Audio: Wild country by Anne Bishop

By: Anne Bishop

Narrated by: Alexandra Harris

Series: The World of the Others, Book 2

Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins

Release date: 03-05-19 by Penguin Audio

Fantasy/own

Re.listen Nov 2025

I do love The Others, but I always have some tiny issues with this Bennet book. Because we already know some of the story from previous books. it feels so filler.

Still that scene with Kane gets me every time, and the end in the jail cell. Breaks my heart. I am all for eating all the bad guys. Bad humans!

There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others.

One of those places is Bennett, a town at the northern end of the Elder Hills—a town surrounded by the wild country. Now efforts are being made to resettle Bennett as a community where humans and Others live and work together. A young female police officer has been hired as the deputy to a Wolfgard sheriff. A deadly type of Other wants to run a human-style saloon. And a couple with four foster children—one of whom is a blood prophet—hope to find acceptance.

But as they reopen the stores and the professional offices and start to make lives for themselves, the town of Bennett attracts the attention of other humans looking for profit. And the arrival of the Blackstone Clan, outlaws and gamblers all, will uncover secrets…or bury them.

Audio: Roots of my fears

Narrated by Manish Dongardive, Mieko Gavia, Mela Lee, Alejandro Ruiz

Publication date Dec 2, 2025 by Tantor Media

Running time 9 hrs

Horror/to review

Lamb had a Little Mary by Elena Sichrovsky

It started with a weird one, about a Lamb who had a little Mary. Mary who was clearly human, but what was lamb?

The House that Gabriel Built by Nuzo Onoh

This is the only one of these that I truly remember because the beginning is really really disturbing. Like ewwwww.

And then we get to the freaky house...

The Faces at Pine Dunes by Ramsey Campbell

A young man thinks his parents are strange...they do seem to be

In Silence, In Dying, In Dark by Caleb Weinhardt

One of Those Girls by Premee Mohamed

A girl finds out she is pregnant and does not want to be

Juracan by Gabino Iglesias

A hurrican is coming, and something is coming with it...

The Saint in the Mountain by Nadia El-Fassi

A girl gets her period and is taking to the mountains. Where something creepy lives...

Crepuscular by Hailey Piper

Laal Andhi by Usman T. Malik

The Woods by Erica T. Wurth

A stop at a strange hotel

Unsewn by Ai Jiang

A woman is trying for a son as she has been told to get, but she births only daughters. Sad how the world can be

To Forget and Be Forgotten by Adam Nevill

A security guards learns some secrets about creepy old people

The Veteran by V. Castro

End of the world, alcoholic veteran finds a purpose. Interesting world.

Chalk Bones by Sarah Deacon

Creepy end, ohhh. Nicely done there. This might be my favorite.

Lots of horror, fold legends and strangeness going on. Some I remember more, some less.  I am always bad with remembering names too, so some stories did not get written about. All the creepiness sort of bled into each other.

More creepy than horror. All those tales of old, what could be out there. Not very xmassy of me reading this one right now. A bit of freaky stuff in December for me.

It had several narrators and they did a good job with their stories. They own had their own accents and gave it a real good experience.

It's a bedtime story, ancient family lore, a secret passed down from generation to generation. Stories that have deep dark roots, ever-growing, ever-creeping.

This anthology explores stories of heritage and horror. The tales we grew up on, hometown rumors and legends.

The things we pass down through our bloodlines

Audio: A theory of dreaming

Release date: 07-29-25

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher: HarperCollins

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Gary Furlong

Fantasy/from spotify

To be honest, my mind managed to drift a lot while listening...like a lot.

It just felt like nothing ever happened. Effy and Preston are at Uni. She finally studies Lit but no one wants her there. She suffers from PTSD and sleeps a lot, but that is the thing this is not her book.

This is Preston´s book, and I was not that interested in when he started dreaming he was some underwater King. I honestly had no idea what was happening. I had to look at book 1 and it seems I was confused there too. But there it worked because I really liked the book and the confusion there was was things real or not. While here I mostly wondered if the country they are at war with is fake France or Scotland.

The narration, I do like Saskia, she is amazing! And her voice fits the story so well. The guy was good too. But not even they could save this story as nothing happens

All stories come to an end.

Effy learned that when she defeated the Fairy King. Even though she may never know exactly what happened at Hiraeth, she is free of her nightmares and is able to pen a thesis with Preston on the beloved national fairy tale Angharad. She has finally earned a spot at the literature college, making her the first woman in history to enroll.

But some dreams are dangerous, especially when they come true. The entire university—and soon the entire nation—is waiting for her to fail. With the Fairy King defeated and Myrddin’s legacy exposed, Effy can no longer escape into fantasy. Who is she without her stories?

With Effy under threat, Preston is surprised to discover a rage simmering inside him, ringing in his ears like bells. He begins to dream of a palace under the sea, a world where he is king—visions that start to follow him even in waking.

As the war between Llyr and Argant explodes, Effy and Preston find themselves caught in the crossfire: Effy losing her dreams and Preston losing himself in his.

Are dreams ever truly just dreams?

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