Wasp  Snake, Livia Llewellyn
Wasp  Snake, Livia Llewellyn
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Wasp & Snake
A Short Horror Story

Author: Livia Llewellyn, Theresa DeLucci

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Unabridged: 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Published: 02/11/2020

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

"Wasp & Snake" is a short horror story by Livia Llewellyn, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

A take on Aesop's fable "The Wasp and the Snake," only reconfigured as a flesh-warping revenge parable with a hellish twist.

Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

About Livia Llewellyn

Livia Llewellyn is an award-nominated writer of horror, dark fantasy and erotica, whose fiction has appeared in ChiZine, Subterranean, Apex Magazine, Postscripts, Nightmare Magazine, as well as numerous anthologies. Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors received a 2011 Shirley Jackson Award nomination for Best Collection, Omphalos received a 2011 SJA for Best Novelette, and Furnace received a 2013 SJA nomination for Best Short Fiction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on November 03, 2021

SPOOKTOBER DAY FIFTEEN welcome to my spooktober audio advent calendar, where, each day during the month of spooktober, i will be celebrating by listening to a free audio short from nightfire's Come Join Us by the Fire series, and you can join ME by following the links. let's all be scared together! 1......more

Goodreads review by Marc D. on March 18, 2022

3/5 estrellas. Creo que este horror cósmico no fue lo mío, aunque algunas descripciones estuvieron tremendas, tremendas.......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on November 08, 2019

Just as creepy as I thought it would be, though I wish the buildup took a little more time, that we had a little clearer of an idea of this world where biomechanical appendages can be attached and tied into human systems. I like the turnaround of things at the end, and I too am curious to know what......more

Goodreads review by Liz (Quirky Cat) on October 30, 2020

Wasp & Snake is a short story with a lot of potential. It mostly lived up to that potential, yet it still left me wishing for something more towards the end. Perhaps I merely wanted closure, I'm not certain.......more