Dream Home, Kat Howard
Dream Home, Kat Howard
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Dream Home
A Short Horror Story

Author: Kat Howard, Theresa DeLucci

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Unabridged: 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Published: 02/11/2020

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

"Dream Home" is a short horror story by critically acclaimed author Kat Howard, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

A young woman moves into her dream home, but is she the only inhabitant?

Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

About Kat Howard

Kat Howard’s short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, anthologized in best of and annual best of collections, and performed on NPR. You can find it in her collection, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Roses and Rot and the Alex Award–winning An Unkindness of Magicians. She is also one of the writers of the Books of Magic series, set in the Sandman Universe. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and you can find her on twitter at @KatWithSword.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

SPOOKTOBER DAY NINE welcome to my spooktober audio advent calendar, where, each day during the month of spooktober, i will be celebrating by listening to a free audio short from nightfire's Come Join Us by the Fire series, and you can join ME by following the links. let's all be scared together! 7 mi......more

Goodreads review by Marc D.

3/5 estrellas. No hay mucho para comentar porque no fue la gran cosa, pero me encantó el tema de las diferentes habitaciones con sus distintas llaves (y las que no tenían llave).......more

Is it the house from her dreams, or is she the woman the house dreams of? Blurring the line of where reality meets dreams, Ms. Howard gets us to think about what we know - or rather, what we think we know - about reaching our longest-nurtured dreams. I just wish this was a teensy bit longer - it has......more

Dream Home is an interesting tale, one that is short and sweet (well, maybe not so much the latter...). I really loved the theme of it, not to mention the details mentioned, the sounds heard, which really helped to set the tone. Especially combined with audio sound effects.......more

Goodreads review by Andrea

Spooky short tale with vague Bluebeard undertones......more