Is it a book or is it a play? It's both. For this audiobook, I wanted to do something a little different to celebrate the both-ness of this story. Making a play is scarier than producing an audiobook. Way higher probability of failure. In audio production it's easier, and certainly more respectable, to cut out imperfections and hem them straight. With live theatre, not possible. When stuff goes awry in a play production, that stuff becomes part of the play. Missed cues and forgotten lines can haunt people for the rest of their lives, but it's like, Oh, well. Too bad. I'm obsessed with the temperamental nature of theatre and how a play can evolve on a performance-by-performance basis.

When I asked my husband Andy Fleischer to co-produce with me, we shared a vision. We wanted to audition and cast the thing, gather everybody up for rehearsal, and collaborate as an ensemble on a product that's more in the vein of a staged reading. All is to say (and I'm writing this note before recording the thing, so we'll see how it goes), I feel like the pulse-pounding energy of What lurks around the corner? is a particular volatility that theatre and horror seem to share.