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New Tales of Darkest Horror
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Dark Stars is a tribute to horror’s longstanding short-fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today's most noteworthy authors, with a foreword by best-selling author Josh Malerman (Bird Box) and an afterword by Ramsey Campbell.
Created as an homage to the 1980 classic horror anthology, Dark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley, this collection contains 12 original novelettes showcasing today’s top horror talent. Dark Stars features all-new stories from award-winning authors and up-and-coming voices like Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Usman T. Malik, Caroline Kepnes, and Alma Katsu, with seasoned author John F.D. Taff at the helm. An afterword from original Dark Forces contributor Ramsey Campbell is a poignant finale to this bone-chilling collection.
Within this book, you’ll find tales of dead men walking, an insidious secret summer fling, an island harboring unspeakable power, and a dark hallway that beckons. You’ll encounter terrible monsters - both human and supernatural - and be forever changed. The stories in Dark Stars run the gamut from traditional to modern, from dark fantasy to neo-noir, from explorations of beloved horror tropes to the unknown - possibly unknowable - threats.
It’s all in here because it’s all out there, now, in horror.
The contributors:
Josh Malerman, Bram Stoker Award finalist, author of Bird Box
Stephen Graham Jones, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Mapping the Interior and USA Today best seller The Only Good Indians
Priya Sharma, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Ormeshadow
Alma Katsu, Bram Stoker Award finalist and Locus Award-winning author of The Hunger
John Langan, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Fisherman
Caroline Kepnes, New York Times best-selling author of You, Hidden Bodies
Usman T. Malik, Bram Stoker Award winner and Nebula Award finalist
Chesya Burke, author of more than 100 published stories of horror and dark fantasy
Livia Llewellyn, multiple Shirley Jackson Award finalist
Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Experimental Film
John F.D. Taff, Bram Stoker Award finalist and author of The End in All Beginnings and The Fearing
Ramsey Campbell, multiple World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award winner
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The most terrifying thing that you can possibly imagine is your own body in the hands of a monster. Or worse, in the hands of another human being. In this definitive anthology of body horror selected by a World Horror Grandmaster, you'll find the unthinkable and the shocking: a couture designer preparing for an exquisitely grotesque runway show; a vengeful son seeking the parent who bred him as plasma donor; a celebrity-kink brothel that inflicts plastic surgery on sex workers; and organ-harvesting doctors who dissect a living man without anesthetic.
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Boring
- By Dominique on 10-21-22
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Midnight in the Graveyard
- By: Thomas F. Monteleone, Kealan Patrick Burke, John Everson, and others
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Midnight. Some call it the witching hour. Others call it the devil’s hour. Here in the graveyard, midnight is a very special time. It is a time when ghostly spirits are at their strongest, when the veil between our world and theirs is at its thinnest. Legend has it, that while most of the world is asleep, the lack of prayers allow the spirits to communicate under the cover of darkness, among the headstones, their whispers rustling in the leaves of the old oak trees. But if you’re here in the graveyard, you can tell yourself it’s just the wind....
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Very good selection
- By Michael on 08-23-20
By: Thomas F. Monteleone, and others
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Human Monsters
- A Horror Anthology
- By: Sadie Hartmann, Stephen Graham Jones, Caroline Kepnes, and others
- Narrated by: Alli Nova, Idalia Valles, Kira Nova, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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Not all monsters are fantasy. Some are very real, and they walk among us. They're our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers. They're the people we're supposed to trust...and they know it. Contained within this anthology are 35 never-before-published works by supremely talented authors and best-selling novelists. Brace yourself for the unexpected and unimaginable horror of...human monsters.
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Subpar stories
- By Danielle on 02-19-25
By: Sadie Hartmann, and others
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Tripping Over Twilight
- A Collection of Short Horror and Supernatural Stories
- By: T.W. Grim, Velox Books
- Narrated by: Geoff Sturtevant
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Horror favorite T.W. Grim invites you to pull up a chair and watch the sun slip past the horizon with this dark and macabre collection of short stories.
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Unique stories!
- By Anonymous User on 07-10-24
By: T.W. Grim, and others
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Black Mouth
- By: Ronald Malfi
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic childhood and the guilt at having disappeared from his disabled brother's life. But then a series of unusual events reunites him with his estranged brother and their childhood friends, and none of them can deny the sense of fate that has seemingly drawn them back together. Nor can they deny the memories of that summer, so long ago—the strange magic taught to them by an even stranger man, and the terrible act that has followed them all into adulthood.
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Great Listen
- By SONYA on 09-19-22
By: Ronald Malfi
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Twice Cursed
- An Anthology
- By: Joe Hill, Joanne Harris, Paul Kane, and others
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley, Antonia Beamish, Mark Peachey
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Take a trip to a terrifying carnival and uncover the secrets within, solve a mysterious puzzle box and await your reward, join a travelling circus and witness the strangest ventriloquist act you've ever seen. In this follow-up to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology, you'll unearth curses old and new. From a very different take on Snow White, to a new interpretation of The Red Shoes, the best in fantasy spin straw into gold, and invite you into the labyrinth.
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cursed stories not retold tales
- By Cathrine Bonham on 04-24-24
By: Joe Hill, and others
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Greatest Hits
- Herald Classics
- By: Harlan Ellison, J. Michael Straczynski - editor
- Narrated by: Harlan Ellison, Grover Gardner, Hillary Huber, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Harlan Ellison’s work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the twentieth century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect treasury for old Ellison fans as well as listeners discovering this zany, polyphonic writer for the first time.
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Huge fan of the writing but NOT of this production
- By Susannah on 04-23-24
By: Harlan Ellison, and others
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Mean Spirited
- By: Nick Roberts, Crystal Lake Publishing, Crystal Lake Audio
- Narrated by: Spencer Dillehay
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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An alcoholic teacher and father’s world spirals out of control when a former student is killed and he is left with her dog and the dark presence that follows it. Matt Matheny teaches during the day, drinks at night, and barely hides his functioning alcoholism from his veterinarian ex-wife, Lucy, and his six-year-old son, Mikey. His world spirals out of control when a former student is killed, and he's left with her dog, Conehead. But something isn't right with Conehead.
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Creepy and scary enough to freak me out!!!!
- By TAMMY on 07-27-24
By: Nick Roberts, and others
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-23-22
Mixed bag.
I only really enjoyed a quarter of the stories. Some performances weren’t the best.
Some of it was really good, though.
A little something for everyone.
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- Ambrose Hock
- 09-02-22
Disappointing
Given the credentials of the authors, I expected more. This is hardly the "darkest" horror. The last two stories saved the anthology.
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