Horror Fiction Short Stories

The 15 stories in After the People Lights Have Gone Off, by Stephen Graham Jones, explore the horrors and fears of the supernatural and the everyday. Included are two original stories, several rarities and out-of-print narratives, as well as a few "best of the year" inclusions.

A tribute to the glorious slasher movies of the 1980s.

Detectives Milton and Blackwood are tired of “the weird stuff”, but at the old pumpkin farm they discover that the weird stuff isn’t done with them…. Thomas, realizing too late that today is his girlfriend’s birthday, is about to be helped out of his predicament by a precocious little girl with a terrible secret.… Danny Miller is a tiny kid that doesn’t take kindly to bullies. When things take a sudden turn for the deadly, nothing will stop him from getting his revenge. Lucky for him, he’s got a friend like Billy…

Dark Ride is a collection of short fiction by one of the brightest writers in the genres of horror and dark fantasy. These stories range from the horrific to the surreal, and prove Michael Laimo to be a compelling stylist and relentless storyteller. None have been collected previously, and some are original to this volume.

The Collection, Volume 2 contains the following 17 terrifying stories from Bentley Little's The Collection: "Monteith", "Paperwork", "Pillow Talk", "Roommates", "Skin", "The Baby", "The Idol", "The Mailman", "The Man in the Passenger Seat", "The Murmurous Haunt of Files", "The Phonebook Man", "The Pond", "The Potato", "The Sanctuary", "The Show", "The Washingtonians", "The Woods Be Dark".

In Queer Little Nightmares, creatures of myth and folklore seek belonging and intimate connection, cryptids challenge their outcast status, and classic movie monsters explore the experience of coming into queerness. The characters in these stories and poems—the Minotaur camouflaged in a crowd of cosplayers, a pubescent werewolf, a Hindu revenant waiting to reunite with her lover, a tender-hearted kaiju, a lagoon creature aching for the swimmers above him, a ghost of Pride past—relish their new sparkle in the spotlight.

Dark, imaginative, and often unsettling, in this audiobook are horror stories that range from body transformation to Lovecraftian nightmares, from classic NoSleep and creepypastas to vast cosmic beings with a cold indifference to humanity. Tales await to fuel your nightmares including...Some unlucky university students stumble upon a sanity-breaking video, and it isn’t on the Dark Web. A group of drunk college students break into a local museum to find a trove of horrors in the basement.

Prepare for another unforgettable journey into the shadows in Haunted Secrets: Tales of Eloise Vol. 5. Eloise, the restless ghost of the Anderson house, continues to explore the chilling secrets of the house she haunts. With each passing day, the veil between life and death grows thinner, and Eloise is drawn deeper into the eerie mysteries that define her afterlife.

If you like scary stories, you’ve come to the right place! Over 80 tales of terror told in a true story style that will send shivers down your spine.

Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the old ways will speak of him. The frightening bone picker is just one of many entities, scary and mysterious, who lurk behind every moment of this spine-tingling collection of Native fiction, written by award-winning Choctaw author Devon A. Mihesuah.

Nach einer außerweltlichen Begegnung in den Wäldern von Maine machen zwei Freunde urplötzlich große Karriere; ihr Geheimnis nehmen sie mit in den Tod. Danny träumt von einer Leiche, die er dann tatsächlich findet; in den Augen der Polizei kann nur er der Mörder sein. Vic macht Ferien in Florida, wo er eine verschrobene alte Frau kennenlernt; eine Bekanntschaft, die in einem Horrorstrudel endet. Das sind nur drei von elf neuen Storys, die Stephen King in Ihr wollt es dunkler versammelt – viele Genres umspannende Geschichten über das gegenwärtige Amerika, über finstere Mächte und existenzielle Fragen.

Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 years of running the number-one Stephen King news website on the web! This anthology includes both original stories like a brand-new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), very rare reprints like "The Blue Air Compressor" by Stephen King, and at least one classic tale that inspired Lilja's love of the macabre at a very young age!

Adolescence is a time of "firsts." First kiss. First love. First loss. First job. And in this case, a very different type of "first": murder. This short story collection of murder mysteries adds a sinister spin to the joy and pain of firsts that have always been a major part of life, whether it be high school cliques who take the term "backstabbing" too seriously, stumbling upon a body on the way home from school, or receiving a Snapchat message that promises something deadly.

Edgar Allan Poe may be 150 years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar or discovered for the first time, listeners will revel in both Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, and in the 13 unique and unforgettable ways that they've been brought to life.

This collection of 18 short tales, a novelette, and a short novel takes the listener inside the dark imagination of Elizabeth Engstrom, author of acclaimed horror classics like When Darkness Loves Us. In these stories, you will hear about a woman asked to be complicit in her own mother’s death, a grandmother with a macabre hobby, a bizarre, phallic-shaped flower that portends evil for a married couple, a father whose son is caught up in a sinister government experiment. These are weird and unsettling tales that will linger with the listener.

From hayrides, corn mazes, Jekyll n Hyde, warped games, witches, demons, and death personified, Autumn Nights: 13 Spooky Fall Reads brings together the very best in chilling tales to hear under a harvest moon. This audiobook is for those who get excited about Halloween and crisp fall weather (and yes, even pumpkin spice lattes). Are you the type to dream of windy nights and tumbling leaves even while summer days stretch on? Do you want scary bonfire stories with doses of humor and twists on classical tales? This collection is perfect for you.

Young Ryan Jordan is exploring an old abandoned mining town with his father and sister on horseback. The empty wooden shacks, an old church, a cold wind rustling the sagebrush give the kids the creeps. On top of that, Ryan teases his sister about ghosts while holding in his own fear. After they ride through the Boot Hill graveyard, with its forgotten graves, they settle in to their camper for the evening where Ryan must come to grips with his fear.

Mike Mignola's award-winning series Hellboy has earned fans all over the world, among them some of the most respected horror, fantasy, and mystery novelists in the field as well as some of Hollywood's most talented writers and directors. Now a who's who list of these writers are drawn together to tell their own tales of Hellboy, to play with the characters and worlds Mignola has created. As part of Dark Horse's celebration of Hellboy in 2004, Christopher Golden has brought together a stellar array of talents.

Eager fans have been clamoring for an all-in-one collection of #1 bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon's hard-to-find short stories. In this collection, Sherrilyn Kenyon takes listeners from the Dark-Hunters to witches to demons and everything in-between as she explores the darkest parts of human nature. Dangerous and exciting, each story is one thrill ride after the next, proving time and again how Sherrilyn has captivated millions worldwide. Now, listeners are invited to go deep into Kenyon's rich and imaginative mind and experience the heart-racing moments that never stop coming!

BRACE YOURSELF FOR THE ULTIMATE HORROR EXPERIENCE! Are you ready to have your reality shattered and your mind rewired? "Scary Stories: A Collection of Short Horror Tales" isn't just an audiobook - it's a one-way ticket to a world of unimaginable terror!