Episode Thirteen
From the macabre mind of a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, this heart-pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined.
Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly hauntings investigated by a dedicated team of ghost hunting experts.
Episode Thirteen takes them to every ghost hunter's holy grail: the Paranormal Research Foundation. This brooding, derelict mansion holds secrets and clues about bizarre experiments that took place there in the 1970s. It's also famously haunted, and the team hopes their scientific techniques and high tech gear will prove it. But as the house begins to reveal itself to them, proof of an afterlife might not be everything Matt dreamed of. A story told in broken pieces, in tapes, journals, and correspondence, this is the story of Episode Thirteen--and how everything went terribly, horribly wrong.
"An epistolary descent into a living nightmare . . . well-written and genuinely unsettling. Fans of paranormal documentaries, ghost-hunting shows, and found-footage horror will lose their minds over this one." --Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Kin
"A beautiful Russian doll of a story... Episode Thirteen hooks you, creeps you out, and then it overwhelms you. It's House of Leaves meets Haunting of Hill House, in all the best possible ways."--Peter Clines, NYT bestselling author of The Broken Room
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If you are unlucky enough to get the audible version of the book, well strap in for some absolute cringe. It's not so much an audiobook but rather an audio drama with a cast of characters, I'm assuming, are reading the script for the first time and they just said "to hell with it, let's ship it!" Random screams and sobs are added for dramatic effect, but the only dramatic effect it gave me was the need to fast forward. Some of the cast sound like they read for audiobooks before, but not the dude who played Matt. He was horrendous.
Overall, didn't like the book at all. Two stars because it was readable and at times before things started happening there were glimmers of hope. Unfortunately, they were just an illusion.
I really enjoyed the Blair Witch-type story and the ending was perfect. It had just the right mix of adventure, drama, haunts, and team drama.
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