GROWING THINGS AND OTHER STORIES

Listeners will want to keep the lights on when they hear these literary horror stories, narrated with chilling precision by Sean Crisden, Graham Halstead, Cassandra Campbell, Sarah Naughton, Michael Crouch, and Caitlin Kelly. Tremblay's eerie stories are filled with mundane situations that quickly become horrific, including plants that grow to apocalyptic proportions and vacation photos that reveal acts of stunning violence. The narrators read with decisive authenticity, highlighting the gritty desperation of a drug-addicted mother, the cockiness of a career criminal, and the dawning horror of a girl facing death. While some stories are better suited to audio than others (a choose-your-own-adventure story is awkward, for instance), all join together to create a disturbing tableau that will haunt even the bravest listener. S.A.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2019]