The Ones That Got Away, Stephen Graham Jones
The Ones That Got Away, Stephen Graham Jones
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The Ones That Got Away

Author: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrator: Rich Miller

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/22/2022


Synopsis

These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out.

A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be possible, but now he can't stop listening. A woman finds out that the shipwreck wasn't the disaster, but who she's shipwrecked with. A big brother learns just what he will, and won't, trade for one night of sleep. From prison guards making unholy alliances to snake-oil men in the Old West doling out justice, these stories carve down into the body of the mind, into our most base fears and certainties, and there's no anesthetic. Turn the light on if you want, but that just makes for more shadows.

About Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of more than twenty books, including The Fast Red Road, Ledfeather, and Mongrels, and the short story collections After the People Lights Have Gone Off, States of Grace, and The Ones that Got Away. Stephen has been an NEA fellowship recipient, has won the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, a Bram Stoker Award, four This is Horror Awards; and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mauoijenn on October 12, 2015

OH. MY. FUCKING. BRIGHT. SHOOTING. STARS. This book was INTENSE! My head is still spinning and I will probably NOT turn off my bedroom light when I go to sleep. If, I fall asleep. These are some of the best short horror stories I have ever read. I wish all short story books could be this good. A must......more

Goodreads review by Orrin on April 14, 2011

Holy crap! This is maybe only the second book I ever read that was too intense, too brutal, that I had to stop partway through it and read something else for awhile before picking it back up. Stephen Graham Jones writes just brilliant, brutal stories here that, though obviously not true, all feel tru......more

Goodreads review by Fred on February 17, 2011

Story collections are like golf shots . . . if you run into a crap story, the next one could be the redeemer, so it keeps you interested start to finish. You run into a stinker of a novel, you're screwed for 300 pages, you know? But in reading the latest from Stephen Graham Jones, The Ones That Got......more

Goodreads review by Amy on September 08, 2020

Dark and grim short stories. There were some I really liked and some that I'm not entirely sure I understood. The writing itself is pretty flawless - a straight-up, nonfussy style inviting the inevitable comparison to the King. I mean, Stephen King is in a league of his own, but style-wise and even......more

Goodreads review by Kim on September 30, 2022

Excellent extremely dark and visceral short stories. SGJ has a way of reminding the reader about how much we rely on the social contract. We assume that most people are pretty much okay, and this makes us feel secure. In these stories, we discover that any seemingly ordinary situation or person can......more