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Marigold

By: Sara Gran
Narrated by: Jason Culp, Zoe Kazan
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 There are two kinds of haunted houses: those haunted by the supernatural, and those haunted by everything else. The lines between hauntings and imagination are rarely as clear as we think. People search for excitement and meaning in life. Sometimes, they find it. Sometimes, they wish they hadn’t.

Over the course of a single podcast interview between an unnamed male paranormal investigator and Anne, a precocious young woman who wishes to finally to open up about all she’s seen, a chilling, suspenseful haunted house story unravels.

Anne first realized her house wasn’t like other homes when, at five years old, she lost her favorite doll, and her beloved house returned it. As Anne sees it, her house has always looked out for her - returning lost items, punishing those who hurt her, keeping her safe in family turmoil, slowly revealing its history of dark and magical secrets. The Interviewer, a longtime investigator of such phenomena, sees it differently: a lonely, confused woman manipulated by something dark and unsavory, whether her own imagination or a genuine paranormal event. Within the story of Anne’s house - perhaps within the story of every house - dozens more stories are intertwined: the history of the building itself, the development of Pasadena, the relationship between the occult and academia, the challenge of raising a daughter in an era of so-called equality, and, most of all, the story of an American family as it falls apart.
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About the Creator

Sara Gran is the author of six previous novels, including Come Closer and the Claire DeWitt series.
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Jason Culp
Zoe Kazan

About the Performer

Jason Culp has been an actor since the age of 10. He has been featured in the soap operas General Hospital and Days of Our Lives and in the cult film Skinheads. His favorite roles in regional theatre include Trigorin in The Seagull and Creon in Antigone, both produced at the Cleveland Playhouse. He has been an audiobook narrator for 25 years and is the recipient of several Earphones Awards, most recently for Emma Donoghue's Akin and John Updike's In The Beauty of the Lilies. After a quarter century living in New York City, he has returned to his hometown of Los Angeles to resume his on-camera career.

About the Performer

Zoe Kazan is a film, television, and stage actor, playwright, and screenwriter, born and raised in Santa Monica, California.
Kazan recently wrapped production on the Netflix limited series Clickbait, which will release later this year. The series is a collection of stories that show how people’s uncontrolled impulses are fueled in the age of social media. She was recently seen starring in the critically acclaimed HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, and the third and final season of HBO’s The Deuce. In 2018, she co-wrote and co-executive produced the drama Wildlife with Paul Dano, who also directed. The film was purchased by IFC and is based on the novel by Richard Ford and starred Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. Wildlife premiered at Sundance, Cannes, and TIFF, and screened at the New York Film Festival as well as the London Film Festival. She and the other filmmakers were nominated for Best First Feature at the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards. Also that year, she appeared in the Coen Brothers’ western, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The Netflix film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was featured at the New York Film Festival and London Film Festival. The film garnered three Academy Award nominations and one BAFTA nomination, and was included in National Board of Review’s Top Ten Films list.
In 2017 Kazan wrote After the Blast, a play that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where humans live miles underground. It was directed by Lila Neugebauer and played at Lincoln Center. She also starred in Michael Showalter’s The Big Sick, alongside Kumail Nanjiani, who wrote the film with his wife, Emily V. Gordon. The film garnered the cast a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture. On television, she appeared in the HBO drama series The Deuce, alongside James Franco and created by David Simon.
In 2015, Kazan was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in a supporting role in the Emmy-nominated HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge. Kazan has also appeared in HBO’s Bored to Death.
Kazan resides in New York City.

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Great/Disturbing yet still peaks curiosity

Narrator's both perfect for each of their parts All on all I enjoyed it and I don't really do podcasts, however this was very interesting.

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Loved the narrators, realistic, like it was live

This was a quick listen, narrators were realistic sounding, like a play...Decent story line, a little far fetched, but still good!

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Perfect ghost story

I loved this story and the performances were excellent. Once I started, I couldn’t stop listening until the end.

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Crazy or Haunted?!!

This is a peculiar tale and I give it points for originality. I agree w/previous reviewer - give it a chance. You may be surprised.

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Ooohhh, Spooky millenials!

Pretty good story and the voice acting was well done although I'm not sure if they wanted the listener to be annoyed by the protagonist because I was. Her little diatribes down the fancy food tributaries of her mind came across as cloying.
In the end I did find the tale some what clever because there is no twist that lands you either in she is crazy territory or it is all supernatural. It might just be a bad marriage. Worth a listen as it does not follow the usual tropes.

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Had so much potential…

This started out so good but ended terribly. It feels like the author got tired of the story and just ended it. Am sad that I wasted hours listening to this.

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Deliciously Creepy and and Expertly Crafted

An excellently written and performed ghost story, deliciously creepy. It is difficult to come up with anything fresh in the ghost story genre, but Marigold manages. The subtlety, complexity, and depth of this story is remarkable. It is definitely not for listeners expecting a run-of-the-mill story of a haunting or one that relies on familiar, overdone tropes. Remarkable and rewarding.

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Loved

Loved!! Could not stop listening. While listening, I felt I could see characters and settings. Would listen again.

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A fascinating take on a haunted house story.

There are many, many haunted house stories out there, and this is one might be a hard sell for people who are fans of the more classic examples of the genre.

It's established in the very first few minutes of the first episode that the phenomena of haunted houses lies somewhere between the supernatural and the reality of the flawed human mind, and in the episodes that follow we are given a lot of time to listen to Anne and decide how we feel about her story. She is the kind of 'point-of-view' character that I really appreciate: a clearly unreliable narrator, and the listener has to pick through her biases to assess the people and situations around her. I definitely understand the reviewers who complained about how she would dodge important questions that would never be answered, but personally I enjoyed that - it was a good way for the author to bring up interesting questions, establish that they're important to how we should look at the character, but ultimately leave them open to speculation. It says a lot about Anne, I think, that it was so hard to get her to explain why she was even there, being interviewed.

My only real complaint would be the sequences following the interviewer, I had a difficult time reconciling them with the rest of the story; they didn't seem to quite fit in. They were interesting enough to read, but in the end I just felt like they didn't go much of anywhere, which was a bit disappointing.

Still, though, I found this to be a very worthwhile listen!

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leaves a kind of WTF thougjt..

I really liked it...although just like everyone else it does leave you thinking WTF..LOL

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