Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker
Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker
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Haunt Sweet Home

Author: Sarah Pinsker

Narrator: Jennifer Blom, Jess Nahikian, Matt Godfrey, Robb Moreira

Unabridged: 3 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2024

Synopsis

This program features multicast narration.

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spooky ghost story from multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker.

“Don’t talk to day about what we do at night.”

When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy new coworker force Mara to confront whether the person she's truly been deceiving and hiding from all along—is herself.

Eerie and empathetic, Haunt Sweet Home is a multifaceted, supernatural exploration of finding your own way into adulthood, and into yourself.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.

About Sarah Pinsker

Sarah Pinsker is the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick Award winning author of A Song For A New Day, We Are Satellites, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, Lost Places, and over sixty works of short fiction. Her stories have appeared in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Uncanny, and in numerous anthologies and year’s bests. She is also a singer/songwriter with four albums on various independent labels. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her wife and two weird dogs.

About Robb Moreira

Robb Moreira is an Audie nominated Bilingual Latino voice actor with over 150 books and audio dramas on his resume. Robb is an accomplished narrator who uses his voice to paint worlds through the author’s words akin to those created by radio shows of old. One of his favorites being The War of the Worlds. First person narration is Robb’s specialty and draws audiences into the stories being told.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on April 12, 2025

Thankfully, this quick read intrigued me as a part of the motion picture industry, diving into the production process of a reality TV show based on haunted houses. I've previously enjoyed two sci-fi fictions by the author, so when I had the chance to read a quick novella themed around haunted houses,......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on October 06, 2024

Mara's cousin, Jeremy is the host of a popular, low-calorie paranormal home show where new owners of old homes discover they're not alone as they start renovations. At a family gathering, he offers her a job as a production assistant which she initially refuses out of pride but then accepts when she......more

Goodreads review by Erin on July 05, 2024

Really interesting take on a haunting! I zipped through it!......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on August 23, 2024

This was a fun horror novella on the lighter side! It follows Mara, a drifting young woman who gets a job as a production assistant on the set of a haunted house reality show. She's not sure who she is or what she wants out of life, but she begins working the night shift, helping to scare the owners......more

Goodreads review by Jan on November 18, 2024

that was one of the most underwhelming books I've ever read. sad it was my 300th book of 2024):......more

Quotes

Praise for Haunt Sweet Home

"Sarah Pinsker delivers yet again. Haunt Sweet Home cuts directly to the heart of a life that feels like it's haunted by the person living it. This one is fraught in all the right places."—Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home

"Kind but not gentle, Pinsker cuts to the core of the lives we craft and those that are imposed on us, and how it feels to be both in the circle by the fire, and forever lurking in the shadowy woods beyond."—Kathleen Jennings, author of Flyaway

"Pinsker pulls off the near-impossible feat of delivering a story that is simultaneously sweet and unnerving, reassuring and frightening."—A.C. Wise, author of The Ghost Sequences

"Threaded through with good humour and riddled with human frailty, Haunt Sweet Home is a creepy, disturbing book. I loved it."—Kaaron Warren, multi-award winning author of Bitters

"Pinsker’s evocative prose turns an amusing reality-show backdrop into a haunting story of hiding from (and discovering) oneself."—Library Journal

Praise for We Are Satellites

"Taut and elegant, carefully introspected and thoughtfully explored."—The New York Times

"Compassionate, richly-textured."—Annalee Newitz

Praise for A Song for a New Day

"An all-too plausible version of the apocalypse, rendered in such compelling prose that you won’t be able to put it down.”—Kelly Link

"You'd better keep a copy of A Song for a New Day with you at all times, because this book will help you survive the future."—Charlie Jane Anders

"A compelling book about the importance of music—and any sort of art—in a world where it seems like the least essential thing."—Ann Leckie

"Like listening to a fine, well-rehearsed song unleashed live. It's a deeply human song of queer found family and the tension between independence and belonging, thoughtful and raw like the best live music."—Nicola Griffith

Awards

  • NPR Best Book of the Year
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