the outside world, young Kosa lives under the strict and overpowering rule of her enigmatic mother. For Kosa, the rules set by Mother are the guiding principles of her life, shaping her beliefs and actions. She has been sheltered from the truth about the world beyond the confines of their home, conditioned to fear the darkness and malevolence that supposedly lurks outside.
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KOSA 2?
- By Sophia on 05-30-24
By: John Durgin, and others
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Inside the Devil's Nest
- By: John Durgin
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Real estate agent Anthony Graham has his family on the run after witnessing a murder at the hands of the powerful Costello crime family. They’re forced to hide at one of Anthony’s properties, a deserted campground with a sinister past. No one is safe from the men that hunt them, or the terrors that await them inside The Devil’s Nest.
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Highly recommended
- By timj26 on 05-22-23
By: John Durgin
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Sleeping in the Fire
- A Collection of 9 Horrifying Tales
- By: John Durgin
- Narrated by: Aaron Camacho
- Length: 6 hrs
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From the dark mind of John Durgin, author of The Cursed Among Us and Inside The Devil's Nest, comes nine suspense-filled tales that will have you gasping for breath.
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An amazing and spooky collection of short stories.
- By Mamie Diemer on 07-19-23
By: John Durgin
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The Conservator's Collection
- Derelict
- By: Jay Bower, John Durgin, John Lynch, and others
- Narrated by: R. Douglas Patten
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Hidden within dusty shelves are tomes made of human flesh, Blood-soaked pages reveal tales once thought to be lost but now revealed for the first time by The Conservator. He spent decades collecting and preserving forgotten lore. Now, he’s decided to unveil three of the best legends culled from the darkness.
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Loved it!
- By kixfan on 12-14-23
By: Jay Bower, and others
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The Rising
- By: Brian Keene
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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The Rising is the story of Jim Thurmond, a determined father battling his way across a post-apocalyptic zombie landscape, to find his young son. Accompanied by Martin, a preacher still holding to his faith, and Frankie, a recovering heroin addict with an indomitable will to survive, Jim travels from state to state and town to town facing an endless onslaught of undead hordes and the evils perpetrated by his fellow man.
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Different type of zombie story
- By Rabid Reader on 08-01-17
By: Brian Keene
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The Cotton Candy Massacre
- By: Christopher Robertson
- Narrated by: Alana Nicole Cox
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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The book you are about to listen to is an account of the tragedy that occurred at the reopening of Bonkin's Bonanza one day in the summer of 1989. Some came looking for fun, like Candy Barton and her best friend, Leigh.
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Splatterpunk
- By Kindle Customer on 10-31-24
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Kosa
- DarkLit Books
- By: John Durgin, DarkLit Press
- Narrated by: Lacey Anthony
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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In a secluded mansion hidden away from the outside world, young Kosa lives under the strict and overpowering rule of her enigmatic mother. For Kosa, the rules set by Mother are the guiding principles of her life, shaping her beliefs and actions. She has been sheltered from the truth about the world beyond the confines of their home, conditioned to fear the darkness and malevolence that supposedly lurks outside.
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KOSA 2?
- By Sophia on 05-30-24
By: John Durgin, and others
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Inside the Devil's Nest
- By: John Durgin
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Real estate agent Anthony Graham has his family on the run after witnessing a murder at the hands of the powerful Costello crime family. They’re forced to hide at one of Anthony’s properties, a deserted campground with a sinister past. No one is safe from the men that hunt them, or the terrors that await them inside The Devil’s Nest.
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Highly recommended
- By timj26 on 05-22-23
By: John Durgin
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Sleeping in the Fire
- A Collection of 9 Horrifying Tales
- By: John Durgin
- Narrated by: Aaron Camacho
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the dark mind of John Durgin, author of The Cursed Among Us and Inside The Devil's Nest, comes nine suspense-filled tales that will have you gasping for breath.
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An amazing and spooky collection of short stories.
- By Mamie Diemer on 07-19-23
By: John Durgin
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The Conservator's Collection
- Derelict
- By: Jay Bower, John Durgin, John Lynch, and others
- Narrated by: R. Douglas Patten
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Hidden within dusty shelves are tomes made of human flesh, Blood-soaked pages reveal tales once thought to be lost but now revealed for the first time by The Conservator. He spent decades collecting and preserving forgotten lore. Now, he’s decided to unveil three of the best legends culled from the darkness.
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Loved it!
- By kixfan on 12-14-23
By: Jay Bower, and others
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The Rising
- By: Brian Keene
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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The Rising is the story of Jim Thurmond, a determined father battling his way across a post-apocalyptic zombie landscape, to find his young son. Accompanied by Martin, a preacher still holding to his faith, and Frankie, a recovering heroin addict with an indomitable will to survive, Jim travels from state to state and town to town facing an endless onslaught of undead hordes and the evils perpetrated by his fellow man.
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Different type of zombie story
- By Rabid Reader on 08-01-17
By: Brian Keene
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The Cotton Candy Massacre
- By: Christopher Robertson
- Narrated by: Alana Nicole Cox
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The book you are about to listen to is an account of the tragedy that occurred at the reopening of Bonkin's Bonanza one day in the summer of 1989. Some came looking for fun, like Candy Barton and her best friend, Leigh.
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Splatterpunk
- By Kindle Customer on 10-31-24
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Camp Slaughter
- By: Sergio Gomez
- Narrated by: Jeremy Frazier
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It’s a local legend. No one is sure if this “Camp Slaughter” place is real or not. But a group of college kids renting out a cabin deep in the woods of Pennsylvania will soon realize the truth. They’ll realize the danger, too. Or rather, the cannibal out in the woods will bring the danger to them...
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Bad All Around
- By Kristia P. on 08-14-24
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Head Like a Hole
- By: Andrew Van Wey
- Narrated by: Tom Jordan
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It’s the mid-'90s. Grunge and flannel are fading as the Spice Girls and Hot Topic conquer the malls. Cherry gloss glistens on the lips of the youth. Modems hiss as America comes online. And in a fog-drenched cove at the edge of New England, something terrible awakens when a fisherman reels in a gruesome catch: the remains of a young woman. Remains still pulsing with furious life.
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Very Original Horror Story
- By Mistsofjade on 12-12-22
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City of Ghosts: Supernatural Horror with Scary Ghosts & Haunted Houses
- Death Hunter Series, Book 1
- By: Ron Ripley, Scare Street
- Narrated by: Thom Bowers
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Shane Ryan knows all about pain and suffering. A retired Marine gunnery sergeant, Shane has seen the worst humanity has to offer. He survived his ordeal, but his soul has been tainted by the darkness, leaving him with a permanent connection to the world of the supernatural. Shane sees the spirits of the dead. He hears their whispered cries of pain. And it’s a gift he plans to put to good use, when he travels to Detroit to investigate the death of one woman who saw through all the darkness in his heart. A woman who became his lover, many years ago.
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Ghost Hunter
- By willee on 11-20-20
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Dead End Tunnel
- By: Nick Roberts
- Narrated by: Derek Austin
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Maverick Hall has spent years trying to forget the chilling events of his thirteenth birthday in the summer of 1999. That fateful night, he and his best friends ventured through a seemingly innocuous tunnel on their bikes — a journey from which not all of them returned. Now, as an adult, Maverick is haunted by a sinister force that compels him to return to his old neighborhood, a place shadowed by secrets, deceit, and an unsettling sense of death. Drawn back against his better judgment, he must face the dark forces that have lurked in waiting, eager for his return.
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Throwback to Stephen King
- By Leah R. on 10-20-24
By: Nick Roberts
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The Halloween Store and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve
- By: Ronald Kelly
- Narrated by: J Rodney Turner
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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When you first enter The Halloween Store, things seem normal. Fun and frightful decorations, ghastly costumes and masks of the season, and bags of candy galore. Then, as you travel farther into its shadowy depths, things begin to change. The air smells of damp autumn leaves and candle-scorched pumpkin. The shelves of All Hallows’ Eve fare grow darker and more disturbing. Strange and unsettling things of Halloweens past and present lurk amid the cobwebs and dust....
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Wish I could give this 10 stars.⭐️ It was FANTASTIC.!
- By John on 10-13-24
By: Ronald Kelly
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The Queen
- By: Nick Cutter
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Zac Aleman, Corey Brill, and others
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On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity’s been missing for over a month. Most people in town—even the police—think she’s dead. Margaret and Charity have been lifelong friends. They share everything, know the most intimate details about one another…except for the destructive secret hidden from them both. A secret that will trigger a chain of events ending in tragedy, bloodshed, and death. And now Charity wants Margaret to know her story.
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Loved it
- By Amazon Customer on 10-30-24
By: Nick Cutter
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By the Light of Dead Stars
- Beyond the Lost Coast, Book 1
- By: Andrew Van Wey
- Narrated by: Tom Jordan
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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When tragedy shatters 13-year-old Zelda Ruiz’s adolescence, she retreats with her uncle Mark to the bucolic town of Greywood Bay. But nothing can prepare them for the malignant terror that has long coveted these lands.
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Troubled town torn apart by its secrets
- By Lori on 07-03-23
By: Andrew Van Wey
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Anathema
- By: Nick Roberts
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Bryan and Ellie Stockton hope they left behind their demons when they move to their idyllic new home in southern West Virginia. Above all, they want a fresh start for their young son, Derrick, who witnessed the tumultuous first years of their marriage—years that were rife with substance abuse, rage, and resentment. Their bright hope for the future is darkened when a child disappears from their neighborhood. The couple becomes suspicious of a reclusive resident with a degenerative brain disorder.
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Completely gutted me.
- By Katie on 05-19-24
By: Nick Roberts
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Small Town Horror
- By: Ronald Malfi
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Andrew Larimer has left his past behind. Rising up the ranks in a New York law firm, and with a heavily pregnant wife, he is settling into a new life far from Kingsport, the town in which he grew up. But when he receives a late-night phone call from an old friend, he has no choice but to return home.
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Am I reading IT or what
- By D Cook on 10-18-24
By: Ronald Malfi
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William
- By: Mason Coile
- Narrated by: Honey St. Dennis
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Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career—he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William. No one knows about William. Henry’s agoraphobia keeps him inside the house, and his fixation on his project keeps him up in the attic, away from everyone, including his pregnant wife, Lily.
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The plot twist...
- By Chad Mathlin on 09-12-24
By: Mason Coile
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The Mobius Door
- By: Andrew Najberg
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Tucked away in the foothills, surrounded by pine forests, loaded with kids who still play outside, Millwood is the small town everyone knows. For Heather Bradley, it's a place that keeps her family safe; her biggest worries are the daily grind of her job and the kids coming home late. She doesn't know that unfathomable forces are set to converge on her town and thrust their neat lives into darkness, but when her oldest son Stuart opens a one-sided door in the woods and a black cloud pours out, the Bradleys and their whole town find themselves locked in a desperate struggle for survival.
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Our Relationship with Darkness
- By Sidney on 12-24-23
By: Andrew Najberg
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I Was a Teenage Slasher
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Stephen Graham Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.
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So much fun
- By Amber on 08-13-24
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- Casey
- 04-01-23
Nostalgic slasher book
This book is an enthralling story of a group of teenage boys uncovering an age old secret in their small town. The author does a spectacular job describing the terror and violence the boy’s experience. There were a few missed opportunities to expand on the back story of the coven but overall I loved it and I’m excited to read/listen to more of John’s books!
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- Kendall Cupp
- 03-29-23
Such a fun story!
I really enjoyed my first book by John Durgin. It had a similar feel to stranger things, but a bit darker which I really grew to appreciate.
This story hit the ground running and never seemed to lose steam. I love how it was written, and can’t wait for a sequel!
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- Cassie
- 02-16-23
Can’t wait for more
I’ve been wanting to read this book for awhile now and was lucky to receive an audio copy straight from the author. I gobbled it up! This book was so good!
I grew up in a small New England town in the 90s/early 2000s and the nostalgia really hit home. This book is like a classic King coming of age story- modernized. Easily my favorite read so far this year.
Only question— John, when can we get a movie??? I have a strong need!
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- LITRPG Audiobook Reviews
- 05-18-23
Horror and Hempel!
Hey, you got your horror on my Hempel! No, you got Hempel in my Horror. Huh, tastes great! That's how this story feels. Kind of like Stand By Me meets Stranger Things. Ancient horrors hidden away accidentally awakened and who is it up to to stop it? This aint It. Not by a long shot. These kids aren't the losers club, and the monster isn't some stupid clown. This is a bit more serious. Can you dig it? Check it out. reat tale and narration.
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- Ruth Nielsen
- 07-09-23
Mediocre Story Telling
It seemed like the story had all the right ingredients but fell short of being really good. There was some tension building but everything felt rushed and the story telling was superficial. Several reviews referred to this as a coming of age story and while I would agree there are many other books that do a better job of describing the characters and teenage angst that go into a making a great coming of age story. This was an effort that didn’t quite make it. I’m glad I got it on sale and didn’t waste a credit.
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- Deb O Rah
- 02-14-23
enjoyable YA horror
3.5 enjoyable listen of a coming of age YA horror highlighting what teens usually deal with; school, teachers, parents, bullies, first loves and freshly risen demons.
The storyline was a little too teen forward for my preference and should be slated as a YA horror IMO, but I enjoyed the storytelling and I look forward to reading more from Durgin.
I was given the audiobook for a review. Thank you John!
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- Sabrina N. Frang
- 08-15-23
A strong debut horror novel
I am in awe of John Durgin's debut novel. He already possesses the talent of an author who is worth keeping an eye on. The Cursed Among Us was a fun, gory, fast-paced, and atmospheric horror story. It zips along and, somehow, avoids a sloggy middle section that even seasoned, bestselling authors are guilty of. The teenage protagonists feel quite realistic. I knew boys like this growing up. Lastly, this novel is legitimately a horror novel through and through, with varied and gruesome kills and creepy scenes.
My only criticisms, and these are easily fixable with more writing practice, is that the dialogue, while often realistic, sometimes devolved into "nobody talks like that" melodrama. Also, the story lacked some emotional resonance, and the 'big reveal" fell flat for me-it wound up being a non-event; both of these issues can be solved with more character and plot development. There was nothing leading into the big twist that gave the reveal the punch it needed. .
That said, I only wish I could write something this good as a debut novel. Well done!
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- elctrcmyhm
- 08-12-24
The Cursed Among Us
This was a fun, fast paced, enjoyable, YA read. I see a lot of potential with this author.
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- Paul Dilger
- 02-27-23
3.5/5 - The Cursed Among Us
This was an entertaining listen.
It’s about a group of friends that accidentally unleash an entity that has been hidden away in the woods beyond their town. They also soon discover that the town has secrets of their own.
The climax of the book is pretty fun, action packed, and gory. I found the witch to be terrifying. The imagery of violence was well done. I felt like I could see the bodies being mutilated in my head so vividly. I would love to see a film adaptation of this. John Durgin has a good mind for horror.
That being said, I don’t feel there was nothing too groundbreaking in terms of new ideas. A group of teens in a small town unleashes a hidden evil is nothing new, albeit it’s very fun and enjoyable to me. I have always been drawn to those types of stories.
Overall I recommend this one to other fans of horror.
3.5/5
Also no complaints on the narration. He did a great job.
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- Trisha H
- 03-29-23
Loved it!
This book has been on my forever long TBR and I was lucky to receive this audiobook straight from the author in exchange for an honest review. Thank you John Durgin! 👍🏻📚
Wow! This book was so well written and well narrated! I am sad it took me so long to get this one started!
It was creepy, suspenseful and the descriptions were out of this world with also giving me a nostalgic vibe! I am definitely looking forward to reading more from John in the future!
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