The Boy in the Iron Box

The Complete Serialized Novel

By: Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

Narrated by: Ralph Ineson, Nina Yndis

Flying dark, a plane carrying a team of mercenaries crash-lands on a remote snowy summit. When they come across a mazelike stone fortress, it’s no refuge from the wolves and the freezing wind. It’s more like a trap. What they discover can stop the heart—or worse. As terror takes a new shape, the real battle for survival begins in this unrelenting serialized novel from Academy Award–winning filmmaker and writer Guillermo del Toro.

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©2024 Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“With his gritty brogue, narrator Ralph Ineson welcomes listeners to an icy summit where a plane has just crashed.… Ineson's delivery is punctuated by an unnerving soundtrack and realistic sound effects that bring the urgency of the scenario to life. Though she has less of a presence in this six-part serial, narrator Nina Yndis delivers a powerhouse performance that falls perfectly in line with del Toro's unsettling narrative landscape. Together, the narrators' inspired delivery creates an almost cinematic experience that never ceases to entertain.” —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner

Action packed

This was action packed and thrilling. Great for spooky season! A must read. And the narrator was great.

Absolutely Amazing!

Absolutely incredible on every level!! From the story, characters, performances, sound design etc. Epic! Guillermo del Toro is one of the greatest storytellers of our time and this book is just another example of his ability to fuse modern storylines with ancient fairytale like lore that feels genuine, engaging and unsettling. I hope there will be more to this story, I look forward to learning more about The Boy in the Iron Box!

Short, sweet, and sinister

I enjoy the different sound effects added to this narration. They aren’t many, but they are subtle and simple enough to add a nice layer of storytelling not found in most audiobooks. The ending’s potential is great!

The atmosphere was perfect.

Pure emotional and visceral horror like only Del Torro can create. No one does vampire lore as well as these two creatives.

atmosphere

very dreary and atmospheric. good narration. pulls you in pretty decently. very good story till the end, just a little sad

narrative

fun and entertaining listen, non stop ride. narration was fantastic and it was short enough to finish in one sitting

detailed description anticipating terror

Nothing to dislike, loved the terrified journey. I strangely felt even the cold weather and seeing the most diabolical smirk.

predictable but fun

listen to the sample to see if the narrator is ok for you. There's a effect/audio filter being used, and it's actually explained multiple times in the story if you pay attention.

other than that, it's the strigoi version of The Siberian Incident.

Good but not great

I enjoyed this story, especially in the first half, and it kept me engaged. I really disliked the performance, as it was very tough to understand the narrator. My daughter heard me listening and said he sounded like an ad for not smoking. Glad I listened but not one I will return to.

The Key

Didn’t like how the antagonist survived the entire evolution of mankind from the trees in AfricAsia to the mercenaries’ jet crash, through all the leaders including priests without coming up against a Christian with enough faith to neutralize the demon in Christ Jesus’s name.
Demon stories are entertaining for me up until the plot reveals them for who/ what they truly are. I listen/ read on to see if the characters ever gather the requisite faith to cast out, said evil spirit/ demon/ demi-Satan- devil in Christ’s name. But if they ever kill/ neutralize the evil entity, it’s always a witchcraft incantation or shoving some artifactual charm object through the entity’s kill zone etc.

I guess it wouldn’t be entertaining nor scary if the protagonist just grabbed the belief in what always works in the first place and ended the story in the second chapter..

Story was as good as they ever come I guess.