A Voice From Beyond The Grave?
College students Kenji and Dylan stumble upon a strange recording in the background of an obscure song. It’s a woman’s voice, uttering a string of seemingly random characters. Upon further inspection, the song appears to have been embedded with a hidden message. Attempting to crack the mysterious code and becoming obsessed with the recording, Kenji and Dylan set … Kenji and Dylan set off in search of answers. With every turn in the road however, the puzzle only seems to grow more complicated. And sinister.
Retired Vietnam vet Reggie Cash is also drawn in by this message, and before long both he and the two college students are on the trail of the mysterious woman featured in the recording. But who is she, and where is she leading them?
As things fall into place and strange events unfold, the three of them begin to wish that they’d never heard the recording at all…
TRANSMISSION is a full-length novel of supernatural horror and suspense by Ambrose Ibsen.
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Randomly, a college kid and a Vietnam vet stumble upon EVPs in 2 different things from the same entity, become obsessed with the mystery of it, and against their will and better judgement, pursue the clues into their own personal horror story. Quite short at 182 pages.
The story is good — nothing wrong with the author’s imagination — but it could’ve benefited from some editing. For example, in the “against their will and better judgement” department. That particular point was belabored endlessly. And there are some continuity questions. And some areas that really begged to be fleshed out. It almost seemed as if it began as a short story, but received some lengthening to become a novella, and all the added material was where the characters questioned their own actions. I enjoyed it on the whole, and feel like if the author writes a few more books and gets more experience, he’ll be earning those 3 or even 3.5 stars, instead of rounded up from 2.5.
It was okay. Wasn’t one of those that was a real page turner for me, but decent.
Started out intriguing but got slow at the end. Worth reading
A quick and creepy read that gets right to it. I thought this book did a great job of getting the characters to keep making those infamously “bad decisions” that keep a horror story moving forward, but at the same time kept everyone somewhat sympathetic so that I was never outwardly rooting against them. Definitely a good late night read.
My only critique would be that there were 2-3 moments where the dialogue read a bit funny for the younger college-aged characters. Not a huge deal, but did make me pause a bit.
This was such an awesome, creepy, different type of ghost story.
This is the story of College students, Kenji and Dylan, and a retired Vietnam vet, Reggie Cash. It starts with the boys finding a female voice uttering something in a song. It plays on their mind until they eventually get it cleaned up and realise that she is uttering coordinates. They decide to see where the coordinates lead them and take a road trip!
Meanwhile, Reggie is watching a war documentary when he seems to see the same woman in multiple places and she seems to be saying something but it’s lost in the background. He goes to a friend who is able to isolate her voice and he finds the same thing as the boys did, a set of coordinates. Why did 2 very different type of people get the same message? And where will the coordinates lead them?
I loved the plot. It was creepy, suspenseful and takes a twist that I didn’t see. I also loved how the author brought, not just the college boys, but a retired vet into the story. It added a little extra something to the overall feel. This would make a really great movie 😉
All the characters were well written and developed. The way the boys got their message was truly creepy because when I was young my brother used to listen to the heavy metal music, the type where the singer screams into the mic!! My nan used to tell him it was devils music and if played backwards, it would contain instructions on devil worship, or some such nonsense anyway. I was only 7 at the time and it always stayed with me, I never can listen to heavy metal music even to this day!!
Anyway, in all this was a truly creepy book and one that I devoured!! I will definitely be looking at more of this authors titles.
good premise, but ended up boring
I love Ambrose Ibsen! The Afterlife Investigations is my favorite, but Transmission is a very close second! Actually scary horror…I love it!!
‘Transmission‘ is a great book – I didn’t want to put it down, and was sad when it was over. Definitely reminiscent of ‘The Ring’, which I loved. You won’t be disappointed by this book!
Abrupt ending
It was ok did not like how it ended.
It was a great story, but I didn’t care for the way he wrote. I don’t want to go into details and be nitpicky, so I will just say that while the actual story was entertaining, I had a hard time pushing through to find out the resolution because I found other things so distracting.