When the Night Bells Ring, Jo Kaplan
When the Night Bells Ring, Jo Kaplan
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When the Night Bells Ring

Author: Jo Kaplan

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella, Rachel Fulginiti

Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Baker & Taylor

Published: 07/01/2025

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

Don't awaken what sleeps in the dark.In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees ride their motorcycles across the wasteland of the western US, and stumble upon an old silver mine. Descending into the cool darkness of the caved-in tunnels in desperate search of water, the two women find Lavinia Cain’s diary, a settler in search of prosperity who brought her family to Nevada in the late 1860s.But Lavinia and the settlers of the Western town discovered something monstrous that dwells in the depths of the mine, something that does not want greedy prospectors disturbing the earth. Whispers of curses and phantom figures haunt the diary, and now, over 150 years later, trapped and injured in the abandoned mine, the women discover they’re not alone . . . with no easy way out.The monsters are still here—and they’re thirsty.

About Jo Kaplan

Jo Kaplan is an author whose fiction, written as Joanna Parypinski, has appeared in publications such as Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Vastarien, and New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, among others. She teaches English and creative writing at Glendale Community College.

About Nicol Zanzarella

Nicol Zanzarella is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator and a theater and television actress. She has appeared in productions of Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, Cousin Bette, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and many others.

About Rachel Fulginiti

Rachel Fulginiti is an audiobook narrator and a voice-over artist who has worked with companies such as Chrysler, Target, McDonalds, and eHarmony. She is a graduate of the Meisner Program at the School for Film and Television in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by NZLisaM on September 29, 2022

Ooh scary – not! The synopsis of When the Night Bells Ring appealed to me so much. Dystopian North America, a ghost town, a supernatural presence in an abandoned mine, the American West during the height of the gold rush – one of my favourite eras, not to mention gothic tones. In the near future clima......more

Goodreads review by JaymeO on October 11, 2022

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! “Do you . . . want to survive?” Sometime in the near future, Madelyn ‘Mads’ De La Cruz and Waynoka embark on a journey from California to New York by motorcycle in order to escape the ravages of climate change. With the promise of a more inhabitable landscape, a few meager suppli......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on November 01, 2022

3.5 stars This is a well written, but perhaps quite traditional horror story. Historical horror is not typically my subgenre yet I was pleasantly surprised how digestible this story was to consume. The writing felt quite modern with a good narrative pace. I liked this one despite not being entirely t......more

Goodreads review by Becky on October 11, 2022

Full review in the October 2022 issue of LJ and on the blog. [URL not allowed] [link live 10/12/22] Three Words That Describe This Book: dual time frame, constant unease, western, ancient evil and Cli-Fi tropes Draft Review: “Dust Devils,” Waynoka and Mads, are traversing a near......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on August 20, 2022

Loved the dual narrative of Lavinia (through a diary dated in the late 1860s) and the dust devils (Mads and Waynoka, 150 years later). The earth is ravaged by fire and drought and through venturing into a mine in search of water, the dust devils hit barrier after barrier on their hunt to survive. Th......more

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