Anthologies & Short Stories

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. From his study window in Providence, a young writer of weird tales grows obsessed with a great black church abandoned on a far hill — its steeple shunned by every soul in the neighborhood, its doors sealed for two generations. Drawn at last to cross...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A quiet country house. A kind guardian. And a past that refuses to stay buried. In Lost Hearts, M. R. James crafts a chilling tale of a young boy sent to live with his enigmatic cousin: an eccentric scholar with a troubling fascination for ancient...

"A Descent into the Maelström" is an 1841 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form of science fiction. Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb in Lofoten, Norway. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old—"You suppose me a very old man," he says, "but I am not.

To escape a bully, we hid in the abandoned Coughlin House. Turns out the house wasn't as abandoned as we thought. My girlfriend thought she was being funny by pressing all the buttons on the elevator. She wasn't laughing when the doors finally opened. Would you mutilate yourself to save your children? I was forced to answer that question when I woke up chained to a post in my basement. Mr. Howard gave us our final report cards today.

Kevin J. Kennedy Presents Vampires II. It’s a brutal, strange, and beautifully varied collection of vampire tales from a wide range of voices. Spanning centuries, continents, and subgenres. From war-torn Europe and WWII battlefields to southern backroads, abandoned arcades, isolated campsites, and post-apocalyptic highways, these stories explore vampires as monsters, predators, lovers, ghosts, weapons, and myths. You’ll find ancient Slavic spectres, elemental creatures hunted by their own kind, bat-like horrors that stalk the night, and old-world vampires clashing with modern survival.

In A Wake and Other Ghost Stories, debut author Gerard Larkin conjures a world where shadows linger, voices call from beyond, and folklore comes alive. This evocative collection transports listeners across windswept Irish cliffs and along the sun-drenched but haunted Riviera, uncovering tales of shape-shifting pookas, ancestral whispers, and unseen watchers. Drawing from the deep well of Celtic myth and rural superstition, each story invites you to cross the threshold into the unknown, where nothing is ever quite as it seems.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Silas Deemer kept his store so faithfully that the people of Hillbrook set their lives by him — and not even death seemed reason enough to close up shop. Weeks after they laid him in the ground, a respectable banker walks home past the darkened...

"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). It was published in the February 1845 issue of Godey's Lady's Book and was intended as a partly humorous sequel to the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern tales One Thousand and One Nights. The tale depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story.

Jacob feels invisible and undesirable. All he wanted was to settle down and instead he finds himself stuck. Unhappy with where he's at he takes drastic action. This is a full frontal, splatterpunk body horror.

If you prefer to take your horror yarns with copious amounts of spilled blood, eviscerated guts, dollops of messy gore, and dark, disturbing themes, then boy howdy, does HellBound Books have a terrifying treat in store for you! If not, please not this book is definitely not for the faint of heart! With a foreword and brand-spanking-new, never-read-before short story by the grand maestro of extreme horror himself, Matt Shaw, this collection of eighteen stomach-churning tales of terror is guaranteed to have the bile rising and heart thumping with each turn of the page.

In this chilling collection of ten tales, Interview with the Devil: An Anthology of Horror invites you to explore the sinister edges of Joseph Banbury’s fractured world—and beyond. From the aftermath of the Epoch to standalone stories that carve their own path through terror, this anthology will leave you breathless, questioning the thin veil between light and darkness.

What happens when you learn your husband plans to kill you, and you will do anything to get revenge.

A widow discovers her late husband's photos are vanishing, along with her memories of who he really was. A struggling writer meets a stranger who offers the perfect compliments. The price? Everything that makes him human. A family finds a stain in their rental home. It moves. It searches. And it remembers what was buried beneath.

L is for Lycans, the twelfth audiobook in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. In this audiobook you will find a selection of thirteen frightening tales from some of the best independent horror authors of today. From bloody tales of revenge to experiments gone wrong, from the historical to the futuristic, L is for Lycans puts a spin on the traditional theme and will have you avoiding nights when the moon shines bright.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a desolate, sun-scorched valley near Hampden, a lone wanderer comes upon a grotesque, twisted tree crowning a barren hill—and is gripped by a dread he cannot explain. When he photographs the strange oak, the developed images reveal not the world...

I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon... I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth - a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow. The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow .

Henry Motel is located in Ohio, off of Interstate 70, near the Indiana border. If you are unfortunate enough to be in the area, just keep driving. If you absolutely have to stay at the motel, then please, please don't check into Room 13. Several occupants, each with their own demons, have met with tragedy in that room. Can the common denominator that links them together be discovered before more people have to die?

Phobias are defined as an irrational and extreme fear to something. It could be anything as long as it causes an intense and debilitating fear. What happens when these irrational fears/phobias become reality? When the irrational becomes rational and there's a reason to be scared? Find out in The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias. We've created an A to Z phobia list and elevated each one to a new level of fear. These stories come to life in ways that will make you want to sleep with the light on, double check the locks on your door, and think twice before dismissing your fear as irrational.

What would you do if you had the same horrifying nightmare every night and you KNEW that it was reality?

Blush and Bone is an exclusive collection of dark fiction, horror, and extreme horror stories. With a haunting selection of flash fiction, extreme horror, and cosmically inspired short fiction, it is a delicious and dark sampling of the range of Candace Nola. “Nola’s ability to tell a story is unmatched. Each book proves she is well on her way to becoming a legend.”—Kristopher Rufty, author of OLD SCRATCH.