Prodigal Son, Daniel M. Lavery
Prodigal Son, Daniel M. Lavery
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Prodigal Son
A Short Horror Story

Author: Daniel M. Lavery

Narrator: Daniel M. Lavery

Unabridged: 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Published: 03/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Religious

Synopsis

In this darkly-comic retelling of the Prodigal Son parable, Jesus talks of a man who must overcome strange horrors in order to convince his family he is real.

"Prodigal Son" by Daniel M. Lavery 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 Daniel M. Lavery

Daniel M. Lavery is the author of Something That May Shock and Discredit You and the current Dear Prudence at Slate.

Reviews

Goodreads review by A.M.

Read by the author. The rich man tries to get his lost son to come home, but his answer is always ‘no dice’. Even when the rich man’s servants and lawyers move his limbs and his mouth to try to make him say ‘sorry’. [URL not allowed]-j... He eats too much to listen, his mother wails.......more

Goodreads review by Vicki

Reversal of Fortunes... No spoilers. 3 stars. I was wondering how this well-known parable could be turned into horror... the answer is: it wasn't... ... rather, this retelling of The Prodigal Son was basically retold with the same characters... different personalities... ... different reasons that the......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

If you want an updated & weirdly told story from the Bible, this will do. It was something, I can tell you that. My devout Lutheran grandma would hate this story tho, so for that, this gets 3 stars instead of 2.......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie

That…was weird. Like a strange remix of the story of the Prodigal Son from the Bible, infused with some modern vernacular and attitude and a twist of bizarre literalness in what is said/done.......more

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