Asylum - 13 Tales of Terror

By: Matt Drabble

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE

Asylum 13 Tales of Terror is an Amazon US Horror Chart #5 best seller, voted 5th on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013 & a 2014 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Anthology Fiction

Blackwater Heights is a building with a long dark history, some of it is well known but more is shrouded in myth and legend. None more so than that of its founding father Horace Whisker.

Martin Parcell is an ex-journalist with shattered dreams of an author's career. Sidelined through a car crash's injuries, he finds himself forced through governmental austerity measures having to take a custodians position at a private mental health hospital. A writer with undoubted talent, but an author without a story.

He begins his new job deep in depression and drowning under waves of his lost dreams. On his first night he meets Jimmy, his elderly supervisor who has spent most of his life within the hospital walls. Jimmy is nearing retirement age and desperate to rest his weary bones. Jimmy offers Martin a way out for both of them, access to the background histories and stories of the hospital's patients.

A collection of 13 tales from the darkly disturbed minds of the residents of Blackwater Heights.

As the long night unwinds, Martin finds himself deeply troubled as the tales unfold before him and threaten to drag him down into their insanity.


Selected other works of Matt Drabble:

ABRA-CADAVER - The 2017 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction. Winner of a prestigious Indie Book of the Day Award, a 2015 Kindle Book Review Award Finalist and is the 2016 Book Excellence Awards winner for Horror Fiction.

THE GATED TRILOGY - Winner of multiple achievements including - a UK & US Horror Chart Top 10 best seller, 2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & the 2014 Full Moon Awards Horror Book of the year.

THE ASYLUM TRILOGY - an Amazon US Horror Chart #5 best seller, voted #5 on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013 and is a 2014 Readers Favorite Gold Medal winner, a 2016 Readers Favorite Silver Medal winner for Anthology Fiction.

THE LAST RESORT - The 2019 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & The 2019 Kindle Book Review's Winner for Horror/Suspense.


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Nice creepy story

this store was well told and narrated with individual substories inside. Perhaps there's a twist.

Engrossing, Offbeat, Macabre, and Strangely Satisfying...

The stories were well-written and held my interest. However, what really grabbed my attention from the beginning to end was the interwoven way each story related to the Asylum and the characters within. A good read!

As for the virtual narration: Hit or miss. It needs improvement, but is still much better than most virtual reads. I was able to enjoy the book in it's entirety, without abandoning it after several minutes. Good effort with the voice.

diverse and frightening

immersive story telling. a plethora of stories. and a cohesive narrative pulling them all together. fantastic best thing I've read in a minute.

Really good short stories!

Virtual voice was not bad but always better when read by a real person in my opinion

The details

Started out great but the last couple stories were a little weak. The good ones were as good or better than anything from King or Lovecraft. And in the first story the main character is supposed to be American but was clearly English. I don’t think the author had known any Americans when he wrote it. The AI screwed up a few pronunciations and botched the emphasis numerous times but overall was quite pleasant.