Book description
Forget the haunted house. Forget the killer clown. Stephen King's From a Buick 8 serves up a far scarier, far funnier kind of horror: a car that's just... wrong. Not haunted, not possessed, but suspiciously smooth in a way that makes your skin prickle like static on a sweater. Imagine a 1979 Buick Roadmaster sitting in a shed behind a rural Pennsylvania police station, silently exhaling "whatever world it came from" while the troopers just... deal with it. Like a weirdly calm roommate who occasionally sighs ominously.
The audiobook? Pure, unhinged delight. King's prose is already a masterclass in making mundane settings feel charged, but hearing it narrated? The troopers' weary banter over coffee, the slow dread building as Ned (the kid whose dad vanished with the car) peeks into Shed B... it's like the car itself is whispering secrets directly into your ear. The narrator nails that perfect King blend: the mundane detail (mowing the lawn, shoveling snow) undercut by something deeply, weirdly off.
You know that feeling when you know you shouldn't look in the shed, but you do anyway? That's the vibe here. Ned's teenage curiosity mirrors our own - we need to know why the car's headlights glow faintly at midnight, why it hums when you're not supposed to be near it. King doesn't give us easy answers (because sometimes, the terror is the answer), and the audiobook leans into that delicious, frustrating uncertainty. It's less "jump scare" and more "dread that's practically a personality," perfectly delivered in the narrator's calm, slightly dry tone.
The real magic? It's not about the car doing anything monstrous. It's about the troopers' quiet, decades-long pact with the impossible. They don't call the FBI; they just... keep the secret, mow the lawn around it, and let the mystery breathe. The audiobook makes you feel that weight - the quiet terror of knowing something is wrong, but choosing to live with it anyway. It's a story about curiosity (and its consequences), about holding onto lost fathers, and about the sheer, dumb courage it takes to not run screaming when the car starts humming a little louder.
So, ditch the ghost story for a bit. Put on the audiobook, and let the Buick 8 do its slow, unsettling work. You'll find yourself checking your own car's headlights later, wondering if that smoothness was just... normal. Or if maybe, just maybe, it's exhaling something you really shouldn't breathe in. King's best kind of horror: the kind that sticks with you long after the last page (or the last chapter) fades away. Highly recommended for anyone who's ever wondered what that car in the driveway really was.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience