Wasp & Snake: A Short Horror Story

Livia Llewellyn

Feb 2020 · Come Join Us By the Fire Book 24 · Nightfire · Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

About this audiobook

"Wasp & Snake" is a short horror story by Livia Llewellyn, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

A take on Aesop's fable "The Wasp and the Snake," only reconfigured as a flesh-warping revenge parable with a hellish twist.

Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

Ratings and reviews

Intriguing Title but I was let down by the hastily sketched characters at the end. Wasp's deal with her client was not what it seemed but I'm not sure why the client originally offered the deal to Wasp.

This was really good! I enjoyed it!

you whote this on new year 'o'

About the author

Livia Llewellyn is an award-nominated writer of horror, dark fantasy and erotica, whose fiction has appeared in ChiZine, Subterranean, Apex Magazine, Postscripts, Nightmare Magazine, as well as numerous anthologies. Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors received a 2011 Shirley Jackson Award nomination for Best Collection, "Omphalos" received a 2011 SJA for Best Novelette, and "Furnace" received a 2013 SJA nomination for Best Short Fiction.