Anthologies & Short Stories

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

Includes the story “The Monkey”—now a major motion picture! The #1 New York Times bestseller—a mesmerizing treasury of short stories by Stephen King. An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand...

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....

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER THE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER An original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand!...

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....

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one...

The #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King—four chilling novellas that will “grab you and not let go” (The Washington Post). ONE PAST MIDNIGHT: The Langoliers takes a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers...

"Includes something for every kind of King fan.” —People From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online...

2010 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections Thirteen “dazzling” (Associated Press) and “wonderfully wicked” (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in...

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

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift...

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection. Stories include: Introduction (Stephen King) Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg) Crouch End (Tim Curry) Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith)...

En cada uno de los cuentos de El buen mal, Samanta Schweblin nos abduce a otra dimensión donde quedamos en contacto íntimo con sus personajes. Encandilados por el fulgor de la inminente tragedia, vulnerables y profundamente humanos...

Angel knows all about pain. His mother died in this room. He's researched its history. Today he's come back to end it, no matter the cost, once and for all.

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....

“The pages practically turn themselves” (USA TODAY) in this collection of four “disturbing, fascinating” (The Washington Post) novellas centered around the theme of retribution from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. “1922” (also a Netflix original film): A...

Step one: Perfect the smile. Step two: Master the routine. Step three: Never let them see what’s underneath. Through this series of haunting tales, Gerden Ibrahim guides us into a realm where beautiful surfaces hide monstrous depths.

A garishly painted figurine contains a terrible curse; the ten-year anniversary of a sensational horror film shot in an abandoned mine reveals stunning secrets; endnotes for a book review uncover a strange high-tech pathogen; a man witnesses something uncanny and unexplained as his friend...

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction. Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and...

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined...

This book contains 101 bite-sized horror stories that are intended to scare and unsettle you. These are real peoples' accounts of the creepy and the occult - of their near-misses with madmen and paranormal entities. Each chapter is a short, standalone campfire tale, a retelling of a frightening...

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....

14 classic Dean Koontz short stories. One chilling collection....

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection. Stories include: -The Night Flier -Popsy -It Grows on You -You Know They Got a Hell of a Band -The Ten O'Clock People -The Fifth Quarter ...and more!...

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....

Welcome to Haunted Hollow, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. An obsessed fan traveling back in time to kill John Cleese, tattered VHS tapes scrawled with warnings not to watch, cabbies haunted by their creepiest passengers. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you.

One town. Four volumes. Endless nightmares. The complete Haunted Hollow collection—creepy small-town horror at its most chilling. Old houses unsettled by strange noises, nursing homes where old people terrify those who care for them, quests for Sasquatch that take horrifying turns. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you. Consume one per night... or devour them all at once. Ready for your next night in Haunted Hollow?

Welcome to Bloodhaven, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Mysterious bottling plants they don’t want you to know about, storage lockers with cryptic items, hitchhikers that should never be picked up. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you.

Mind the moon when you leave the theater! Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers returns, and Vol. 8 definitely goes Splatterbump in the night! It’s a monstrous mosh of fallen angels, prepubescent prescience, tempestuous incest, intergalactic blues, a Gulliverian massacre, cynophile racists, murderous rodents, a prehistoric Devil Head, the return of Bram Stoker’s forgotten hero, and so much more...

Step beyond the veil of reality in Strange Tales of Other Dimensions by H. P. Lovecraft, a haunting collection of classic cosmic horror and weird fiction. Featuring The Quest of Iranon, The Silver Key, The Dreams in the Witch House, and The Trap, this volume explores forbidden knowledge, dream worlds beyond time, and terrifying gateways to unknown dimensions.

A quiet encounter… with something that refuses to be forgotten. In A Ghost, Guy de Maupassant delivers a chilling and atmospheric tale that blurs the line between reality and the supernatural. What begins as a simple request soon leads to an eerie and unforgettable experience—one that...

The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird features twenty-five brand-new stories of disquieting and disturbing "New Weird" horror set in landscapes and communities on the edge of the sea. These unsettling stories de-familiarize the ordinary, evoke dread in the daylight, and haunt like half-remembered nightmares. They are tales of mysticism, psychedelia, outsiders, obsessions, collapsed boundaries, weird sea life, and the total abandonment reason. Welcome to the your stay behind the curtain. Please check your sanity at the door.

Enter Halloween Land, a carnival where nightmares come to life. Three never-before-released stories. Sinister, surreal, and darkly twisted, these tales will test courage, morality, and what it truly means to survive… if you dare step inside. Three teens enter the eerie carnival Halloween Land and become trapped in a sinister tent. There, a living clown jack-in-the-box named Koko McKillington III forces them into a deadly game: one will leave, one will stay, and one will die.

A feminine rage horror short Jennifer has two problems standing in her way — her inability to conceive, and her husband Nick Never mess with a woman who knows exactly what she wants

When Daniel Voss moves into Apartment 6B, he’s not looking for trouble—just a quiet place to disappear. The building seems perfect. Too perfect. No neighbors. No noise. No questions. But at night… something walks the halls. Doors open when they shouldn’t. Footsteps echo from empty floors. And the elevator? It only goes up—never down—after midnight. Then Daniel finds the first note, slipped under his door: “You’re the last one. Don’t let it know you’re still alive.” As reality begins to fracture, Daniel uncovers the building’s horrifying truth: no one who enters ever ...

Esta es una compilación de cuentos de Ralph Donovan que hicieron parte de diversas publicaciones entre 1889 y 1913 tanto en Estados Unidos como en Irlanda. Son una colección interesante de literatura del horror que trasluce las experiencias del autor en su viaje por Estados Unidos entre 1889 y 1912 donde entra en contacto con relatos e historias de los lugareños que entremezclan la tradición cultural de los inmigrantes europeos, los nativos y los africanos en pueblos remotos de Ohio, Oklahoma y Kansas; todo ello adaptado al más puro estilo británico de contar historias.

What would you do if the world kept shitting on you? Thomas is about to crack. An ex-girlfriend on her deathbed, a current girlfriend that tried to murder the both of them, and wounds that may never heal. Meanwhile, JoAnne is having troubles of her own, locked up in a mental ward. Will she ever make it out of there? Will she ever taste the glory of human meat again? Your favorite cannibal couple is back and this time, they're NOT so considerate...

A grief counselor and a widowed teacher discover that handwritten warnings appearing in their lives don't belong to the dead—they belong to something far older and far angrier. Bill Anders came to the mountains to escape Charlotte. To escape the wreckage of his wife's death. Instead, he finds Grace's handwriting everywhere: on fogged mirrors, in margins, pressed into dust. At first, the messages comfort him. Then they warn: Don't trust her. She's not what she seems. Dr. Ashley Flowers has six patients describing the same woman in session. The same voice. The same warning. She should ...

Caleb Pryce has carried the handprint on his arm since the dreams began. A dead woman's grip, mapped in bruise-dark skin that stays cold no matter the weather. When the mark starts spreading, he follows it south—to a holler in the North Carolina mountains where his ancestor killed a healer named Delphia Skaggs two hundred years ago. Delphia is not resting. She is not a ghost. She is something older—a woman whose suffering was never witnessed, whose death was never mourned, whose body was buried in ground that remembers everything. She has been waiting for the last Pryce to come home. ...

*The Blood That Listens* *A Psychological Horror of Healing, Control, and What Children Carry* **by Mara Blackthorne** A cure for troubled children. A single condition. **A vial of their parents’ blood.** When Dr. Evelyn Shaw begins investigating a mysterious child psychiatrist known only through whispers, she expects unconventional methods… Not miracles. Children who once screamed, lashed out, and lived in constant fear are suddenly calm. Still. Perfect. But something isn’t right. The children don’t just improve— **They empty.** And the parents? They begin to unravel. Sleepless ...

Questa è una raccolta di racconti tradotti in italiano dallo scrittore irlandese Ralph Donovan, che trovò ispirazione durante i suoi viaggi per narrare storie di terrore nel puro stile vittoriano. Lo scrittore irlandese visse negli Stati Uniti tra il 1889 e il 1912, entrando in contatto con le diverse culture degli immigrati giunti in cerca del sogno americano. Da Boston a Palm Springs e alle vaste praterie dell'Oklahoma, raccolse storie che confluirono in questa meravigliosa raccolta, disponibile in italiano per essere gustata al caldo di un camino con un buon bicchiere di vino.

Ce recueil de nouvelles, écrit entre 1890 et 1912 par Ralph Donovan lors de ses voyages en tant que reporter et photographe, est particulièrement intéressant. L'écrivain irlandais parcourut les villes en construction le long des lignes de chemin de fer aux États-Unis, où il rencontra des immigrants, des Amérindiens et des Africains. Ce mélange d'histoires et de récits contribua à la création des récits d'horreur qui furent d'abord publiés en anglais.

Step out of the shadow of 221B Baker Street and into the gaslit world of the "Great Detectives." While Sherlock Holmes reigned supreme in the pages of The Strand, he was far from the only mind at work in the fog-choked streets of Victorian London. "Beyond Sherlock Holmes: The Rivals, Rogues, and Rationalists of the Golden Age" is a definitive collection of public domain masterpieces that defined the evolution of the modern thriller. From the "ratiocination" of Edgar Allan Poe to the forensic laboratories of Dr. Thorndyke, this anthology gathers the brilliant specialists who refined, ...

18 plus due to sexual content and gore. At the very same time as little 7-year-old Kennedy MacPherson struggles to wake up, a dark blue pickup truck parks by the side of his house. An elderly man drops off a package at the front door before returning to his truck. Kennedy does not get to find out what is inside until later in the day when it is already too late. Find out in Some Things Come In Little Packages if he lives through Christmas or if the present is evil in disguise.

Najbardziej znana, klasyczna japońska opowieść grozy, oparta na XVII-wiecznej legendzie o mściwym duchu zdradzonej i wykorzystanej kobiety, który powraca, by szukać zemsty na swoich prześladowcach. Historia ta inspirowała dramatopisarzy teatru kabuki, drzeworytników ukiyo-e, powieściopisarzy, a nawet filmowców, z Hideo Nakatą, reżyserem Ringu na czele.