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The Horrors of Willville: Paranormal Edition is the eagerly anticipated third installment of the spine-chilling anthology horror series. This frightening collection features five short stories that delve into the darkest realms of the supernatural. Each tale weaves a web of terror and suspense, transporting the characters and listeners into worlds where the line between the living and the dead is blurred. Brace yourself for a journey into the unknown, as Willvilles third installment unleashes a wave of terror that will haunt your dreams long after you've finished the book.

Dread—Thousands of people have gone missing out in the wild and here is a collection of tales that offer up some horrifying reasons why. Listen and indulge in the dark side of nature—haunted forests, tree demons, monstrous snakes, and a search-and-rescue team terrorized by the ghosts of those they couldn’t save.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Masque of the Red Death” nearly 180 years ago, yet its narrative and characters continue to mystify and captivate. The short story is driven by Prince Prospero’s attempt to evade the “Red Death”, a fatal plague infecting his kingdom, by hiding in his abbey, where he indulges in pleasures and delights with other nobles. He soon finds out that no one can escape their end. Steven Archer has recast the characters of “The Masque” and illuminated the narrative in a novel and perhaps more visceral light.

Nitya, a single child ignored by her parents, makes an unlikely friend - a boy with a strange power who has mysteriously manifested in her room. Nikhil creates a replacement for his dead mother - a clay doll that has her likeness. Things take a bizarre turn when his clay mother starts communicating with him. Nihar, a teenage orphan, has walked a long way to seek shelter in an orphanage he has heard a lot about, unaware that it is the house of a terrifying secret.

A collection of nine horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler. This audiobook brings you more of Scott's thought-provoking short stories from his five years of weekly storytelling, as well as a brand-new "Hunter Hunterson & Sons" story and a brand-new "Kissyman" tale.

J.R. Hamantaschen returns with a collection of his inimitable weird, dark, and imaginative fiction. In these intelligent and haunting stories, Hamantaschen pushes the boundaries of horror, exploring the deepest corners of the human psyche with an unflinching eye.

Un recueil de 11 terribles histoires cultes mettant en scène des bêtes effrayantes. Oshidori, Lafcadio HEARN, Le Chat brésilien, Arthur Conan DOYLE., L'Araignée-crabe, ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN, Le Mauvais guide, Maurice LEVEL., La Femme au chien, Marc DONAT, La Métamorphose, Franz KAFKA.,Le Matelot d'Amsterdam, Guillaume APOLLINAIRE., Confrontation, Maurice LEVEL., Le Chat noir, Edgar Allan POE., L'homme qui devint gorille, H.J. MAGOG., La Scolopendre, Nikolaï GARINE.

Blood is soaking the streets of Shawville this festive season. Residents are getting more than they bargained for at Laymon's Lot tree farm. Horror writers D.J. Doyle and Lee Franklin invite you into the darkest depths of their twisted psyches. With 12 gruesome short stories, from horny snowmen to flesh-eating elves, and the body count soaring, we encourage you to sit down, put your feet up, and allow us to disgust you with our depraved minds. Countdown twelve days to a very bloody Xmas.

Yes, the author of Gleefully Macabre Tales, Dead Clown Barbecue, Everything Has Teeth, Candy Coated Madness, and Freaky Briefs isn’t done with you yet. There will be serial killers. There will be cosmic horror. There will be extremely demented cooking competitions. There will be pink fizzy drinks. There will be Santa Claus, hangings in the Old West, body swaps, some light cannibalism, and monsters galore.

New York Onions is a minimalistic, symbolic portrait of decay. Jessica buys onions every single day with money from under her mattress, then she paints, before finally passing out. Now reimagined in a definitive edition with new narration by Sebastian Cianelli, mixing, sound design, and recording by Samuel Floyd, and music by Balam Rashad, experience the dreamscape of New York Onions in High Definition.

If you enjoy your horror dipped in buckets of blood and sprinkled with generous amounts of blasphemy, then you've come to the right place!

Terrifying secrets from the past are revealed when a ghost hunter discovers a letter from his deceased mother. A lost young couple learns all is not what it seems when an elderly woman welcomes them into her remote outback home. And a guilt-ridden carpenter takes a journey into another dimension but is shocked by what follows him home.... Scare Street is proud to present a diabolical new collection of 17 ghastly stories. Each spine-tingling tale is a portal to a new world, the beginning of a seemingly endless voyage into fear and dread.

From zombie apocalypse to hard science fiction, urban fantasy to Lovecraftian gothic horror, Chris' writing surely offers you something to enjoy. New Worlds features several short stories; "The Mother in the Lake" (a Lovecraft-inspired tale told by a teenage girl about her family and their lake house), "Roots Grown Deep" (a dark fantasy story about a tree deep in the woods that hungers for far more than water and sun); and more.

A grisly spirit turns travelling companion for the unwitting passenger of a London bus; a repulsive neighbour returns from the grave, rejected by the very earth; an innocuous back garden becomes the stage for a nightmare encounter with druidic sacrifice. From deep in the British Library vaults emerges a new selection of E.F. Benson's most innovative, spine-tingling and satisfyingly dark 'spook stories'. Complete with an introduction exploring the fascinating story of Benson's life, and including the never-before-republished story 'Billy Comes Through'.

Thousands seek solace in the beauty of nature. But sometimes, folks find something that doesn’t want to be found - dangers that should only lurk in the corner of your eye. Prepare to be shocked, scared, and even terrified, with the most frightening creatures on Earth that no one wants to believe exist - because they’re too terrifying, and they don’t like us. The Stay Out of the Woods series offers listeners a uniquely different, chilling, and unfiltered perspective about the most bizarre, dangerous, and unexpected encounters with nature’s most elusive creatures.

As a child, did you hide under your blankets when you were scared of the dark? After listening to some of the scariest stories from new and up-and-coming authors, we won’t blame you if you start hiding again. Take a journey with us into the twisted mind of horror. “The Fallout” travels through the unknown, while “Feast” will make you never want to love again. Listen to these and many more stories to know what it truly means to be afraid of the dark.

Some tales are best told wet, dripping with blood and bowels, like a freshly slaughtered steer, its flesh and organs splayed across the butcher’s floor for all the world to see. Whether reading such stories or seeing such slaughters, the observe, and death is rarely heroic. These eight tales were run through the meat grinder and served-up raw. If you’re going in, bring plenty of napkins.

In his first collection of short stories, Ron Ripley delivers eight spine-tingling tales of the strange and the macabre. Weaving an intricate web of storytelling, listeners are asked to join him on a journey through some of the darkest of his works. Book a room at the old Crowe’s Bed and Breakfast, but be certain you can leave. Join the treasure hunter as he digs up graves and awakens more than just the dead. Lay beside a homeless man in a shelter, but make sure you’re not trespassing.

Thirteen dark tales from the author of Saint Sadist and Gods of the Dark Web. The disappearance of his son brings a rock star home to atone for past sins. A bartending ex-preacher faces a terrible destiny when an former congregation member walks into his bar wearing a bloody shirt. A blizzard traps a suicidal writer at the Jersey Shore with a cult and its strange goddess. A woman shoots a pornographic video and the act shatters her reality. The zombie apocalypse forces three teenagers to take refuge with the school bully. And more.

For one retiree, the past can never be packed away. "Joren Falls" by Laird Barron is one of nine short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.