Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay
Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay
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Growing Things and Other Stories

Author: Paul Tremblay

Narrator: Sean Crisden, Graham Halstead, Cassandra Campbell, Sarah Naughton, Michael Crouch, Caitlin Kelly

Unabridged: 11 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/02/2019


Synopsis

A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things and Other Stories is an exciting glimpse into Paul Tremblay’s fantastically fertile imagination.In “The Teacher,” a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story, a student is forced to watch a disturbing video that will haunt and torment her and her classmates’ lives. Four men rob a pawn shop at gunpoint only to vanish, one-by-one, as they speed away from the crime scene in “The Getaway.”In “Swim Wants to Know If It’s as Bad as Swim Thinks,” a meth addict kidnaps her daughter from her estranged mother as their town is terrorized by a giant monster . . . or not.Joining these haunting works are stories linked to Tremblay’s previous novels. The tour de force metafictional novella “Notes from the Dog Walkers” deconstructs horror and publishing, possibly bringing in a character from A Head Full of Ghosts, all while serving as a prequel to Disappearance at Devil’s Rock. “The Thirteenth Temple” follows another character from A Head Full of Ghosts—Merry, who has published a tell-all memoir written years after the events of the novel. And the title story, “Growing Things,” a shivery tale loosely shared between the sisters in A Head Full of Ghosts, is told here in full.From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored. As he lowers the sky and yanks the ground from beneath our feet, we are compelled to contemplate the darkness inside our own hearts and minds.

About Paul Tremblay

Paul Tremblay is the multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of seven previous novels (Horror Movie, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, No Sleep Till Wonderland, and The Little Sleep) and two short fiction collections (The Beast You Are and Growing Things). He lives outside of Boston with his family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on June 26, 2024

We all know the big bad is coming, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it, yet still we go to our jobs and we chitchat about nothing important with coworkers and we go to dinner and we go to the mall and we go to our dentist appointments and we buy groceries and we make plans with friends and f......more

Goodreads review by karen on November 15, 2019

oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for BEST HORROR 2019! what will happen? a collection of stories! from paul tremblay! in which "karen brissette" appears in one and MAYBE two of the stories. although it's pretty clear to ME that there's no 'maybe' about it, coyboy. between the observation of......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on July 02, 2019

This review originally published on Cemetery Dance (April 29th, 2019) “I’m terrible at remembering plot and character specifics…if the story is successful, what I do remember and will never forget is what and how that story makes me feel.”—Paul Tremblay in the “Notes” of Growing Things. Thank goodness......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on July 05, 2021

I wanted SO badly to love this because I adore Tremblay’s writing but it was just so MEH. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great and great is what I’ve come to expect from him. Maybe his strength lies in the full length novel or maybe I’m just crazy, who knows! All I know is this wasn’t as good as I was......more

Goodreads review by Alan on August 01, 2019

Tremblay's collection of short stories has a few entries that are right up there with his phenomenal novels, especially the title story "Growing Things" and "Notes for 'The Barn in the Wild'". Nearly every story is at least good, if not excellent, with "Notes from the Dog Walkers" being the only one......more