The Kids Will Be Alright

Short Fiction

By: Edgar Cantero

Narrated by: January LaVoy, Kyla García, Michael Crouch

Available for the first time and only on audio, New York Times bestselling author Edgar Cantero delivers a new collection of short horror stories perfect for fans of Black Mirror and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Hear tales of a corpse bent on revenge, a library book from hell, an Armageddon where the world ends without a bang or a whimper, and more. These tales found within are bound to hold your thoughts—and nightmares—long after you’ve finished: “A Good-Looking Corpse,” “Goin’ Down,” “You Don’t Know This,” and “The Fifth.”

Edgar Cantero cleverly subverts expectations at every turn and reinterprets classic tropes in inventive and original ways, sure to leave you unnerved and hungry for the next story.

©2024 Edgar Cantero (P)2025 Recorded Books

Four great short pieces

Edgar Cantero finally has something new out in English (after the bitter disappointment of /Heaven Park/ not seeing the light of day). This time it's four short stories in audiobook form only, but audiobooks can be fun too and the voice acting here is solid. And the stories range from body-horror revenge, to straight-up progressively creepy something's-not-right-here horror (the one I remember when I wake up in the middle of the night), to a quietly introspective maybe-eschatological exercise (perhaps my favorite), to a glorious wish-fulfillment power trip with some twists here and there.

I picked this up as soon as I saw the blog post, just in time for a 9000-mile car trip. I listened to it twice during the drive, and if I'd been on the road any longer, I probably would have listened to it a third time.

Short stories don't have the scope for exploring relationships that novels do, and that's always one of the big attractions of Cantero's work for me; but even the hints he can work in are satisfying. And these pieces are nicely gripping and punchy. Horror isn't normally a genre I indulge in, but this one was well worth acquiring.