Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie is a horror thriller with paranormal elements (3.5/5 stars)

Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie is a horror thriller with paranormal elements. I listened to the audiobook, which is narrated by a full cast, while following along in the physical book.

A team of five ghost hunters for the tv series Fade to Black investigate the Paranormal Research Foundation, a brooding and derelict mansion where bizarre experiments took place in the 1970s.

This is an epistolary novel, made up of text exchanges, emails, video transcripts, journal entries, and field notes. The book opens with an introduction that is unsigned, so I’m left curious as to who put all of it together.

As someone who’s watched ghost hunting reality tv, and played the video game Phasmophobia, this was a fun read. I’d highly recommend a blended read for this one since the audiobook has a high production value. In addition to it being read by a full cast, there’s music and creepy sound effects as well.

I recommend a physical copy as well because even though I received a PDF with some visual references with my audiobook purchase, there were a lot more things in the book that I appreciated viewing with my eyeballs.

I don’t want to say much more about it because I think it’s an ~*~experience~*~, so check this one out if you like “found footage” horror or ghost hunting in general. And go into it as blind as possible.

CW: body horror, firearms, violence

I received a physical copy of this book to review, and I purchased the audiobook via LibroFM. All opinions contained herein are my own.

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