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Shining in the Dark
- Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja's Library
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Corey Brill, Jacques Roy, Pete Simonelli, Madeleine Maby, Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
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Featuring Stephen King, Clive Barker, Stewart O'Nan, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Keene and many others!
Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 years of running the number-one Stephen King news website on the web!
This anthology includes both original stories like a brand-new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), very rare reprints like The Blue Air Compressor by Stephen King and at least one classic tale that inspired Lilja's love of the macabre at a very young age!
Now, let's join Lilja.... He's already waiting for us, there ahead in the darkness.... You see him, don't you? Just keep walking, you'll find him soon enough, we promise.... He's there, shining and waiting for you.... Take his hand and then you, too, will shine in the dark!
Table of contents:
'Celebrating 20 Years of Lilja's Library (An Introduction)' by Hans-Åke Lilja - read by Jacques Roy
'The Blue Air Compressor' by Stephen King - read by Robert Petkoff
'The Net' by Jack Ketchum and P. D. Cacek - read by Pete Simonelli, Madeleine Maby, and Corey Brill
'The Novel of the Holocaust' by Stewart O'Nan - read by Jacques Roy
'Aeliana' by Bev Vincent - read by Madeleine Maby
'Pidgin and Theresa' by Clive Barker - read by Matthew Lloyd Davies
'An End to All Things' by Brian Keene - read by Pete Simonelli
'Cemetery Dance' by Richard Chizmar - read by Corey Brill
'Drawn to the Flame' by Kevin Quigley - read by Jacques Roy
'The Companion' by Ramsey Campbell - read by Pete Simonelli
'A Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe - read by Jacques Roy
'A Mother's Love' by Brian James Freeman - read by Pete Simonelli
'The Keeper's Companion' by John Ajvide Lindqvist - read by Corey Brill
'Celebrating 20 Years of Lilja's Library (An Afterword)' by Hans-Åke Lilja - read by Jacques Roy