The DriveThru Crematorium, Jon Bassoff
The DriveThru Crematorium, Jon Bassoff
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The Drive-Thru Crematorium

Author: Jon Bassoff

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 4 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/17/2022

Synopsis

Stanley Maddox lives a mundane life in a nondescript town. His wife is cheating on him, his colleagues at work don’t recognize him, and he has recently noticed a mysterious creature darting its way through his house.When he notices a flap of skin on his face, he begins pulling. Beneath his skin lies another person, an evil person, with the power to change his life forever.

About Jon Bassoff

Jon Bassoff was born in 1974 in New York City and currently lives with his family in Colorado. His mountain gothic novel, Corrosion, has been translated in French and German and was nominated for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France’s biggest crime fiction award. He is a connoisseur of tequila, hot sauces, psychobilly music, and flea-bag motels.

About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett began his acting career at the age of five in the basement of his family's home in upstate New York. He has gone on to play many stage roles, both on and off-Broadway, and in regional theaters from Los Angeles, Houston, and St. Louis to Washington DC, San Francisco, and Portland, Maine. He has appeared in films and television, both prime time and late night, and in hundreds of television and radio commercials. Joe has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. He has been an Audie Award finalist eight times, and his narration of Gun Church by Reed Farrel Coleman won the 2013 Audie Award for Original Work. AudioFile magazine has granted Joe fourteen Earphones Awards, including for James Salter's All That Is and Donald Katz's Home Fires. Regarding Joe's narration of John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, AudioFile said, "This moving book comes across like a concerto . . . with a soloist-Owen's voice-rising from the background of an orchestral narration." Joe is married to actor Andrea Wright, and together they have four very grown children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sadie

Review originally published in SCREAM Magazine Issue 59 March/April As a huge fan of the horror genre it’s becoming increasingly important to highlight the many sub-genres that make up the whole. Newcomers to horror fiction often think that horror is represented by a very small number of authors with......more

Goodreads review by Danger

Got to read an early copy for blurbing reasons and totally thought this book was original, funny, dark, and weird as all hell. A must read.......more

Goodreads review by Michael

My review of THE DRIVE-THRU CREMATORIUM can be found at High Fever Books. One of the joys of reading works from small press publishers and independent authors is discovering those little caches of gold that are so far afield from your normal reading habits that you can’t help but be impressed, and it......more

Goodreads review by Mindi

Review to follow.........more

Goodreads review by Steve

** Edited as review is now live on Kendall Reviews! ** I don’t think authors who write Bizarro fiction get enough credit in the literary world. Now granted this is coming from a reader who has only read a grand total of three Bizarro releases in his lifetime. The first two were both from Danger Slate......more

Quotes

“Menacing, unpredictable, and full of nightmares to shock us into a new reality.” William Boyle, author of Gravesend

“Twines the mundane and the absurd together in a dizzying spirograph to produce an angst-ridden picture of modern society.” Steph Post, author of Miraculum

“Jon Bassoff is the Kafka of Colorado, a writer who spins feverish nightmares out of the insane realities of modern life. Horrifying and hilarious, The Drive-Thru Crematorium is his darkest trip yet” Jake Hinkson, Grand Prix Award–winning author

“Toss Kafka, David Lynch, and a pinch of Flannery O’Connor in a blender and you just might end up with The Drive-Thru Crematorium. A thoroughly baffling, unsettling, and mesmerizing journey into madness.” Dave Zeltserman, author of Everybody Lies in Hell

“A nightmarish fever-dream of a novel that wrestles with the concept of identity and giving into our own worst impulses…Try not to scream as it races toward its frightening and shattering conclusion.” Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of The Mentor

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