Audiobooks by David Barnett

"'An agile and compelling storyteller' Nick Cutter 1865. Coal lies beneath Scratch Moss Manor and Sir Henry Brody is determined to get to it. But something else lurks below, something dark and evil. 1905. Reverend George Ackman has never known such godless people as those of Scratch Moss. But if not God, what do they believe in? 1945. Arthur works for the Coal Commission, visiting privately-owned pits ahead of their nationalisation. On his visit to Scratch Moss, he finds only misery and death. 1985. The miners have lost. Thatcher reigns supreme. And in the shattered community of Scratch Moss, rumours resurface about Red Clogs, a terrible presence in the land below. 2025. Divorced, fifty-something writer Joe returns to his hometown of Scratch Moss for the funeral of his father. Soon the memories of Joe’s teenage years, and the horror that blighted the community, come flooding back… A devastating, five-timeline tale centred on a community first invigorated, then devastated by the coal mining industry in the most original folk horror novel of the year."

David Barnett (Author), Will Edgerton (Narrator)

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Scuttler's Cove

"The sea never forgets. The sea never forgives… Scuttler's Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted for centuries... until this seaside idyll was discovered by the rich. Now the quaint harbour-front cottages have been snapped up by second-homers and rental companies, and the locals can barely afford to live in their own town. It is a very different place for Merrin Moon, who left for university at the age of eighteen and never looked back. Now in her thirties, she returns to the Cove for the first time since, after the death of her mother. She soon discovers that there are forces at play in the village that she could never have imagined. Is someone trying to drive out the second homers? And has their arrival started a chain of events none of them will be able to stop? For something old and terrible is awakening beneath the town's hallowed ground. And with it comes a horror that the residents have fought for generations to keep a secret."

David Barnett (Author), Catrin Walker-Booth (Narrator)

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Withered Hill

"Inside A year ago Sophie Wickham stumbled into the isolated Lancashire village of Withered Hill, naked, alone and with no memory of who she is. Surrounded by a thick ring of woodland, its inhabitants seem to be of another world, drenched in pagan, folklorish traditions. As Sophie struggles to regain the memories of her life from before, she quickly realises she is a prisoner after multiple failed escape attempts. But is it the locals who keep her trapped, with smiles on their faces, or something else, lurking in the woods? Outside In London, Sophie leads a chaotic life, with too many drunken nights, inappropriate men and boring temp jobs. But things take a turn as she starts to be targeted by strange messages warning her that someone, or something, is coming for her. With no idea who to trust, or where to turn for help, the messages become more insistent and more intimidating, urging Sophie to make her way to a place called Withered Hill… An utterly bewitching, dual timeline folk horror story, with a truly devastating twist you have to read to believe."

David Barnett (Author), Ziggy Sobers (Narrator)

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Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl [Dramatized Adaptation]

"Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world—including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, told in Gideon's favorite “penny dreadful.” When Gideon's father is lost at sea in highly mysterious circumstances Gideon is convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Deciding only Captain Lucian Trigger himself can aid him, Gideon sets off for London. On the way he rescues the mysterious mechanical girl Maria from a tumbledown house of shadows and iniquities. Together they make for London, where Gideon finally meets Captain Trigger. But Trigger is little more than an aging fraud, providing cover for the covert activities of his lover, Dr. John Reed, a privateer and sometime agent of the British Crown. Looking for heroes but finding only frauds and crooks, it falls to Gideon to step up to the plate and attempt to save the day...but can a humble fisherman really become the true Hero of the Empire? David Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl is a fantastical steampunk fable set against an alternate historical backdrop: the ultimate Victoriana/steampunk mash-up!"

David Barnett (Author), A Full Cast, Alyssa Wilmoth, Andy Brownstein, Bradley Smith, Chris Scheeren, Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Dani Stoller, David Coyne, David Harris, Dylan Lynch, Eric Messner, Eva Wilhelm, Evan Casey, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey, James Konicek, James Lewis, Ken Jackson, Kimberly Gilbert, Margie Tompros, Matthew Schleigh, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Nanette Savard, Nathanial Perry, Nick Depinto, Ren Kasey, Richard Rohan, Scott Mccormick, Steven Carpenter, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny, Thomas Keegan, Todd Scofield, Yasmin Tuazon, Zoe Badovinac (Narrator)

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Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon [Dramatized Adaptation]

"Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire, a teeming metropolis where steam-power is king and airships ply the skies, and where Queen Victoria presides over three quarters of the known world—including the east coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. Young Gideon Smith has seen things that no green lad of Her Majesty's dominion should ever experience. Through a series of incredible events Gideon has become the newest Hero of the Empire. But Gideon is a man with a mission, for the dreaded Texas pirate Louis Cockayne has stolen the mechanical clockwork girl Maria, along with a most fantastical weapon—a great brass dragon that was unearthed beneath ancient Egyptian soil. Maria is the only one who can pilot the beast, so Cockayne has taken girl and dragon off to points east. Gideon and his intrepid band take to the skies and travel to the American colonies hot on Cockayne's trail. Not only does Gideon want the machine back, he has fallen in love with Maria. Their journey will take them to the wilds of the lawless lands south of the American colonies – to free Texas, where the mad King of Steamtown rules with an iron fist (literally), where life is cheap and honor even cheaper. Does Gideon have what it takes to not only save the day but win the girl? David Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon is a fantastical steampunk fable set against an alternate historical backdrop: the ultimate Victoriana/steampunk mash-up!"

David Barnett (Author), A Full Cast, Andy Brownstein, Bradley Smith, Casie Platt, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Walker, Dani Stoller, David Harris, David Jourdan, Eric Messner, Evan Casey, James Lewis, Ken Jackson, Kimberly Gilbert, Laura Harris, Matthew Schleigh, Michael Glenn, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Nick Depinto, Nora Achrati, Richard Rohan, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny, Thomas Keegan, Tim Carlin, Tim Getman, Todd Scofield, Tony Nam, Yasmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper [Dramatized Adaptation]

"In an alternate nineteenth century where a technologically advanced Britain holds sway over most of the known world and the American Revolution never happened, young Gideon Smith is firmly established as the Hero of the Empire. Back in London, Gideon and his colleagues: journalist Aloysius Bent, airship pilot Rowena Fanshawe, and Maria, the mechanical girl to whom Gideon has lost his heart, are dragged into a case that is confounding the Metropolitan Police. For the city is on the edge of mass rioting due to the continuing reign of terror by the serial killer known only as Jack the Ripper, who is rampaging though London's less salubrious quarters. While chasing the madman, a villain from their past strips Gideon Smith of his memory and is cast adrift in the seedy underbelly of London, where life is tough and death lurks in every shadowy alley. With mob rule threatening to engulf London, the Empire has never needed its hero more...but where is Gideon Smith?"

David Barnett (Author), A Full Cast, Andy Brownstein, Bradley Smith, Chris Genebach, Chris Scheeren, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Walker, Colleen Delany, Dani Stoller, David Harris, David Jourdan, Dylan Lynch, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eric Messner, Eva Wilhelm, Evan Casey, James Konicek, Ken Jackson, Kimberly Gilbert, Laura C. Harris, Matthew Bassett, Matthew Schleigh, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Nanette Savard, Nick Depinto, Nora Achrati, Patrick Bussink, Richard Cutting, Richard Rohan, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Scott Mccormick, Steve Wannall, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Todd Scofield, Yasmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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Work Sets You Free [Dramatized Adaptation]

"'Work Sets You Free', by David Barnett, is an original short story featuring the protagonist of the forthcoming novel Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl (Tor Books [US] and Snowbooks [UK], September 2013). Gideon is a young fisherman in Yorkshire, England, in an alternate 1890, who embarks on a journey to find Captain Lucian Trigger, the famed Hero of the Empire, to deal with a mystery plaguing his home village. This story takes place as the naive Gideon sets off for London, but on the way encounters a very dark side to the British Empire's insatiable hunger for resources..."

David Barnett (Author), A Full Cast, Bradley Smith, Christopher Scheeren, Christopher Walker, David Coyne, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eva Wilhelm, James Konicek, Kimberly Gilbert, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Nanette Savard, Ren Kasey, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny, Todd Scofield (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by David Barnett

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