The Ones That Got Away

De: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrado por: Rich Miller

These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out.

A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be possible, but now he can't stop listening. A woman finds out that the shipwreck wasn't the disaster, but who she's shipwrecked with. A big brother learns just what he will, and won't, trade for one night of sleep. From prison guards making unholy alliances to snake-oil men in the Old West doling out justice, these stories carve down into the body of the mind, into our most base fears and certainties, and there's no anesthetic. Turn the light on if you want, but that just makes for more shadows.

©2010 Stephen Graham Jones (P)2022 Tantor

Stephen G Jones is the Best!

Some real masterpieces in here, and great early insight into characters and stories that have developed in his mind for years. If you've read "My Heart is a Chainsaw" you'll recognize Stacey Graves in his very first published short story, included here!

Interesting

The stores were a bit hard to follow sometimes. However I enjoy listening to the stories.

Excellent Collection

Ignore the nay-sayers, especially the one-star review. This collection is definitely worth a credit.

found a new fave

don’t listen if you need to understand everything about a story— this anthology is weird and liminal and got under my skin, i thought about it constantly when i wasn’t listening. this guy rules

I guess I am not the right person for this.

I am confused about this book. I like the horror that aims to cryptic dialogues or situation but inctjid case most of the time I didn't get what was going on. I listen again some stories just to be sure and even read the physical book. I guess I do not click with this writer. it happens.

Use your credit somewhere else

I bought this book because I liked the author's book The Only Good Indians and the promotional teaser sounded good. The Ones That Got Away is a huge disappointment. It is written as if the author was bored and sketched out some story ideas to see if they would lead anywhere. When they didn't, he simply stopped writing in the middle of it. It's not horror. Each story left me wondering what it was that I just heard. With all of the stories that way, I can only assume the author and publisher did it intentionally as some kind of cutting-edge art piece--agonizing for the listener.
The narrator couldn't possibly be less interesting. He mechanically read the stories as if he was thinking about something else--no inflection or variance in cadence or pitch.
I really question the validity of the 12 ratings (which can't be viewed) that scored this book at 4.7 (as of this review).
Use your credit on something else.