Short Horror

A man stumbles into a mysterious arctic base where scientists are conducting experiments to kill God. A disgraced researcher's Christmas Eve turns into a nightmare when the monster he's been hunting finally arrives—and it's hungry for more than milk and cookies. A rusty key leads a young boy to unleash an ancient evil. A team of researchers conduct an increasingly disturbing study to explore what happens after death.

Wild Invitation is an exciting collection of Psy/Changeling stories from New York Times best-selling author Nalini Singh. In "Beat of Temptation", innocent Tamsyn has always had a place in her heart for Nathan, a blooded DarkRiver sentinel. But is she ready for the fierce demands of the mating bond? In "Stroke of Enticement", a wary young teacher, skeptical about love, arouses the man - and the animal - in an aggressive leopard changeling who must prove his affections are true.

Fourteen-year-old Jessica is stuck spending her first weekend at Dad’s after the divorce. Creaky Trees feels wrong from the start—a strange, haunted town with even stranger residents. At the park, she meets a group of local kids. To impress the cute skater boy with the perfect smile, she takes the dare every kid whispers about: Break into the crumbling cabin deep in the woods. The lair of the blind old witch—the town’s living urban legend who haunts every kid’s dreams—and steal her glass eyes.

If you like scary stories, you’ve come to the right place! Over 15 tales of terror told in a true story style that will have you trembling with fright!

In this collection of horrors, Jason Fischer turns familiar spaces into deadly traps: A dinner with a new “mother” who wasn’t invited. A Halloween visitor offers a treat you must not refuse. A puzzle book that predicts your future—and takes its cut. A cardboard cutout boy that won’t stay where it’s put. A dark carnival ride with no power runs perfectly on what you fear most.

Midnight. Some call it the witching hour. Others call it the devil’s hour. Here in the graveyard, midnight is a very special time. It is a time when ghostly spirits are at their strongest, when the veil between our world and theirs is at its thinnest. Legend has it, that while most of the world is asleep, the lack of prayers allow the spirits to communicate under the cover of darkness, among the headstones, their whispers rustling in the leaves of the old oak trees. But if you’re here in the graveyard, you can tell yourself it’s just the wind....

In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing, award-winning author Gemma Files takes her listeners on journeys out beyond safe borders—from the trackless depths of the sea, to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West, even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here, in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown, behind the paper-thin curtains of reality, lurk monsters both human and ancient: selkies and avenging revenants, voodoo priestesses and pirate sorcerers, ghosts and vampires, and the most famous murderer of all time.

FBI special agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder go hunting in the shadows for dangerous truths in this new collection of original, never-before-published tales of The X-Files. Edited by New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry, Secret Agendas features heart-stopping stories by some of today's hottest writers of mystery, thrillers, science fiction, and horror.

If you like scary stories, you’ve come to the right place. Over 15 tales of terror told in a true story style that will scare you stiff!

I wasn't always like this, you know - paranoid, temperamental, vindictive. I mean, sure, I've always been a bit....high strung. But, I never used to stalk my therapist patients. Or yell at them. Or hold them captive in my garage. No, all of that started after the incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School. And I'm not talking about the school shooter. This was something far more insidious - something....infectious. Like a cancerous disease that tore through the student body, rotting young hearts one by one.

A sinister children's show leads to unimaginable horror. A mother and daughter fight to survive an island overrun by malfunctioning animatronics. Footprints on the ceiling of an apartment lead a man to the basement where he discovers something out of this world. A researcher's exploration of a mysterious wilderness site reveals an unusual bone and antler totem.

Erleben Sie über 14 Stunden spannende Unterhaltung mit Geistern, Dunkelmännern, Untoten, Betrügern, Dieben, Narzissten, Hexenmeistern, zwielichtigen Zauberkünstlern und bösartigen Schurken. Alle diese Werke haben immer wieder die Phantasie und das Interesse an Schauergeschichten bei den Zuhörern neu entfacht. Um euch so richtig das Gruseln zu lehren, haben wir diese besonderen Geschichten ausgewählt und in dieser Hörbuch-Playlist versammelt.

The iconic duo find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events: an otherworldly stone whose touch inflicts fatal bleeding; a hellish potion to unlock a person’s devilish psyche; a fiendishly clever, almost undetectable method of revenge and many more—including a brand-new Cthulhu Casebooks story.

This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. While European writers of the Gothic and bizarre evoked ruined castles and crumbling abbeys, their American counterparts looked back to the colonial era’s stifling religion, and its dark and threatening woods.

On a moonless Oklahoma night, Maynard Blackoak (author of Eerie Trails of the Wild Weird West) lit a candle against the darkness and sat down with quill in hand. A lifelong student of Edgar Allan Poe, he began to compose his homage to the master while the wind outside sought passage through the old walls and threatened the candle flame. This volume contains that result. Twelve tales of Poe-esque nightmares. So, light a candle, pour yourself an Absinthe, and enjoy the madness.

Red Room Press is extremely proud to present its fourth annual anthology featuring this year's hardcore corps of authors with the best extreme horror fiction of 2018 that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos. Salud! Sleep well. If you can.

Our story begins in 1785 when a young seafarer, Captain Thornhill, disappears while visiting the shop of a barber in London, a certain Sweeney Todd whose shop in Fleet Street is situated by St. Dunstan's church, just round the corner from the famous and popular meat pie shop run by Mrs. Lovett. Thornhill was carrying a string of pearls as a gift for Johanna Oakley, the sweetheart of his friend Mark Ingestrie who is missing, presumed lost at sea.

Here there be gods and monsters—forged from flesh and stone and vengeance—emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and human endeavor is tested to the limits. These are cosmic realms and watery domains where old offerings no longer appease the ancient Gods or the new and hungry idols. Deities and beasts. Life and death. Love and hate. Science and magic. And smiling monsters in human skin.

A curious girl experiments with her father’s putrefying corpse. An attempt at resurrection in Key West leads to an unusual meal. An evening with a babysitter brings forth an altogether different form of “Satanic Panic.” Tim Waggoner calls Douglas Ford a “sinister surgeon with a night black scalpel,” and with this collection of stories, you’re invited to witness what happens when we cut up dad.

A horrifying collection of interconnected tales, The Wishing Well centers around an ever-shifting, unearthly bar where desires are commodities and the price is everything. Each story follows a different patron, driven by want, ambition, or desperation, who casts a wish into the bar’s namesake. Join our patrons as they discover this well is less a cheap gimmick and more a dark conduit for twisted fulfillment, revealing the true horror of getting exactly what you wished for.