Grey Dog, Elliott Gish
Grey Dog, Elliott Gish
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Grey Dog

Author: Elliott Gish

Narrator: Natalie Naudus

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/09/2024


Synopsis

The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd―spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist―accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her past―riddled with grief and shame―has never seemed so far away.

But then Ada begins to witness strange and grisly phenomena: a swarm of dying crickets, a self-mutilating rabbit, a malformed faun. She soon believes that something old and beastly―which she calls Grey Dog―is behind these visceral offerings, which both beckon and repel her. As her confusion deepens, her grip on what is real, what is delusion, and what is traumatic memory loosens, and Ada takes on the wildness of the woods, behaving erratically and pushing her newfound friends away. In the end, she is left with one question: What is the real horror? The Grey Dog, the uncontainable power of female rage, or Ada herself?

About Elliott Gish

Elliott Gish is a writer and librarian from Halifax, where she lives with her partner. A graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio, Gish’s fiction has appeared in many journals, including the New Quarterly, the Baltimore Review, and the Dalhousie Review, and was nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize.

About Natalie Naudus

Natalie Naudus is an award winning audiobook narrator and social media influencer. “A fave among audiobook listeners” (Buzzfeed), she lives with her family on a mountain in Virginia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 03, 2024

One of the best horror novels of the year. An eerie slow burn set in a small Canadian town in 1901 about a schoolteacher escaping her past. I enjoyed this very much but it's almost hard to review because I just want to push it into people's hands and tell them to read it. While it takes a little tim......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on April 25, 2024

This book is for all women who resist society's norms of being a "good woman". -1900s, historical fiction -journal entries -MC is a naturalist/scientist/school teacher -one room schoolhousee -religious/patriarchal community/church -creepy woods/something out there -creepy kids -isolated widow -sapphic desire......more

Goodreads review by Praveen on April 14, 2024

" It happened again. God help me, it happened again." The story begins in 1901. A lady is going to fill the post of teacher in a small village town, 20 miles away from Portsmouth. The train she is on is stuff-packed. Mr. Grier, an acquaintance of her father, will come to pick her up from the stati......more

Goodreads review by Queralt✨ on August 05, 2024

I want to preface this by saying this is the type of book you go into blind. The only ‘relevant’ things to know is that it follows a 29-year-old woman named Ada Byrd when she moves to a small Canadian village to teach. It’s set in the early 1900s, it’s a slowburn horror novel, it’s LGBTQIA+, and it’......more

Goodreads review by Yvonne (thehorrorhive) on May 20, 2024

Well, ultimately, I’m unsure how to process this one. The central narrative as I took it was – being a woman is enough to drive a woman mad. This was a beautiful story with inflections of the time period. I love some historical horror, but this took me over a week to finish and I can usually finish......more


Quotes

Gish’s prose is as sharp as a scalpel...The novel’s diaristic format lends itself perfectly to the revelations that unfold, and the ending will haunt readers long after the final page is turned.