Ghost Bread, Camilla Grudova
Ghost Bread, Camilla Grudova
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Ghost Bread
A Short Horror Story

Author: Camilla Grudova

Narrator: Deepti Gupta

Unabridged: 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Published: 03/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

When you believe a better life waits for you beyond death, the perfect place to die is a difficult thing to find.

Content warning: this story contains self-harm and disordered eating.

"Ghost Bread" is one of 9 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Come Join Us by the Fire S2: Originals is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-first horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. "Season 2: Originals" features nine all-new stories from authors Laird Barron, Indrapramit Das, Brian Evenson, Craig Laurance Gidney, Camilla Grudova, Shaun Hamill, Gabino Iglesias, Daniel M. Lavery, and Sunny Moraine.

About Camilla Grudova

Camilla Grudova works at a cinema in Edinburgh. Her debut short story collection, The Doll’s Alphabet, was published in 2017. She is currently working on a novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on November 25, 2020

People in the country of M are so repressed, they often try to commit suicide. If they survive their attempt, the government makes their life a living, suffering hell. But if they succeed, then their family is punished. So there is a business of getting people out on visas so they can go to a new co......more

Goodreads review by Cristi on February 08, 2024

I loved this story so much. I listened to it again immediately after my first listen. It's a tale of a town which people are committing suicide and if they fail their life is hell. If they succeeded their family's life is hell. Also discussion of how after you die, you're still hungry for food: diso......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on September 26, 2023

This was everything it said it was. A haunting short story. I enjoyed it!......more

Goodreads review by lauren on April 19, 2021

2.5! definitely an interesting idea and actually really appreciated that the book had warnings, so i’m rounding it up to 3 for goodreads! just thought the substance was lacking a bit, with being such a short tale it is definitely hard to flesh out a lot of ideas that they were going for, but still r......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on September 10, 2023

There is not a lot to this story, except the telling of the feelings of how it is to waste away from a disorder of any kind. You can easily replace the eating disorder in this book with any disorder and it would essentially tell the same story. Yes, I say that as someone who does suffer from quite a......more