Out of Body

Name: Out of Body
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jeffrey Ford
ISBN: 9781696600866

Author: Jeffrey Ford

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 05/26/2020

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Supernatural

Synopsis

Out of Body is a dark fantasy thriller from multi-award-winning author Jeffrey Ford.

A small-town librarian witnesses a murder at his local deli, and what had been routine sleep paralysis begins to transform into something far more disturbing. The trauma of holding a dying girl in his arms drives him out of his own body. The town he knows so well is suddenly revealed to him from a whole new perspective. Secrets are everywhere and demons fester behind closed doors.

Worst of all, he discovers a serial killer who has been preying on the area for over a century, one capable of traveling with him through his dreams.

About Jeffrey Ford

Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, and The Shadow Year. His short story collections are The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and A Natural History of Hell. Ford's short fiction has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies. Both books and stories have been translated into nearly twenty languages worldwide. Ford is the recipient of the World Fantasy Award, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Hayakawa Award, and Gran Prix de l'Imaginaire. He lives in Ohio in a hundred-and-twenty-year-old farm house surrounded by corn and soybean fields and teaches part-time at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on April 16, 2020

I've been dying to jump into Jeffrey Ford's work, and perhaps this wasn't the best one to do that with. Out of Body is quite binge-worthy, and at 176 pages easily consumed in one sitting. The idea here is excellent, and I'm not sure if it just needed to be fleshed out a little more, or if the portio......more

Goodreads review by Lala on March 13, 2020

Book 1 of 30 for my 30 day reading challenge! I think I enjoyed this but need a little more time to think on it and write a full review. Thanks to Tor for providing this to me!......more

Goodreads review by Amy on June 30, 2020

3.5 stars Given the ratings, I was surprised at how much in enjoyed this slim novel about dream walking and monsters. It’s a odd one. Concept: ★★★★ Pacing: ★★★ Memorability: ★★★ Out of Body is definitely a polarizing novella. For me, it was a clear winner—but that's because it felt like the darker, grow......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on April 11, 2020

I wanted to like this more than I did. After all, Jeffrey Ford has generally been a fantastic writer for me and I jumped on this ARC expecting some solid creepiness or twists or thoughtful fantasy. But this one? Eh... it was fine for what it is, but it reads more like a snippet taken out of a White W......more

Goodreads review by Boston on April 03, 2020

I have a lot of mixed thoughts on this book. On one hand I was intrigued and entertained enough to read this in one night, but at the same time it seemed like not a whole lot happened? The horror aspect wasn’t very spooky either, but that could just be me. If you go into it not knowing much about th......more