The Witch of Tin Mountain

About This Audiobook

There’s a rot beneath the Ozarks’ crimson autumns in Paulette Kennedy’s *The Witch of Tin Mountain*, and it festers in the bones of a town where grief is currency. Set during the Depression, this isn’t your grandmother’s ghost story—though it wields the tools of folklore like a rusted sickle. Kennedy drapes desperation over the landscape so thickly you’ll taste the chaff in your throat: farmers swallowing dust, children trading secrets for a scrap of bread, and a woman named Cadie who might be more than human, or less. The witch isn’t just a witch; she’s the town’s id, a scapegoat for every unpaid debt and unspoken sin. Kennedy’s prose slinks between lyrical dread and visceral grit, never shying from the muck of poverty or the squirm of the uncanny. It’s the kind of novel that lingers like a bruise, tender to the touch but unmistakably there. The audiobook’s narration elevates the menace. Amy Bentley and Courtney Patterson split duties with eerie precision, Bentley’s cadence a slow-burning fuse that crackles when Cadie’s true nature surfaces, Patterson’s younger voices sharp as a switchblade. Their synchronicity ensures the dread never feels like background noise.