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....

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

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.

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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

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....

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....

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

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....

A collection of short horror stories that you should listen to with the lights on. Come join a soldier on the run in the jungle, a doctor's visit to the insane asylum, and more....

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

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

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....

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....

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ward Whispers: Echoes from the Locked Wing By G.J. Fene Behind every locked door, something waits to be remembered… Step inside the asylum where the patients aren't always the strangest ones on the ward. In this chilling collection of first-person psychological horror stories, hospital staff begin to hear voices that shouldn’t exist, record visitors no one can see, and uncover files that erase themselves. Each tale is a haunting descent into institutional secrets, fractured identity, and the ghosts that memory leaves behind. From therapy groups that meet after their doctor dies… to a ...

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Ward Whispers: True Stories from Inside the Hospital by G.J. Fene Step into the silent halls, flickering lights, and whispered echoes of the night shift. In Ward Whispers, G.J. Fene presents a chilling collection of firsthand encounters from nurses, med-techs, and hospital staff who’ve experienced the unexplainable behind closed doors. From ghostly figures seen on routine rounds to mysterious patients who vanish before morning, these true accounts explore the thin boundary between medicine and the metaphysical. Told in raw, intimate first-person narratives, each story unveils a hidden ...

Ward Whispers: Not All Patients Are Human By G.J. Fene Step into the night shift, where the lights flicker for a reason—and not everything in a hospital bed is alive... or even human. In this chilling collection of supernatural medical horror, nurses, doctors, and first responders recount the cases that were never written down. Patients who vanished without a trace. Beds that breathe. Whispers from behind curtain dividers. Each story blurs the line between life, death, and something far older waiting in the quiet corners of the ward. If you’ve ever worked in a hospital and felt like ...

It Came Back With Me: 13 True Stories of Paranormal Encounters By G.J Fene Step beyond the veil and into the shadows with It Came Back With Me, a chilling anthology of thirteen real-life paranormal encounters that will haunt your dreams. From restless spirits following travelers home, to inexplicable shadows that refuse to leave, these stories dive deep into the eerie, the unexplained, and the downright terrifying. Each tale is told in gripping first-person accounts, capturing the raw fear, the uneasy curiosity, and the moments when the supernatural breaks through the everyday. Whether ...

Ward Whispers: Secrets from the Dark Side of the ER By G.J. Fene Step into the shadows of the emergency room where every night brings new mysteries and unseen horrors. Ward Whispers is a chilling collection of true-to-life tales from the frontline of healthcare—stories of strange occurrences, ghostly presences, and unexplained phenomena lurking just beyond the bright hospital lights. From vanishing patients to haunted equipment, each story reveals the unsettling secrets the ER hides after dark. Perfect for fans of medical horror and paranormal suspense, Ward Whispers invites you to ...

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.

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 ...

Something Watched the Baby Monitor by G.J. Fene When Marlene Grace moved into her quiet suburban home with her newborn daughter, she thought the scariest thing she’d face would be sleepless nights and teething pain. But then the baby monitor began whispering. At first, it was just faint static. A rhythm. A hum. Then words—spoken in no language Marlene knew. Then Leah, her six-month-old daughter, began humming it back. As strange lights flicker outside the nursery window and scorched circles appear in the lawn, Marlene begins to realize: the monitor isn’t picking up interference. ...

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 ...

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: ...

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. ...

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 ...

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!

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.

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...

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.

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 ...