Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd―spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist―accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her past―riddled with grief and shame―has never seemed so far away.

But then Ada begins to witness strange and grisly phenomena: a swarm of dying crickets, a self-mutilating rabbit, a malformed faun. She soon believes that something old and beastly―which she calls Grey Dog―is behind these visceral offerings, which both beckon and repel her. As her confusion deepens, her grip on what is real, what is delusion, and what is traumatic memory loosens, and Ada takes on the wildness of the woods, behaving erratically and pushing her newfound friends away. In the end, she is left with one question: What is the real horror? The Grey Dog, the uncontainable power of female rage, or Ada herself?

©2024 Elliott Gish (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

great writing

Slow build spooky story about how society absolutely destroys women's minds. The writing and plot are absolutely awesome. You should have a listen. 💯

stunning slow burn literary horror

ugh this is one of my favorite books of the year! a gothic, unsettling, and queer story of a teacher in 1901 who spirals into madness from hearing and seeing things in the woods. the narrator was absolute perfection.

highly recommend!

Wonderfully told

The narration is one of the best I’ve heard. The story starts as a slow burn that pays off in the last third.

Dark enchantments

Female rage, natures beauty, father issues, mysterious old widow, beautiful dead things and ugly living ones all mingled between journal entry’s of a young women just trying to understand love

Excellent Narration!

the main takeaway is that you can't be both nice and sexy (kidding) but the narrator did a fantastic job