Dark Tales: Extraordinary Story Collections

Dark Tales

By: Shirley Jackson
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Kimberly Farr, Karissa Vacker & Mark Deakins
Length: 8 hours

For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson’s scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh
 
After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror... Read more

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears

Stories

By: Laura van den Berg
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

“Laura van den Berg’s new collection of stories, one of the most unique I’ve read in recent years, navigates a space between the outer and inner world and takes unexpected turns that, like her novel, The Third Hotel, seem to bring in aesthetics of literature outside our time and place to tell stories that are very much grounded in our present.... Read more

Magic for Beginners

Stories

By: Kelly Link
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, Robbie Daymond, Kirby Heyborne, Rebecca Lowman, Arthur Morey, Lorna Raver & Meera Simhan
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

From MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, an “eerie and engrossing” (The Washington Post), “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of short stories
 
“[These] exquisite stories mix the aggravations and epiphanies of everyday life with the stuff that legends,... Read more

Cursed Bunny

Stories

By: Bora Chung
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT

"Cool, brilliantly demented K-horror—just the way I like it!" —Ed Park, author of Personal Days

A stunning, wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature—surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big... Read more

Howls From the Dark Ages

An Anthology of Medieval Horror

By: Christopher Buehlman, Brian Evenson, Bridget D. Brave, C.B. Jones, Caleb Stephens, Christopher O'Halloran, Cody Goodfellow, David Worn, Ethan Yoder, Hailey Piper, J.L. Kiefer, Jessica Peter, Lindsey Ragsdale, M.E. Bronstein, Michelle Tang, P.L. McMillan, Patrick Barb, Peter Ong Cook, Philippa Evans, Solomon Forse & Stevie Edwards
Narrated by: Don LaFollette, Sonja Lademacher, James Takahashi, Joshua Davos, Kyle Royall-West, Lance Lovegood, Matthew Byrne, Pandora Beatrix & Theodore T. Truman
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Uncover the secret annals of untold history in these eighteen medieval manuscripts. Each tortured scribe will bring you face to face with ancient horrors lurking in cursed castles, wild woodlands, haunted hamlets, and mysterious monasteries. Including a lineup of authors both established and emerging, HOWL Society Press presents the first-ever... Read more

Monstrous Affections

An Anthology of Beastly Tales

By: Kelly Link (Editor)
Narrated by: Amy Rubinate & Nick Podehl
Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Predatory kraken that sing with—and for—their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as to repel. Welcome to a world where humans live side-by-side with monsters, from vampires both nostalgic and bumbling, to an eight-legged alien who makes tea. Here you'll find mercurial forms that burrow... Read more

The Great God Pan and Other Weird Tales

By: Arthur Machen
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Dubbed the greatest horror story in English by Stephen King, The Great God Pan is an eerie and otherworldly mystery about a diabolical operation and its terrifying repercussions. After rescuing a young woman from the streets of London, Dr Raymond uses her as a test subject for brain surgery aimed at ‘lifting the veil’ of reality, to see the... Read more

Get In Trouble

Stories

By: Kelly Link
Narrated by: Grace Experience, Kirby Heyborne, Tara Sands, Robbie Daymond, Rebecca Lowman, Cassandra Campbell, Ish Klein, Susan Duerden & Kirsten Potter
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A bewitching story collection from the author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, hailed as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” (Michael Chabon) and “our greatest living fabulist” (Carmen Maria Machado)

“Ridiculously brilliant . . . These stories make you laugh while... Read more

The Damned & Other Stories of the Macabre

By: Algernon Blackwood
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki & various narrators
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

“And the word that rose in my mind was not the gross description of ‘impure,’ but the more fundamental qualification—‘un-pure.’”The Damned & Other Stories of the Macabre is Skyboat Media’s second original compilation of stories by Algernon Blackwood, featuring six of his most unique and macabre stories that contemplate the true meaning of... Read more

Mouthful of Birds

Stories

By: Samanta Schweblin
Narrated by: Various
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

“Mouthful of Birds is an unsettling collection with a wide range of fascinating characters, finely tuned to focus on misogyny and parenthood, life and death. Across many of the stories in this book, it feels like the characters are running towards something until suddenly they realize they’re running away from it instead. Either way, their... Read more

salt slow

By: Julia Armfield
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

“Haunting, powerful, empowering; I loved every single story in this collection, but especially the titular tale, Cassandra After, and The Great Awake. Read if you would like to see women Frankenstein's monster their pizza delivery guy, incite Bacchanalian riots over girl bands, metamorphosize, and give birth to sea monsters. *This one was an... Read more

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By: Kim Fu
Narrated by: Piper Goodeve, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Samara Naeymi, Gary Tiedemann & Jeena Yi
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of... Read more

Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang
Narrated by: Abby Craden & Todd McLaren
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

“I have read in several places that Ted Chiang is one of the most important voices in modern science fiction and after reading this book I fully agree with this statement. Stories of Your Life is a collection of short stories that for the most part were originally published in magazines. Each of the stories dealt with wildly different subjects,... Read more

Her Body and Other Parties

Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

“Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado is a blend of urban legends and horror stories all focusing on the roles women play in society. Machado writes in the most beautiful, haunting way, and each story is truly unique and almost always a little uncomfortable. Read more

Growing Things and Other Stories

By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Graham Halstead, Cassandra Campbell, Sarah Naughton, Michael Crouch & Caitlin Kelly
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things and Other Stories is an exciting glimpse into Paul Tremblay’s... Read more