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The Last House on Needless Street Audiobook, by Catriona Ward Play Audiobook Sample

The Last House on Needless Street Audiobook

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Read By: Christopher Ragland Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781250819802

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

55

Longest Chapter Length:

42:25 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

31 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

13:05 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

5

Other Audiobooks Written by Catriona Ward: > View All...

Publisher Description

"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." - Stephen King "Christopher Ragland delivers a story featuring three unreliable narrators, all keeping secrets . . . Ragland's story is a discomforting listen that is difficult to pause." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winning review A World Fantasy Award and August Derleth Award Finalist! An Indie Next Pick! A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick! A Library Journal Editors' Pick! STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly! Named one of the "50 Best Horror Books of All Time" by Esquire! "Brilliant....[a] deeply frightening deconstruction of the illusion of the self." —The New York Times Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all. “The new face of literary dark fiction.” —Sarah Pinborough A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

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"Ward ably handles the series of nested revelations of the truth about the house's inhabitants and how they connect to Ted's own childhood, all the while maintaining a propulsive, suspenseful tone. Recommended for anyone interested in horror with well-realized characters and a claustrophobic, intense setting."

— Booklist

Quotes

  • “Christopher Ragland provides a masterful narration…[and] gives listeners a thrilling experience that will shock them until the end.”

    — Library Journal (starred audio review)
  • An Indie Next Pick!A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!A Library Journal Editors' Pick! STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly!One of Bustle's "Most Anticipated Books of September"

  • The buzz building around Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. Haven't read anything this exciting since Gone Girl.

    — Stephen King
  • Sensational….I can’t recall another novel in recent years that dares so much and succeeds so wildly.

    — A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
  • A chilling and beautiful masterpiece of suspense, cunningly plotted and written with the elegant imagination of a Shirley Jackson or a Sarah Waters. I was completely enthralled.

    — Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman
  • A breathtakingly ambitious book, gorgeously written, and never once shies away from showing you its fangs and its beautiful blood-filled heart. Stop reading this blurb already and open the damn book.

    — Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
  • A masterpiece. Beautiful, heartbreaking and quietly uplifting. One of the most powerful and well-executed novels I've read in years.

    — Alex North, author of The Whisper Man
  • Absolutely brilliant. This is extraordinary, high-wire-act horror, audacious as hell.

    — Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Red Hands
  • This masterful horror novel packs an emotional wallop that lingers.

    — Publishers Weekly, starred review
  • Dark and creepy, sad and wonderfully strange. It kept me glued and guessing right up to the end—I loved every inch of it.

    — Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
  • Brilliant. Breathtaking. Terrifying. A masterpiece to read at your own peril.

    — Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger
  • A risky, gleeful descent into a house without windows or doors. It's a must-read for horror fans.

    — Sarah Langan, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Good Neighbors
  • A stunning and immersive tale of psychological horror. It’s terrifyingly real and physically upsetting, yet, like the best of the genre, it leaves space for hope to ultimately shine through.

    — Library Journal (starred review)
  • “This book was like an onion. Layer after layer after layer and then you're crying and somebody's got a knife. A brutal, twisty, puzzle box of a book. I stayed up way past my bedtime.

    — T. Kingfisher, author of The Hollow Places
  • What did I just read?! One perfect sentence after the other ... this is a story I wish I knew how to write—and I'm thrilled that Ward pulled off this trick of a book.

    — Rachel Howzell Hall, author of And Now She's Gone
  • THIS IS THE BEST HORROR NOVEL I HAVE EVER READ. Even Shirley Jackson, her Majesty, would have to concede to this one.

    — Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
  • Books like this don't come around too often... I would say I inhaled this in one, but I think I was too busy holding my breath throughout. Bravo.

    — Joanne Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Gospel of Loki
  • The new face of literary dark fiction.

    — Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes
  • Full of twists and turns, this high-concept gothic horror is going to be huge.

    — Guardian
  • You don’t read The Last House on Needless Street—you survive it. This isn’t just a thriller; it’s a sleek, diabolical, stress-inducing machine.

    — Jonathan Janz, author of The Siren and the Specter
  • Incredible. Absolutely creep-inducing, skin-crawling, even agonising; and also so beautiful, both in writing and heart. One of my favourite things in ages.

    — James Smythe, author of The Explorer
  • Incredible. Just incredible. Throughout, I didn't know where to put my heart. A breathtaking, fiercely beautiful novel.

    — Rio Youers, author of Lola on Fire
  • Breathtakingly brilliant. Dark and relentlessly twisty, the best thing I've read this year.

    — Lisa Hall, author of The Party
  • Not only edge of the seat, terrifying suspenseful horror, but it also broke my heart into tiny pieces. Such exquisite writing.

    — Muriel Gray, author of The Ancient

Awards

  • A September 2021 LibraryReads Pick
  • An Indie Next List Pick
  • A Library Journal Best Audiobook of the Year

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About Christopher Ragland

Christopher Ragland is a voice and film actor who is known for his roles in the films I Shouldn't Be Alive, Driver: San Francisco, and WorldShift.