Audiobooks by Joe Hill

From the fun of the fair to the depths of hell, experience sixteen more curses in this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology. A blend of traditional and reimagined curses from fairy-tales to Snow White, from some of the best names in fantasy. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR Take a trip to a terrifying carnival and uncover the secrets within, solve a mysterious puzzle box and await your reward, join a travelling circus and witness the strangest ventriloquist act you've ever seen. In this follow-up to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology, you'll unearth curses old and new. From a very different take on Snow White, to a new interpretation of The Red Shoes, the best in fantasy spin straw into gold, and invite you into the labyrinth. Just don't forget to leave your trail of breadcrumbs… Featuring stories from: Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Sarah Pinborough, Angela Slatter, M.R. Carey, Laura Purcell, Helen Grant, Mark Chadbourn, L.L. McKinney, A.K. Benedict, Christina Henry, A.C. Wise, Kelley Armstrong, Katherine Arden, Joanne Harris and Adam LG Nevill.

Joanne Harris, Joe Hill, Katherine Arden, M.R. Carey, Marie O'regan, Neil Gaiman, Paul Kane (Author), Antonia Beamish, Mark Peachey, Melanie Crawley, TBD (Narrator)

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Tiempo extraño (Strange Weather)

'Instantánea' es la perturbadora historia de un adolescente de Silicon Valley que se descubre amenazado por el dueño de una cámara Polaroid capaz de borrar los recuerdos con cada foto que hace. En el aire» nos lleva por todo lo alto junto a un chico que, en su primer salto en paracaídas, aterriza como náufrago en una nube imposiblemente sólida. Lluvia» transcurre en Boulder, Colorado, en un día normal... hasta que estalla la tormenta: miles de agujas caen del cielo y perforan todo lo que se encuentra debajo. Y cuando la lluvia cayó, casi todo el mundo estaba fuera». Por último, en Cargado», un vigilante de seguridad detiene un tiroteo en un centro comercial y se convierte en un héroe local. Pero será al exponerse a la luz pública cuando la historia de lo que realmente ocurrió se enmarañe y, con ella, su cordura.

Joe Hill (Author), René García (Narrator)

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Fuego (The Fireman)

Nadie sabe dónde y cuándo se originó, pero una plaga se ha extendido por todas partes. Los médicos la llaman Trichophyton draco incendia; los demás, escama de dragón, una espora que marca la piel de los contagiados con manchas negras y doradas antes de hacerles estallar en llamas. Y no hay antídoto. La enfermera Harper Grayson está embarazada y ha visto a centenares de pacientes arder... o los veía antes de que el hospital se incendiara. Ahora sólo puede fijarse en las marcas que han empezado a recorrerle la piel. Mientras todo a su alrededor se ve envuelto en el caos por la enfermedad y los grupos que pretenden exterminar a los contagiados, Harper coincide con un misterioso desconocido que deambula entre los escombros con indumentaria de bombero y las marcas de la espora. Sin embargo, no arde. Es como si hubiera aprendido a usar el fuego a modo de escudo para las víctimas... y de arma contra los verdugos

Joe Hill (Author), Carla Castañeda (Narrator)

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A tumba abierta (Full Throttle)

En estos magistrales relatos (dos coescritos con Stephen King), Joe Hill disecciona conflictos muy humanos en escenarios fantasmagóricos. Una puerta que da a un mundo prodigioso y lleno de maravillas se torna sangrienta cuando la atraviesa un grupo de cazadores. Dos hermanos se adentran en un laberíntico campo de hierba alta para ayudar a un niño que pide auxilio entre la maleza. Un camionero se ve envuelto en una sofocante persecución por el desierto de Nevada. Cuatro adolescentes suben a un antiguo carrusel donde cada vuelta tiene consecuencias espeluznantes. Un bibliotecario se pone al volante para llevar lecturas a los muertos. Dos amigos descubren el cadáver de un plesiosaurio en la orilla de un lago, un hallazgo que les fuerza a enfrentarse a la idea de su propia mortalidad... y a otros horrores que acechan en las profundidades acuáticas. A tumba abierta es una odisea oscura por las complejidades de la condición humana, una danza macabra a la que se ven arrastrados varios personajes muy diferentes y en la que, de manera hipnótica e inquietante, acaban revelando atormentados secretos, fantasías y, sobre todo, sus miedos más profundos. En 2019, Netflix estrenó una película basada en «En la hierba alta» y HBO está preparando la adaptación de «Acelera».

Joe Hill (Author), Alex Ortega (Narrator)

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Strange Weather: Four Short Novels

A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill. "One of America's finest horror writers" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Letham. In Strange Weather, this "compelling chronicler of human nature's continual war between good and evil," (Providence Journal-Bulletin) who "pushes genre conventions to new extremes" (New York Times Book Review) deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life. "Snapshot," performed by Wil Wheaton, is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft," performed by Dennis Boutsikaris. On a seemingly ordinary day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails-splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. "Rain," performed by Kate Mulgrew, explores this escalating apocalyptic event, as the deluge of nails spreads out across the country and around the world. In "Loaded," performed by Stephen Lang, a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it. When an out-of-control summer blaze approaches the town, he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning. With an afterword from Joe Hill, read by the author. Masterfully exploring classic literary themes through the prism of the supernatural, Strange Weather is a stellar collection from an artist who is "quite simply the best horror writer of our generation" (Michael Kortya).

Joe Hill (Author), Dennis Boutsikaris, Joe Hill, Kate Mulgrew, Stephen Lang, Wil Wheaton, Will Wheaton (Narrator)

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The Fireman: A Novel

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it's Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies, before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe. Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she's discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob's dismay, Harper wants to live, at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child. Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads, armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn't as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter's jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged. In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman's secrets before her life, and that of her unborn child, goes up in smoke.

Joe Hill (Author), Kate Mulgrew (Narrator)

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En la hierba alta

Dos hermanos que viajan en coche por la ruta 73 deciden parar a descansar un rato cuando, de repente, oyen unos gritos de auxilio de un niño perdido entre la hierba alta que crece junto a la carretera.Cal y Becky DeMuth son dos hermanos que mantienen una relación casi telepática, pues sus vidas han montado en el mismo tándem desde su nacimiento.Cuando Becky se queda embarazada, decide marcharse a San Diego a cada de sus tíos hasta que nazca el bebé. La unión entre los hermanos es tan fuerte que Cal deja sus estudios para acompañarla y cruzar con ella el país en coche. Incluso planean juntos el futuro del niño.Pero la casualidad intercede en el transcurso del viaje. Al mediodía realizan un alto en el camino junto a un campo de hierba altísima: Cap apaga la radio para tener un momento de calma y Becky abre las ventanillas, sofocada por el calor. De haber sido de otra manera, nunca habrían oído la voz de auxilio de aquel niño atrapado en la espesura.Deciden adentrarse en el campo y tomar sendas distintas para encontrar al niño cuanto antes. Por primera vez en su vida, los hermanos quedarán separados, aunque sea tan solo por unos metros de hierba. Sin embargo, nunca habían estado tan lejos.Una historia terrorífica narrada con la maestría insuperable de Stephen King.

Joe Hill, Stephen King (Author), Daniel Albiac (Narrator)

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NOS4A2: A Novel

Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, plunges you into the dark side of imagination with a thrilling novel of supernatural suspense that will have you flinching at shadows and checking the rearview mirror again and again. . . . NOS4A2 Don't slow down Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself. Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. Mile by mile, the journey across the highway of Charlie's twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor. And then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble . . . and finds her way, inevitably, to Charlie. That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Charlie's unmitigated evil is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx hasn't stopped thinking about the exceptional Victoria McQueen. On the road again, he won't slow down until he's taken his revenge. He's after something very special-something Vic can never replace. As a life-and-death battle of wills builds-her magic pitted against his-Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Charlie once and for all . . . or die trying. . . . Joe Hill's acclaimed works of fiction, Horns, Heart-Shaped Box, and 20th Century Ghosts, have already earned him international acclaim. With NOS4A2, this outstanding novelist-"one of America's finest horror writers" (Time magazine); "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (Washington Post)-crafts his finest work yet. Disturbing, mesmerizing, and full of twisting thrills, Hill's phantasmagoric, devilishly playful masterpiece is a terrifying high-octane ride.

Joe Hill (Author), Kate Mulgrew (Narrator)

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In the Tall Grass

Mile 81 meets "N." in this collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill. As USA TODAY said of Stephen King's Mile 81 : "Park and scream. Could there be any better place to set a horror story than an abandoned rest stop?" In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and they've lost one another. The boy's cries are more and more desperate. What follows is a terrifying, entertaining, and masterfully told tale, as only Stephen King and Joe Hill can deliver.

Joe Hill, Stephen King (Author), Stephen Lang (Narrator)

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In the Tall Grass

This is a terrifying new short story from authors Stephen King and Joe Hill, brought to you as an eBook original by sister publishers Orion and Hodder & Stoughton. As USA TODAY said of Stephen King's MILE 81: 'Park and scream. Could there be any better place to set a horror story than an abandoned rest stop?' IN THE TALL GRASS begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and they've lost one another. The boy's cries are growing more and more desperate. What follows is a terrifying, entertaining, and masterfully told tale, as only Stephen King and Joe Hill can deliver. Read by Stephen Lang (p) 2012 Simon & Schuster

Joe Hill, Stephen King (Author), Stephen Lang (Narrator)

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Horns: A Novel

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a pair of horns growing from his temples. At first, Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who had been raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real. Once, the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed. But Merrin's death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. Nothing Ig can do or say matters. Everyone it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone that is, but the devil inside. . . . Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power—a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. It's time for a little revenge . . . it's time the devil had his due . . .

Joe Hill (Author), Fred Berman (Narrator)

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Road Rage

Road Rage unites Richard Matheson's classic Duel and the contemporary work it inspired'two power-packed short stories by three of the genre's most acclaimed authors. Duel, an unforgettable tale about a driver menaced by a semi truck, was the source for Stephen Spielberg's acclaimed first film of the same name. Throttle, by Stephen King and Joe Hill, is a duel of a different kind, pitting a faceless trucker against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws, in the simmering Nevada desert. Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of the most lonely road in the country, a place where the only thing worse than not knowing what you're up against, is slowing down . . .

Joe Hill, Richard Matheson, Stephen King (Author), Stephen Lang (Narrator)

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