It Waits in the Woods

Creature Feature Collection

By: Josh Malerman

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls her into the woods in a spine-tingling short story by the bestselling author of Bird Box.

The dense Michigan forest. Haunting wails. The clip-clop of demon hooves on a bridge to nowhere. It’s more than a tall tale to Brenda Jennings, whose sister disappeared in those woods one fateful night. Three years later, on a solo stakeout in the dark, Brenda goes in after her. She’s desperate for answers, and terrified to find what lies waiting on the other side of that bridge.

Josh Malerman’s It Waits in the Woods is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.

©2023 Josh Malerman. (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

That was spooky!

I loved the voice of the faceless thing. I had it playing through my earbuds and got head to toe goose bumps!

Malerman is a national treasure.

Malerman is slowly becoming one of my favored horror authors. his short stories are hit or miss for me but they are never run of the mill. this one is a hit.

deep characters, wonderful prose, and expertly executed suspense. such a short story managed to transport me to another world.

the narrator is one of the best I've heard recently as well. she nails every little intonation, pause and emotion, sounding genuinely panicked when the character is in trouble and then as soothing as honey when the character reminisces about the past.

Creepy story with great narration

Overall, good tale with some creepy parts! Super narration. I recommend this little story to pass some time with

Good narration; loooooong story

Starts off well but gets bogged down by endless musings on the nature of amateur iPhone filmmaking. I wish I was kidding. Another reviewer compared it to creepypasta and I can't disagree. The narrator was good and she does a very unnerving voice it the back end of the story that sent chills up my spine. However I did have to check the print version of the story to figure out what she was saying.

Gripping!

One of the scariest sorry stories I've ever heard! And a fantastic ending. Kept me up past bedtime, listening to find out what happens.