THE BEAST YOU ARE Stories

An ensemble of 10 narrators deftly captures the unsettling, creepy, or horror-filled nature of 15 thought-provoking works in several genres by Tremblay. A gravelly-voiced Graham Halstead remembers touring his first crush's haunted house, Jorjeana Marie becomes a mean girl who erases the chalk marks that lead an old man home, and Ewan Chung channels the intense pain of grief that never heals. Helen Laser crushes it as a horror blogger, with the nine other narrators commenting. Neil Shah uses a creepy, whispery tone as a person who is dying from a virus yet refuses to be treated or cloned. The title novella, delivered by Xe Sands in a voice that is controlled yet world-weary, is a dark fantasy about a monster who returns every 30 years to wreak havoc upon a town. S.D.B. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2023]