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You Will Hear the Locust Sing audiobook
- By: Joe Hill
- Narrator: David Ledoux
- Length: 56 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 16, 2007
- Language: English
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You Will Hear the Locust Sing Audiobook Summary
From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story–from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.
Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She’s also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .
Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn’t easy to make friends when you’re the only inflatable boy in town. . . .
Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .
John Finney is locked in a basement that’s stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .
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You Will Hear the Locust Sing Audiobook Narrator
David Ledoux is the narrator of You Will Hear the Locust Sing audiobook that was written by Joe Hill
Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), and In the Tall Grass (Netflix).
About the Author(s) of You Will Hear the Locust Sing
Joe Hill is the author of You Will Hear the Locust Sing
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You Will Hear the Locust Sing Full Details
| Narrator | David Ledoux |
| Length | 56 minutes |
| Author | Joe Hill |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | October 16, 2007 |
| ISBN | 9780061552410 |
Additional info
The publisher of the You Will Hear the Locust Sing is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780061552410.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
Goodreads Reviews
Mandy
November 14, 2017
Strange..
Beth
September 14, 2016
This story is exactly what happens when you take children raised between the atomic bomb and the nuclear age, make them huddle in school hallways for "bomb drills", mix it up with scary giant-bug movies and then throw in the modern-day horror of school shootings by the outcast. In other words, it pretty much hits on all terror cylinders.It's also what happens if you expose the offspring of Stephen King to Kafka at too early an age. Most of us read it in either high school or college. Hill probably read it when he was 4. Being Hill, it's of course 5-star caliber but it lost a star for me personally because I started reading while I was eating dinner. Seriously, dude - that's disgusting. I hate damn bugs.
Jonathan
September 28, 2014
You Will Hear the Locust Sing is a fun little creature feature that will remind some horror fans of the old 1950's black and white monster films. Do you remember those fun stories where nuclear radiation turns some poor helpless sap into a terrifying monster? If you do then you will probably be right at home with this fun little tale. If you have any fear at all of insects then I think you will find this novella more then a little disturbing. Not much else can be said about this story without giving too much away. The gore factor is very similar to the 1990's version of The Fly. Complete with skin shedding off to expose the horrifying abomination be born underneath. This story is probably the goriest gem to be included in the 20th Century Ghosts collection. While the main protagonist Francis Kay is by no means a sympathetic character, I believe almost all of the enjoyment factor comes from the havoc he causes throughout the adventure. Overall a fun little morsel that I am more then happy to award four out of five stars to.
Erin
August 22, 2017
Dark and sad, really.
SimplyCynara
May 21, 2016
An interesting readI knew nothing about this story when i brought it and it was a roller coaster ride. A good read
Martin
May 16, 2016
Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" retold as a straight-out horror story. Unlike Kafka's hero, the character in this story begins to enjoy being a giant locust! Horrifying and blackly humorous.
RaChelle
February 16, 2021
Downloaded from my public library, I'm freaked out. What a concept. NO SPOILERS, but suffice it to say this story isn't for the weak :-)
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