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“Ghost Radio reminded me of early Stephen King. The story sticks with you long after you’ve finished the final page.” —James Patterson
From the cramped bowels of a dimly lit radio station, Ghost Radio is beamed onto the airwaves. More than a call-in show to tell scary stories about vampires and poltergeists, Ghost Radio is a sanctuary for those sleepless denizens of the night, lost halfway between this world and the next.
Joaquin, the hip, melancholy host, sits deep in a fog of cigarette smoke, fielding calls from believers and detractors alike. He is joined in the booth by his darkly beautiful girlfriend, Alondra, and his engineer, Watts. Soon what began as an underground cult sensation is primed to break out to mainstream audiences. When a huge radio conglomerate offers to syndicate the show and Ghost Radio becomes a national hit with an expanding legion of hardcore fans, neither Joaquin, Alondra, nor Watts is remotely prepared for what is about to happen.
When Joaquin notices a curious and troubling phenomenon, he is inexplicably drawn further and further into the terrifying stories he solicits on the radio. As he slowly loses control over his reality and finds himself unable to distinguish between the real world and the world populated by the nightmares on Ghost Radio, he’s forced to confront his past and his own mortality in order to repair the crumbling wall between the living and the dead.
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780061981678
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- ISBN: 9780061981678
- File size: 2743 KB
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- English
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August 11, 2008
Joaquin, the host of Ghost Radio
, a call-in show based in Joaquin’s native Mexico, builds a devoted audience with his combination of talk therapy and sharing of urban legends and spooky stories in Gout’s first novel, a twisty if less than original supernatural thriller. When Joaquin’s growing prominence lands him a Newsweek
interview, he decides to relate on the air a near-death experience decades earlier, which claimed the life of a close friend. Joaquin’s personal problems mount as he begins to be drawn into his callers’ stories and the line between reality and fantasy becomes increasingly blurred. The prose can be awkward at times (“he wondered how he got himself into this situation: a mysterious phone call, and less than an hour later, he’s wrestling with a reverend of Toltec Christianity”), and Gout adds little that’s either new or remarkable to the ghostly radio waves premise used more effectively elsewhere, notably William Sloane’s The Edge of Running Water
(1939).
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