Even if you’ve never listened to the podcast on which this gripping production is based, fear not: Fink’s audiobook is so effectively scary that it’s easy to binge-listen to on its own. Throughout, Jasika Nicole’s narration is effectively subtle. Keisha is searching for her wife, Alice, who is presumed dead. Her search requires scouring a landscape of dark highways, empty parking lots, dusty motel rooms, and untrustworthy law enforcement. Along her journey, she encounters a murderous entity that seems to know where she is at every turn. Fans of horror will appreciate the simplicity of the story’s premise and the skill with which the suspense builds. Nicole’s performance is tense, even chilling when appropriate—but with an underlying suggestion of hope. S.P.C. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
Alice Isn’t Dead is podcaster-turned-author Joseph Fink’s adaptation of his same-named audio drama, but as a book, it offers a very different trip—both from its aural forebear, and from Fink’s other multimedia franchise, Welcome to Night Vale. Alice begins by warning the reader that it is a road trip, and not a book, and this is true, […]
In the past decade, podcasts have gone from background noise to a major part of the pop-culture soundscape. More people are listening to them, and every media company is producing them (not to mention companies like, say, Barnes & Noble). Podcasts are making their presence felt in the book world too, with a growing number of […]
At the end of each month, we share lists of B&N’s current bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the books everyone is talking about—and buying. Hardcovers What SFF, comics, and manga did you buy to kick off 2019?
It’s the end of another year and the perfect time to look back at the moments that defined 2018. For readers, of course, that means choosing the books that defined the preceding 12 months. It was a great year for science fiction and fantasy readers, certainly—from epics spanning centuries of invented lore, to chronicles of […]
Another year is ending. The days grow shorter; the nights, darker. The weird noises two streets over are a little quieter, and a little weirder, when muffled by the snow. With these black nights comes the harvest of the best dark fiction of the year. The past 12 months was an interesting time for horror, […]