Short Horror

Playing upon our most primal fears, Stephen King draws us into his sinister world - a place where sane men and women see their lives shattered, their realities distorted and destroyed. Now, listeners can probe even deeper into the mind of the master storyteller of the macabre, with this third unabridged production of 5 classic short stories, from King's best selling collection, Night Shift.

Claudia Shephard’s husband died in a fire. Everyone says it was tragic. Accidental. She doesn't remember much—just smoke, panic, the way her lungs burned as she ran. But three weeks after the funeral, a manuscript arrives on her doorstep. A book she didn’t write. A book that describes, in disturbingly intimate detail, her husband’s affair… and the precise steps she took to murder him. It’s written in her voice. With her quirks. Her phrases. Her secrets. And page by page, Claudia feels her grip on reality begin to unravel. As whispers swirl through their coastal town and friends ...

New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry presents a quirky collection of five stories starring a whole cast of the ever-popular undead. Here you will find a semi-sequel to Dead of Night in which four army reservists are assigned to hold a small rural bridge during the early days of the zombie apocalypse; a comedic story involving a couple of idiot moonshiners, a comet, gangsters, zombies, and the Great Chicago Fire; a downbeat psychological drama set in the bleak wastelands a few years after the zombie apocalypse; and more.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: BLOOD: Dan receives a letter from a woman claiming to be his half-sister from their father's illicit affair while married to his stepmother. He's not interested in meeting her, but reluctantly agrees. THE SPIDER WOMAN: Evelyn is homeless when she inherits her mother's house, which has been abandoned for years. Her mother was an entomologist whose obsession with spiders ruined her life. DEAD PEOPLE: Jesse's father wants him to go with him to a wake to see his first ...

Stories of our deadly sins: Greed. Envy. Wrath. Sloth. Technological advancement has not led us to overcome our basic human flaws but helped carry them into the future. These short stories will challenge your view of what it means to be human and keep you up at night wondering what comes next. "If you like Black Mirror or Twilight Zone you will love S.A. Wooderson's books," A.E. - reader

Along Route 116 where the state road weaved its way through the backwoods of Massachusetts was the lane leading to Ravenwood. It was easy to miss. The only travelers in that area were either lost or looking for the old Europeanesque inn. The only people who traveled west of Ravenwood were the people who had grown up there. They knew the woods, feared the creatures who dwelled there, but they respected them. They had made friends with the woods for it were the trees who wouldn't let you leave. This is a collection of short stories taking place around a central theme: Ravenwood. Each chapter ...

Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son.

The tale of a man who unwittingly angers a sorcerer, who is assumed by some Monty scholars to be based on the self-styled 'Great Beast,' occultist Aleister Crowley. Montague Rhodes James was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.

A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders; and much more.

Jenna is stalked by a sinister man in a mask on the eve of her eighteenth birthday in The Man in the Window. What does he want, and is he even real? Two astronomers make first contact with another life form, forever changing both of their lives in The Andromeda Girl. In Jade, a writer at a comic book convention buys an illustration of a beautiful woman he has seen in real life. He becomes obsessed with finding out who this mysterious woman is. Sixteen-year-old babysitter Gina Zeneski takes the kids for a day at the amusement park and gets more than she bargained for in Rollercoaster, a ...

Where the Light Won’t Go Five Horrifying Short Stories In the forgotten corners of dusty towns, behind windows that never open, and beneath soil too stubborn to grow anything but silence—darkness waits. Where the Light Won’t Go is a chilling collection of five terrifying short stories that explore what festers in places too long overlooked. From rural roads that twist the mind to houses that breathe when no one’s watching, each tale drips with dread, decay, and devastating revelations.

Four ghost stories from England’s historic shires present a heady brew of the Gothic, folk horror, historical fiction and satire. The Ghost of Scarside Beck A newly-wed Cumbrian vicar and his wife experience a night like none they could ever have foreseen. He may have answered his calling, but who, or what, is calling her? At Fall of Night A ghostly excursion into the Victorian Gothic; a tale of obsession, terror, and vengeance. Welcome to Wiltshire in the autumn of 1843. Monsieur Benoit Lavarnier, toast of the Parisian art world and a man of cultured accomplishments, finds himself ...

Horror stalks the sideshow tents of the 40’s and runs a 70’s era dive bar steeped in murder… It preys from the frozen peaks of a small, 80’s Alaskan town and spills across the streets of modern-day New York City. From the Great Plains of Native America to war-torn North Korea and the cradle of civilization itself in ancient Mesopotamia, the Beast is out for blood but the werewolf hunter pursues and will not stop until the last drop of blood has fallen.

Voracious monsters threaten to consume a helpful priest. A gamer girl finds herself trapped in a digital realm of death. One widow’s worst nightmare reaches out from beyond the grave. Scare Street is proud to present the best in bone-chilling supernatural horror. This volume contains three macabre morsels for your listening pleasure. These fast-paced tales of terror are guaranteed to keep you listening well past your bedtime.

Echoes You Can’t Ignore is a chilling collection of unforgettable encounters, each tale unraveling the thin boundary between the known and the unknowable. From haunted signals and whispered names to photographs that rewrite memory, this anthology drags the eerie into your everyday—and dares you to keep reading. Told in gripping first-person accounts, these modern horror stories are not about monsters under the bed. They’re about the ones that sit beside you. They’re the dreams you didn’t have. The voice in the vent. The shadow in the last frame. And once you meet them, they never ...

At World’s Edge: Seven Liminal Stories from the Edge of Reality Beyond the borders of maps and memory lie worlds that obey no known rules. In this haunting anthology of speculative fiction and dark fantasy, seven stories explore what happens when reality thins—where time unravels, identity dissolves, and the familiar becomes unrecognizable. From a girl who returns from a doorless frame altered by the realm she crossed, to a lighthouse powered by memory guarding against something older than night, these tales are eerie, poetic, and charged with slow-blooming dread. Each story is a ...

Journey through the sinister corridors of history with these chilling tales of horror and survival. From the freezing desolation of Barbarossa to the war-torn memories of a young Georgian expat in Vienna, and from post-apocalyptic nightmares to the forest witches in the Ardennes feasting on the souls of Belgian soldiers, each story unravels a dark narrative of human endurance and fear. Encounter monstrous moral dilemmas, vengeful spirits, and eerie confrontations in this anthology where the past's shadows collide with horror's depths. Prepare for a gripping blend of history and the macabre ...

Three terrifying novels in one collection from master of horror, Lee Mountford. The Demonic: A woman returns to her childhood home to lay to rest the ghosts of the past. But in this house, the ghosts are real. The Mark: A satanic cult. A woman's brutal assault. Can one woman face her darkest fears before a demonic entity is unleashed? Forest of the Damned: A group of paranormal researchers investigate the infamous Black Forest.... What they find is far beyond even their worst nightmares.

A murderous ghoul darkens the local woods in “The Shadow of Helheim”. A traveler from a ruined future visits the present to thin the herd in “The Angel of the Abyss”. A man struggles desperately to avoid learning the ultimate knowledge, which by mere exposure has stripped the soul from everyone in the world in “Enlightenment”. A woman gradually regains her memory to realize her true terrifying self in “Beneath the Sycamore Tree”. A leader in primitive times must make a heart-wrenching decision about an aged man for the sake of the tribe in “The Will of Olgotha”. A being ...

Robert "Bubba" Brabham never wanted to hunt monsters. He mostly wanted to drink beer, hunt deer, and chase women, like every other giant redneck in the world. But life interfered, and Bubba found himself holster-deep in the family business: monster hunting. Now he's the Southeastern Regional Hunter for the Holy Roman Catholic Church...Bubba has to save the world from the things that go bump in the night! Just as soon as he's done with his beer. And maybe after one more lap dance.