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Lost Children

Dark Fairy Tales

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Lost Children

By: Francesca Lia Block
Narrated by: Lauren Singerman
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After the loss of her mother, a woman returns to the San Fernando Valley only to uncover a haunting secret about her childhood friend.

A visiting professor at a charming but strange California liberal arts college must face her past in order to protect her son.

A sister, lost in the woods, confronts the dangerous truth about her brother, her stepmother, and herself.

Rose's dog Wolfie has died, and three seductive women offer to help return him to her. But only if she will pay the price.

Mira, distraught and ill after the death of her husband, Richard, wanders out into a weird new world to battle the monsters of her grief.

And Mim must disguise herself in order to infiltrate an LA sex trafficking ring and rescue her daughter.

Francesca Lia Block, known for her own brand of Southern California magical realism, brings the darkest of traditional fairy tales to life in a contemporary way that speaks to universal themes and the very specific challenges of our times, as her heroines fight ogres, witches, and demons in order to save their loved ones and, ultimately, themselves.

©2021 Francesca Lia Block (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLC. Fairy Tales Fantasy Scary Short Stories Horror Fiction

About the Creator

Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association and from the New York Times Book Review, School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly. Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese. Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays and interviews in the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock, The Fairy Tale Review and Rattle, among others.

About the Performer

Lauren Singerman is a New York-based actor, narrator, and dialect coach. For Audible, Singerman recently narrated Francesca Lia Block’s Lost Children. Regional and New York acting credits include The Sabbath Girl (Penguin Rep and 59E59), Caroline, or Change (APAC), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Forbidden Broadway (Arc Stages), Little Eagles (workshop, Royal Shakespeare Company), and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Two River Theater). TV/web series credits include The Plot Against America (HBO), All My Children (ABC), Brokers, and Precious Cargo, a critically acclaimed web series she co-created. She has an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and is a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork.

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Lost Children was very well written by Francesca Lia Block and extraordinarily well narrated by Lauren Singerman. The combination made me listen to every dramatic word. Each story was thought provoking.

Perfect connection with the characters

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The moment I began listening, I was transported. Block's words are like a magic spell. These are fairy tales for adults in the best and all senses of what a fairy tale means: the dark secret beauty and terror beneath that which we take for granted as reality. Francesca Lia Block is the Goddess Grimm for grown-ups. Singerman's voice is melodic, powerful, and perfect to narrate these tales.

Riveting and darkly beautiful.

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The short stories pull you in to a trance. It was difficult to discern between the stories at first due to the voice, but overall good listen

Short story

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I love dark faery tales. I really do, but that was alot of child rape 😕

probably should have a trigger warning ⚠️

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crazy drug-fueled paganism at its finest I don't know if I will have nightmares or maybe just say hmm weird

what a weird trip

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