Creepers

By: David Morrell

Narrated by: Patrick G. Lawlor

On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and marked for demolition.

The five people are "creepers", the slang term for urban explorers: city archeologists with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets. On this evening, they are joined by a reporter who wants to profile them - anonymously, as this is highly illegal activity - for a New York Times article.

Frank Balenger, a sandy-haired, broad-shouldered reporter with a decided air of mystery about him, isn't looking for just a story, however. And after the group enters the rat-infested tunnel leading to the hotel, it becomes clear that he will get much more than he bargained for. Danger, terror, and death await the creepers in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil.

©2005 David Morrell (P)2005 Brilliance Audio

Critic reviews

"Morrell delivers first-rate, suspenseful storytelling once again." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Lawlor fills the listener's ears with heart-stopping terror. Definitely not for the timid." ( AudioFile)

Robert's Review

Over all its a Good story. The narrative is ok.
some of the people in the story are weak and really put of the reader. But it's worth getting.
I do recommend this book.

David Morrell fan

This wasn’t my favorite type of story but it was interesting enough to keep me listening.
I like his spy type novels but this had enough mystery of who, what, where to make it worth listening to.
I didn’t really like the narrator but found him more tolerable by slowing the speed to .90. It didn’t make the book longer but helped me tolerate his voice.

Fun and exciting and then...

I loved the idea around this book; investigating an old house and finding out secrets...and the story stayed riveting three quarters of the way through..I wanted to know more aobut each mystery...but then it just seemed to just grind away...

I learned a lot from this book

As a veteran, many thoughts were roused within. What ultimately won me, was the almost beheading being retold. Now, the whole story kept building with unexpected turns galore. The moral of the story contrasts one with traumatic experiences, allowing them to make him better, and the other allowing them to make him worse. Masterfully suspenseful. Narrator was perfect for the job.

well written

I really didn't know what to expect and every page had a surprise. scary but had to carry on listening