Patient 1024

Confession Files from the Asylum, Book 1

By: Jack Steen

Narrated by: Ben Fortune-Price

They arrive alive. They leave dead. But first, they give me their confessions.

These are the deathbed confessions of my patients.

This one you're about to listen to is for Patient #1024. He's known on my ward as "The Chef", and he has an interesting... appetite.

Fans of Stephen King, Joe Hill, and those who like to read/listen to books like The Bird Box or The Haunting and can't get enough stories about serial killers are going to enjoy listening to the deathbed confessions from the asylum.

My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my death ward at the asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at the Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Most of my patients are serial killers and mass murderers, and they know me as the Angel of Death.

When they come onto my floor, I offer a deal: tell me their story. Their "untold" story that hasn't been read about in the news, sensationalized by media, or cataloged in a ridiculous number of academic papers. I want the real story - the one they haven't told anyone. Some of these killers have never confessed to their crimes, some kept certain information to themselves - those are the stories I want.

If they give them to me, I'll make their death...easier. They're already dying. That's why they're now my patients. If they play nice, I can make their death less painful. But only if they play nice and tell me their confessions.

The majority of these killers are expert manipulators. I realize they could be playing me and messing with my head. It's a chance I'm willing to take.

And now, they might just be playing with yours, too.

©2020 Jack Steen (P)2021 Jack Steen

It was different.

I didn't mind the book at all. The story wasn't so much horror as it is more of a silence of the lambs type situation. it wasn't bad. Just didn't keep my attention.

the cost

cost to much for a short story the story one hour and twenty minutes not worth the cost

eh. a lot longer than ut needed to be.

a lot of circling. like dragging out the story. to make the crescendo higher I suppose but I wasn't feeling it. Probably won't read the others.