Full Throttle: Stories Audiobook (Free)

The number one New York Times best-selling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather returns using a dark and ingenious collection of 13 compelling short stories that showcase his ability to “push genre conventions to new extremes” (New York Times Book Review), performed by a sensational multi-cast featuring Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Neil Gaiman, Ashleigh Cummings, Joe Hill, Laysla De Oliveira, Nate Corddry, Connor Jessup, Stephen Lang, and George about Full Throttle: Stories Guidall.

In this masterful collection of brief fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in 13 relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In The Tall Grass”, one of two tales cowritten with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.

A little door that opens to an environment of fairy-tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in “Faun”. A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique bookmobile to provide fresh reads to the lifeless in “Past due Comes back”. In “By the Sterling silver Drinking water of Lake Champlain”, two youthful friends stumble over the corpse of a plesiosaur on the water’s advantage, a discovery that forces them to confront the inescapable truth of their personal mortality…and other horrors that lurk in the water’s shivery depths. And pressure shimmers in the sweltering high temperature of the Nevada desert like a faceless trucker discovers himself caught inside a sinister dance using a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in “Throttle”, cowritten with Stephen King.

Offering two previously unpublished stories and a brace of shocking chillers, Full Throttle is definitely a darkly dreamed odyssey through the complexities of the human psyche. Hypnotic and disquieting, it mines our tormented secrets, concealed vulnerabilities, and basest anxieties and demonstrates this outstanding talent at his very best.