"One way to make sure all your days are great days is to have wonderful books piping into your ears every chance you get. Between the dizzyingly high production levels today and the amazing voice actors who inhabit these characters, we’re living in good times, aren’t we? Here are five audiobooks that, for me, have done something that feels not just new, but necessary." —Stephen Graham Jones, author of I Was a Teenage Slasher
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"Anderson wrote this novel with all these short little cutaways, these ad-breaks built into the story. And on the page, they read in the same voice as the rest of the novel. But in this production, they come alive, they drop you right into this harrowing science fiction world that feels eerily day-after-tomorrow."
"A standout novel by a standout writer. This high school cheerleading squad couldn’t have found a better voice actor than Khristine Hvam. The insolent attitude she conveys, just the right hint of vocal fry, and a dark intelligence burbling between the words—welcome to high school. Welcome to the squad."
"Macdonald’s novel is spare and elegiac and tense and lyrical all at once, somehow, and this full cast absolutely captures that tone, that feel, that era, this noir mode. But Ed Asner as series character Lew Archer? That’s got to be the best casting ever. His wit is dry, his past is murky, and his insight cuts as deep as any private investigator’s."
"These three tales of absurdist, un-self-aware masterpieces of terror by the 20th century’s 'Darkscribe'—whom you may know from the television series—are made for the audio format. At turns hilarious and visceral and never not boastful, I dare you not to chuckle listening to this one."
"O’Brien’s generation-defining story collection of the Vietnam War—of one soldier’s experience leading up to it, and trying to survive it—delivered by Bryan Cranston in a performance with so much nuance and character you feel like you’re there, even though you don’t want to be. You just have to listen to this once, and then it’ll always be with you."
Stephen Graham Jones was born and raised in Texas. Lives in Boulder, Colorado. Forty-nine. Blackfeet. Into werewolves and slashers, zombies and vampires, haunted houses and good stories. Would wear pirate shirts a lot if I could find them. And probably carry some kind of sword.
