Full Throttle: Stories Audiobook
Full Throttle: Stories Audiobook
- Stephen Lang, George Guidall, Neil Gaiman, Kate Mulgrew, Joe Hill, Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Nate Corddry, Ashleigh Cummings, Laysla De Oliveira, Connor Jessup
- HarperAudio
- 2019-10-01
- 15 h 47 min
Summary:
The quantity one New York Times best-selling writer of The Fireman and Strange Weather returns using a dark and ingenious collection of 13 compelling short stories that showcase his ability to “push genre conventions to new extremes” (New York Times Book Review), performed by a stunning multi-cast featuring Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Neil Gaiman, Ashleigh Cummings, Joe Hill, Laysla De Oliveira, Nate Corddry, Connor Jessup, Stephen Lang, and George about Full Throttle: Stories Guidall.
With this masterful collection of brief fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in 13 relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In The High Grass”, one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.
Just a little door that opens to a world of fairy-tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for any gang of hunters in “Faun”. A grief-stricken librarian climbs when driving of an antique bookmobile to provide fresh reads to the useless in “Late Results”. In “With the Metallic Drinking water of Lake Champlain”, two young friends stumble on the corpse of the plesiosaur at the water’s advantage, a breakthrough that forces these to confront the inescapable truth of their very own mortality…and additional horrors that lurk in the water’s shivery depths. And tension shimmers in the sweltering temperature from the Nevada desert being a faceless trucker discovers himself caught in a sinister dance having a tribe of motorbike outlaws in “Throttle”, cowritten with Stephen Ruler.
Featuring two previously unpublished stories and a brace of shocking chillers, Total Throttle is definitely a darkly dreamed odyssey through the complexities of the human psyche. Hypnotic and disquieting, it mines our tormented secrets, hidden vulnerabilities, and basest concerns and demonstrates this excellent talent at his very best.