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Josh Malerman delivers again on the weird and creepy. He is fast becoming one of my favorite horror authors. Becka finds a standalone confessional booth on her morning jog through the woods and is drawn to clear her conscience. And then things get... weirder. She can't help returning to the booth the next day and the next. Meanwhile, strange things are happening in the very same woods and Becka's husband is slowly dying at home.The narrator for Decorum at the Deathbed does an excellent job for r...
Great story!!
A short story narration of whose who has been framed up. Good narrator fleshing out a short story with too disturbing yet puzzling ending.
Listened to this while walking in the woods. :)
For a hour long story this as an amazing, creepy, and disturbing tell perfect for Halloween. I forgot I had the story and read it on a whim without looking at what it was about. It has a telltale heart feel to it. It does have the main character as a sociopath. I'll admit I have no idea if this is really what it like to have it. I can't speak on that part but it is fascinating and creepy based on the info you are slowly fed and the reaction she has to telling the truth she held in for so long. I...
Josh Malerman is sick and twisted, and I love it! This is just a short Audible Original, and it was fine. Nothing too special, but since it was free, I have no real gripes. The narrator was great, but the story was lacking tension for me. I still plan to consume everything that comes from the ball of worms that is Malerman's brain.
The narrator didn't help the story and it was hard to focus or not cringe with it. Not a bad short story, though.
Interesting story. Not so great narration.
Excellent and creepy!
Becka used jogging to receive the guilty she felt over her dying husband, until one day she comes across an unlikely sight,a confessional in the woods. She decides to confess a rather e minor so and when something forgives her she feels euphoria. A high from that forgiveness that a Sociopath should not feel or care about.In no time, the confessions become like a drug habit. She must commit worse sins to get that high...Josh Malerman is quickly becoming one of my favorite horror writers. If you h...
Thoughts of a bitch narrated in a bitchy tone. Couldn't get any worse really.
I don't see anything to recommend this story. The "twist" is obvious from the beginning, the real questions are never answered, and it's just an excuse to perpetuate the idea that "psychopath" - an actual personality disorder - is equivalent to "evil torturer and murderer." Also this book absolutely does not fit the "psychological terror" the blurb promises.
October in MichiganIs she a self-aware sociopath or an insane and unreliable narrator? I'm not sure, but the journey was kinda interesting. And what is killing those deer? Originally published: 2020Decorum at the Deathbed
This is only available via Audible (via Amazon) and I abhor audiobooks (my mind always wanders off while listening) but I'm a huge fan of Josh Malerman's so I had to join the Audible club. And this story was so good and intriguing (it kept my attention the entire time), that I may even remain a member.A woman with a dying husband she's faked loving for 17 years goes jogging and discovers a confession booth in the middle of the woods. This marks the incredibly weird and odd start of a story that
A unique novella-sized piece of psychological fiction. Almost the entire story was from one woman's point of view, and almost all of it was a stream-of consciousness type tale. There's very little dialog at all. The narrator did a great job of pulling it off.I wouldn't have minded a bit more meat to this story, but as it stands I liked it quite a bit!
This is another Audible by the writer of Bird Box among other others. We begin with our protagonist on a run. She’s trying to exorcize (she makes this pun too) bad feelings. Her husband has a chronic illness and she’s no longer feeling up to the task of caring for him. She’s kind of feeling guilty, but instead she’s feeling an awareness of the guilt she’s supposed to be feeling and what expectations on her feelings, but not the actual feelings. The resulting set of feelings involves her wanting
A woman with a dying husband finds a way to get rid of herself of the guilt she has been feeling when she finds a confessional in the middle of the woods. She is thrilled to be able to confess one guilty thought or action at a time. At first.Good story overall. The narrator herself made it even better.
Josh Malerman’s “Decorum at the Deathbed” is a short story centered on building dread, a sort of modern retake on Poe’s masterpiece The tell-tale heart. In the hands of Malerman, what a treat. A ticking, time bomb... proves yet again that he’s not only a master of the long form thriller, but also of the shorter thrills and chills.
I picked up this short story because I’d previously fell in love with another novella by the same author (A House at the Bottom of a Lake) but, as promising as the summary sounded and although I didn’t find it necessarily bad, this fell completely flat for me. Not sure if it was a narration issue or I just wasn’t in the mood but it definitely left me feeling like my emotions weren’t nearly as stirred up as I would have liked them to be. I won’t be giving up on Malerman just yet. Still looking fo...
What the heckkkkk??? This is so odd and kind of delightful! Much like Bird Box/Malorie though I haven't read any other Malerman. This I must remedy! He writes horror but not disgusting horror. I can get onboard with that.
