The Song of The Lady Rose, Gabino Iglesias
The Song of The Lady Rose, Gabino Iglesias
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The Song of The Lady Rose
A Short Horror Story

Author: Gabino Iglesias

Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Unabridged: 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Published: 03/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Sea Stories


Synopsis

A strange final message from a ghost ship, comes alive with the voices of the past. Listen or die.

"The Song of The Lady Rose" by Gabino Iglesias 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 Gabino Iglesias

Gabino Iglesias is a writer, professor, editor, and book reviewer. He is the author of Zero Saints and Coyote Songs and the editor of Both Sides. His work has been nominated to the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award and won the Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel in 2019. He teaches at SNHU"s online MFA program.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Derek

Season One of Come Join Us By the Fire offered some very good stories, and some that didn’t quite cohere. This is the first audiobook I’ve sampled from Season Two, and if Gabino Iglesias’s entry is anything to go by, we’re in for an even better run. A student project focuses on a ghost ship, with cl......more

Goodreads review by Bryan

Effective and gory little chiller. Enjoyed the use of audio in the story. Not many horror stories out there featuring an audio element. Also liked the location. Atmospheric. Grand work!......more

Well-read by Fajer Al-Kaisi, beneficial sound effects which enhanced the atmosphere of the story, and while Iglesias' story is solid, by the time we were getting close to the "original audio" in the story, it was easy to tell what was going to happen, so the vivid details didn't really seem necessar......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

The sound effects where good. However by the time they showed up they weren't exactly needed. The story was obvious in where it was going by then. This is definitely a story meant to tell when it is pitch dark, extremely quiet, and no noise - even of the air moving or animals outside. It would provi......more

Goodreads review by Tomasz

I've had the strongest feeling that I've read this story somewhere before, only even less well done. As it is, this fails at internal logic, mostly because it's too short for the story itself. Also, the word choices can be dubious (whatever the heck are "rustic boats"?). Not impressed.......more