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Beast

Written by: Matt Wesolowski
Narrated by: Natalie Davies, Oliver Devoti, Toby Hadoke, Steven Hillman, Patricia Jones, Eve Shotton, Melissa Jane Sinden
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Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local ‘vampire tower’, in another explosive episode of Six Stories....

In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old vlogger Elizabeth Barton had been barricaded inside what locals refer to as 'The Vampire Tower', where she was later found frozen to death.

Three young men, part of an alleged cult, were convicted of this terrible crime, which they described as a 'prank gone wrong'.

However, in the small town of Ergarth, questions have been raised about the nature of Elizabeth Barton's death and whether the three convicted youths were even responsible.

King speaks to six witnesses - people who knew both the victim and the three killers - to peer beneath the surface of the case. He uncovers whispers of a shocking online craze that held the young of Ergarth in its thrall and drove them to escalate a series of pranks in the name of internet fame. He hears of an abattoir on the edge of town, which held more than simple slaughter behind its walls, the tragic and chilling legend of the ‘Ergarth Vampire'.

Both a compulsive, taut and terrifying thriller and a bleak and distressing look at modern society's desperation for attention, Beast will unveil a darkness from which you may never return....

©2020 Matt Wesolowski (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
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fun listen

Right off, I know this is a terrible thing to say, and it absolutely makes me a terrible person, but I kind of hate that I paid 15 bucks for this when it was, essentially a podcast? It was good, it was binge listeble, but I have listened to better podcasts for the price of listening to 5 minutes worth of ads for toothbrushes and mattresses.
Ok, now that I've branded myself an elitist cheapskate...
It was a fun listen. Simple, light, a decent mystery (even though the true villain was obvious from the start), ok writing. If this was a podcast, I'd absolutely like and subscribe. As a novel, if I read this as a physical book, I would have been spectacularly underwhelmed. As an audiobook, it was fun, but I don't know if I'd invest in further "episodes." Maybe

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