My Wife Hates Time Travel and Other Stories

By: Adam-Troy Castro

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Kathe Mazur, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre

Available only on audio, this exciting collection features original stories by Adam-Troy Castro, some never before published.

The stories collected here include "The Assassin's Secret"; "Narrow Escape of Zipper-Girl"; "A Place Without Portals"; "The Hour in Between; "Greetings, Humanity! Welcome to Your Choice of Species"; "Her Husband's Hands"; "The Refrigerator in the Girlfriend"; "Big Stupe and the Buried Big Glowing Booger"; "The Last to Matter"; "Red Rain"; "The Boy and the Box"; "Four Haunted Houses"; "The Whole Crew Hates Me"; "Cerile and the Journeyer"; "Evangelist"; "My Wife Hates Time Travel"; "Survey"; "The New Provisions"; "The Shallow End of the Pool"; "What I Told My Little Girl About the Aliens Preparing to Grind Us into Hamburgers"; "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs"; and "The Old Horror Writer".

A few of these stories have appeared as podcasts for Lightspeed and Nightmare magazines. For more information:

lightspeedmagazine.com/podcasting/

and

nightmare-magazine.com/podcasting/

©2019 Adam-Troy Castro (P)2019 Skyboat Media

A lovely collection.

A great mixture of funny, dark and charming stories from an author I would love to read more of his works.

Great, unusual collection of speculative/horror/sf

Just as many reviewers have stated, not every story in this collection is a winner. Some people won't even notice the same stories that others find perfectly delightful/spooky/thought provoking. Overall, this was a great collection and I will probably return to a number of individual stories in the upcoming years. Castro is clearly adept at covering many styles of writing. He's a fantasy writer, SciFi, speculative fiction, and probably not since Stephen King have I really enjoyed being put into someone's nightmare situations.

Instead of subjecting you to my opinions of every story, I'll just note some stand-outs... and some I could do without.

The Assassin's Secret"; It's an entertaining story, but it's heavy on the exposition. Strong characters.

"Narrow Escape of Zipper-Girl"; A love story entirely bereft of love.

"A Place Without Portals"; This was a little too fantasy-like for my tastes. "Alice in Wonderland"-ish?

"The Hour in Between; An introduction of how the author can intertwine horror and gore into an otherwise simply very absorbing story.

"The Refrigerator in the Girlfriend"; One of my favorites, another 'love' story that really expands upon the 'plastic surgery' dilemma.

"Big Stupe and the Buried Big Glowing Booger"; Not for everyone, the author dials up the gore and absurdity to eleven, but for us adults, a greatly entertaining tale. Horror/Humor

"The Last to Matter"; This one is like watching a Tool video, or the video game "Scorn" I'm not sure what universe this one is taking place in.

"Red Rain"; I didn't make it through this one. Horror and gore delivered a little too evocatively for me. Interesting: I think every sentence in this story is in the form of a question. But again, it was tough because the author does a very comprehensive investigation of terrifying gravity-based nightmares.

"The Boy and the Box"; Yes, you can be my angel of death. Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Twilight Zone/Weird

"The Whole Crew Hates Me"; I really connected with this story. What if one person was singled out for being the scapegoat? SciFi/Humor

"Cerile and the Journeyer"; A great example of his fantasy chops, another stand-out (and I'm not a fantasy buff.)

"Evangelist"; Aliens have taken over Earth for our own good. Humankind goes to spit, but there's always this option...
"My Wife Hates Time Travel"; Future versions of spouses return to warn against wasting their current counterparts over certain movie selections. SciFi/Humor

"Survey"; Okay, this is the stand out for me. I dare you to listen to this story without talking back to it, or getting angry along with (or angry at) the 'candidate' A psychological tale that could in no way ever come to reality. Right...? Character Study/Situational madness

"The New Provisions"; Another story that will infuriate you. The author states that retroactive edits to contracts are currently being executed. In my 15 minute Google session, I couldn't find any examples to back this claim up. Revisions/changes to contracts simply cannot be made without both parties agreeing to them, let alone contracts that have been completed years in the past. But, it's a dystopian tale of what could go very, very wrong.

"What I Told My Little Girl About the Aliens Preparing to Grind Us into Hamburgers"; A short, funny tale that expands the very title that heads it.

"The Old Horror Writer". Only a long-time wizened old author could spin a story like this. Humor/Horror

Narration

Narration was impeccable. Some stories rambled on with disappointing endings. I was sad when it all came to an end. Took my imagination all over planet earth and beyond.

Adam-Troy Castro is my new fave writer!

Thanks to Audible freebies, I found this amazing writer and now I wonder, where has he been my entire life? First, I feel like I went to school with him, his weirdness is so familiar. And now, he's up there with my favorite writers of all time.

Adam-Troy Castro's work is so reminiscent of all the great horror compilations I read when I was a kid. All the Robert Bloch, Matheson and Roald Dahl stuff. So much fun - this book had me laughing my face off - and I'm someone who laughs a lot of preposterous gore and hilarious flesh-horror. I found myself saying, "Whoa - this guy's imagination is BEYOND the BEYOND!"

I also LIKED his introductions - why not! Writers don't always get to explain and set up their stories, and I was pleased to hear ATC introduce his work.

I also loved the narration - the main male voice sounded like the love-child of Darth Vadar and Rod Serling - can't be beat.

I have found some of the best books through Audible's freebies - so worthwhile. And now, I'm an Adam-Troy Castro freak!

Some

Awesome, some strange and some i probably need to listen to a few times. But great collection.