A Horny Halloween by Jupiter Grant
Everything old is new again. I’m old. Maybe I too am new again. I’m old enough to remember being too young to have lived through the age of the radio play, but eagerly wanting more whenever, on those rare occasions, I had the chance to hear a rebroadcast of one of the classics from the ’30s or ’40s back in the ’70s and ’80s. But now, through the magic of the internet and the exciting new era of low-budget production reaching mass audiences and those in the audience getting to directly and immediately communicate to content creators what they want and putting their money where their demand is, we now have a whole new Golden Age of audio. Audio books, podcasts, even old-timey radio dramas. It’s all making a comeback and I couldn’t be more thrilled!
Because of this resurgence of the spoken word, and, perhaps even more recently, the proliferation of it among kinky sex-bloggers, Lo and I have become acutely aware of the power of sound to leap off the page and excite, every bit as much as the visual image accompanying sexy stories is able to do, if not more so.
In addition to this exciting new dimension of sexy sound, coincidentally, one of our fans has recently been corresponding with Lola earnestly requesting us to put our stories to sound because this avid “reader” is blind. He is able to hear our stories through the generic computer-generated voice software that he has or that some websites, such as Medium.com, offer. But he wanted to hear the stories told in a voice that was equal to their imagery.
Eager to please all of our enthusiasts, we actively sought someone with the right sound, sensibility, and savoir-faire, to narrate our naughty roman à clef. After much searching, we finally found someone who was truly magnificent. A sex-blogger herself, she wouldn’t blanch at the profane passages. Highly educated and well-versed in eclectic religious lore, history, and philosophy, she followed where the story took to cerebral flights of fancy. A lover of literature and, we think, a natural thespian, she made the dramatic dialogue of Match, Cinder & Spark, Volume I: Nymphomania and the Single Girl come to life. And, as a woman of deep feelings, she made the climactic crescendos cum to life as well.
Match, Cinder & Spark
All of this praise is prologue in order to say that the following review is somewhat biased, but biased by previous knowledge of the author and narrator’s talents.
I speak here of the incomparable Jupiter Grant, whose A Horny Halloween (e-book $4.99), is, as the title suggests, at turns scary and sexy. The six chapters clock in at two hours and eleven minutes on the audio version, as read by the author herself. The tales are chock full of nearly equal parts sex, spunk, blood, and more blood. But most of all, the stories all display a very vivid imagination that begins with the common light of day and gradually grows darker and more mysterious until we find ourselves caught between two worlds – light and dark, familiar and mysterious, mundane and magical. There is a distinct echo of Edgar Allan Poe, but, unlike Poe’s magical realism, these tales touch on religious rites, cults of initiation, and, in the last (and by far the best) chapter, a very incarnate experience with the narrators personal God and Savior.
Ms. Grant’s narration, as always, is a very pleasant British accent that leaps off the page with dramatic flurries as well as undulating deep tones where the text necessitates a baritone pitch. Be sure to listen to these spooky stories with someone you can squeeze tightly because you won’t want to be alone for either the scary or the sexy bits! But, whatever you do, make sure you give this collection from Jupiter Grant a listen.
Ms. Jupiter Grant of Jupiter’s Lair
