Anthologies & Short Stories

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....

Includes the story “The Monkey”—now a major motion picture! The #1 New York Times bestseller—a mesmerizing treasury of short stories by Stephen King. An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand...

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....

Winner of the 2025 Audie Award for Short Stories/Collections Includes an afterword written by Stephen King and read by Sean Patrick Hopkins Includes a bonus story, “The Music Room” NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 HORROR BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR HORROR...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER THE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER An original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand!...

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....

"Includes something for every kind of King fan.” —People From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online...

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.

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

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....

Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture....

Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture....

Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture....

The #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King—four chilling novellas that will “grab you and not let go” (The Washington Post). ONE PAST MIDNIGHT: The Langoliers takes a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers...

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

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one...

A garishly painted figurine contains a terrible curse; the ten-year anniversary of a sensational horror film shot in an abandoned mine reveals stunning secrets; endnotes for a book review uncover a strange high-tech pathogen; a man witnesses something uncanny and unexplained as his friend...

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection. Stories include: Introduction (Stephen King) Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg) Crouch End (Tim Curry) Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith)...

Named One of the Best Horror Books of the Year by the New York Times, Esquire, NPR, and Paste! It's about to get very dark. 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...

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift...

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

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 bestselling short story collection. Stories include: -Chattery Teeth -The Moving Finger -Home Delivery -Sneakers and more…...

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich...

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....

Welcome to Haunted Hollow, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. An obsessed fan traveling back in time to kill John Cleese, tattered VHS tapes scrawled with warnings not to watch, cabbies haunted by their creepiest passengers. 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.

Step beyond the veil of reality in Strange Tales of Other Dimensions by H. P. Lovecraft, a haunting collection of classic cosmic horror and weird fiction. Featuring The Quest of Iranon, The Silver Key, The Dreams in the Witch House, and The Trap, this volume explores forbidden knowledge, dream worlds beyond time, and terrifying gateways to unknown dimensions.

Mind the moon when you leave the theater! Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers returns, and Vol. 8 definitely goes Splatterbump in the night! It’s a monstrous mosh of fallen angels, prepubescent prescience, tempestuous incest, intergalactic blues, a Gulliverian massacre, cynophile racists, murderous rodents, a prehistoric Devil Head, the return of Bram Stoker’s forgotten hero, and so much more...

Descend into the chilling depths of revenge with The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe. Set beneath the shadowed streets of carnival-season Italy, this classic Gothic tale follows Montresor’s calculated plot against the unsuspecting Fortunato. With razor-sharp irony, mounting psychological tension, and a haunting final twist, Poe crafts one of the most unforgettable short stories in American literature.

Caleb Pryce has carried the handprint on his arm since the dreams began. A dead woman's grip, mapped in bruise-dark skin that stays cold no matter the weather. When the mark starts spreading, he follows it south—to a holler in the North Carolina mountains where his ancestor killed a healer named Delphia Skaggs two hundred years ago. Delphia is not resting. She is not a ghost. She is something older—a woman whose suffering was never witnessed, whose death was never mourned, whose body was buried in ground that remembers everything. She has been waiting for the last Pryce to come home. ...

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?

Enter the chilling realms of cosmic dread and supernatural terror in Three Classic Horror Short Stories. Featuring The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood and The Dunwich Horror and The Horror at Red Hook by H. P. Lovecraft, this haunting collection explores ancient forces, forbidden knowledge, and unseen horrors lurking just beyond reality.

The Big Book of Scary Stories 2 is a massive collection of horror short stories built for readers who want fast, brutal chills with zero filler. Open to any page and you’re dropped straight into a fresh nightmare - the kind that starts with a normal moment (a ferry ride home, a hospital corridor, a quiet street) and then tilts sideways into something wrong. This volume delivers creepy tales, ghost stories, and supernatural horror with a sharp edge of modern dread — the feeling that the world is still the world… but something is watching from just outside the light. You’ll find ...

A grief counselor and a widowed teacher discover that handwritten warnings appearing in their lives don't belong to the dead—they belong to something far older and far angrier. Bill Anders came to the mountains to escape Charlotte. To escape the wreckage of his wife's death. Instead, he finds Grace's handwriting everywhere: on fogged mirrors, in margins, pressed into dust. At first, the messages comfort him. Then they warn: Don't trust her. She's not what she seems. Dr. Ashley Flowers has six patients describing the same woman in session. The same voice. The same warning. She should ...

Step into the shadowed worlds of Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Algernon Blackwood in this chilling collection of classic horror short stories.

Questa è una raccolta di racconti tradotti in italiano dallo scrittore irlandese Ralph Donovan, che trovò ispirazione durante i suoi viaggi per narrare storie di terrore nel puro stile vittoriano. Lo scrittore irlandese visse negli Stati Uniti tra il 1889 e il 1912, entrando in contatto con le diverse culture degli immigrati giunti in cerca del sogno americano. Da Boston a Palm Springs e alle vaste praterie dell'Oklahoma, raccolse storie che confluirono in questa meravigliosa raccolta, disponibile in italiano per essere gustata al caldo di un camino con un buon bicchiere di vino.

Ce recueil de nouvelles, écrit entre 1890 et 1912 par Ralph Donovan lors de ses voyages en tant que reporter et photographe, est particulièrement intéressant. L'écrivain irlandais parcourut les villes en construction le long des lignes de chemin de fer aux États-Unis, où il rencontra des immigrants, des Amérindiens et des Africains. Ce mélange d'histoires et de récits contribua à la création des récits d'horreur qui furent d'abord publiés en anglais.

Not every death leaves behind a clear explanation. Across the world, investigators occasionally encounter cases where the evidence simply doesn’t add up. Witnesses report disturbing final moments, strange behavior before death, and details so unsettling that detectives struggle to separate fact from fear. 30 Unexplained Deaths with Terrifying Witnesses explores real cases and documented mysteries where the final moments were observed—but never fully understood. Inside this book you will discover: • Witness accounts that describe disturbing and unexplainable final moments • Death ...

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.

Esta es una compilación de cuentos de Ralph Donovan que hicieron parte de diversas publicaciones entre 1889 y 1913 tanto en Estados Unidos como en Irlanda. Son una colección interesante de literatura del horror que trasluce las experiencias del autor en su viaje por Estados Unidos entre 1889 y 1912 donde entra en contacto con relatos e historias de los lugareños que entremezclan la tradición cultural de los inmigrantes europeos, los nativos y los africanos en pueblos remotos de Ohio, Oklahoma y Kansas; todo ello adaptado al más puro estilo británico de contar historias.

Step out of the shadow of 221B Baker Street and into the gaslit world of the "Great Detectives." While Sherlock Holmes reigned supreme in the pages of The Strand, he was far from the only mind at work in the fog-choked streets of Victorian London. "Beyond Sherlock Holmes: The Rivals, Rogues, and Rationalists of the Golden Age" is a definitive collection of public domain masterpieces that defined the evolution of the modern thriller. From the "ratiocination" of Edgar Allan Poe to the forensic laboratories of Dr. Thorndyke, this anthology gathers the brilliant specialists who refined, ...

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.

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...

A feminine rage horror short Jennifer has two problems standing in her way — her inability to conceive, and her husband Nick Never mess with a woman who knows exactly what she wants

On the campus of Brackenford University, Christmas cheer is about to be violently, messily and hilariously shredded. Dr. Percival Archibald Blenkinsop is a brilliant chemist, catastrophic klutz, and sworn enemy of festive baked goods. And he has finally created the crowning glory of all of his limited achievements... He’s concocted a serum designed to render every mince pie on Earth completely inedible. Unfortunately for humanity, his experiment doesn’t ruin a mince pie… it mutates one.