Audiobook Review: It Waits In The Woods by Josh Malerman

It Waits In The Woods (Creature Feature Collection) by Josh MalermanBlurb:

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls her into the woods in a spine-tingling short story by the bestselling author of Bird Box.

The dense Michigan forest. Haunting wails. The clip-clop of demon hooves on a bridge to nowhere. It’s more than a tall tale to Brenda Jennings, whose sister disappeared in those woods one fateful night. Three years later, on a solo stakeout in the dark, Brenda goes in after her. She’s desperate for answers, and terrified to find what lies waiting on the other side of that bridge.

Josh Malerman’s It Waits in the Woods is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.

My Review:

I wish I would have listened to this over Halloween!

It Waits in the Woods is a perfect story bite for anyone who grew up telling spooky stories with their friends and who still love a good urban legend.

Though short, this book fully brings you into the setting and has you on the edge of your seat as Brenda enters the woods, recording what she sees, and stumbling upon a dark creature that was just supposed to be a story.

The narrator on the audiobook was good, I especially liked when she did the creature’s voice – definitely eerie when you’re listening in the dark by yourself.

I would love to read more about this creature, maybe an origin story or it luring in another victim. Like all short stories of course I want them to be longer.

Overall, this is a perfect spooky listen for a chilly night by the fire. You might just sleep with one eye open.

My Rating:

4 of 5 Stars!