Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Widow of the South Author: Robert Hicks Narrator: Paul Boehmer, Lorna Raver, Scott Brick, Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 30, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war. This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where more than 1,000 were laid to rest.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/266586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond Suspicion Series: #2 of Jack Swyteck Novel Author: James Grippando Narrator: L.J. Ganser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 28, 2016 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon.Criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client, Jessie Merrill, is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who's being sued. At the trial, Jack pulls off a brilliant victory and Jessie gets a hefty settlement. But then Jack finds out it was all a scam. Two days later, Jessie's body turns up floating in Jack's bathtub. As the evidence mounts against him, Jack finds himself on a collision course with dark secrets from the past and a possible killer is beyond suspicion.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imperfect Strangers Author: Stuart Woods Narrator: Tony Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 24, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “The story races at a dizzying pace. . . . [Woods] does show a reader a good time.”—Washington Post Book World STEP ONE:  THE PERFECT MURDER Sandy Kinsolving’s once-glittering life hangs by a thread; his future depends on his wife’s inheritance and whether or not she’s about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn’t give for a solution to his money and marriage problems. If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of his own, who offers a violent—and mutually advantageous—proposal. Then in the time it takes to whisper a word, Kinsolving’s normal life ends. What radiates like a mirage before him is wealth, security, and freedom. But lurking in the shadows are a brutal murder he cannot prevent and a madman who stalks his every waking moment. “One of the smoothest writers in the pop literature biz and always a pleasure to read.”—Detroit News

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/263484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heat Author: Stuart Woods Narrator: Tony Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 17, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden has seen enough of the inside of a solitary confinement cell to last him a lifetime. Or two lifetimes, which is the sentence he's serving after being convicted of a crime he was planning to commit, but never did. So when an old buddy shows up with a deal that could spring him from his hell behind bars, he's ready to listen. To gain his freedom, Jesse must infiltrate a dangerous and reclusive religious cult that has been stockpiling weapons and eliminating those sent to investigate. From the moment he arrives in the Idaho mountain town where the cult is centered, Jesse finds every aspect of life dictated by the group's eerie, imposing leader. Pitted against not only the cult but the feds who sent him, Jesse feels control of his own life slipping away, and must make a final, desperate attempt to regain it—or die trying.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/246284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like Swimming Author: Ryan W. Bradley Narrator: Elijah Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 2, 2015 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Ryan W. Bradley takes listeners into the world of blue-collar Alaska, reflecting on all that is unique about the rough and untamed state while touching on the basic truths about what it means to be human. In “Like Swimming,” an aging construction worker copes with memory issues and his own mortality while showing a newcomer the ropes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nothing but the Dead and Dying Author: Ryan W. Bradley Narrator: Tamara Marston, Elijah Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 2, 2015 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A woman flees the hospital even as her infant son is breathing his last breaths. An aging construction worker comes to grips with the end of the only life he’s ever known. A deadbeat father meets his son for the first time, only to be blindsided by the boy’s birth defect. A man steals a corpse in order to give his father the burial he wanted. In Nothing but the Dead and Dying, Ryan W. Bradley takes listeners into the world of blue-collar Alaska, reflecting on all that is unique about the rough and untamed state while touching on the basic truths about what it means to be human. The twenty-plus stories in this collection are tied together by the Alaskan landscape, exploring the diverse ways in which people manage life’s difficulties. The characters are laborers in a harshly beautiful environment, something that is echoed in their relationships with friends, family, and lovers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/246282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Grass Author: Ryan W. Bradley Narrator: Elijah Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 2, 2015 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Ryan W. Bradley takes listeners into the world of blue-collar Alaska, reflecting on all that is unique about the rough and untamed state while touching on the basic truths about what it means to be human. In “The Long Grass,” a young man struggles with the expectations of becoming a man and receiving his father’s approval.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Valley of the Moon Author: Ryan W. Bradley Narrator: Elijah Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 2, 2015 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Ryan W. Bradley takes listeners into the world of blue-collar Alaska, reflecting on all that is unique about the rough and untamed state while touching on the basic truths about what it means to be human. In “Valley of the Moon,” an absentee father meets his son for the first time and comes to grips with the life he’s missed.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Number 11 Author: Jonathan Coe Narrator: Jessica Hynes, Rory Kinnear Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 11, 2015 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Number 11 by Jonathan Coe, read by Rory Kinnear and Jessica Hynes . This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best ­- showing us how we live now.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Serpent: Gameshouse Novella 1 Series: #1 of Gameshouse Author: Claire North Narrator: Peter Kenny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In this adventure novel set in 17th-century Venice, one brave woman dares to compete in the higher league of a mysterious establishment known as the Gamehouse. There, fortunes are made and fortunes are broken over games of chess, backgammon and every other game under the sun. But those whom fortune favours may be invited to compete in the higher league . . . a league where the games played are of politics and empires, of economics and kings. It is a league where Capture the Castle involves real castles, where hide and seek takes place on a scale as big as the British Isles. Not everyone proves worthy of competing in the higher league. But one woman, who is about to play, may just exceed everyone's expectations. Though she must always remember: the higher the stakes, the more deadly the rules . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Nietzsche Wept Author: Irvin D. Yalom Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.65 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 18 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe’s greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental “talking cure,” Breuer never expects that he too will find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient. In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mare Author: Mary Gaitskill Narrator: Kyla Garcia, Christa Lewis, Nicol Zanzarella, Lloyd James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the author of Veronica, a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction, comes Mary Gaitskill’s most poignant and powerful work yet: the story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is an eleven-year-old from Brooklyn who is granted a summer vacation in the country, courtesy of the nonprofit Fresh Air Fund. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on the fringe of Alcoholics Anonymous, and Paul, an academic who wonders what it will mean to “make a difference” in such a contrived situation. Here we see the couple’s changing relationship with Velvet over the course of several years, as well as Velvet’s powerful encounter with the horses at the stable down the road, as Gaitskill weaves together Velvet’s vital inner-city community and the privileged country world of Ginger and Paul. The timeless story of a girl and a horse is joined with the story of people from different races and socioeconomic backgrounds trying to meet one another honestly. It is a novel that is raw, striking, and completely original.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Japanese Lover Author: Isabel Allende Narrator: Joanna Gleason Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 4.15 of Total 13 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, “a magical and sweeping” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during World War II. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco’s parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family’s Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family—like thousands of other Japanese Americans—are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at San Francisco’s charmingly eccentric Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years. Sweeping through time and spanning generations and continents, The Japanese Lover is written with the same keen understanding of her characters that Isabel Allende has been known for since her landmark first novel The House of the Spirits. The Japanese Lover is a moving tribute to the constancy of the human heart in a world of unceasing change.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Was Amelia Earhart Author: Jane Mendelsohn Narrator: Blair Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself. There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . . There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to become a heroine ("Heroines did what they wanted") . . . her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round-the-world flight would sell out before Christmas. There is the flight itself -- day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day ("Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it"). And there is, miraculously, an island ("We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke"). And, most important, there is Noonan . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Avenue of Mysteries Author: John Irving Narrator: Armando Duran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 3, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego—a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what’s coming—specifically, her own future and her brother’s. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn’t know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you. Lupe doesn’t know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future—especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future? As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older—most of all, in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past—in Mexico—collides with his future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Interestings Author: Meg Wolitzer Narrator: Jen Tullock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 29, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Whatever became of the most talented people you once knew? On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. They smoke pot, drink vodka, share their dreams and vow always to be interesting. Decades later, aspiring actress Jules has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and Goodman has disappeared. Only Ethan and Ash, now married, have remained true to their adolescent dreams and have become shockingly successful too. As the group’s fortunes tilt precipitously, their friendships are put under the ultimate strain of envy and crushing disappointment. ‘The wit, intelligence and deep feeling of Wolitzer’s writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher level’ Jeffrey Eugenides

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Night Music: Nocturnes Volume Two Series: #2 of Nocturnes Author: John Connolly Narrator: Luke Thompson, Penelope Rawlins, Gareth Armstrong, Jeff Harding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of the Charlie Parker mysteries—'the finest crime series currently in existence' (The Independent)—comes a new anthology of chilling short fiction. A decade after Nocturnes first terrified and delighted readers, John Connolly, bestselling author of thirteen acclaimed thrillers featuring private investigator Charlie Parker, gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural. From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books, from a tender account of love after death to a frank, personal, and revealing account of the author's affection for myths of ghosts and demons, this is a collection that will surprise, delight—and terrify. Night Music: Nocturnes 2 also contains two novellas: the multi-award-winning The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository and The Fractured Atlas. Night Music: Nocturnes 2 is a masterly collection to be read with the lights on—menace has never been so seductive.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dark Corners Author: Ruth Rendell Narrator: Ric Jerrom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “A spectacularly creepy and macabre tale” (Entertainment Weekly) of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and of one life’s fateful unraveling—from Ruth Rendell, “one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation” (People), writing at her most mesmerizing. Rendell completed Dark Corners shortly before her death in 2015. When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Cash poor, Carl rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That is mistake number one. Mistake number two is keeping the bizarre collection of homeopathic and alternative “cures” that his father left in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of controversial diet pills. Mistake number three is selling fifty of those diet pills to a friend, who is then found dead. Dermot seizes a nefarious opportunity and begins to blackmail Carl, refusing to pay rent, and creepily invading Carl’s space. Ingeniously weaving together two storylines that finally merge in a shocking turn, Ruth Rendell describes one man’s spiral into darkness—and murder—as he falls victim to a diabolical foe he cannot escape. This is brilliant psychological suspense that gets under your skin. As Stephen King says, “No one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence.” Dark Corners, her last book, “ranks among her best” (The Washington Post).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Early Stories of Truman Capote Author: Truman Capote Narrator: Nancy Linari, Sarah Scott, Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capote developing the unique voice and sensibility that would make him one of the twentieth century’s most original writers. Spare yet heartfelt, these stories summon our compassion and feeling at every turn. Capote was always drawn to outsiders—women, children, African Americans, the poor—because he felt like one himself from a very early age. Here we see Capote’s powers of empathy developing as he depicts his characters struggling at the margins of their known worlds. A boy experiences the violence of adulthood when he pursues an escaped convict into the woods. Petty jealousies lead to a life-altering event for a popular girl at Miss Burke’s Academy for Young Ladies. In a time of extraordinary loss, a woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover’s eyes. In these stories we see early signs of Capote’s genius for creating unforgettable characters built of complexity and yearning. Young women experience the joys and pains of new love. Urbane sophisticates are worn down by cynicism. Children and adults alike seek understanding in a treacherous world. There are tales of crime and violence; of racism and injustice; of poverty and despair. And there are tales of generosity and tenderness; compassion and connection; wit and wonder. Above all there is the developing voice of a writer born in the Deep South who will use and eventually break from that tradition to become a literary figure like no other. With a foreword by the celebrated New Yorker critic Hilton Als, this volume of early stories is essential for understanding how a boy from Monroeville, Alabama, became a legend in American literature. Praise for The Early Stories of Truman Capote “Succeeds at conveying the writer’s youthful rawness . . . These stories capture a moment when Capote was hungry to capture the rural South, the big city, and the subtle emotions that so many around him were determined to keep unspoken.”—USA Today “A window on the young writer’s emerging voice and creativity . . . Capote’s ability to conjure a time, place and mood with just a few sentences is remarkable.”—Associated Press

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Slade House: A Novel Author: David Mitchell Narrator: Thomas Judd, Tania Rodrigues Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you’ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won’t want to leave. Later, you’ll find that you can’t. Every nine years, the house’s residents—an odd brother and sister—extend a unique invitation to someone who’s different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it’s already too late. . . . Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house story—as only David Mitchell could imagine it. Praise for Slade House “A fiendish delight . . . Mitchell is something of a magician.”—The Washington Post “Entertainingly eerie . . . We turn to [Mitchell] for brain-tickling puzzle palaces, for character studies and for language.”—Chicago Tribune “A ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jackson’s Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King’s The Shining, [Slade House] is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. . . . As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Like Stephen King in a fever . . . manically ingenious.”—The Guardian (U.K.) “A haunted house story that savors of Dickens, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling and H. P. Lovecraft, but possesses more psychic voltage than any of them.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Tightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human . . . the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults.”—The Huffington Post