Project Gutenberg 2023-12-25 Public domain in the USA. 97 West, Wallace 1900 1980 West, Wallace George Listen, children ... listen! Listen, children, listen $aNew York, NY :$bKing-Size Publications, Inc., $c1953. Title punctuation differs between the table of contents of the magazine (which only uses commas) and where the story appears in the magazine. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Listen, children ... listen!" by Wallace West is a work of horror fiction written in the early 1950s. The book presents a chilling story centered around themes of loss, isolation, and the psychological descent into madness, encapsulating a rural family dynamic in a bygone era. It likely explores the haunting nature of memory and the emotional repercussions of death, particularly focusing on the relationship between the living and the supernatural. The narrative follows the life of a young boy and his sister as they confront the ghostly presence of their grandmother, Maw, after the tragic death of their father. Maw's obsession with listening for her deceased husband's return spirals into madness, blurring the lines between reality and hallucination. As the children struggle to cope with their grief, they find themselves drawn into Maw's world of shadows and deluded conversations with her reflection in a mirror. This tale reflects on the impact of grief on mental health, the terror of familial loss, and the reliance on fragile memories, culminating in a horrifying revelation that leaves both the children and the reader unsettled. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20231216032456west 1953 US Reading ease score: 81.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories Horror tales Families -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels 54587 2025-06-28T13:50:21.095360 text/html 30173 2023-12-25T13:36:55 text/html 263003 2025-06-28T13:50:23.638357 application/epub+zip 261794 2025-06-28T13:50:22.033404 application/epub+zip 150600 2025-06-28T13:50:21.476371 application/epub+zip 558809 2025-06-28T13:50:24.895345 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 551618 2025-06-28T13:50:23.266385 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 46600 2025-06-28T13:50:20.971381 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 26799 2023-12-25T13:36:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16486 2025-06-28T13:50:25.019351 application/rdf+xml 28790 2025-06-28T13:50:21.727346 image/jpeg 4890 2025-06-28T13:50:21.599401 image/jpeg 592381 2025-06-28T13:50:21.106385 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia