I’m very excited to finally share with everyone the completed audiobook for Creaky Stairs: A Book of Dark Truths Vol. 1. I have poured a huge amount of work into this project and I sincerely think it is worth your while to pick it up and give it a listen.
I genuinely think some of the best acting I’ve done to date is within this audiobook. Since the book is comprised of short stories by different authors, I tried to read every story with a different tone or inflection. I also use different voices for different characters to make them sound distinct so that dialogue flows well. I really enjoyed breathing life into these stories as well as narrating my own work; it was challenging and incredibly time-consuming, but the end result made it worth all the effort.
Usually an audiobook is made by a team of people, but I made this entirely by myself (aside from all the stories, of course). I recorded, narrated, directed, edited, produced; all in all, I put in 120 hours of work to complete this audiobook.
Beyond my performance, Creaky Stairs really is a great collection of scary stories (and I’m not just saying that because I’m published in it). These are some incredibly talented authors that put this together and I highly recommend reading it. Each story can be read independently, but there is also a thread that ties them all together as a larger piece. Or if you don’t have time to read it, you can now enjoy it as an audiobook!
With the click of a button, you can take my smooth and sultry, karaoke-winning voice anywhere you like, to whisk you away into a series of spooky mysteries, thrillers, and adventures. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, but most of all, these creaky stories will chill you to the bone.
James P. W. Martin 