Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrated by: Kelli Tager, Joe Hempel, Cary Hite, Neil Hellegers, Marni Penning, P. J. Ochlan, Noah Levine, Soneela Nankani, Charlotte Moore-Lambert, Megan Tusing

From Vulture’s “master of horror” Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless and emotionally charged social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media, for fans of The Last of Us and Where Evil Lurks

Noah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reckoning” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in. But when his own phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the long drive from Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles, a fridge full of spoiled food, and his parents locked in a terrifying trance-like state in front of the TV. Panicked, Noah attempts to snap them out of it and get medical help.

Then Noah’s mother brutally attacks him.

But Noah isn’t the only person to be attacked by a loved one. Families across the country are tearing each other apart—literally—as people succumb to a form of possession that gets worse the more time they spend watching particular channels, using certain apps, or visiting certain websites. In Noah’s Richmond-based family, only he and his young nephew Marcus are unaffected. Together, they must race back to the safe haven of Brooklyn—but can they make it before they fall prey to the violent hordes?

This ambitious, searing novel from “one of horror’s modern masters” holds a mirror to our divided nation, and will shake listeners to the core.

©2025 Clay McLeod Chapman (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing

Fun story with a new type of Zombie

This is a fun book that has irritated a lot of people. If they finished it, those people would see that all types of people were ridiculed. Good book and narration.

very clever

my husband and I both read this book. well he read it and I listened to it. when he asked me what I thought I kept saying how funny I thought it was. and he was like funny? what about this part what about that part....you know cause it is horror! I guess when I say funny I mean clever. very clever.

This was not good

This book goes absolutely no where. I was honestly so close to giving up on it and then it was over. I thought I was only in the middle of the book because literally nothing had happened apart from backstory. Do not waste your money on this book.

insane

something I never need is time after finishing a book. this one i do. I need to soak in what I just listened to. it was great.

Too repetitive

May have been better to actual read instead of being read to.
Story premise solid.