Slush (Unabridged‪)‬

A delightfully scary collection

A delightfully scary collection of short stories that touch on a variety of common nightmares!  How many of you have found a coin and picked it up?  How many have you left lying on the street for some other lucky soul?  Every child, high schooler and college age student has had a favorite coach, teacher, etc.  Just as many have had mean ones; ones that you wish the tables could be turned.  Even love and romance has their dark side filled with lurking and unseen evilness.

Glenn Rolfe captures those insistent moments of fear when one walks through a dark house or down a lonely dark alley knowing that something is lurking nearby.  Several short but poignant tales of fear will bring on a nearly terminal case of goosebumps and whiplash from looking behind you.   Rolfe is a masterful story-teller capturing fears and expounding on them in vivid imagery.

Joe Hemple narrates these short stories in a steady voice; yet shaky when appropriate.   He does not waste time on being scary or distracting with noises; rather he uses his voice and its inflections to demonstrate the right level of fear and strength.

If you enjoy short stories, this is a wonderful collection.  If you’re a young adult, the chances are the fears Rolfe writes and Hemple puts voice to will scare you!  The down side was the collection was not long enough and while I would have loved to have more, Rolfe ended them in a good spot leaving the reader to contemplate.  My only complaint was the audio was not long enough!!!

There were no issues with the production quality of this audiobook.

Audiobook was provided for review by the narrator.

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