Clay McLeod Chapman has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 15 narrators. The most-rated is Tales from Beyond the Pale: Season 4.
Whisper Down the Lane
Summary
Inspired by the McMartin preschool trials and the Satanic Panic of the ’80s, the critically acclaimed author of The Remaking delivers another pulse-pounding, true-crime-based horror novel. Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage to Tamara, a first chance at fatherhood to her son, Elijah, and a quiet but pleasant life as an art teacher at Elijah’s elementary school in Danvers, Virginia. Then the body of a rabbit, ritualistically murdered, appears on the school grounds with a birthday card for Richard tucked beneath it. Richard doesn’t have a birthday - but Sean does.... Sean is a five-year-old boy who has just moved to Greenfield, Virginia, with his mother. Like most mothers of the 1980s, she’s worried about bills, childcare, putting food on the table...and an encroaching threat to American life that can take the face of anyone: a politician, a friendly neighbor, or even a teacher. When Sean’s school sends a letter to the parents revealing that Sean’s favorite teacher is under investigation, a white lie from Sean lights a fire that engulfs the entire nation - and Sean and his mother are left holding the match. Now, 30 years later, someone is here to remind Richard that they remember what Sean did. And though Sean doesn’t exist anymore, someone needs to pay the price for his lies.
©2021 Clay McLeod Chapman (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing
The Remaking
Summary
Inspired by a true story, this supernatural thriller for fans of horror and true crime follows a tale as it evolves every 20 years - with terrifying results. Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot's Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicly, she and her daughter Jessica are shunned by their upper-crust family and the Pilot's Creek residents. Privately, desperate townspeople visit her apothecary for a cure to what ails them - until Ella Louise is blamed for the death of a prominent customer. Accused of witchcraft, both mother and daughter are burned at the stake in the middle of the night. Ella Louise's burial site is never found, but the little girl has the most famous grave in the South: a steel-reinforced coffin surrounded by a fence of interconnected white crosses. Their story will take the shape of an urban legend as it's told around a campfire by a man forever marked by his boyhood encounters with Jessica. Decades later, a boy at that campfire will cast Amber Pendleton as Jessica in a '70s horror movie inspired by the Witch Girl of Pilot's Creek. Amber's experiences on that set and its meta-remake in the '90s will ripple through pop culture, ruining her life and career after she becomes the target of a witch hunt. Amber's best chance to break the cycle of horror comes when a true-crime investigator tracks her down to interview her for his popular podcast. But will this final act of storytelling redeem her - or will it bring the story full circle, ready to be told once again? And again. And again....
©2019 Clay McLeod Chapman (P)2019 Recorded Books
The Mattress King
Summary
The Mattress King, written by Clay McLeod Chapman. A sleazy entrepreneur tries to make love and money out of the back of his van in downtown LA. Boasting over 40 half-hour original shows, winner of three NRC Radio Awards for best Audio Dramas that "push the state of the art to the next level" (Slate Magazine), Tales from Beyond the Pale is the daring series of audio dramas created by Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid for Glass Eye Pix. Season four features 10 newly released tales, recorded before a live audience in LA, Montreal, and Colorado at one-time-only events.
©2017 Tales from Beyond the Pale, LLC (P)2017 Tales from Beyond the Pale, LLC
Tales from Beyond the Pale: Season 2 Live!
Summary
Conceived during a fog-drenched car ride with nothing beyond the windshield but a horizon-less void, Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid created the acclaimed Tales from Beyond the Pale, audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles. Having previously released 10 studio-recorded tales for Season One, Fessenden and McQuaid decided to up the ante and stage a second season of Tales before a live audience at the performance venue Dixon Place in downtown New York City. Tales Season Two delves even further beyond the pale with eight explosive tales to tickle your fancy and curdle your blood. The fierce independent production house Glass Eye Pix is pleased to present eight new spooky audio dramas recorded live before an audience: "Ram King" by Joe Maggio, "Like Father, Like Son" by Clay McLeod Chapman, "Stranger" by Jeff Buhler, "Dead Man's Shoes" by Ashley Thorpe, "Sarah Minds the Dog" by Kim Newman, "The Crush" by Glenn McQuaid, "Dead Air" by Simon Barrett, and "Caper" by Larry Fessenden. The Tales are chillingly brought to life by the regular stable of performers and special guests: Sean Young, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mark Margolis, James Le Gros, Michael Cerveris, Kate Lyn Sheil, Jonny Orsini, and others, and narrated by your host, horror maverick Larry Fessenden. The series is produced by filmmakers Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid; Associate producers Lisa Wisely, Jenn Wexler.
©2013 Tales from Beyond the Pale, LLC (P)2013 Tales from Beyond the Pale, LLC
Tales From Beyond The Pale, Season 2 LIVE! Like Father, Like Son
Summary
Conceived during a fog-drenched car ride with nothing beyond the windshield but a horizon-less void, Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid created the acclaimed "Tales from Beyond the Pale," audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles. Having previously released 10 studio-recorded Tales for Season One, Fessenden and McQuaid decided to up the ante and stage a second season of Tales before a live audience at the performance venue Dixon Place in downtown New York City. Tales Season Two delves even further beyond the pale with eight explosive tales to tickle your fancy and curdle your blood. The series is produced by filmmakers Larry Fessenden & Glenn McQuaid; Associate producers Lisa Wisely, Jenn Wexler. In "Like Father, Like Son" by Clay McLeod Chapman, a scientist loses his five year old son in a car accident after losing control of the wheel. Wracked with grief, he refuses to let his boy go - choosing to bury himself in his work instead: Reanimating human tissue. On the brink of a major breakthrough, he's determined to have a family reunion, no matter how many body parts it takes. Featuring the voice talents of Larry Fessenden, Vincent D'Onofrio, Bonnie Dennison, Joel Garland, Tobias Campbell, Brenda Cooney, and Owen Campbell.
©2013 Glass Eye Pix, Inc. (P)2013 Glass Eye Pix, Inc.
Tales We Tell 2
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Tales We Tell 2, written by Larry Fessenden, Glenn McQuaid, and Clay McLeod Chapman. A writer reveals his dark past to an unfortunate stranger on a long walk up a snowy mountain at dawn. Boasting over 40 half-hour original shows, winner of three NRC Radio Awards for best Audio Dramas that "push the state of the art to the next level" (Slate Magazine), Tales from Beyond the Pale is the daring series of audio dramas created by Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid for Glass Eye Pix. Season four features 10 newly released tales, recorded before a live audience in LA, Montreal, and Colorado at one-time-only events.
©2017 Tales from Beyond the Pale, LLC (P)2017 Tales from Beyond the Pale, LLC
Tales from Beyond the Pale: Season 4
Summary
Winner of 3 NRC Radio Awards for best audio dramas that "push the state of the art to the next level" (Slate Magazine), Tales from Beyond the Pale is the daring series of audio dramas created by Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid for Glass Eye Pix. Season 4 features 10 newly released Tales, recorded before a live audience in LA, Montreal, and Colorado at one-time-only events.
©2017 Tales from Beyond the Pale, LLC (P)2017 Tales from Beyond the Pale, LLC