How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive: A Novel Audiobook

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• An epistolary descent into a living nightmare . . . well-written and genuinely unsettling. Fans of paranormal documentaries, ghost-hunting shows, and found-footage horror will lose their minds over this one."  —Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Kin on Episode Thirteen

• Episode Thirteen is a suspenseful and engaging Rubik’s Cube of a novel. The reader has great perverse fun twisting the pieces back and forth, facet after facet, until Craig DiLouie’s grand design stands revealed in all its febrile splendor.

  — James Morrow, author of The Last Witchfinder on Episode Thirteen

• It’s the literary equivalent of a found footage movie, and it works beautifully. Part ghost story, part metaphysical horror, total nightmare — Episode Thirteen is a must read.

  — David Moody, author of Hater and the Autumn series on Episode Thirteen

• In this transcendent ghost story for the 21st century, Craig DiLouie charts the mystery where science meets the supernatural then dives in headfirst to deliver a haunted house story so heartbreaking and profoundly unsettling it ranks alongside the classics of the genre.

  — James Chambers, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of On the Hierophant Road on Episode Thirteen

• DiLouie follows a found-footage narrative before veering into gloriously mind-bending terror. . . .  In this subversion of the classic haunted-house/found-footage story, DiLouie demonstrates his ability to toy with and eventually upend readers’ expectations.

  — Library Journal (Starred Review) on Episode Thirteen

• With this chilling story of cult abuse, DiLouie proves his mastery of the slow slide from psychological drama into supernatural horror . . . . Horror readers will be hooked.

  — Publishers Weekly on The Children of Red Peak

• The Children of Red Peak is both a subtle character study and a chilling tale of horror. It goes deep into the heart of people caught up in terrifying events. Highly recommended.

  — Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author, on The Children of Red Peak

• A heart-wrenching, thought-provoking, terrifying tale about the meaning of life... A great choice for fans of Stephen Graham Jones' The Only Good Indians (2020), Paul Tremblay's Disappearance at Devil's Rock (2016), or Alma Katsu's The Hunger (2018).

  — Booklist on The Children of Red Peak

• Gripping, thought-provoking, and suspenseful, Craig DiLouie's latest is a master study of darkness and light and the meaning of life.

  — Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling author, on The Children of Red Peak

• Absolutely riveting... A tapestry of past and present come together in this chilling tale of family, faith, and redemption. Craig DiLouie has a new fan.

  — J.D. Barker, international bestselling author of She Has A Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be, on The Children of Red Peak

• The Children of Red Peak is ice-in-your-heart, nerve-racking fantastic - Heaven's Gate by way of Stephen King's IT. Almost every page made my skin crawl.

  — Peter Clines, New York Times bestselling author of Paradox Bound and Terminus on The Children of Red Peak

• DiLouie really knows how to simultaneously shatter nerves and break hearts. The Children of Red Peak is a genuinely unsettling psychological horror novel, a story where faith and fear combine to destroy innocence and devastate lives. Intense, compulsive, thought-provoking, and highly recommended.

  — David Moody, author of the Hater and Autumn series, on The Children of Red Peak

• Readers will find The Children of Red Peak a fantastically creepy addition to their fall reads.

  — Nerd Daily on The Children of Red Peak

• One of the most powerful voices in dark fiction does it again! Craig DiLouie's The Children of Red Peak delivers a suspenseful and unpredictable psychological exploration of family, belief, and horror as chilling as it is thought-provoking. One of the best books of the year!

  — James Chambers, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of On the Night Border, on The Children of Red Peak

• Unsettling, frighteningly ambiguous… a cult horror story that explores trauma, faith and the search for meaning in the aftermath of tragedy.

  — Shelf Awareness on The Children of Red Peak

• A dark mosaic of reality TV and occult physics, Episode Thirteen reels you in with a found-footage mystery that spirals into a labyrinth of madness. Craig DiLouie dissects his all-too-human characters’ needs and ambitions with clinical precision as we race toward a series of stunningly beautiful—and horrifying—revelations.

  — Andy Marino, author of It Rides a Pale Horse and The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess on Episode Thirteen

• Gory, glorious, and just a little too believable, Craig DiLouie’s latest is a slick meta slasher movie in book form, set in the brutal intersection of art and obsession."  —Peter Clines, New York Times bestselling author

• A tricky, twisty book with more levels to it than a slasher movie has sequels. DiLouie knows what makes the horror genre tick.

  — David Moody, author of the Hater and Autumn series

• Confidently striding through the genre, DiLouie displays a deep and abiding love for horror, even as he finds new ways to bend our disgust and despair to his will. The camera cannot turn away.

  — Andrew F. Sullivan, co-author of The Handyman Method

• With well-developed characters, a swiftly paced narrative, and mounting dread, this new twist on the ghost story will delight horror readers. —Booklist on Episode Thirteen