Limbus, Inc.

By: Jonathan Maberry, Brett J. Talley, Joseph Nassise, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Anne C. Petty

Narrated by: Gregory Zarcone

Are you laid off, downsized, undersized?

Call us. We employ. 1-800-555-0606

How lucky do you feel?

So reads the business card from LIMBUS, INC., a shadowy employment agency that operates at the edge of the normal world. LIMBUS's employees are just as suspicious and ephemeral as the motives of the company, if indeed it could be called a company in the ordinary sense of the word.

In this shared-world anthology, five heavy hitters from the dark worlds of horror, fantasy, and sci-fi pool their warped takes on the shadow organization that offers employment of the most unusual kind to those on the fringes of society.

One thing's for sure - you'll never think the same way again about the fine print on your next employment application!

©2013 Journalstone Publishing (P)2016 Journalstone Publishing

great set of stories

I really enjoyed this set of stories. If you like weird Twilight Zone type stuff this book is for you

awful performance by narrator

the stories are entertaining, but the enthusiasm and timing of narrator were just awful.

Cool concept, a little uneven, wrong narrator

The concept behind this anthology of scifi terror was a cool one, a heartless corporation that interfaces Planet Earth with the dangerous terrors of extraterrestrial monsters and civilizations. This was reminiscent of the old EC scifi comics.
The central theme running through it all reminds me of Ripley's line from ALIENS. "You don't see THEM fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."
The stories themselves were a little uneven, but all worthy of attention. Tense and often splashy. Maberry's proved expectedly to be the strongest.
The biggest problem here was the narrator. He didn't perform, he simply read. And worse, his delivery was like a morning radio or game show. These were HORROR stories, and he read them like this was a children's book.
I probably would have liked this better as a print version.

Needed a better narrator.

Most of the stories were just okay. The Sam Hunter short story at the end was very good. The narrator has a pleasant voices, but fails to add inflection or take a breath… it’s easy to get lost.

Excellent shared universe anthology!

Came for Jonathan Maberry's contribution and, as always, found a few more authors to add to my queue.

Thr concept here is great and each story stands well alone while tying into the overall plot.

Can't wait to get into the next of these...