Hark! The Herald Angels Scream: An Anthology
By Joe R. Lansdale , Seanan McGuire , Elizabeth Hand , Jonathan Maberry , and others
Edited by Christopher Golden
Read by Charles Constant and Teri Schnaubelt
Unabridged
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2 Formats: Library CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781665130615
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ISBN: 9781665130622
| Runtime: | 11.64 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Horror |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from bestselling, acclaimed authors, including Scott Smith, Seanan McGuire, Josh Malerman, Michael Koryta, and Sarah Pinborough.That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. Marley untying the bandage that holds his jaws together. The hideous children—Want and Ignorance—beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The heavy ledgers Marley drags by his chains. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts.
Bestselling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.
Author
Author Bio: Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong is the author of young adult fiction, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and mysteries in stand-alone novels and over fifteen series. Frostbitten, The Gathering, and No Humans Involved were New York Times bestsellers. She believes experience is the best teacher, though she has been told this shouldn’t apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery, and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out.
Author Bio: Michael Koryta
Michael Koryta is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, most recently Rise the Dark. His previous novels—including Last Words, Those Who Wish Me Dead, and So Cold The River—were New York Times notable books, national bestsellers, and have been nominated for numerous awards, including having won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Koryta is a former private investigator and newspaper reporter. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and Camden, Maine.
Author Bio: Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, four-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-Wars, became a Netflix original series. He writes horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, thrillers, and more. He is the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and the editor of Weird Tales magazine.
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Author Bio: Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award three times, the World Fantasy Award four times, and the Nebula Award twice, as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society awards.
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Author Bio: John McIlveen
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Author Bio: Thomas E. Sniegoski
Thomas E. Sniegoski is the author of more than two dozen novels for adults, teens, and children. His books for teens include Legacy, Sleeper Code, Sleeper Agenda, Force Majeure, and the Brimstone Network series. Sniegoski is also a comic book writer; he collaborated with Bone creator Jeff Smith on the prequel miniseries Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails. Sniegoski was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his wife LeeAnne and their French bulldog, Kirby.
Author Bio: Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same ballot for the Hugo Award. In 2022, she managed the same feat again.
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Author Bio: Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of nearly four dozen novels, including the Edgar Award–winning The Bottoms. He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, a Critics’ Choice Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature, among others. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli.
Author Bio: James A. Moore
James A. Moore is the bestselling author of more than forty novels, including Alien: Sea of Sorrows, Fireworks, Under the Overtree, Blood Red, the Serenity Falls trilogy, City of Wonders, and The Last Sacrifice. A contributor to Aliens: Bug Hunt, he has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. He spent three years as an officer in the Horror Writers Association, first as secretary and later as vice president.
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Author Bio: others
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Author Bio: Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden is the author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, including Ararat and Cut!, both winners of the Bram Stoker Award. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. He is also the editor of such anthologies as Seize the Night, The New Dead, and Dark Cities, and the co-host of the popular podcast "Three Guys with Beards."
Author Bio: Jeff Strand
Jeff Strand is a successful author and four-time nominee for the Bram Stoker Award. He lives in Tampa, Florida, with his wife.
Author Bio: Sarah Pinborough
Sarah Pinborough is the author of the New York Times bestselling thriller Behind Her Eyes. She has also been a teacher and screenwriter for television.
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Author Bio: Tim Lebbon
Tim Lebbon is a New York Times bestselling writer from South Wales. He’s had over forty novels published to date, as well as hundreds of novellas and short stories. Recent novels include thrillers The Hunt and The Family Man, as well as The Silence, Relics, The Folded Land, and the Rage War trilogy of Alien/Predator novels. He has won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Scribe Award, and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, International Horror Guild, and Shirley Jackson Awards. His work has appeared in numerous “Year’s Best” anthologies.
Author Bio: Josh Malerman
Josh Malerman is an internationally bestselling, Bram Stoker Award–nominated American author and one of two singer–songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. His debut novel, Bird Box, was published in the United Kingdom and United States in 2014 to much critical acclaim.
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Author Bio: Sarah Lotz
Sarah Lotz is a novelist and screenwriter with a fondness for the macabre. She is the author of The White Road, Day Four, and The Three, and lives in Cape Town with her family and other animals.
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Author Bio: Angela Slatter
Angela Slatter is the author of the Aurealis Award–winning The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, the World Fantasy Award finalist Sourdough and Other Stories, Aurealis finalist Midnight and Moonshine (with Lisa L. Hannett), among others. She is the first Australian to win a British Fantasy Award, holds an MA and a PhD in creative writing, is a graduate of Clarion South and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and was an inaugural Queensland Writers Fellow.
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Author Bio: Sarah Langan
Sarah Langan is a novelist and three-time recipient of the Bram Stoker Award.
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Author Bio: Scott Smith
Scott Smith attended both Dartmouth and Columbia. Asides from being an author, he also works as a screenwriter, earning an Academy Award nomination for the adaptation of his novel A Simple Plan and winning him a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and National Board of Review Award. His noel, The Ruins was named “the best horror novel of the new century” by Stephen King. He lives in New York City.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Horror |
| Runtime: | 11.64 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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