Anthologies & Short Stories

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....

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

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....

Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post) 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. Influenced by the strange...

The title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. In addition, this collection contains an original story....

Cabal is the story of Boone, a tortured soul haunted by the conviction that he has committed atrocious crimes....

This short story collection will take you into the depths of Beck’s dark imagination.

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....

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...

Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror....

Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist....

A brand new anthology that collects the 12 principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose....

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by David Monteath and Gabrielle Nellis-Pain. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Newton. 'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... He changes with the...

"The Cthulhu Mythos" is a system of cosmic entities, forbidden books, and macabre locations created by the American author, H. P. Lovecraft.

The first three volumes of The Best Horror of the Year have been widely praised for their quality, variety, and comprehensiveness....

This audiobook is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today's most challenging and exciting writers....

I picked up a hitchhiker. Now I’m not sure I’ll get home alive. I finally bought my own Airpods. I hear something terrifying when I wear them. Today, I looked in the mirror... for the first time in 10 years.

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

Meet the reluctant caretaker of an abandoned high-rise teeming with supernatural horrors. A man’s search for his lost dog leads him into an abandoned doomsday bunker harboring the unimaginable. Ancient horrors awaken beneath the Antarctic ice as researchers uncover a terrifying underwater temple.

A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men: Of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans....

THERE ARE FATES WORSE THAN DEATH. EVERY ONE OF THEM IS WAITING INSIDE.

Christian Wallis, whose popular tales on Reddit’s NoSleep are spoken of in hushed tones, invites you into a world where the unseen has teeth. Stare into its terrifying maw and you’ll see… A family fun center hides a bottomless pit where reality breaks down and a dark secret awaits.

They're bigger and smarter. Deep in the sewers of New York City, the rat population is growing. Dr. Randolph Finch is determined to break the cycle. His new rodenticide, Degenesis, doesn’t kill rats. It sterilizes them from reproducing. But nothing adapts faster than a New York rat.... City...

The terror at Hotel Caligula continues, as ghost-hunting enthusiasts explore its sinister corners. Ancient forces of nature turn the table on a lonely old man. And bullied teenagers discover that supernatural vengeance comes with a deadly price....

Nobody gets more upset about a lack of eggs than I do...

There are games that were never meant to be played with rules that must never be broken. To win the Highway Man Game, you must make an offering to the creature under the streetlights. Just don’t pass him a fourth time. If I can survive a night of tag with a monster in a shopping mall, I can talk to my dead girlfriend one last time.

Follow a father seeking revenge on his daughter's killer, even if it means sitting in the electric chair. A woman with a sinister new tongue that has a mind of its own. A hospital patient subjected to the terrors of a haunted MRI machine. And a traveling troupe of voice actors pursued by a relentless ghostly fan.

Welcome to Bloodhaven, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Abandoned carnivals that should be avoided, zoos with the strangest of occupants, duffle bags that are best left unopened. 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.

Lucian Wardy, a solitary writer-philosopher, receives a strange inheritance: an old pocket watch, heavy with tarnish and engraved with fading initials. At first glance it is nothing more than a broken relic, its second hand jerking and stuttering, skipping moments as though it has forgotten how to keep time. But when Lucian keeps it by his desk, the skips begin to spill into his life. Sentences appear in his notebooks that he does not remember writing.

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. I was the star of Dr. Warly’s adventure club: a children’s show that doesn’t exist. My sister disappeared five years ago, but last night she knocked on our door. Never leave a chair empty in your bedroom at night. You don’t want to know who might take a seat while you sleep. I just got a job at a lamp store. Turns out we don’t actually sell lamps…

Taking Melody is all rage and no romance. This is a love story gone deadly wrong. Russell told Melody that if she ever left him, he would hunt her down across the world. Nowhere would be safe. She’d have nowhere to hide, no one would be able to help her. Taking her chance, Melody left him and never looked back...

Welcome once again, fellow gore lovers, to HellBound Books' second foray into the deliciously bloody, innards-strewn world of splatterpunk! Death, dismemberment, and destruction abound within this book, as we bring to you nineteen perfectly ghoulish tales of terror that are definitely not to be heard while eating! Go on, we dare you!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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...