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Tales to Terrify

Tales to Terrify 265 Leslie Bohem Diane Awerbuck Brendan Wilhem

Tales to Terrify

Drew Sebesteny

Horror Fiction, Flash Fiction, Suspense, Creepy, Drama, Dark Tales, Horror Stories, Arts, Fiction, Horror, Creepy Pasta, Books, Scary Stories, Short Fiction, Short Stories, Creepy Stories, Terror

4.5703 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Coming UpGood Evening: 00:00:42Les Bohem’s The Bad Place as read by Seth Williams: 00:03:31Diane Awerbuck’s Duiweltjie as read by Dan Rabarts: 00:36:04Brendan Wilhelm’s The Traeger Technique as read by Nikolle Doolin: 00:57:01Pleasant Dreams: 01:25:16Pertinent LinksThe District of Wonders Network Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/districtofwondersSeth Williams: http://www.theboojum.org/Dan Rabarts: http://dan.rabarts.com/Nikolle Doolin: http://nikolledoolin.com/

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Just click the link in the show description to support now. Welcome to Tales to Tales to Terrify, part of

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Part of the District of Wonders Network.

0:40.3

Featuring Starship, Sofafer and Far-Fetched Fables,

0:43.7

everyone has a story in the District of Wonders.

0:46.7

Come and find yours.

1:01.4

Good evening, children of the night. Well, I did it. I managed to find time to finish Joe Hill's The Fireman. And I'll tell you, I enjoyed it. It's a very well-crafted read and I can see

1:07.9

exactly why it managed to find itself on last year's Goodreads

1:11.9

Reader's choice finalist for horror. Joe Hill's dad, Stephen King, makes use of direct literary

1:18.0

music and movie references. Joe continues in that tradition and right as I was thinking about

1:24.0

how this book feels ever so slightly like McCarthy's The Road.

1:28.8

His character mentions the work by name.

1:32.2

If Cormick McCarthy took the burnt-up world of post-apocalyptic to 11,

1:36.8

this finds itself somewhere around, I'll say six.

1:40.6

I mean, don't get me wrong.

1:42.0

The book is filled up with human beings burning alive and charred corpses, but it doesn't

1:46.8

weigh down the reader's soul constantly.

1:49.5

You can read it before bed without wondering how bad things would have to get before you

1:53.6

start cannibalizing hapless strangers.

1:56.5

Pick it up from a Barnes & Noble or your local library.

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