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The Dark Side of the Room: Extended Edition
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
The Dark Side of the Room: Extended Edition includes an introduction by Philip Fracassi (author of Beneath a Pale Sky), and the novella Along the Shadow.
For years, Betsy Lupino has lived alone in a rundown apartment. Alone, except for the growing wall of darkness that slowly devours her thoughts and memories. When a mysterious stranger moves into the building, Betsy fears the worst: that all of the darkness inside her head has escaped into the real world.
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Critic reviews
"Genuinely unsettling and leaking of paranoid dread, The Dark Side of the Room is residential horror at its finest". (Max Booth III, author of We Need to Do Something)
"What struck me the hardest was the delicate beauty of the telling. There’s a tight-wired fragility to the prose, to the story, that creates a sense of both awe and uncertainty. A grisly tale, an ever-so-slow twisting of a knife. A triumphant piece of fiction". (Philip Fracassi, author of Beneath a Pale Sky and Behold the Void)
“I devoured this one. Holy hell. Tyler brings so much heart to the story…A lucid read which creeps low to the ground until it springs on an unknowing you. Heart. Blood. Grief. All the good stuff. I’ve said it before and know I’ll say it again: Tyler Jones is the real deal". (Scott J. Moses, author of Hunger Pangs)
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- Craig
- 18-07-24
A haunting, effective story that was not what I expected
A dark, occasionally nasty novella, with some horrific depictions—whether wince-inducing gore and acts of violence, or the inescapable dread of feeling dementia or something like it slowly overtake you. Yet despite the oppressive mood, the beauty of Jones' prose shines through.
Betsy at first comes across as quite a nasty, almost vindictive person, and I worried it'd be hard to spend time with her. But as the book progresses and you understand her thoughts and feelings more, she becomes more of a sympathetic character, and ultimately a lot of this novella ended up breaking my heart.
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- David Slater
- 13-08-24
A fantastic collection that builds into one story which leaves me yelling for more
Tyler Jones is the man. If you're reading horror and you want something clever, that's full of suspense and real life drama as well as being genuinely scary, then you're a fool if you're not reading Tyler Jones. He never misses.
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- John Marsden
- 25-12-22
Wow! just Wow!
This is one of the scariest books I've ever listened to. It doesn't help that rats creep me out anyway! LOL! The characters are well written and easy to get to know and the story is fast paced and shocking. A brilliant thriller/horrow story, definitely not for the faint hearted. Jennifer Pickens narration was superb, she had just the right voice for this book. Highly recommended and well worth it's 5 stars.
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- Chiara
- 22-05-23
Beautiful narration of this eerie and dark novel!
I received the audiobook by the narrator Jennifer Pickens and this is my honest review.
First of all I loved the narration and how Jennifer Pickens really conveyed the characters and their points of view!
This is a weird dark story that left me with mixed feelings. I hated the main character Betsy, although I pitied her at times as well. Without revealing any spoilers, I hated this story because of the theme (very personal to me), but I also loved it as it is very well written and I have to praise the ability of the writer.
The author managed to create such a dark and eerie atmosphere that it draws you in from the start, and without actually explaining what is going on, we are left with Betsy's interpretation of the events, creating even more ambiguousness, and also leaving space to the reader's interpretation, which I thought was brilliant!
In this version there is also a novella wich goes in parallel with the main story but follows different characters.
As the title suggets, the darkness is the focus and this is so well depicted that as I was listening to the narration, all the events played in my head with a chiaroscuro lighting so as to amplify the experience.
I do recommend this story and in particular the audiobook version as the narrator was brilliant!
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- Ms B. Starling
- 09-06-23
great novella
A fascinating novella about the ordeals of an old dear who struggles with dementia. Throughout the book dark events unfold as she loses grip on reality, but does she really? What is real and what isn't? Is there a killer out there or not?
Difficult to tell for the reader, and that's not the point probably. A glimpse into a mind aware of losing itself is horrifying in itself.
The beginning reminded me of Fredrik Backman's "And every morning the way home gets longer and longer" , only this one turned much darker.
I think i would have loved the book more if the mystery of what's real was more sharpened, if it kept me guessing more.
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