Anthologies & Short Stories

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.

Originally published in 1895, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a marvel of supernatural fiction that has influenced a number of writers in the genre....

The master at his scarifying best! From heart-pounding terror to the eeriest of whimsy - tales from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time....

In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying. Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again....

In this chilling collection, five acclaimed authors invite you into a world where the supernatural hides in plain sight.

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio....

The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago....

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King's classic best-selling short story collection....

Each of these five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999, are deeply rooted...

Stephen King delivers an astonishing collection of short stories. Just After Sunset - call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when when nothing is quite as it appears....

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators....

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird tales into a mosaic of the bloody and the macabre.

"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of a riveting confession....

CConsummate master of his craft, Stephen King has kept millions awake past midnight shivering at tales that probe the shadows and reveal the dark side. Now listeners can chill to this second dramatic unabridged production of short stories from his best selling book, Night Shift....

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation.

This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were when first released....

Playing upon our most primal fears, Stephen King draws us into his sinister world - a place where...

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature....

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King's classic best-selling short story collection....

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories....

Consummate master of his craft, Stephen King has kept millions awake past midnight shivering...

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King's classic best-selling short story collection....

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: 23 of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales....

Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist and breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are at once terrifying, tender, and witty....

Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction....

In this chilling collection, five acclaimed authors invite you into a world where the supernatural hides in plain sight. Look closely, and you’ll find it: lurking within an ancient tree, stalking an idyllic beach, and whispering through a friend’s letter. Your curiosity is exactly what it’s been waiting for.

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird tales into a mosaic of the bloody and the macabre.

Travel along a backcountry road as two bickering siblings encounter a sadistic masked menace. Watch from a couple’s window as a mysterious figure lurks through the darkness of the vacant house next door. Witness a malevolent presence threaten to unravel a man’s sanity decades after testing an urban legend.

Horror novelist Nick Steen (whose imagination has escaped from a portal to another dimension situated within his own brain following ill-advised dabblings with a cursed typewriter) is haunted by two murdering men-monkeys intent on peeling their victims apart like massive human bananas (whose names are Throttle and Bribes, hence the title). Can Nick protect two young siblings (whose names he can't remember) plus erstwhile editor Roz Bloom from the aforementioned murdering men-monkeys before it's too late?

On a hot day in late June, four boys head out into the pasture with a bag a firecrackers. If and when they return, their innocence will be left behind amongst a flurry of exploded Black Cats . . . and blood.

What starts as a night of celebration ends up in a battle for survival when Carol and her husband, Phil, see a strange creature on the road and wreck their truck.

The snow falls heavy and thick on one fateful winter night, trapping Raven’s Bend, Maine in a frozen embrace. As the blizzard rages on, strange and terrifying events unfold… A widow desperately attempts to escape a supernatural time loop on a snow-covered highway. A family encounters a sinister man with the power to control minds. The night shift at a warehouse becomes a desperate battle for survival against a horde of zombies. A man grapples with the shocking revelation that his entire existence might be nothing more than a story struggling to become real.

"This isn’t a myth—it’s a predator." In the secluded woodlands of Northern Michigan, the Harwood family finds their peaceful life shattered when they encounter a creature of legend—the Dogman. Recently settled into their new home, the Harwoods are unprepared for the terror that stalks them under the cover of night. Annette Harwood, a determined mother and wildlife biologist, becomes obsessed with proving the creature’s existence as her husband, Michael, grapples with protecting their two children from a threat he cannot understand. The tension builds with each passing night, ...

These stories are a little bit of madness, brought to you by some of the best horror authors working in the industry, today, that wanted to show off their love for splatterpunk.

A lone, amnesiac pilot adrift on a damaged spaceship must uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing crew, and escape alive when danger strikes. In The Quiet of an Endless Night is a sci-fi horror short story.

The Thing in the Cellar (1932) is a horror short story by American author, David H. Keller. Dr. Keller, who sometimes used the pseudonym Henry Cecil, began writing science fiction, fantasy, weird and horror stories in the 1920s. His best known story is The thing in the cellar, one of many tales that developed from his experience in psychiatry.

"The Nameless City" is a haunting tale of cosmic horror by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in 1921. It follows an intrepid explorer who ventures deep into the Arabian desert in search of a lost, ancient ruin—a city so old that it predates all known human civilizations. As he descends into its crumbling subterranean tunnels, he uncovers strange, reptilian artifacts and eerie bas-reliefs that depict a race of grotesque, non-human beings that once ruled this desolate place.

Midnight Harvest isn't here to make you laugh—it's here to make you look twice at the darkness and wonder what might be looking back. Are you ready to reap the terror?

A collection of five short stories from Ryan Hoyt featuring: Ditch of the Damned.

James Callender hat seine Schulden fast getilgt. Er arbeitet nun schon seit 20 Jahren als Kurier für Drogen, Falschgeld und anderen illegalen Kram, mit dem reiche Gangsterbosse eben so handeln – und das nur, um seine Jugendsünden abzubezahlen. Als ihm seine Kontaktperson einen weiteren Aktenkoffer mit ominösem Inhalt zuschiebt, freut sich Callender über den einfachen Job. Er soll das Ding nur in den roten Briefkasten eines Privathauses stopfen. Der Zielort ist nicht weit weg, liegt nicht mal hinter der kanadischen Grenze. Als Callender sich auf den Weg macht, ist er noch bestens gelaunt.

Die Infektion verbreitete sich wie ein Lauffeuer. Jetzt sind die Straßen der Stadt zu einem Jagdrevier geworden, in dem sich die Infizierten mit grausamer Intensität an ihre Beute heranpirschen. Jeden Tag steht die schwindende Zahl der Überlebenden vor einer schrecklichen Wahl: sich verstecken und langsam verhungern oder alles riskieren, um zu entkommen.

Edgar Allan Poe gilt als Ikone der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte und Mitbegründer dieser literarischen Gattung. Die Elemente des Mysteriösen, Phantastischen, Unbegreiflichen, Grotesken, Rätselhaften, Transzendentalen schwingen immer als subtiles Klanggebilde in seine Erzählungen mit und regen aufgeschlossene Gemüter zum Nachdenken über all die unzähligen Dinge, die wir nicht imstande sind auch nur annähernd zu erklären, wohltuend an. In der vorliegenden Geschichte stellt Poe eindrucksvoll seine humoristischen Fertigkeiten unter Beweis.

In einem Olivenhain in Arkadien befindet sich neben den Ruinen einer antiken Villa das Grabmal des Bildhauers Kalos. Einst standen er und sein befreundeter Kollege Musides im Auftrag des Tyrannen von Syrakus in einem künstlerischen Wettstreit, dessen Verlauf und Ausgang ebenso erstaunlich wie unheimlich sein sollten. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937); meist nur H. P. Lovecraft, war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt als einer der weltweit einflussreichsten Autoren im Bereich der phantastischen und anspruchsvollen Horror-Literatur.

Drei junge Männer, eine verlassene Psychiatrie und eine Nacht voller dunkler Geheimnisse. Was als harmlose Mutprobe beginnt, entwickelt sich für Logan schnell zu einem beklemmenden Spiel zwischen Realität und Wahnsinn. Die Geschichten über den verrückten Arzt und seine qualvollen Experimente werden mit jedem Schritt greifbarer. In den verwahrlosten Räumen beginnt Logan, Dinge zu sehen, die nicht sein können. Er hört Stimmen, die ihn verhöhnen. Doch sind es wirklich Geister, die ihn verfolgen oder lauert das wahre Grauen in ihm selbst?

Did you ever wonder if there is really only one body to a grave? Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever given any real thought to the land you are living on at the moment? The main character, Jim never much cared about any of these questions until his graveyard job went sideways. Then he finds out that his house used to be owned by a mass murderer and he never believed in ghosts or anything paranormal for that matter until he saw one with his own two eyes. There is plenty of drama to keep you interested in this short story that will leave you wanting more.