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Marigold

By: Sara Gran
Narrated by: Jason Culp, Zoe Kazan
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  • Summary

  • There are two kinds of haunted houses: those haunted by the supernatural, and those haunted by everything else. The lines between hauntings and imagination are rarely as clear as we think. People search for excitement and meaning in life. Sometimes, they find it. Sometimes, they wish they hadn’t.

    Over the course of a single podcast interview between an unnamed male paranormal investigator and Anne, a precocious young woman who wishes to finally to open up about all she’s seen, a chilling, suspenseful haunted house story unravels.

    Anne first realized her house wasn’t like other homes when, at five years old, she lost her favorite doll, and her beloved house returned it. As Anne sees it, her house has always looked out for her - returning lost items, punishing those who hurt her, keeping her safe in family turmoil, slowly revealing its history of dark and magical secrets. The Interviewer, a longtime investigator of such phenomena, sees it differently: a lonely, confused woman manipulated by something dark and unsavory, whether her own imagination or a genuine paranormal event. Within the story of Anne’s house - perhaps within the story of every house - dozens more stories are intertwined: the history of the building itself, the development of Pasadena, the relationship between the occult and academia, the challenge of raising a daughter in an era of so-called equality, and, most of all, the story of an American family as it falls apart.
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  • Marigold

    Marigold

     Introduction
    Jun 3 2021

    Introduction.
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    2 mins
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  • One: The Fox and The Hare

    One: The Fox and The Hare
    Jun 3 2021
    Episode 1.
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    29 mins
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  • Two: The Friend

    Two: The Friend
    Jun 3 2021
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    34 mins
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short but not sweet

I love an unreliable narrator & this story really kept me guessing. very atmospheric.

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the end of episode 7 kind of ruined it

so this would have been a really interesting story about how people use fantasy to cope with the trauma in their life. I thought that's where Anna's story was going, letting the listener decide what was real and what wasn't, however at the end of episode 7 there is a moment where the interviewer goes to the house and experiences what I can only describe as a creepypasta moment. it pretty much ruins the whole atmosphere. it's a shame because overall I actually like the story.

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Creepy, original and strange

Immerses you in it's strange and believable world, thrills you with its originality. so good!

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Compelling, chilling and surprising

Less of an audiobook, more of an audio play, Marigold lets the listener tag along as the story of a young woman living in a haunted house (although that’s not how she sees it) unravels, during an interview with a paranormal investigator.

There are so many layers to this story. The chilling tale itself is enough to have the listener pinned, but it is also a story about loneliness, trauma, not feeling loved or cared for by the people closest to you, and the blinding need to have a safe place in the world.

Marigold is a treat to listen to. It has a 50’s radio drama quality to it, which is lovely, although the story is very much set in recent day. Zoe Kazan and Jason Culp do a great job with the excellent script and it’s hard to not burn through the entire thing in one go. Compelling!

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Gripping

Intriguing from start to finish. Would recommend to all audible lovers. Thank you for bringing the story to life.

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Amazing

This was amazing, I hope that they make another series me it, was she some sort me patient?

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what?

I have no idea what the point was! was she delusional all along? nothing links up and nothing makes any sense.

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Pointless

I thought this was meant to be a haunted house story? instead it's a narcissistic woman who doesn't explain anything really, apart what she eats. The story ends with no explanation.

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