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From the author of Yellowstone Shifters come three frightful tales set in America's renowned parks. A Yellowstone dishwasher catches a grotesque trout, unleashing an insidious catastrophe... A young ranger in the Everglades releases a slinking killer in her shallow waters... And a former pro-wrestler is pitted against a hairy, bipedal creature that isn’t what everyone thinks it is.

Tragedy strikes twice when an enraged father discovers his son’s death was caused by bullying and sets out for bloody revenge. An adventurer seeking the true meaning of fear learns to be careful with what he wishes for. And a web of mystery leads a group of neighborhood children to investigate and carry the secret of their discovery well into adulthood….

The Shadow on the Wall brings together Ruskin Bond’s most chilling works of fright and terror. The 21 stories in this book include classics such as ‘A Face in the Dark’, ‘The Chakrata Cat’ and ‘Susanna’s Seven Husbands’, along with a dose of eerie new tales that have never been published before.

Handsome older Claymore Enfield is a renowned high-society interior designer hired by boyishly attractive Travis Worth, a young tech billionaire, to help restore and decorate his newly acquired historic Manhattan townhouse. In addition to working on his home, Claymore takes Travis under his wing to teach him about art and culture and grooming. He also shares stories and secrets of society and the house’s dark past.

Peculiar Monstrosities is packed with 14 exquisitely crafted stories from new and established authors of Bizarro fiction.

A man in an insane asylum believes his handlers are lizard-people wearing human skin.

A family joins the cult of a subterranean god. A demon invades a classroom. A married couple experiences the terror of nuclear annihilation. A rookie police officer solves a decades-old mystery.

A depressed young orphan discovers a room that changes every time someone enters. A repair store owner who seems to be able to fix everything. A dangerous imaginary friend who might not be entirely imaginary.

From Florida Gothic horror author Wendy Dalrymple comes a collection of 13 terrifying tales centering the female experience. From doting mothers to twisted girl scouts, unsuspecting lovers and vengeful young women, Strange Little Ghouls explores the darkest parts of our hearts and minds.

Watching a loved one drift away from illness becomes a literal nightmare for the family and friends of those afflicted with silver sky syndrome. Victims become immune to the laws of gravity and ascend into the heavens in this metaphorical horror story.

In Band 11 der "Arndt Schmöle liest Edgar Allan Poe"-Reihe erwecken Poes Geschichten und Arndt Schmöles Stimme die Toten zum Leben. Das Grauen, aber auch die Komik, stecken - wie so oft - in der Wahrheit, der die Fiktion entspringt. "Lebendig Begraben": "Weh! Die grausigen Legionen der Grabesschrecken sind keine Hirngespinste; doch (...) müssen sie schlafen, oder sie verschlingen uns - muß man sie schlummern lassen, oder wir gehen zugrunde." Poe schreibt vom grausamsten Schicksal, das eine Menschenseele ereilen kann: dem Lebendigbegrabensein.

Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop plunges us into a shocking well of imagination in this collection of short stories, Midnight Storm Moonless Sky. From hauntings on the Highway of Tears to fearful gatherings of ghosts and the sorrows of racism, Soop combines the social anxieties of Indigenous life with spellbinding flights and frights of speculative fiction. Through these enthralling stories of reality mixed with terror, listeners get a wicked glimpse into the genre of Indigenous horror.

Clayton James Felding is a post adolescent teen. New to suburbia, he is concerned about societal deterioration, the implications upon society, and his psyche. Follow him into a home between worlds, and the nightmares in its shadow. Your understanding of reality will be tested…from the top of the stairs.

When Kris visited that psychic, she thought it would be fun. She thought the woman would tell her things that she wanted to hear: that there was true love in her future, that there was fortune, fame...but what she got was a dire warning. "The woman you kill will come back to you, asking for forgiveness. You must give it to her." But Kris would never kill anyone....

Bizarro outsider Dustin Reade presents 11 stories of weirdo lit, culled from the deepest recesses of the human imagination and sprinkled with thoughts and flakes from other parts of the body as well. Don't miss it. Or do. Whatever.

A woman gets a cursed tattoo on her hand. A crow. If she does something against "the rules" it pecks at her. At first the rules are easy. Don't eat this food. Can't use that color lighter.... But they've gotten worse. So has the pain from the bites.

A terrifying science experiment unleashes a phantasmal killer from beyond the grave. An ancient tome devours the minds of all who dare read its endless pages. And a donut-shop waitress discovers a sinister secret ingredient that keeps customers coming back for more....

A journalist finds something on a recording that she made. A soft, ghostly voice. Her reporting piece is put on hold as she tries to discover who the voice belongs to. Or belonged to...

Wohl kaum ein Autor hat der Menschheit solch wohlige Schauerlektüre bereitet wie Edgar Allan Poe, der frühe Meister der Horrorstory. In dieser Sammlung hören wir: "Die Tatsachen im Falle Waldemar", "Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue", "Das Geheimnis der Marie Roget", "Der entwendete Brief", "William Wilson", "Eleonora", "Morella", "In der Tiefe des Maelstroms".

This collection of 13 short stories speculates about futuristic realities where the rules don't apply, and comedic chaos consumes. Artificially intelligent mowers rigidly manage a neighborhood's lawns. A teenaged Pulitzer winner hunts monsters draped in blankets. With a hint of horror alongside plausible parodies, You Know What I Think? leaves listeners with more questions than answers.

When Pfc. Chester Michael had gone over all the ways he that he might die in the war, when he thought about them back at the barracks weeks before Utah Beach ever happened, the top things on the list were: gettin shot, gettin blown up, and gettin fuckin shot. Weren’t those the normal ways that soldiers were dying in this war? Yeah. So that’s probably how he would die too. By getting shot at, and those shots not missing.

From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone, monstrous? Award-winning and up-and-coming authors like Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw, Indrapramit Das, Priya Sharma, and more attempt to answer this question. These all-new stories range from traditional to modern, from mainstream to literary, from familiar monsters to the unknown . . . and unimaginable.

Halloween is a holiday of fright, a time to dress up and go house to house for candy, a time for fun. But what happens when you don’t follow the rules? Nicholas Gray presents five Halloween tales to get you in the spirit and cover your arms in goosebumps. Three friends are in for a trick-or-treat surprise. A surly boy goes trick-or-treating to the wrong house. A grumpy old man gets a special Halloween visitor. A man goes shopping for a Halloween mask. And some bored teenagers go on a vandalism spree.

Whilst writer Charles Dickens needs no introduction, his Haunted House anthology might, not least because in his role as editor he introduces a formidable array of known and lesser-known literary talents.

I’ve been having the same dream now for a long time. It’s a recurring dream…or nightmare. I can never tell for sure because the emotion is different. The details are the always the same—the smells, the sounds of my shoes, etc.—but I never know what’s on the other side of those doors. I do now.

Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) has earned a reputation as one of the finest horror writers of the modern era, but his work has been out of print and nearly unobtainable for many years. His seminal volume In a Lonely Place collects eight of his best tales, including "In the Pines," a classic ghost story evocatively set in the Tennessee woods, "Beyond Any Measure," an original take on the vampire story.

A volunteer candy-striper stays over night at St. Mary's hospital to watch over a boy from her class. The same boy that had asked her to the school dance five times already. The same boy that she'd rejected five times already....

A criminal wakes up locked in a walk-in freezer.

An artist struggles to hold on to her soul as she feverishly completes a deadly masterpiece. The death of a movie producer unleashes an ancient reel of film with a dark secret worth killing for. And a woman gets the scare of her life as strange intruders break into her home....

Whether it’s pure chance or preordained destiny that leads them into the woodlands surrounding a secluded English village, the fate of six people is in the hands of an ancient prophecy hell-bent on revenge for the barbaric actions of our forefathers.

Step inside the small mountain town of White Valley, where legends leak into reality and the supernatural syncs with the mundane. Join Matt Richardsen for remastered versions of some of Reddit NoSleep's most popular stories over the past decade.

A secret organization ruthlessly seeks power over supernatural terrors in this globe-trotting anthology of arcane mystery and adventure, from the bestselling world of Arkham Horror.

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World. Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of...

The phrase "you are what you eat" is taken to heart; these are stories of men facing strange appetites within their own physicality, within a lover or, perhaps, a stranger's hungers. A young athlete attends an exclusive wrestling camp, but some of the campers are more focused on the unwelcome boys they claim lurk inside their bellies. A fixit man on a mission to retrieve a runaway finds himself forced into impersonating a pulp hero by her captor.

Nehmen Sie sich ein zweites Mal Zeit für ein reichhaltiges Menü an delikaten Kurzgeschichten, bei denen Sie sich schaurige, bizarre und fantastische Begegnungen einverleiben können. Für garantiert packenden Spannungsgenuss sorgen: eine renommierte Schauspielerin, die es gar nicht gerne sieht, wenn man sich an ihren Katzen vergreift ("Lois, der Bauer"); ein Anwalt, der bei seiner Wette mit einem Vampir die Rechnung ohne den Wirt gemacht hat ("Der Anwalt"); der boshafte Martin, der unfreiwillig einen Vorrat an frischen Organen anzubieten hat ("Ein simpler Plan").

Nehmen Sie sich Zeit für ein reichhaltiges Menü an delikaten Kurzgeschichten, bei denen Sie sich schaurige, bizarre und fantastische Begegnungen einverleiben können. Für garantiert packenden Spannungsgenuss sorgen: die übergewichtige Ratte Elvira und ihr zügelloser Appetit auf Neumieter ("Die Ratte Elvira"); ein Beamter, dem seine Liebe zur Spinne Holga zum Verhängnis wird ("Das Netz"); der achtjährige Bernhard, der die Gute-Nacht-Geschichte seiner Schwester zu wörtlich nimmt ("Die Nervensäge"); ein unerwartetes, letztes Wiedersehen der beiden Brüder Jericho und Michael ("Geteiltes Leid").

In the title story a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night. "Dancing Men" depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory when a boy visits his deranged grandfather in the New Mexico desert.

Dark, twisted, fresh and fierce, Eyes Guts Throat Bones is a collection of stories about queer, female bodies at the end of the world 'I WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIFIED' JENN ASHWORTH 'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' KIRSTY LOGAN 'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE 'AN INCREDIBLE...

The Better Off Dead series delves into the furthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk. These masters of horror will haunt your dreams and stalk your nightmares, taking you to the edge of sanity before pushing you to the brink of madness!

Drac Von Stoller presents a collection of horrifying tales from the dead with short stories that deal with witches, a virus, an ax, urban legends, pirates, cursed mirrors, and a few more exciting tales to hear about.