The Bad Ones: A Novel

· Macmillan Young Listeners · Narrated by Emma Galvin
5.0
1 review
Audiobook
11 hr 26 min
Unabridged
Eligible
Ratings and reviews aren’t verified  Learn More
Want a 15 min sample? Listen anytime, even offline. 
Add

About this audiobook

"Emma Galvin's chilling narration will draw listeners into a small town where four people have mysteriously vanished."—AudioFile

NEW YORK TIMES
bestselling author Melissa Albert returns with THE BAD ONES, a supernatural horror novel about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history


Goddess, goddess, count to five
In the morning, who’s alive?

In the course of a single winter’s night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town.

Nora’s estranged best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of Becca’s disappearance, she discovers a darkness in her town’s past, as well as a string of coded messages Becca left for her to unravel. These clues lead Nora to a piece of local lore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora and Becca’s own childhood games. . . .

An arresting, crossover horror fantasy threaded with dark magic, THE BAD ONES is a poison-pen love letter to semi-toxic best friendship, the occult power of childhood play and artistic creation, and the razor-thin line between make-believe and belief.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

Ratings and reviews

5.0
1 review

About the author

Melissa Albert is the New York Times bestselling author of Our Crooked Hearts and the Hazel Wood series (The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, Tales from the Hinterland) and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and included in the New York Times list of Notable Children’s Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Rate this audiobook

Tell us what you think.

Listening information

Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can read books purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.