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The NoSleep Podcast

NoSleep Podcast - This Book Will Kill You - Part 8

The NoSleep Podcast

Creative Reason Media Inc.

Performing Arts, Fiction, Society & Culture, Science Fiction, Arts

4.613.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The NoSleep Podcast presents the ten-part audio adaptation of “This Book Will Kill You” by Alexander Gordon Smith. This Book Will Kill You is the story of Tommi Bright, a young woman who dreamt about a witch, a room, and a table full of meat. This is her story. This is about what happens when the witch comes back to finish what she started. But be warned, because this book just might kill you. “This Book Will Kill You – Part 8” written by Alexander Gordon Smith. TRIGGER WARNING! Adapted for audio by: Jessica McEvoy Audio production by: Phil Michalski Starring Jessica McEvoy as Tommi Bright, Jessica McEvoy as Tommi Bright, Erika Sanderson as the witch, Jesse Cornett as the man, and Penny Scott-Andrews as the woman. Click here to learn more about The NoSleep Podcast team Click here to learn more about Alexander Gordon Smith Executive Producer & Host: David Cummings Musical score composed by: Brandon Boone This Book Will Kill You illustration courtesy of Emily Cannon Audio program ©2022 – Creative Reason Media Inc. – All Rights Reserved – No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of Creative Reason Media Inc. The copyright for “This Book Will Kill You” is held by Alexander Gordon Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The No Sleep Podcast presents the exclusive 10-part audio adaptation of Alexander Gordon-Smith's

0:20.2

epic tale. This book will kill you. This book will kill you is the story of Tommy Bright, a young

0:32.9

woman who dreamt about a witch, a room, and a table full of meat. This is her story. This is about

0:42.3

what happens when the witch comes back to finish what she started. But be warned, because this book just might kill you.

1:04.0

The Age Part

1:05.2

The Age Part

1:09.5

Witch, added by Unknown on 4-9 2013. You were 6 years old when you first saw the witch. You remember

1:21.7

that moment between dreaming and waking, that moment when you're swimming up from golden dreams,

1:28.2

crossing that liminal magical no man's land where two worlds collide. You remember knowing that

1:35.6

dreams were safe, that waking was safe, that space in the middle where you're neither one thing

1:42.8

nor the other. That's a bad place, a dangerous place. There's nothing to protect you there.

1:50.8

There's nowhere to hide. And that's where I always found you. I always found you. I would wait for

2:01.8

you right on the edge of the dream, pulling a cloak of cold darkness behind me. Not me. I'm never there

2:10.0

myself, just a force that would rent you up, up over the streets, over cars and buses and people,

2:18.1

down into the darkest parts of the city to the building where I live. And you'd see me. You'd see my window.

2:26.5

I screw it as a mouth, getting closer and closer and closer, and there was nothing you could do but be pulled through it.

2:35.5

I bring you to a room, the floor bare wood, the walls plaster. There's nothing in here except dirt,

2:43.6

and it's dark, but there's another door right in front of you, and through it you can see an old

2:48.8

kitchen, the stove on, a saucepan bubbling. All of it cut into harsh lines by a single bright bulb

2:56.4

hanging above my table. There's meat on my table, a butcher shop's worth. And you know I'm there too,

3:05.9

because you can hear me. I want you to hear me, and you can hear me moving toward the door.

3:12.2

I can move quickly, because I am younger than you think, but I choose to move slowly at the way a

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