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The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
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The Saturday Night Ghost Club

A Novel
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Narrator Corey Brill
Length 5 hours 40 minutes
Language English
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE: An infectious and heartbreaking novel from "one of this country's great kinetic writers" (Globe and Mail)--Craig Davidson's first new literary fiction since his bestselling, Giller-shortlisted Cataract City

When neurosurgeon Jake Baker operates, he knows he's handling more than a patient's delicate brain tissue--he's altering their seat of consciousness, their golden vault of memory. And memory, Jake knows well, can be a tricky thing.

When growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls, a.k.a. Cataract City--a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place--one of Jake's closest confidantes was his uncle Calvin, a sweet but eccentric misfit enamored of occult artefacts and outlandish conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turned twelve, Calvin invited him to join the "Saturday Night Ghost Club"--a seemingly light-hearted project to investigate some of Cataract City's more macabre urban myths. Over the course of that life-altering summer, Jake not only fell in love and began to imagine his future, he slowly, painfully came to realize that his uncle's preoccupation with chilling legends sprang from something buried so deep in his past that Calvin himself was unaware of it.

By turns heartwarming and devastating, written with the skill and cinematic immediacy that has made Craig Davidson a star, The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a bravura performance from one of our most remarkable literary talents: a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the fragility and resilience of mind, body and human spirit, as well as the haunting mutability of memory and story.

Craig Davidson
Craig Davidson was born and grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario, near Niagara Falls. He has published four books of literary fiction, including Rust and Bone, which was made into a Golden Globe-nominated film of the same name, and Cataract City, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Prize, was a national bestseller, and has been optioned for film. Davidson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his articles have been widely published across North America. He has also published a number of thrillers and horror novels under the pseudonym Nick Cutter. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his partner and child. The author lives in Toronto, ON.

Corey Brill
A veteran of more than 30 narrations, actor Corey Brill has found a home in today's audiobook landscape. Corey resides in Los Angeles and has performed on Broadway, at The Kennedy Center, and in regional theaters across the country. He has appeared on television in The Walking DeadChicago PDScorpion, and You’re the Worst. Some of his book narration credits include: “The Troop,” “The Deep,” “Little Heaven,” (all by Nick Cutter) “Find You in the Dark,” (Nathan Ripley) and “The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Ken Liu). A graduate of Otterbein College and University of CA, San Diego, Corey also writes songs and keeps bees on a rooftop in Downtown LA.

Craig Davidson
Craig Davidson was born and grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario, near Niagara Falls. He has published four books of literary fiction, including Rust and Bone, which was made into a Golden Globe-nominated film of the same name, and Cataract City, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Prize, was a national bestseller, and has been optioned for film. Davidson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his articles have been widely published across North America. He has also published a number of thrillers and horror novels under the pseudonym Nick Cutter. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his partner and child. The author lives in Toronto, ON.

Corey Brill
A veteran of more than 30 narrations, actor Corey Brill has found a home in today's audiobook landscape. Corey resides in Los Angeles and has performed on Broadway, at The Kennedy Center, and in regional theaters across the country. He has appeared on television in The Walking DeadChicago PDScorpion, and You’re the Worst. Some of his book narration credits include: “The Troop,” “The Deep,” “Little Heaven,” (all by Nick Cutter) “Find You in the Dark,” (Nathan Ripley) and “The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Ken Liu). A graduate of Otterbein College and University of CA, San Diego, Corey also writes songs and keeps bees on a rooftop in Downtown LA.

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Reviews

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

“Davidson makes beautifully clear how the ghoulish tales we feared when we were young can’t compare to the blood-bathed teeth we eventually encounter as adults. The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a tale for those who like their Stranger Things spiked, Stand By Me charred, and who are battered enough yet still brave enough to revisit that moment when made-up horrors finally come to root in a world beyond invention. A novel that both stabs and breaks your heart.” —Mark Z. Danielewski, bestselling author of House of Leaves
 
A moving, delightful, thrillingly unexpected coming-of-age story about the irresistible collision of childhood’s dark wonders and adulthood’s haunting mysteries.” —Elan Mastai, author of All Our Wrong Todays

“A nostalgia-driven coming-of-age thriller in the vein of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things and golden-age 1980s Stephen King. Davidson writes so convincingly from a twelve-year-old boy’s perspective—vividly capturing those first pangs of love and the torture of being bullied—that it takes the puzzle of unravelling Uncle C’s troubled mind and the scalpel-sharp sections in which adult Jake describes his work as a brain surgeon to remind readers that this is, in fact, a book about the disquieting nature of memory and the stealthy ways the past can haunt someone. For sheer storytelling prowess, and the chops to scare readers screwy with monsters both real and of our own imagining, the label of Canada’s Stephen King . . . belongs to Craig Davidson, claws down.” —Stacey Madden, Quill & Quire
 
“A coming-of-age novel, marking the time when you realize there’s more going on in life than meets the eye. In Saturday Night, ghost stories are used to explore how resilient we are, how our mind helps us to survive, and how, sometimes, our memories help us take the horrible things that happen to us and weave them into a life that still has hope. It’s an examination, like most good literature is, of how we live our lives.” —Deborah Dundas, Toronto Star

Praise for Craig Davidson:

“Craig Davidson is one of this country’s great kinetic writers.” —Steven Beattie, The Globe and Mail

“Davidson’s remarkable storytelling gifts are several . . . [He] possesses a stealthy capacity for pace and plot exercised in a cinematic array of places . . . Superb, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining. Davidson is a seriously talented writer.” —Noah Richler, National Post
 
“Davidson balances his headlong plotting with fresh, poetic language . . . bracing and poignant.” —Maclean’s
 
“I can’t think of another prose stylist out there as visceral and kinetic as Davidson . . . Utterly compelling.” —The Independent Expand reviews
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