Terror at 5280'

By: Carter Wilson, Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Kendra Lords

A neighborhood won't let its residents forget the past. One taste draws two lovers into a nightmarish addiction. A harsh winter forces strange creatures down from the mountains.

At sea level, where it's safe, things like this can't happen. But when you're sky high in Denver, Colorado, anything goes...including your sanity.

Beware of Terror at 5280', a horror fiction anthology featuring dark tales set in and around Denver and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, penned exclusively by local authors.

Stories by: Stephen Graham Jones, Carter Wilson, John Palisano, Matthew Lyons, Lindsay King-Miller, Rebecca S.W. Bates, Carina Bissett, Joy Yehle, Joshua Viola, Gary Robbe, Cindra Spencer, Thomas C. Mavroudis, Melinda Bezdek, Henry Snider, Josh Schlossberg, Angela Sylvaine, Grace Horton, Jay Seate, Desi D, Sean Murphy, Bobby Crew, P.L. McMillan, Travis Heermann, Jeamus Wilkes, Larry Berry.

Edited by: Josh Schlossberg, Gary Robbe, Melinda Bezdek, Bobby Crew, Desi D, Lisa Mavroudis, Thomas C. Mavroudis, and Jeamus Wilkes.

©2019 Denver Horror Collective (P)2020 Denver Horror Collective

Black Diamonds in the Rough

There are some real gems here:
"Scrape" is by a good margin the best of the bunch. "The Depths" and "The Dead Spot" were phenomenal as well.

"That Time Maggie Ghosted Me," ought to be a TV series or a movie, for sure.

In this anthology, there is the arcane, the profane, the odd, the disturbing, the mind-warping, and the subtle terrifying truth that we, humanity, are terrors in and of ourselves.

The anthology format makes this a commute-friendly book, and Kendra Lords' narration is immersive and present. Monsters are voiced with tension, but demented children is where Lords truly shines. Positively skin-chilling renditions of things that ought-not-to-be...

Most of these are fantastic

A few I didn’t love, but that’s to be expected. SGJ’s was my favorite, no surprise. Scrape chilled me. Overall, great listen.