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Bride of the Tornado
- Author
- James Kennedy
- Narrator
- Jesse Vilinsky
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 August 2023
- Run Time
- 11 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A young woman’s secretive midwestern town is engulfed by a mysterious plague of tornadoes every generation—and she must escape it before it claims her.
Stephen King’s The Mist meets David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in this inventive, mind-bending horror-thriller.
In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them.
The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes and the true nature of the tornado killer—and our narrator must escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim her.
Audaciously conceived and steeped in existential dread, this genre-defying novel reveals the myth-bound madness at the heart of American life.
Critics Review
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“Edginess and tension are palpable from the get-go in Jesse Vilinsky’s high-octane performance of this gothic horror.”
AudioFile
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“A high-velocity twister of a ride.”
Chicago Review of Books
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“Depraved, hilarious, and genre-bending.”
Brooklyn Rail
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“Has a whirlwind energy that’s hard to resist. Four stars.”
SFX Magazine
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“Reads like a fever dream wrapped inside of techno-colored nightmare and viewed through a kaleidoscope.“
Manhattan Book Review
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“[A] powerfully weird, original tale that combines American folk horror with a surreal coming-of-age nightmare.”
The Guardian (London)
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“American gothic, full-blown horror, wrapped up in an adolescent coming-of-age tale.”
Daily Mail (London)
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“This genre-defying horror-thriller delves into surreal, mind-bending depths…Fans of eerie, atmospheric horror will be hooked.”
SciFi Now
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“A genre-bending horror thriller that grapples with adolescent desire and existential dread in equal measures…gooey, gory, and frightening.”
Booklist
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“Kennedy puts an eerie, surrealist twist on the American Midwest.”
Publishers Weekly
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Details
- Author
- James Kennedy
- Narrator
- Jesse Vilinsky
- Duration
- 11 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 August 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212028882
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Thriller / suspense fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction, Religious and spiritual fiction
Synopsis
A young woman’s secretive midwestern town is engulfed by a mysterious plague of tornadoes every generation—and she must escape it before it claims her.Stephen King’s The Mist meets David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in this inventive, mind-bending horror-thriller.In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them.The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes and the true nature of the tornado killer—and our narrator must escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim her.Audaciously conceived and steeped in existential dread, this genre-defying novel reveals the myth-bound madness at the heart of American life.
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