After the People Lights Have Gone Off Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Stephen Graham Jones (Author), Eric G. Dove (Narrator), Journalstone (Publisher)

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Winner, Best Collection of the Year, This Is Horror

Nominated, Best Collection of the Year, Bram Stoker Awards

Nominated, Best Collection of the Year, Shirley Jackson Awards

The 15 stories in After the People Lights Have Gone Off, by Stephen Graham Jones, explore the horrors and fears of the supernatural and the everyday. Included are two original stories, several rarities and out-of-print narratives, as well as a few "best of the year" inclusions.

In "Thirteen", horrors lurk behind the flickering images on the big screen. "Welcome to the Reptile House" reveals the secrets that hide in our flesh. In "The Black Sleeve of Destiny", a single sweatshirt leads to unexpectedly dark adventures. And the title story, "After the People Lights Have Gone Off", is anything but your typical haunted-house story.

With an introduction by Edgar Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off gets under your skin and stays there.

Table of contents:

Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale
"Thirteen"
"Brushdogs"
"Welcome to the Reptile House"
"This Is Love"
"The Spindly Man"
"The Black Sleeve of Destiny"
"The Spider Box"
"Snow Monsters"
"Doc’s Story"
"The Dead Are Not"
"Xebico"
"Second Chances"
"After the People Lights Have Gone Off"
"Uncle"
"Solve for X"

Listening Length

6 hours and 48 minutes
Author

Stephen Graham Jones
Narrator

Eric G. Dove
Audible release date

December 4, 2018
Language

English
Publisher

Journalstone
ASIN

B07KZ2H5RX
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Product details

Listening Length	6 hours and 48 minutes
Author	Stephen Graham Jones
Narrator	Eric G. Dove
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	December 04, 2018
Publisher	Journalstone
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07KZ2H5RX
Best Sellers Rank	#108,294 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #164 in Horror Anthologies & Short Stories #390 in Ghost Horror Fiction #612 in Occult Horror Fiction

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Cheryl Anne @ Twisted Knickers

For True Gothic Fiction Lovers

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2018

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Haunted houses. Vampires. Werewolves. Want, dread, and ghosts living with both. A life traded for peace of mind. A proposal from the devil, a promise maybe, hope, and a cancerous tumor. A life for a life. A mistake. A prejudice. A regret seething with rabies. Yes, all the traditional macabre tropes are here, all the monsters represented, but these stories go far beyond, into Twilight Zone depth. They are Sinewy. Worth a bit of chewing on even after you've finished reading. I liked to read one a day so that I could think about it for a while before I started the next one. These stories are quite suspenseful, but not in a blood and gore jump out at you way. The orchestration is subtle in the way each story twists around its truth. Twists around the things we don't want to do but feel we have to do. The things we feel compelled to keep secret. Definitely a book for true Gothic Fiction lovers. Very impressed here.

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K Brokop

Started off ehh but got better

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2019

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I struggled with the first few stories but got into it towards the end. The writing got better and less poetic in nature and when it stopped trying to be fancy, the stories weren’t bad. I had to dad this for a class however, so that being said I would never have finished it otherwise. None were scary at all. Maybe a bit unsettling but not scary. And they all just sort of end with no resolution. Resolution does not have to be every question answered but I didn’t even feel like most of the stories were complete.

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Maverick

Style?

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2017

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Stephen Graham Jones is aunique stylist. His approach to character and voice is truly unlike anything else ive read. I dont know why its so distinctive, i cant pull out a quality and say that its SGJesque. Its alot of subtle details and interesting phrasing. That being said, its not very effective. His stories lack the ability to keep me focused, and often times the voices blend together into a written blob. I had to read it over a few weeks to get the most from it.

The strength in this collection is the fresh take on stories.Vampires and tattos, misaligned boxes and spiders, sleeves and punks. Its an interesting batch that never fits any previous genre or story structure. Its unusual and makes the stories compelling.

Overall quality was middling, the stories could have been great, but the style sacrificed a great deal. The strongest stories were the spindly man, welcome to the reptile house, and thirteen. These compiled a coherent writing style that didnt sacrifice clarity or story.

Spindly man recalls occult stories about meeting the devil at abook club of all places. Spooky, and chilling. The characterization works, that ending really got me. Welcome to the reptile house is about a wannabe tattoo artist that tattoos the wrong corpse. Another surprise ending, that is remarkably uplifting for an overall pessimistic ending. Thirteen is a good introduction. Its a haunted house story, only its a theater. Still cool, really captures what it means to be a teenager.

Coolstories that deliver the creeps more than anything. Part way through, i stopped to read one of his novels, thinking he might be stronger over there. I was wrong. His short stories are his best work.

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Austin James Hatch

Heartbreaking

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2019

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Stephen Graham Jones continues to baffle me as his reader—confuse me with emotions few others can draw with their words. His stories are so human, so heartbreaking, and yet I’m left with a sense of wonder and awe. I don’t think I’ll ever be the same.

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MamaBear

My favorite new horror collection

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014

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This is the best single author horror collection I've read since Joe Hill's "20th Century Ghosts."

Intriguing, haunting, subtle, ambiguous, often dark and occasionally funny, this is a collection worth reading more than once. The stories are beautifully constructed, and there's a lot of craft in the writing itself - as well as a lot of great storytelling.

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Emma J. Gibbon

A deeply unsettling and superlative collection

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2019

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A deeply unsettling and superlative collection. Stephen Graham Jones' strength is in our deftly he unbalances the reader...imagine the worse that could happen, well it's worse than that.

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Fred Venturini

And isn't that what good horror does

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2015

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I never thought I would find a short story writer who could offer my hardened, adult self the same chills and thrills the same way old school Stephen King did with my 12 year old self.

SGJ delivers the goods with horror that lurks in the margins, in those little spaces between lines, between pages, in the unsaid. And isn't that what good horror does? It creeps up on you, and never shows its face, leaving your mind to do the real dirty work.

Like King, he finds terror in the mundane--a cardboard box, an IR thermometer, the sound of a wheelchair's wheel. Like King, his stories set up final passages that always linger and sometimes stun.

Unlike King, the prose is far more poetic, and the stories are less straightforward and on-the-nose as some of my old favorites like "The Jaunt" and "I Am the Doorway."

But I'm a more mature reader now, and harder to scare, and as my tastes have developed for higher-level horror, the kind that engages the mammalian brain, distracting it so that the lizard brain is more vulnerable, I keep finding myself looking forward to every new SGJ story and collection.

There's plenty to love here, and knowing how prolific he is as an author, thankfully I can comfortably predict that there will be more to love in the pipeline, always.

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Kindle Customer

Not great not terrible.

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2018

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Maybe it is just me but there are always several stories in anthologies I do not get. This one is interesting just not great.

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Thomas Joyce

My first Stephen Graham Jones book. It will not be my last!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2016

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One of the very best short story collections I have ever read. Full of complex and rounded characters in uniquely brilliant stories. Can't recommend this book or this author highly enough.

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Martin O

Gefühle des Verlustes

Reviewed in Germany on July 7, 2016

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Ich kann den Lobpreisungen für diese Sammlung nur eine weitere hinzufügen. Die Geschichten reichen von einer verstörenden Fingerübung in Torture-Porn über klassische Geistergeschichten bis zu Geschichten über Protagonisten, die vielleicht nur einen Schritt abseits des Weges gehen und dann eine völlig andere Weltsicht haben. Sehr viele der Geschichten handeln vom Verlust der Familie oder eines Teils davon und gerade die kommen für einen Elternteil mit voller emotionaler Wucht daher. Der Schreibstil ist auch abwechslungsreich genug, um nicht nach der dritten oder vierten Erzählung Ermüdungserscheinungen bei mir aufkommen zu lassen. Und manche Sequenz hat sich für mich angefühlt wie ein Faustschlag in den Magen, wenn sich mit einem bloßen Schlußsatz der Charakter einer Geschichte radikal ändert. Unbedingte Empfehlung.

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Shan Thiel

not an easy read.

Reviewed in Canada on October 9, 2016

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very weird book... not an easy read... but not easy to put down either... imagery will haunt you