Syon Das Audiobooks

Family: a nineteen-minute horror story, quick to start and quicker to land

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.2/5 average

4 listener ratings

Who is Syon Das?

Nineteen minutes is barely a bus ride, and that is the whole proposition of Family: A Short Horror Story. Syon Das is working in the miniature, where a piece has to unsettle you before you have properly settled in.

Our catalogue files the story on the teen and young adult shelf, though the subtitle is the more honest guide to what you are getting. This is horror, compressed. The short form suits the genre unusually well, since fear needs no world-building at all, only a situation, a voice and a turn you did not see coming.

Syon Das in audiobooks

Family: A Short Horror Story is read by Paul Burt and runs to nineteen minutes exactly. There is no series to catch up on and no commitment to make. It is a taster of a writer working in a demanding format.

It suits a late evening, a dark walk home, or the gap between longer listens when you want something with a jolt in it. Listener scores remain thin on the ground, so treat this as a discovery rather than a consensus pick. The audiobook is below.