In Mad Hands

A Novella

By: Jon Athan

Narrated by: Beau Thomas

Who would you trust with the most important thing in your life?

Heading out for their first date night in two long years, Yoselyn and Joel Cooper entrust their son, two-year-old River, to their frequent babysitter, Kristine Sloan. Kristine has proven to be reliable and caring, looking after River like a little brother. So, it was supposed to be a quiet, peaceful, romantic night for the couple.

But Kristine has different plans up her sleeves—different callings in her mind, different voices to please.

Jon Athan, the author of Are Your Parents Home? and Our Dead Girlfriend, changes the ‘babysitter from hell’ formula with his first extreme horror novella. Don’t worry, you’re in good hands...

WARNING: This book contains graphic content. Listener discretion is advised.

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Vile!!

This book was great! Splatterpunk at it's best!! And the narrator, chefs kiss as usual! Highly recommend this book.

Incredibly gruesome and disturbingly graphic

John Athan strikes again with another great work of terror. This is one of those rare books that gave me genuine chills and made my body real shifty.

Graphic and gruesome

For his first "extreme horror novella," as I've heard it called, JA knocked it out of the park with the wickedness, religious extremism, babysitter-from-beyond-hell books I've ever read.

Yoselyn & Joel are heading out for their first date night since their rambunctious son was born, so they hire Christine, a babysitter they've used before. But this time won't be the same as in the past...

She hears her "father/lord/savior" on the TV, and things go downhill pretty quickly. And very violently.

amazing story!

Hoping that Jon Athan decides to write some more in this stories universe! so many unanswered questions!

WTF?

No idea what the point of this is, except maybe to see how long you can listen before you have to plug your ears.