The Boy Who Drew Monsters, Keith Donohue
The Boy Who Drew Monsters, Keith Donohue
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The Boy Who Drew Monsters
A Novel

Author: Keith Donohue

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2014

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror novel about a young boy trapped inside his own world, whose drawings blur the lines between fantasy and reality.Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, ten-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors. Refusing to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine, Jack Peter spends his time drawing monsters. When those drawings take on a life of their own, no one is safe from the terror they inspire. His mother, Holly, begins to hear strange sounds in the night coming from the ocean, and she seeks answers from the local Catholic priest and his Japanese housekeeper, who fill her head with stories of shipwrecks and ghosts. His father, Tim, wanders the beach, frantically searching for a strange apparition running wild in the dunes. And the boy's only friend, Nick, becomes helplessly entangled in the eerie power of the drawings. While those around Jack Peter are haunted by what they think they see, only he knows the truth behind the frightful occurrences as the outside world encroaches upon them all.In the tradition of The Turn of the Screw, Keith Donohue's The Boy Who Drew Monsters is a mesmerizing tale of psychological terror and imagination run wild, a perfectly creepy read for a dark night.

About Keith Donohue

Keith Donohue is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Stolen Child, The Angels of Destruction, and Centuries of June. His work has been translated into two dozen languages, and his articles have appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post, among other publications. A graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Donohue also holds a PhD in English from the Catholic University of America. He lives in Maryland.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

3.5 spooky stars. here's a little backstory about me and the books of keith donohue. when The Stolen Child came out, i read the flap and thought "ooooh, that sounds amazing!" and i bought it. in hardcover. when Angels of Destruction came out, i did the same thing. when Centuries of June came out, i d......more

Goodreads review by Carmen

"Listen," she commanded in a hoarse whisper, and he strained to discover what she had heard, but he could find no stray sound. "There's someone in the house." He heard nothing. "Someone's walking around." I love horror novels and especially one which seems to imitate Japanese horror. Donohue drenches ev......more

Goodreads review by Mandy

What an ending!! This book wasn't what I imagined and was different in a good way. I enjoyed this fiction novel like any other book that isn't real. I could sense the setting and see the house and sea in my mind just as if I were in the book, watching it play out as a spectator. J.P was such a dynam......more

Goodreads review by Victor

Uma leitura certamente diferente e muito interessante. Primeiro de tudo: EU ESTOU CHOCADO COM ESSE FINAL! Quando eu achei que era só isso mesmo, que a conclusão seria aquela, e tudo terminaria meia boca... JESUS AMADO. O tiro que eu levei. O livro todo segue um ritmo lento e a escrita é bem densa, ma......more

Quotes

"[A] chilling Christmastime horror yarn…Like a child’s attention, the book may seem to wander in its final third before ultimately revealing itself to have been horribly on point all along.” Entertainment Weekly

“Ingenious…Donohue unspools his simple story patiently, delivering jolts when necessary, but mostly concentrating on the stress generated in a family with an unhappy child. It’s a modest novel, elegantly worked, with a nice chilly twist at the end.” New York Times Book Review

“Clearly, we are in the territory of the wholehearted, up-for-anything gothic, which even as it undertakes a melancholic exploration of the lost, forlorn, and bereft operates with the volume cranked and the plot on greased wheels. As a writer, Donohue always seems to know exactly what he is doing….and in The Boy Who Drew Monsters he twists the screw on Jack with the finesse of an expert. It is a pleasure to watch him glide along, pulling one squirming rabbit after another from his copious hat.” Washington Post

“A classically hypnotic horror story…The Boy Who Drew Monsters dissolves notions of reality and fiction and leaves behind an eerie narrative about what haunting aberrations might lurk just outside our peripheral vision.” Time Out (New York)

“An eerie, unsettling novel about the monsters outside your door…and the ones inside all of us…Donohue fills his pages with intimacy and dread and whips up an ending that’ll take your breath away.” Christopher Golden, Bram Stoker Award–winning author

“Both an eerie, engrossing tale of the supernatural, with a sting in its tale, and a superb evocation of troubled youth. The Boy Who Drew Monsters reminds us that there is no rage like the rage of children.” John Connolly, Edgar Award-winning author

“The ghostly influence of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw haunts this chilling novel…Donohue is an adept creator of atmosphere…A brisk and winningly creepy narrative.” Publishers Weekly

“The novel unfolds through rich prose and a deeply imagined story…The final page—the final sentence, really—comes as a clever surprise but one that resonates soundly. Fans of Donohue’s first novel, The Stolen Child, will be pleased. Also recommended for readers of Joe Hill.” Library Journal

“This is a traditional horror story—something you could easily imagine Graham Masterton writing—with a delicious twist near the end that makes you rethink everything you’ve just read.” Booklist

“Donohue’s writing is as evocative as Jack Peter’s drawings, both startling and heavy with emotion…A sterling example of the new breed of horror: unnerving and internal with just the right number of bumps in the night.” Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • Amazon Best Book of the Month
  • LibraryReads Pick
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