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.

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....

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 master storyteller at his best - the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new....

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

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....

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....

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

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

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

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....

For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie....

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....

This collection of short stories from the master of modern fiction is available only as an audiobook...

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....

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

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.

Plunge deep into darkness with 28 terrifying tales. Explore heartache, happiness, and horror in this collection of short stories by Mark Tullius....

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....

You can’t have a good tale of monster hunting without monsters. And sometimes the monsters don’t need to be hunted. Sometimes it’s fun sitting back at minimum safe distance and watching the mayhem.

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

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

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....

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

Jeremy Jumper isn’t like normal people. Jeremy has a medical condition which causes a large mass to grow on the end of his nose. It starts as a red mark and, over the following days, balloons to ridiculous size. Strangers stop and stare while others dive for cover, worried it’s about to explode.

Uncomfortably Dark presents DARK DISASTERSIn this third installment of the Dark Dozen series, stories collide with the real-life horror of Mother Nature in all her glory. See what happens when twelve spectacular authors rise to the challenge to combine the worst natural disasters imaginable with something evil and nightmarish hidden at its core. Curated and edited by Candace Nola, with a foreword by Patrick R.

In the void of space, alien creatures puppet dead flesh through darkened corridors. A simple date becomes a dance with a shapeshifting horror, while shadow creatures stalk forgotten towns. And in quiet suburban homes, doors to nightmare realms appear in ordinary basements.

Welcome to FhCon. An event unlike any other, hosted by ancient and secret masters of fandom. They're insanely happy you're here. Nineteen popular, best-selling, and award-winning authors bring you stories of a convention experience only the Old Gods will make you forget.

From the depths of grief and the thirst for revenge to the terror of supernatural forces and the fight for survival, these stories and others delve into the darkest corners of our world where the lines between reality and nightmare blur, and the only certainty is that nothing is quite as it seems.

Life, Death, and the In-between: A heartbreaking supernatural horror dealing with themes of suicide, grief and the after-life. I guess I wanted to write this given my own personal struggles with thoughts of suicide. Every day I deal with some degree of pain where some days are better than others. When the pain is at its worst, my thoughts often drift to ending my own life.

Legends and old wives' tales hold a truth—but we've forgotten the chaos that lies behind them. Strange worlds and creatures lie all around us. Humanity was once a slave and is still the prey of creatures no one dreamed existed. The universe is much darker and stranger than we can ever imagine. Our world borders a multiverse and the walls are dangerously thin. Now, it is collapsing, a seething abyss is swarming in, and nothing will ever be the same again. Some children are adepts—mutants that have developed powers even they don't understand.

In this terrifying novella from Tyler Jones, a young musician receives a custom, otherworldly guitar pedal created by a mysterious recluse with an unusual skill.

What if Edgar Allan Poe's masterpieces happened in our world? Step into five chilling retellings that transport Poe's most terrifying tales into the 21st century, where ancient horrors take on frightening new forms. From sterile hospital corridors to corporate boardrooms, from contaminated mansions to digital graveyards, these stories prove that the human capacity for guilt, obsession, and revenge transcends any era. "The Monitor" - A night-shift nurse's paranoia spirals into murder, where the tell-tale heart becomes the relentless beeping of medical equipment, and guilt echoes through ...

A young girl's imaginary friend turns out to be more than she thought. A group of teens come across a cursed book in the woods. A man wakes up with a killer hangover and a surprise. A tired lawyer tries to unwind with his wife after a hard day at work. What do all these things have in common? Dreams. The author, Zack Nethery, often has trouble sleeping. However, when he does, he has vivid dreams that are filled with horror and suspense. Each story in the anthology is taken directly from Nethery’s unconscious mind during the night.

C. J. Cannatelli is back with another horrifying anthology of creepypasta. From local urban legends to terrifying true tales, this collection of short horror stories will keep you up at night.

The popular THINLY VEILED collection from the Castle of Horror continues with this anthology of horror stories in the world of Saturday morning pop culture, from the Smurfs to Soul Train-- but every one of these brands is "thinly veiled." This time we feature stories from P. J. Hoover, Jeremiah Dylan Cook, Dennis K. Crosby, Alethea Kontis, Joy Preble, Steven Philip Jones, Heath W. Shelby, Tony Jones, Bryan Young, Scott Pearson, Will McDermott, and Katya de Becerra. See if you can recognize them all!

The dead spot: a corner drenched in shadow; an earthquake's epicenter; the part of a roller coaster ride where the car rounds the final curve and all force dissipates, leaving those trapped beneath the safety bar feeling sick and hollow. From the beloved author of Frost Bite and Chopping Spree comes this heartbreaking horror collection about girls and women trapped by circumstance, manipulation, and obsession. The book includes a moving introduction by J. A. W. McCarthy (Shirley Jackson Award finalist for Sometimes We're Cruel) and seventeen stories by Sylvaine.

"Dripping With Blood" is a spine-chilling tale of survival, where the fight for life becomes a desperate battle against time and an unseen enemy. Will anyone manage to escape the clutches of the relentless hunter? Or will the darkness claim them all, leaving the forest dripping with the blood of the fallen? Prepare to be gripped by fear and suspense in this pulse-pounding thriller that will haunt your every thought long after you've turned the last page.

Dr Adrian Nowak, a brilliant scientist in genomic research, has spent years unlocking the secrets of DNA—but never for the one who needed him most. His wife's battle with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) ended in tragedy, leaving him haunted by regret. Now, fate has dealt him a cruel second chance.

Empire of the Dead A Sherlock Holmes: Zombie Slayer Mystery Book Nine in the Bestselling Series New York City, 1900. The Gilded Age is cracking at the edges. Beneath the marble facades and gaslit boulevards, something unspeakable stirs. Holmes and Watson arrive in Manhattan expecting a quiet beginning to their American lecture tour. Instead, they’re swept into a chilling mystery when the daughter of a powerful railroad tycoon vanishes from her Fifth Avenue mansion—without a trace. The case deepens when a mutilated corpse is discovered in Central Park… a policeman, half-devoured, with ...

16 stories to light your fright. Ghostly counselors collect something stolen and Brian needs to give it back. In the Summer job Night Watch, a cold river killer is still on the loose and it's up to the employees at the city fair to stop him. Supernatural stories that can't be explained. Secrets untold and strange lights unfold, short stories that go bump in the night.This book includes: Knocking in the Dark, The Tech Ghost • Summer Camp Nightmare • Night Hike • Accidental Betrayal • The Backwoods Eater • A Camping Trip Gone Wrong And more! A start to the summer night series. ...

From the twisted mind of horror master Thomas M. Malafarina comes the tenth short story collection in his Malaformed Realities series, appropriately entitled Malaformed Realities Volume 10. With eighteen terrifying tales of horror such as Blood Bank, The Mask in the Chest, Follow Me, and many more, Thomas takes you into the deepest and darkest recesses of his bizarre imagination. Stories included in this volume: Mailbox Rapture Automotive Graveyard The Mask in the Chest Dead Heat Ghost Shadow Follow Me Rats of The Ruins Blood Bank What’s Wrong with Our House? The Thing in The Cellar Urns ...

We Don’t Talk About Dispatch 13: True Stories from the Back of the Ambulance By G.J. Fene They say every paramedic has a story they don’t tell. This book is filled with all of them. From ghost dispatch calls to haunted gurneys, We Don’t Talk About Dispatch 13 collects the chilling, true-ish tales whispered by night shift medics, dispatchers, and emergency responders—the ones that never made it into the reports. Each story unfolds like a campfire confession: a silent hitchhiker that speaks only once… a power outage during transport when the patient flatlines—but keeps staring… ...

Ward Whispers: True Tales from Inside the Asylum By G.J Fene Step inside the shadowed halls of St. Aedric Psychiatric Hospital, where the whispers never cease and the walls hold secrets that refuse to die. Ward Whispers collects thirteen chilling true stories told from the perspectives of those who lived, worked, and survived inside the asylum’s haunted wards. From mysterious doors that open to nowhere, to patients who vanished without a trace, each tale unravels a piece of a terrifying puzzle—where the line between reality and nightmare blurs. Written in gripping first-person ...

Ten stories. One thin line between what happened—and what followed you home. Near Enough to Kill Me is a chilling collection of first-person supernatural encounters that feel too real to dismiss—but just strange enough to doubt. Told with confessional honesty and raw psychological detail, each tale slips quietly from reality into something far darker. From haunted motel rooms and vanishing children to phone calls from the dead and the thing that waits beneath your bed, these “true-ish” stories draw from urban legends, addiction recovery, liminal horror, and the quiet dread of being ...

Graveyard Watch: True Tales from the Other Side of Midnight By G.J. Fene What happens in a cemetery after the gates close and the living go home? In Graveyard Watch, the dead don’t rest quietly—and neither do the ones who tend their graves. From rusted safety bells that ring with no wind, to security footage that shows people leaving who never came in, this haunting collection of first-person accounts reveals the disturbing secrets buried deep within Harmony Hill Cemetery. Told by night guards, diggers, clerks, and those just passing through, each story draws you closer to the truth: ...

When the dead come calling, there’s no ignoring the message. A gut-wrenching ghost horror short story with a twisted ending that sticks with you. The young and determined David Grimsley is an oddball in his primary school class. He has fallen head over heels for the lovely, breathtaking Madeline, and would give the world to have her look his way. And when he discovers that a mobile phone is his only key to the iron wrought gates of her heart, he leaps at it with full determination. Only he cannot afford it. Instead, young David is forced to source the phone from the most vile of places he...

After a tragic car accident kills his wife and daughter, former schoolteacher Ed Harrow becomes consumed by grief and vengeance. Blaming the legendary Beast of Bray Road—a towering, wolf-like creature glimpsed the night of the crash—Ed abandons everything to hunt the monster that shattered his life. But what begins as a quest for justice spirals into obsession. As Ed ventures deep into Wisconsin’s haunted woods, he encounters a hidden world of folklore, strange allies, and ancient secrets. When he finally confronts the Beast, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur—and the...

From the twisted mind of horror master Thomas M. Malafarina comes the eleventh short story collection in his Malaformed Realities series, appropriately entitled Malaformed Realities Volume 11. With thirteen terrifying tales of horror such as War Pigs, The Path, Scary Monsters, and many more, Thomas takes you into the deepest and darkest recesses of his bizarre imagination. Stories included in this volume: The Witch’s Tree War Pigs Be Careful What You Wish For The Death Patrol Seeing is Believing Jury Duty Hair of the Doll that Kills You The Staring Boy Grundies Scary Monsters Christmas ...