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Acquired Taste
- Author
- Clay McLeod Chapman
- Narrator
- James Patrick Cronin
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 9 September 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
They’re feeding on you too.
A father returns from serving in Vietnam with a strange and terrifying addiction; a man removes something horrifying from his fireplace, and becomes desperate to return it; and a right-wing news channel has its hooks in people in more ways than one.
From department store Santas to ghost boyfriends and salamander-worshipping nuns, from the claustrophobia of the COVID-19 pandemic to small-town Chesapeake USA, Clay McLeod Chapman takes universal fears of parenthood, addiction and political divisions and makes them uniquely his own.
Packed full of humanity, humour and, above all, relentless creeping dread, Acquired Taste is a timely descent into the mind of one of modern horror’s finest authors.
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Details
- Author
- Clay McLeod Chapman
- Narrator
- James Patrick Cronin
- Duration
- 8 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9798896796497
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Horror and supernatural fiction, Short stories, Occult fiction
Synopsis
They’re feeding on you too. A father returns from serving in Vietnam with a strange and terrifying addiction; a man removes something horrifying from his fireplace, and becomes desperate to return it; and a right-wing news channel has its hooks in people in more ways than one.  From department store Santas to ghost boyfriends and salamander-worshipping nuns, from the claustrophobia of the COVID-19 pandemic to small-town Chesapeake USA, Clay McLeod Chapman takes universal fears of parenthood, addiction and political divisions and makes them uniquely his own.  Packed full of humanity, humour and, above all, relentless creeping dread, Acquired Taste is a timely descent into the mind of one of modern horror’s finest authors.
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